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Reimagining Criminal Justice: In Defense Of Self-Defense, Jude Diebold
Reimagining Criminal Justice: In Defense Of Self-Defense, Jude Diebold
Reimagining Criminal Justice
Since the Louisville, Kentucky police killed Breonna Taylor in the middle of the night in her own apartment, the United States has seen an uptick in protests against racially motivated police violence. However, the officers responsible for her death have not been criminally charged, in part because her boyfriend, unaware that police were entering the apartment in the middle of the night, shot one of the officer’s in the leg, “justifying” the next six rounds that were shot by the police and ultimately killed an innocent woman during the botched police raid.
As if this was not outrageous enough, in …