Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder today, but in an overwhelming number of cases in America, if a cop shoots someone because he’s angry he’s considered a murderer, while if he shoots someone because he’s scared, he’s innocent.
He attributes a lot of the problem to a generalized sense of fear—particularly white people’s racial fear of nonwhites. “We obsess over order, fear trumps civil rights,” Hayes writes. Fear of crime waves, of terrorist attacks, gets converted into and becomes the justification for the war on the drugs, the war on terror, mass incarceration, and on a more elemental level the police killings of young black men.
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