Theresa Kelsey believes police serve communities well and do not receive the respect they deserve.
In these polarized times, it’s no surprise that there are those who condemn the protests, believe police are unfairly villified, and question the current conversation about racial injustice George Floyd’s death inspired.
lThe 44-year-old white woman behind the counter of a Blue Springs gun shop only agreed to talk to me only if I didn’t use her name.
“I have a distinctive voice,” she said, not wanting to be on record with anything “political.”
She was one of more than two dozen people I tried to interview about George Floyd s death and the debate it sparked about racial justice. I was looking for those who were skeptical about the impact of the incident on the conversation.
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Are Liberal Cities Turning Against Their Progressive Prosecutors?
District attorneys in San Francisco and Philadelphia promised to overturn decades of tough-on-crime policies. Now, as violent crime rises, they may be kicked out of office.
ILLUSTRATION BY MATT ROTA
In 2016, the killing of Laquan McDonald brought reform prosecutor Kim Foxx into office in Chicago. Larry Krasner, a criminal defense attorney who had sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times over the course of his career, scored an improbable victory in his run for district attorney the following year. In 2019, Wesley Bell became St. Louis County’s first Black prosecutor, five years after the police killing of Michael Brown and the protests that erupted in nearby Ferguson. And in January 2020, the city of San Francisco swore in a charismatic young district attorney, Chesa Boudin, whose fame rested partly on being the son of 1960s radicals incarcerated for armed robbery and felony murder.