Cornell West is on CNN/Don Lemon. He says it's apparent that... [View all]

policing has obviously failed Black people and we need to figure out ways to protect ourselves. He mentions Robert Hicks and the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an African-American self-defense group in the south in the '60s who helped protect MLK Jr. At the same time the Black Panther Party arose on the west coast.

Sooner or later such movements should be expected to arise in response to the continued killings and qualified immunity.

I don't normally agree with West but he's got a point here.