Jarvis DeBerry: We give police an awesome amount of power and discretion, making it near impossible to hold them personally liable for violations while in uniform. There’s nothing about being Black that stops a person given such power from running amok.
If it doesn’t surprise us that a gang of officers would beat a Black man to death, then it shouldn’t surprise us that the gang of officers who did so were Black. We give police an awesome amount of power and discretion. And we make it
. There’s nothing about being Black that stops a person given such power from running roughshod over someone he judges to be without power. And it’s a safe assumption that a random Black man pulled over in a city as Black and poor as Memphis has little power. In addition to patrol officers, we were also hoping that having Black people running departments would make a difference, but that hasn’t always been the case.
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