Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?

People attend a vigil for Sonya Massey at Washington Square Park, in New York

2024-08-22  944  中等

The killing on July 6th, recorded in full on body cameras, is a particularly egregious example of a police officer shooting an unarmed black woman. Mr Grayson has been arrested and charged with murder. His boss, the sheriff of Sangamon County, has resigned, after being told to do so by J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. Kamala Harris, now the Democratic nominee, called Ms Massey’s family, and urged Congress to pass a long-stalled police-reform bill. Donald Trump, when asked about it at a convention of black journalists, backed away somewhat from his previous promise to give police officers immunity from prosecution.

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