My @Harvard@Kennedy_School colleague Desmond Ang has found police killings have a negative and long-lasting impact on the educational and psychological well-being of nearby high schoolers. I can only wonder what the #DerekChauvinTrial is doing to children.
Police: “If YOU PEOPLE would COMPLY you wouldn’t be killed.”
The people in the crowd COMPLIED by morally *begging #DerekChauvin not to murder #GeorgeFloyd—WITHOUT physically interfering.
He STILL killed Floyd—AND the crowd’s souls with racial trauma.
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My beloved cousin Rev. William Brooks was found dead, asphyxiated, propped on a cinder block, his body jammed halfway thru a shed window, WITH keys to his shed door in his pocket. A SC police dept,, with racist history, says NO foul play. The family seeks state/fed investigation.
1) I visit a former US AG for advice on a law to help people with criminal records—which I didn’t have then. I get a parking ticket, which I forgot to pay. A policeman later pulls me over, demands cash $$, cuffs & arrests me for the old ticket...
2) Cashless, I ask to go to an ATM. He puts me cuffed in a police car and drives me to an ATM for cash to pay the ticket. He THEN drives me to the police station and cuffs me to a bench—with 1 arm free
—presumably since I wasn’t “threatening.”
3) After doing paperwork, the officer then says “We won’t fingerprint and mugshot you.” I was released, drove home, and worried EVERY mile, actually EVERY millimeter, of the way, “how does this arrest record affect my credibility as an advocate, my reputation as a minister?”
2) Then Gov. Haley & her law enforcement went out of their way to provide security—after the Charleston 9 assassinations. They insisted we avoid the original march route because our safety could not be assured. The VIOLENT threat of racism was said to be real—in America and SC.
3) Nikki Haley detracts from her leadership then by understating the violent racism of this country—then and now. Her applause line obscures the real threats Black people and so many others face not merely marching but living.
Why must #CyntoniaBrown be LOCKED up for 51 YEARS for a murder committed as sexually enslaved 16 yr. old?
And millionaire #JeffreyEpstein serves 13 MONTHS for molesting dozens of girls her age?
If our criminal justice system punished HYPOCRISY,
it would get the DEATH PENALTY.
What would happen if each of the 76,000 children going into the juvenile justice system every year had lawyers and wealth OR better yet education and opportunity?
What would happen if each of the 76,000 children going into the *adult* corrections system every year had lawyers and wealth OR better yet education and opportunity?