BLAKE FELDMAN This summer has demonstrated both the failure of Mississippi’s legal system to hold police accountable and local communities’ understandable mistrust of that system. This has never been unique to Mississippi. Black men and women have been fighting against this system for generations. In the summer of 1967, there were riots in Florida after police killed a black teenager by shooting him in the back.
Blake Feldman: Black Lives Matter: Aspiration Or Reality?
Daily Journal, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Thu, 08/25/2016 - 9:23am
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