A spate of police shootings in 2016 pulled California's then-attorney general Kamala Harris to opposite sides: seeking to reconcile the competing demands of police and civil rights groups.
Kamala Harris was distraught as she stood before an audience one morning in July 2016. In the previous three days, violence involving police had rattled the nation.
It was an unusually frank acknowledgment of the forces pulling her in opposite directions in the two years since police killings of black men hadSeeking to reconcile the competing demands of police and civil rights groups, For months, Harris has been fending off accusations, most recently in a debate Wednesday, that she did too little to fight racial bias in the criminal justice system.
images of white cops in military vehicles firing tear gas and rubber bullets at mainly black protesters came to symbolize police violence against African Americans.Police shootings became major news in the months that followed as they were captured in smartphone videos that spread nationwide.has been stable for a long time,” said Franklin Zimring, a criminologist and law professor at UC Berkeley. “What happened with Ferguson … was people started to notice that these things kept happening.”.
pushed by civil rights organizations to collect data on the race of everyone stopped by police statewide to shed light on racial profiling.Police groups — still a powerful political force in a state that has only recently tempered its strict law-and-order cultureHarris declined to take a position. After Jerry Brown, then governor,, Harris won credit from civil rights groups for drafting strong rules putting it into effect.
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