Stringer Harris has a proven track record as a community activist helping recover missing persons, to feeding the homeless, and even getting accountability from police for wrongdoing. Stringer is fresh from his own arrest as a member of the group protesting the wrongful death of Eric Lurry in Joliet, IL.
Tag: police brutality
Abuses of Power in Policing and Relief from an Unexpected Source – Teachers
Additional training may not be the panacea protestors demand to fix the plague of police brutality across the country. In fact, after years of Department of Justice mandated consent decree remediation policies, few departments have demonstrated the necessary wherewithal to make new policies stick. The answer for effective policy and training shifts may actually come from an unlikely and yet highly trained force of professionals who tackle unruly and sometimes violent mobs without weapons or using deadly force – the American teacher.
Rome’s Rebellion: Detroit Doesn’t Need Your Permission
Rome Bethea takes a hard swipe at the predictable push back yet again on protesters in his city. Naysayers are disappointed that people are excising their rights to protests and acting like there isn’t sufficient justification.