In an executive order meant to “humanize individuals” and “foster systemic transformation,” the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi has forbidden the city’s police force from releasing mugshots of people engaged in officer-involved shootings.
“A mug shot is just one snapshot in time, and cannot be presumed to represent the sum total of any individual’s existence,” said Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who is affiliated with the black nationalist movement. “Removing the visual dehumanization that occurs when mug shots are used will be the first step we as a city take to engage in a truthful and honest conversation on violent crime.”
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