Suspect in Highland Park mass shooting apprehended peacefully
“Oftentimes, we see a form of white deference,” said Rashawn Ray, a sociologist who specializes in police training.
By Char Daston
Suspect in Highland Park mass shooting apprehended peacefully
“Oftentimes, we see a form of white deference,” said Rashawn Ray, a sociologist who specializes in police training.
By Char Daston
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After an eight-hour manhunt by the FBI and local police Monday, officers found and arrested the Highland Park shooting suspect later that night driving nearby in Lake Forest. The suspect was considered armed and dangerous, but he was arrested peacefully.
Reset hears from a sociologist who’s compared that outcome with the deadly police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Akron, Ohio, last week.
GUEST: Rashawn Ray, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; professor of sociology at the University of Maryland