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College-Studenten konfrontieren weiße Kollegen mit dem Aufkleber „Police Lives Matter“: „Sie sind rassistisch“
Zwei weiße Studenten scheinen eingeschaltet zu sein Arizona Der Campus der State University wurde mit einem “rassistischen” Aufkleber auf einem Computer konfrontiert, auf dem “Polizei lebt Angelegenheit” stand, und wurde aufgefordert, das Gebiet zu verlassen, wie aus einem viralen Video des Vorfalls hervorgeht.
“Sie sind beleidigend. Das Leben der Polizei ist wichtig?” sagt eine Frau, die in dem Video, das mehr als 1 Million Aufrufe in den sozialen Medien hat, zwei weiße männliche Studenten konfrontiert, die anscheinend in einer Campus-Einrichtung
Cory Booker hat die Republikaner bei “Defund the Police” überlistet. Was jetzt?
In der 16. Stunde einer Senatsdebatte Anfang dieses Monats erhob sich Cory Booker gegen 1 Uhr morgens, um zu sprechen: “Ich bin so aufgeregt!” brüllte er, zog die Schultern hoch und schlug eine Faust in die Hand, wie ein Krug, der auf den Hügel trottete. Booker, der New Jersey vertritt, lehnte sich zurück und steckte eine Hand in die Tasche. Er lächelte und hob schelmisch eine Augenbraue. „Das ist ein Geschenk“, erklärte er. “Wenn es nicht die vollständige Abkehr von
Eric Adams’s Decades-Long Fight to Fix Policing
More than 20 years ago, I sat down to talk with a Black cop from New York City. He had a weightlifter’s powerful hands, a quick-trigger tongue, and a scar on the back of his shaved head from his days in a youth gang.
At the time, the relationship between police officers and Black residents was raw. This was Rudy Giuliani’s New York, where a white New York cop sodomized a suspect with his baton and police killed
Instead of ‘Defund the Police,’ Solve All Murders
After George Floyd’s murder, when sweeping criminal-justice reforms seemed more possible than ever, many Black Lives Matter activists and their allies settled on a rallying cry: “Defund the Police.”
That choice was a disaster. The slogan—shorthand for cutting spending on law enforcement and redirecting it toward social services, or, for more radical proponents, moving toward eventual police abolition—is a political liability, largely due to justified fears that, if implemented, it would lead to many more murders, assaults, and other violent
The Trial of Chesa Boudin
Of all the progressive prosecutors elected in American cities during the law-and-order Trump years, none embodied the hope for criminal-justice reform as perfectly as San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin. The son of the infamous political radicals Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Boudin grew up visiting his parents in prison, and began speaking publicly about the brutalities and racial inequities of the penal system when he was a teen-ager. Even by the standards of the criminal-justice-reform movement, he struck visionary notes in
Derek Chauvin’s Trial and George Floyd’s City
Just before dawn on a warm night in early June, a line of city vehicles pulled into a four-block area in South Minneapolis that has come to be known as George Floyd Square. Groups of workers fanned out in the darkness and started removing barricades and other structures that, for nearly a year, had cut off the flow of traffic on two major thoroughfares: Chicago Avenue and East Thirty-eighth Street. The reaction to what looked like a cross between a