Constitutional protections failed to prevent police violence that fueled Black Lives Matter.

Evidence

The critics of Miranda probably make too much of a point about interference by the Supreme Court in the work of the police. Cases like Miranda did not prevent the police, decades later, from beating Rodney King, in Los Angeles (1991), or torturing Abner Louima in New York City (1997). These are only two egregious examples. In the early years of the twenty-​first century, a series of shocking events occurred, in which police shot young African Americans, who turned out to be unarmed; or incidents in which the police seemed to use excessive or even deadly force. Some of these incidents were captured on videotape. Anger in black communities fueled a new movement, Black Lives Matter. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4326

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to ch. 74 on Jim Crow and unequal justice, and forward to environmental-justice policing-of-communities concerns in the cross-course thread. — connects to: Constitutional gains failed to stop white violence against Black people — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 806; Voting for Obama did not protect black activists from police violence — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 606; Police reform cannot solve the fundamental cause of Black suffering — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1326 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Constitutional gains failed to stop white violence against Black people #corroborates (0.90) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 806
• Voting for Obama did not protect black activists from police violence #corroborates (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 606
• Respectability politics offers no protection against police violence #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 428
• Police reform cannot solve the fundamental cause of Black suffering #expands (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1326
• Written constitutional rights fail when the community collectively opposes them #expands (0.80)