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Can The Police Be Found Guilty? | TDowney LLamar LMercer | 15 min

Jul 10, 2017

Jeronimo Yanez, the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop was acquitted on all charges by a jury Friday, a decision that came nearly a year after the encounter was partially streamed online to a rapt nation in the midst of a painful reckoning over shootings by law enforcement.

Why are juries reluctant to return a guilty verdict regardless of region to return a guilty verdict against Law Enforcement Officers?

Today’s Ingredients:

  • Tosha Downey, Advocacy Director, Memphis Education Fund
  • London Lamar, President, TN Young Democrats [...]