WE MUST CONFRONT OUR PAST AND THE REALITY OF THE PRESENT The disproportionate killing of black people is not a new phenomenon. Even though it was not until 1991 when the first public beating - post-civil rights era - was captured on camera ((Rodney King), the historical evidence of public harming and devaluing of black bodies dates to enslavement, and was reinforced in the 19th century when lynching laws were in place. In a lot of ways, police brutality...