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An Author Replies To The Unspeakable In Her 'Elegy' For Lynching Victim Mary Turner


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A March 7 story about the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer whose May 2020 killing of George Floyd ignited a nationwide racial reckoning, shows why Rachel Marie-Crane Williams new book is so essential right now.
Despite video footage that shocked the world, the Associated Press reports, legal experts say the case isn t a slam dunk. That s not news. Not after Ahmaud Arbery, Pamela Turner, Stephon Clark, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant and all the other African-Americans whose killings have been captured on video, a sickening chronicle spanning decades. Some acts, we ve learned, trigger an immediate, agonized reaction in anyone who witnesses them and yet when those acts are described in a courtroom, something crucial always gets lost. Mere words, especially the kinds of words our legal system relies on to deliver verdicts, literally can t do justice to the case. ....

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