Black and brown Americans are doing themselves a disservice by concentrating their social justice activism around animosity toward the police, according to longtime civil rights leader Rev. Markel Hutchins. Instead, these communities need to find ways to build a productive relationship with the police, turning “adversaries into allies,” he says.
“In a lot of media accounts, and a lot of reports, and particularly on social media, the relationship between law enforcement and communities is often reduced to the law enforcement-involved tragedies that we see highlighted,“ he told The Epoch Times. ”But the truth of the matter is, the biggest strain between law enforcement and communities is around high violence.
