“Overpoliced & Underprotected”: in Michael Brown killing, neglect of black communities laid bare

john a. powell interviewed on Democracy Now, August 19, 2014

“I think we actually should have a real systematic look at policing in the United States. We should make police accountable to their community. We should actually bring some of the stuff we’re learning about implicit bias into the discourse, so we move beyond ‘Is it racism? Is it not?’ And we should actually have a real conversation about race and what it means in the 21st century.”