'Policing Crisis' Event On Tuesday Is Incredibly Timely
By Gwendolyn Purdom in News on Jul 18, 2016 8:10PM
An event exploring the current "policing crisis" on Tuesday night in University Village comes at a fitting time: three police officers were killed Sunday in Baton Rouge, and on Monday morning, news came of another not-guilty verdict in the police-involved death of Freddie Gray, a black man. It also comes at a fitting time for Chicago. Protesters have recently filled the Loop to protest the fatal police shootings of Philando Castile in the Minneapolis area and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge.
At Tuesday's event, held from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Jane Addams Hull House (800 S. Halsted Street), co-editors of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter—Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton—will discuss their book. Released in May, it devles into the spread of "broken-windows policing" with accounts and reflections from artists, scholars and activists including #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors and Ferguson activist and law professor Justin Hansford. Camp, Heatherton and Social Justice Initiative representatives will examine the book, the Black Lives Matter movement and the state of police brutality in America.
The event is free, and hosted by University of Illinois at Chicago's Social Justice Initiative. See the event details here.