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- Title
Black Cops, White Justice?
- Authors
Baumgarten, Fred
- Abstract
Let's also not pretend that the five charged police officers aren't Black themselves. Let's acknowledge that the summary firing and subsequent indictment of five Memphis police officers for the brutal murder-by-beating of Tyree Nichols, a young Black man, is a good measure of justice - as pointed out by lawyer Ben Crump, an example that will give less cover to the police chiefs and prosecutors who almost invariably give a free pass to murderous cops. Is the November 2011 summary execution of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., who was shot to death in his own home after white cops shouted racist epithets, broke down his door and killed him within seconds of illegally entering - all because his "Life Alert" pager had accidentally been set off - any less heinous than the vicious beating to death of Tyree Nichols?.
- Subjects
POLICE chiefs; EXTRAJUDICIAL executions; POLICE; BLACK men
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article