The ghost of Mike Brown: Why must a dead black child defend his right to life? Mike Brown is currently engaged in one of the most difficult, but common -- for black men, anyway -- forms of criminal defense in the American criminal justice system: he is engaged in The Ultimate Defense. Granted, it’s rather hard for him to wield The Ultimate Defense effectively, as the unarmed teenager was killed over the weekend -- shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. But that’s the cruel irony of The Ultimate Defense: it’s always invoked posthumously, when the defendant can’t really defend himself because ... well, because he’s dead. (08/12/14)
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:35:42 +0000
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