Between 2014 and 2018, Black, Palestinian, and Jewish organizations, under the banner of Demilitarize! Durham2Palestine Coalition, led a campaign in Durham, North Carolina that successfully passed a city council resolution prohibiting US police exchanges with Israel. Based on direct interviews with the activists that led the campaign, this article sets out to trace the history of the Demilitarize! effort detailing its chronological developments with an eye on highlighting how Black-Palestinian solidarity continues to function as an anti-imperial analytic. In doing so, the article will offer and preserve a movement archive developed by activists in Durham. The Demilitarize! Durham2Palestine Coalition is built upon a rich legacy of local Palestine solidarity activism and its coalitionary efforts focused on a narrative of racialized state violence that directly connected increasing militarization of U.S. law enforcement to trainings in Israel thus illuminating the local manifestations of U.S. empire. This intervention will also help enhance a robust and growing literature on the militarization of US law enforcement. Such literature straddles two distinct approaches- on the one hand are those authors that insist that there is no distinction between domestic law enforcement and international militarism as they are inextricable from one another and better understood as performing a singular function of violence work. This approach understands US law enforcement as a paramilitary force, further illuminating the U.S.’s colonial nature. On the other hand, is a that traces the militarization of US law enforcement to as early as the 19th century when the US triumph over Spain in the Spanish-American War made it a colonial power in the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, among other territories. Imperial imperatives transformed the U.S. military into an imperial-military - concerned with counterinsurgency and domination. These transformations formatively reshaped U.S. law enforcement, during a period of reform and transformed the police from an organization concerned with regulating social order to one aimed at crime prevention. In this narration, U.S. law enforcement has continuously been militarized since the early 19th century, most significantly during the Vietnam War as well as later in the early nineties during the advent of the 1033 program, and most recently US police training in Israel. This article also seeks to use the movement archive together with existing literature on state violence to consider how seemingly formidable circuits of state violence that undergird imperial domination are simultaneously vulnerable to attack and dismantlement.