The brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has again fanned the flames of racial discord and violence.
The violence in Minneapolis elicits flashbacks of the rioters in Ferguson, Mo., after the August 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.
A CBS reporter condemned the disparity between police responses to the riots in Minneapolis and a recent demonstration by a mostly white crowd at the Michigan Capitol, omitting that the latter was nonviolent.
Perhaps because of heightened media scrutiny, Minneapolis police showed significant restraint, which might have emboldened rioters to besiege and burn down a police precinct building.
After the 2015 police shooting of a black man in Cincinnati, civil-rights activists descended on the city to decry the institutional racism of law enforcement.
Animosity toward police also makes some blacks reluctant to cooperate with law enforcement.
Last year 86% of police chiefs nationwide said recruitment had declined since 2014, and in many cities law enforcement hasn't been able to respond even to desperate 911 calls.
The violence in Minneapolis elicits flashbacks of the rioters in Ferguson, Mo., after the August 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.
A CBS reporter condemned the disparity between police responses to the riots in Minneapolis and a recent demonstration by a mostly white crowd at the Michigan Capitol, omitting that the latter was nonviolent.
Perhaps because of heightened media scrutiny, Minneapolis police showed significant restraint, which might have emboldened rioters to besiege and burn down a police precinct building.
After the 2015 police shooting of a black man in Cincinnati, civil-rights activists descended on the city to decry the institutional racism of law enforcement.
Animosity toward police also makes some blacks reluctant to cooperate with law enforcement.
Last year 86% of police chiefs nationwide said recruitment had declined since 2014, and in many cities law enforcement hasn't been able to respond even to desperate 911 calls.
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