Protesters took to the streets last summer to protest police violence. Lawsuits making headway in Columbus and other cities are showing that the police crackdown helped prove their point.
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.
Black and brown people’s defiance is not the problem. Our compliance is not the solution.
"This verdict is not a substitute for policy change."
How many Black people have to be killed by police before politicians realize that expensive reforms don’t work? Like so many Black Americans, Wright justifiably feared police interactions. The Black fear of police is grounded in provable police bias.
We saw George Floyd die onscreen. We need to see this too.
Law professor and scion of a widely read radical activist/author family, Rosa Brooks went beyond the blue wall of silence in her inside view of American policing. Among the retrograde lessons stressed in training, “Anyone can kill you at any time.”
David Simon and fellow The Wire veteran George Pelecanos are teaming up to make a new limited series for HBO called We Own This City, which is based on journalist Justin Fenton’s book of the same name.
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