Why Black Men Resist Arrest

It’s not about defiance. It’s about survival.

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Fourteen years ago, I was brutally attacked in my apartment in Buenos Aires.

The attack happened on a sunny Sunday, roughly six months after I moved to Argentina from New York City. It was the type of morning where you’d wake up happy to be alive and expect the day only to get better. Unfortunately for me, it got a…