January 19, 2021
The following article originally appeared in Communications Lawyer and is published here with permission from the American Bar Association.
By Steve Zansberg
CFOIC President
An unarmed Black man is brutally murdered by police, who are utterly indifferent to his repeated pleas for restraint. First the people in that city, then across the nation (and, eventually, across the globe) take to the streets. They demand justice. They demand accountability. And they call upon the police, not only in that city but across the nation, to reform their practices, to eliminate racial profiling and overly aggressive militaristic responses, and to
become more transparent including by publicly releasing body-worn camera recordings of police-public confrontations.