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““If it doesn't matter how the police -- the system -- treats you, does it matter how you treat them?””

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“We fall into the fallacy of believing we can litigate the complicated story before us into a black-and-white binary of good guys and bad guys. There are no isolated incidents, yet the media's focus on the victim and the officer inadvertently erases the context of the nation's history as it relates to race, policing, and training for law enforcement. And…

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“The theory is that legitimacy can only be earned through a long-suffering and constant presence. But that view is limiting in that it forecloses…

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“A shortsighted framing, divorced from historical context, led us to litigate and relitigate each specific detail of the shooting without fully grasping the groundswell…

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“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…

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“And by focusing on the character of the victim, we inadvertently take the focus off the powerful and instead train our eyes and judgment…

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“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far past the killing of unarmed residents--from daily policing to Confederate imagery to respectability politics to cultural appropriation. The social justice movement spawned from Mike Brown's blood would force city after city to grapple with its own fraught histories…

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“As President Obama's second term toiled on, it became increasingly clear that talk of a postracial America was no more than cheap political punditry.”

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“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and trust the…

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“There is nothing that can prepare a family for the heart-clenching shock of losing one of their own. And time and time again, those…

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“The protests had created a countermovement of skepticism, anger and hate, driven by some who genuinely believed that the coverage of Ferguson was overblown…

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“Justice is a hard concept to wrestle with when your eyes are filled with scenes of death.”

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“Every social movement must grapple with the generational and tactical divides that arise between varying groups and factions that comprise the ground troops.”

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