Resisting Police Violence - The Ongoing Racial Pandemic
Thu, Jun 04
|Webinar
In this webinar, an expert panel provided context for the current crisis, discuss recent developments in the cases of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and community strategies that address the demands for systemic change.
TIME & LOCATION
Jun 04, 2020, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Webinar
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The public execution of George Floyd by the police, along with the murders of Ahmaud Arvery, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade are but the latest in the unending litany of acts of state-sanctioned violence against our people. Long before COVID-19, Black people have had to resist the racial pandemic of white supremacy that has underwritten ongoing acts of terror and the blatant refusal of the state to hold the perpetrators accountable.
We have seen this pattern before. Yet, this is a historical moment, not because these tragic acts are exceptional, but because of the people's righteous refusal to accept them as normal and to resist, even in the context of a major pandemic that has fallen so heavily on Black communities. As lawyers, community organizers and activists committed to Black liberation, we must recognize the current imperative to align ourselves with those giving voice to the critique and the vision…