What I learned convicting a police officer of murder
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Jared Fishman, who successfully prosecuted a police officer for murdering an unarmed Black man in South Carolina in 2018, writes that convicting Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd is an important first step. But all of us should be working toward preventing these kinds of deaths in the first place.
As a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice, I enforced federal civil rights statutes on police misconduct, hate crimes and human trafficking, and led the federal prosecution that secured the conviction of Michael Slager, the police officer who shot and killed Scott.More Related News
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