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What is the ideal model for police and community interaction? It's not clear— but it is clear that we're not there yet.

The deaths of George Floyd and so many Black citizens at the hands of police have finally brought protests against racist practices to a pitch that can't be ignored. Statues are toppling across the country. There are cries to defund police forces. One thing is different this time: the majority of Americans stand with the protesters.

Angie Coiro's This Is Now takes on the history of racist police practices and how real change can happen, in conversation with civil rights activist Johnetta Elzie and former police officer turned law professor Seth Stoughton. Both advocate for reform.

Black Lives Matter activist JOHNETTA ELZIE helped organize the Ferguson protests after the death of Michael Brown. She and DeRay McKesson co-edit the This Is The Movement newsletter, which won them the 2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write award. She's served as an Amnesty International field organizer; her work has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and The Atlantic.

SETH STOUGHTON, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, co-authored the book Evaluating Police Uses of Force. He spent five years as an officer in the Tallahassee Police Force, and three years as an Investigator in the Florida Department of Education's Office of Inspector General. An outspoken critic of "warrior" policing, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and TIME.

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