An op-ed published in The Atlantic on July 6 by human rights lawyer Derecka Purnell told the story of how she “became a police abolitionist.” In one major example of alleged police brutality, Purnell claimed she witnessed a police officer shoot a “boy” in the arm for not signing in on a sheet at the recreation center’s basketball court, where Purnell and her sister were playing.
On Facebook, Purnell wrote that this “story means everything to me” and that she “cried a lot while writing it.”
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