America has done more to protect police than black people in recent years, civil rights lawyer says
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Tucson, Arizona, police officer who shot a woman on her front lawn back in May 2010. Legal experts say the decision has reaffirmed the broad discretion given to law enforcement in use-of-force cases.
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt says it’s the latest example of lawmakers and the justice system creating more obstacles to reform than solutions to the disproportionate affect police violence has on black Americans.
“America has emphatically backed the notion that black lives don’t matter by failing to offer any substantive reform... while bending over backwards to change laws, increase penalties and protect [police] from litigation,” Merritt said over the phone Wednesday.
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