“We need you,” lawyer and activist Mawuli Davis told a packed house of more than 100 lawyers and concerned citizens at a discussion on police practices a year after the events in Ferguson, Missouri. The Oct. 22 event was organized by the American Constitution Society and hosted by Emory University School of Law.
“African-American men will be and are subjected to a degree of force, a degree of threat, the nature of which is unlike that in any other sector in our society,” said G. Brian Spears, another criminal defense and civil rights lawyer on the panel. “That’s a fact. It’s part of our system.”
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