The summer of protest in 2020 should have been reason enough for the federal government to look at every police department in the county with a microscope to see how they are conducting their business. America had watched Black body after Black body be beaten, brutalized, blamed and besmirched for far too long and society at-large was well beyond the tipping point. Unfortunately, police brutality is as rampant as ever and the fight against injustice must continue. Fortunately, people are still doing the work.
According to CBSNews, an activist group from Dallas, Texas called Mothers Against Police Brutality have drawn up a formal complaint requesting that the United States Department of Justice open an investigation into the Dallas Police Department citing years of violence and conspiracy by officers and their superiors. The group described Dallas as “a city that prioritizes hiding disturbing trends of police violence from public view.”
According to an analysis by the group, independently confirmed by CBS News, 49% of Dallas police shootings involved Black residents between 2003 and 2017. In cases when the victim was unarmed, 59% of people shot by police were Black. In Dallas, 24% of the population is Black.