“In the jewelry store, they lock the case when I walk in, a 23-year-old black man wrote in May 1992. In the shopping mall, they follow me.” He was detained by six police officers, guns at the ready, and treated as a dangerous suspect. In fact, he was the future Senator Cory Booker, who had been a senior class president at Stanford University and was a newly selected Rhodes Scholar. Yet our law enforcement system reduced him to a stereotype — so young Booker sat trembling and praying that he wouldn’t be shot by the police.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:52:13 +0000
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