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Can police be taught to stop their own violence?
Bostonâs department and others are adopting a peer-intervention training program. The ideas come from a UMass psychologist who survived the Holocaust, thanks to the help of others.
By Douglas StarrUpdated May 6, 2021, 7:31 a.m.
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Ervin Staub, a professor emeritus at UMass Amherst, is an expert on the science of interventionzack wittman for the boston globe
THE KILLING OF George Floyd is a recurring national nightmare. It played out again during the trial of his murderer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin â nine minutes and 29 seconds of Chauvin kneeling on Floydâs neck, ignoring Floydâs pleas and the shouts to stop from people nearby. What has been relatively less examined is the behavior of the other officers at the scene: Tou Thao, who stood facing the crowd, stopping people who were trying to help; J. Alexander Kueng, who held Floydâs waist; and Thomas Lane, who held his le
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Now that the Chauvin verdict is in, let’s talk about how we change policing | Opinion
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Posted Apr 21, 2021
Jessica S. Henry, a professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University and a former public defender, says there is something fundamentally wrong when unarmed people of color are killed by police when eating ice cream on their own couch, driving with a dangling air freshener, playing video games with a nephew, or holding a cell phone at a backyard party. (Beth Nakamura | The Oregonian)Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
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By Jessica S. Henry
The conviction of Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd marks a significant victory not only in the court of law, but for the Black Lives Matter movement.