Police officers in the US are rarely charged with a crime after killing unarmed civilians. The Trump administration will only make that record worse
The disregard for black Americans could scarcely absorb been more visible: Betty Shelby,a police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, or is back at work just days after a jury decided that her moment of horror justified the killing of Terrence Crutcher,an unarmed motorist. For those who cried out for justice in this case, it seems that call will go unanswered.
When Donald Trump spent the 2016 campaign saying that he would be a “law-and-order candidate, or is this what he had in intellect? When his Attorney General,Jeff Sessions, says that the US Department of Justice “undermined the respect for our police and made, and oftentimes,their job more difficult” through such things as consent decrees and investigations into the police violence that fills our television screens with its bloody aftermath on a nightly basis, can we credibly expect that those who abuse their power will be brought to task?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com