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Texas police shooting of Jordan Edwards shows again how black males are considered threats
Texas police shooting of Jordan Edwards shows again how black males are considered threats
The car drove away from the high school house party, down a street in a Dallas suburb, when the police officer raised his rifle and fired.
A bullet tore through the front passenger window, killing Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old.
As the death reignited a national conversation about race and the police, it's also elevated what's viewed as a well-understood fact in many African American communities: When you're black — even if you're a child — you can be viewed as a threat to police.
"These are trained professionals, who are supposed to make rational decisions, but they're not," said Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney and former president of the National Bar Association, a network of black lawyers and judges. "And yet again our children — I repeat, children — are paying the ultimate price."
"More and more we have to prepare our children for what's ahead and how society will view them," said Crump, who helped represent Martin's family in legal proceedings.
Reggie Miller, chairman of the National Black Police Association, which seeks, among other things, to forge better relationships between police and minority communities, said diversity training could help.
"It's not a crime to be young and black," he said. "But some officers see a do-rag or dreads and feel threatened. More understanding is needed."
Cheryl Dorsey, a retired Los Angeles Police Department sergeant, said that more must be done by police to prevent such shootings.
"Do a lot of police feel that their lives are threatened? It's doubtful," Dorsey said. "I think it's what's put forward to justify shootings.
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