This chapter analyses the way resistance movements centred on policing in 2020 often drew attention to both the structural racism underpinning policing and its violent operationalization. In many instances, that racism was seen in the context of colonialism and imperialism, with policing seen as a key part of the state apparatus that reproduces racist colonial relationships and outcomes, always implicitly and often explicitly, through the use of violence. Indigenous, Black, brown, and other racialized peoples continue to be oppressed by various political regimes internationally. The global nature of state violence has been a core driver of contemporary protest movements. Police, security agencies and other carceral workers can kill the racialized and criminalized subject at will with little or no fear of repercussions.