OP-ED: Children’s Voices Needed for National Policing Task Force [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 1/13/1512:00 PM

Last December, President Obama established the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Task Force members include police officials, law professors, attorneys, community organizers and nonprofit leaders.

Sadly, missing from the Task Force are actual youth whose lives have been directly and indirectly affected by police violence and the resulting responses. Michael Brown, killed in Ferguson, Mo., was 18, and Tamir Rice, killed in Cleveland, was 12. Certainly they left behind young family, friends or acquaintances.

[For more of this story, written by Andrea L. Dennis, go to http://jjie.org/op-ed-children...ury-policing/108202/]

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