The Racism That Tim Wise Exposes After 5 Minutes Of Police Training Is Staggering

Anti-racism activist Tim Wise trains police officers in diversity workshops. He asks two questions five minutes into a three-hour workshop that exposes their profiling and racism.

From his website:

A brief clip from Shakti Butler’s powerful film, ?Cracking the Codes? (World Trust Films, 2012). In this clip (filmed back in 2010 but clearly as relevant as ever), I briefly recount my experiences with law enforcement officials, and an experiment I do with them at the outset of our conversation, which demonstrates how automatic racial biases can be, and why it matters.

Everyone in America needs to watch this short video by Cracking the Code.

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