Editorial
Forward: Drexel Law Review Symposium Issue on Race and Policing
Drexel law review, Vol.10, pp.567-571
2018
Abstract
In February 2012, neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman fatally shot an unarmed, seventeen-year-old African American boy named Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon's death, juxtaposed against Zimmerman's justification for the shooting, dragged a longstanding American Dilemma into the political fray on discussions regarding criminal justice and the racial politics of policing. As debates ensued, legal and political pundits, including yours truly, weighed in offering a variety of accusations and excuses. In the end, more questions were asked than were answered, but at least - for one of the first times in American history - we were beginning to have an open, honest, and serious discussion about how black people experience the American criminal justice apparatus generally, and racialized policing specifically. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Forward: Drexel Law Review Symposium Issue on Race and Policing
- Creators
- Donald F Tibbs - Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Publication Details
- Drexel law review, Vol.10, pp.567-571
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991021902911904721