Cultural Critique / Thinking about the state / USA

Accountability still pending for police murder

Carwil Bjork-James1 Comment

Ramparts Magazine offers a reward for convicting a police officer for murdering a Black man

Forty-six years ago, the underground magazine Ramparts used its cover to draw attention to near impossibility of holding police accountable for killing African Americans. Thanks to #BlackLivesMatter and video evidence, arresting police for murder is now thinkable. But will there ever be a murder conviction?

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