It is one as former officer redditt hudson said, is rooted in white supremacy. we know that our current system of law enforcement sprung out of slave patrols, which saw black people as chattel, as less than human. and that has become internalized by people who grow up in that culture of law enforcement in this country, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of their race. so, what we saw, in terms of the attack, the brutal, sadistic, gruesome hour of torture and execution that was visited upon mr. nichols was a manifestation of this system. and we do need to reform the system. but we need to replace it wholly with something entirely different. that will take time. that will take imagination invasion and the willpower of elected officials. and in the meantime, we do need immediate reform. but we have to replace this
Former police offer and National Coalition of Law Enforcement Officers For Justice Reform and Accountability co-founder Redditt Hudson said Friday on MSNBC's "All In" that he believes the death of Tyre Nichols shows that black officers can adopt the police culture, which "is rooted in white supremacy." | Clips
Entire law enforcement policing culture with something that truly valorize s human life. and especially the lives of black people redditt hudson, one of the things we ve seen a number of places particularly after freddy gray s the police officers who had driven him were charged, they were later acquitted some of the cases were dropped, i want to be clear about that. was a kind of quiet quitting by police in baltimore it was very clear. i ve interviewed folks in baltimore. police were kind of like, all right, well, you are on your own. you don t like what we did? you guys do whatever you want. and i think we have seen a fair amount of that, honestly, in the wake of george floyd. i just would love to get your thoughts on that phenomenon. because it feels like it is part of a subtext of a lot of the discussions that have been happening in cities across the country the last few years.
When Julia Fogelberg was a public defender in St. Louis County, she saw how the criminal justice system could often do more harm than good.
Now working on the prosecutor side, she’s grateful that she can provide a different solution like in the case of a single mother of two she met this summer.
The woman was juggling an at-home virtual school schedule and her job as a paralegal.
With the intense stress of the pandemic, she was also struggling with an addiction to painkillers and was arrested for drug possession.
“If she were charged, that could have implications for the steady job that she’s had for almost 10 years and her ability to have health care options for her children,” said Fogelberg, who now leads the St. Louis County prosecutor’s diversion program.