"Overpoliced & Underprotected": In Michael Brown Killing, Neglect of Bla...

Published on Aug 19, 2014

http://www.democracynow.org - As we continue to discuss the developments since the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, we turn to john a. powell, professor of law, African-American studies and ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. "The black community tends be overpoliced and underprotected," powell says. "That's a very serious problem."