Reverend Cornell William Brooks (STH’87) on Panel that Discussed Policing and Racial Justice
This was originally published by Harvard Kennedy School on December 28, 2023 and can be found here.
Excerpt from the article:
It has been almost three years since the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and started what became a national reckoning on race and on police and their relationship with communities of color. The recent killing of Tyre Nichols, which resulted in second-degree murder charges against five Memphis police officers, however, showed both that the problems are far from being resolved and that the country’s reactions may also have shifted, said a group of Kennedy School experts who discussed policing and racial justice at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Monday. The panelists included: Cornell William Brooks, a professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice, director of the William Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at the Center for Public Leadership, and the former president and CEO of the NAACPP; Yanilda María González, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, whose research focuses policing, state violence, and democracy with a special focus on Latin America; and Sandra Susan Smith, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, whose recent work has focused on the consequences of pretrial detention. Setti Warren, interim director of the Institute of Politics, moderated the conversation. The panelists’ responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
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