President Donald Trump appears set to end federal oversight of police, including agencies that have committed systemic civil rights violations, like in Rankin County, Miss., and Lexington, Miss. New leadership at the Justice Department has already ordered a halt to all open civil rights investigations.
Wilbert L. Cooper
Wilbert L. Cooper is a staff writer for The Marshall Project and the author of “The Black Shield,” the forthcoming book from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.