Cops, Crime, and Race

The problems are real. The discourse is toxic.

Former police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial in Minneapolis for the murder of George Floyd. Also in Minneapolis, anger flares again over the fatal shooting of another black man, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, by a police officer who apparently mistook her gun for a taser. Once again, America’s eyes are on the fraught issue of policing and racism.

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