Michael Jefferson: Systems of accountability must be built to save black lives

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Over the years there have been countless street level encounters between police and black males and while most don’t end in the execution of the targeted individual, many do, as this one did. Black people and black men in particular have long been the preferred target of law enforcement and the criminal justice system. The empirical data doesn’t lie.