The Cop Who Told Me He Wished He’d Shot a Black Man
The officer could have learned that deadly force was seldom necessary. Instead, he regretted his choice.
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6 min readSep 10, 2020
In his forthcoming book Why Didn’t We Riot?, journalist and professor Issac J. Bailey interrogates what it means to be Black in “Trumpland”: those parts of the country “where white people overwhelmingly…