Black Americans were hopeful for changes in policing after the George Floyd murder.

Dr. Dion

Sep 22, 2020·1 min read

Black Americans were hopeful for changes in policing after the George Floyd murder. It appears that change will be slow in coming. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@DrDion/no-video-no-justice-c2a2774108c6

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The Black trauma toll was the same, too. While in Kenosha, a Black teen told me local police had pulled assault rifles on him as he sat unarmed in a parked car. A middle-aged Black woman explained how the state uses the prison system to maintain a White-dominated workforce; we spoke mere yards away from where the local police had let her nephew bleed out and die on the sidewalk in front of their family home years before. And a young mother described how members of an armed militia ran up and down her street while she tried to figure out where she was going to get baby food — all stores in the city were boarded up and closed.

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