The culture that encourages police officers to engage their weapons before gathering information promotes the mind-set that nothing, including citizen safety, is more important than officers’ personal security. That approach has caused public trust in law enforcement to deteriorate.
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In Iraq, I Raided Insurgents. In Virginia, Police Raided Me.
Posted July 27th, 2015 at 9:17 am (UTC-4)
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At Sandra Bland’s Funeral, Celebration and Defiance
Posted July 27th, 2015 at 9:05 am (UTC-4)
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Funerals are often predictably somber — a cloistering and culminating of grief and pain. Not Sandra Bland’s funeral…. Bland was the 28-year-old Illinois woman arrested after a traffic stop in Texas who died in a county jail.
Sandra Bland’s Fate Sealed by Bad Policing
The trooper’s authority over Bland ended when he wrote her a warning ticket. But he extended that traffic stop … And for that he is morally — and a civil court may find him legally — responsible for what happened to Sandra Bland in that jail cell.