“The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.”
“A Report from Occupied Territory,” James Baldwin (The Nation, July 11, 1966)
Black Death Has Become a Cultural Spectacle: Why the Walter Scott Tragedy Won’t Change White America’s Mind, Brittney Cooper
The Myth of Police Reform, Ta-Nehisi Coates
When Cops Cry Wolf, Frank Serpico
Walter Scott Is Not on Trial, Charles Blow
Walter Scott, just another ‘isolated incident’?, Leonard Pitts Jr.
At Walter Scott’s Funeral, An Unexpected Conversation, Chenjerai Kumanyika
“A Report from Occupied Territory,” James Baldwin
Bolton: Don’t forget Walter Scott while protesting North Charleston shooting
Bolton: ‘You run, you die’ isn’t effective policing
Police Officers and Teachers: Confronting Corrupt Cultures, Avoiding “Bad Police/Teacher” Narratives



Denial- a construct of delusional thinking. To deny what is is the single-most troubling aspect of human thought -insidiously removing the ability to choose.