A Matter of Protocol
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“The Bulletproof Warrior,” and the instructors urged the law enforcement officers in the hotel conference room to make the decision to shoot if they ever feel their lives are threatened.In the audience was St. Anthony police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, He’s now known around the world as the killer of Philando Castile Dr Peter Kraska, chairman of the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, called the seminar “irresponsible” and “dangerous.”Star Tribune "I have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness and the humiliation that comes with feeling like you're being targeted for nothing more than just being yourself,"Senator Tim Scott “It is the most surprising result of my career,” Roland G. Fryer Jr., the author of the study and a professor of economics at Harvard. His findings suggest that while police are more likely to push, pepper spray, aim a weapon at, or handcuff black people, there is little to no difference between who gets shot at more often. Show Notes: An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf In Memorial of Philando Castile
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