Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Police

Quotes about: Police

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Government, Law, Police

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Dog, White, Issues

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

• You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Gun, Race, Class

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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