By We like to see things to believe them. But what happens when racist, violent, state-sponsored abuses happen in a place with no cameras?Last summer, the streets of America teemed with hope and rage.
We watched die after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. The video footage—thrown on the kindling of a pandemic, tanking economy, and hot summer—sparked an uprising, a demand for action against institutional and individual racism.But when it comes to certain kinds of abuses, there are seldom cameras.
In Prince George’s County Jail in Maryland, advocates allege that an uncontrolled outbreak of coronavirus, caused by the jail’s mismanagement, has escalated into unconscionable human rights violations.