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What #BLM missed, with stories

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#BLM has a 10-point plan to curb police killing. Molly Weasley wrote a great diary about it.

You should go read it.

I'll wait.

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Okay, you back? Welcome back. Great list, isn't it? It has a whole lot of points that address the effects of a terribly damaged criminal justice system. But I don't think it addresses the causes. I'm going to tell you why, below, with lots of personal stories to illustrate the points. But first, let me tell you just a bit about me.

I'm a lawyer. My first work in a courtroom was in 1987, when I was an intern in the Public Defender's Office in Gainesville, Florida. From there, i went to the prosecutor's office in Miami. I was there from 1987 through 1993, working my way up from a misdemeanor prosecutor to a felony division chief. After that I worked, still in Miami, as a criminal defense attorney. I have prosecuted and defended cases from petit theft to 1st degree murder. I have put people on, and taken people off, death row.

I've been in the pits of the system, and the problems of police violence bubble up from those pits.


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