The article by Crenshaw and Peller discusses how even though there was video evidence of a beating that was done by the police, the law failed to convict them of excessive force. This is an all too familiar case, as made public in recent news about the deaths of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others. It is now new that racial profiling is leading to such arrests and in some unfortunate cases, excessive police violence. As we did see in our class presentations by the Stop and Frisk group, African American and Latino men are amongst the ones who are stopped and suspected of crimes the most. Even in the article, the authors discuss Rodney King, who was also a victim of police brutality and the justice system did not serve justice like it should have.

Question: Is there ever going to be any resolution to this problem, or is history just going to keep repeating itself?