To see a black life snuffed out by a fellow cop is especially painful to police officers who spend much of their careers trying to protect black lives. One New York City officer wrote me to say, �This cop also just shot all of law enforcement in the back.� At home and in roll calls around the nation, cops watched the video of Scott�s killing and cringed not only at his death, but also at the officer�s betrayal of the police uniform and everything it stands for....
Sunday, April 12, 2015
"Think Walter Scott�s death is 'another Ferguson'? Cops don't."
Writes Peter Moskos, who is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and was a Baltimore police officer.
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