The refusal of grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, New York, to indict the police officers that killed Michael Brown and Eric Gardner has led some conservative commentators to direct attention to the so-called “Black on Black” crime problem, a much greater threat to Blacks than the police. The reaction from advocates for racial progress is to reject such attempts to connect these phenomenon, and to re-focus attention on state violence.
News Details
Lisa Miller in Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State
- Faculty Member(s): Lisa Miller
- Click for News Weblink
