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Roughly a year after the highly publicized incident, Ralph Baker Jr. stands before a small crowd talking about Don Imus and the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. But this isn’t...

Laquan McDonald and What My Dying Father Told Me About the Chicago Police

My daddy was born and raised near Money, Mississippi, and was a teenager himself in that tiny town the night 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered by white racists. My dad grew up black in a social structure steeped in white supremacy, yet his encounters with the Chicago Police Department convinced him that cops here were worse than any Jim Crow-loving, Negro-hating, Southern vigilante he'd ever seen.

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