Black and brown officers can be conditioned to view Black and brown people as suspect, advocates say.
NEW YORK — That the death of Tyre Nichols — young, Black, just trying to get home — came at the hands of Memphis police officers was a familiar refrain in the nation's seemingly endless lamentation of racism and police brutality aimed at Black people.
"What we have to understand is it is not the color of the officer," said Joshua Adams, an activist in Memphis."It is the color of who's being policed. That's what creates the difference." The key question is"why does policing show differently for Black people?""With any organization or institution, there is a period of orientation where you are being introduced to core values and philosophies," said the Rev. Earle J.
"That's one of the most insidious characteristics of the system, because we may buy into a notion that because they're Black means they can't possibly have adopted the norms and values of the system," said Enyia, policy and research manager for the Movement for Black Lives, a national advocacy coalition aligned with the broader Black Lives Matter movement.
National News Photos: Mourners gather for the funeral of Tyre Nichols "We are all socialized into a society that imbues in us these images of one another," he said."We can, as people of color, inherit these biases toward one another and often times to our own group as well. … They come out in ways that can be very harmful unless we get in touch with them and give ourselves counter messages.
If not for the efforts of King and others in the civil rights movement, the five officers would not have had jobs in law enforcement or been assigned to an elite police squad, Sharpton said.
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