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November, 2009
WHO WILL PROTECT US FROM THE PROTECTORS?With the power to enforce the law comes an obligation never to live above the law. Unfortunately, police routinely break this societal bargain, so much so that we shrink at the notion of questioning the authority of cops for fear of arbitrary arrest. That speaks volumes about the state of American law enforcement today.Take the recent arrest of Pepin Tuma, a 33-year-old white lawyer in Washington, D.C. Tuma had been discussing the Henry Louis Gates kerfuff...