DS4SI co-founder, Lori Lobenstine, “co-authored” this poem with Judge Timothy J. Wilson after he declared St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley innocent in the shooting murder of black driver Anthony Lamar Smith. It underscores the dangerous catch-22 of the white carceral/juridical/societal gaze on the black body. Read it here.
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