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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Police district councils will give a voice to communities harmed by bad policing

Demonstrators march though the Loop on Jan. 30 in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photos)

Merciless. Devastating. Gratuitous. Systemic failure. These are just some of the words lifted into our lexicon this week — and seemingly nearly every week.

Tyre Nichols should still be with us. That we learn about new Tyres nearly every week is horrific. No amount of thoughts and prayers will turn back time or erase the collective trauma that Black people feel at our ancestral core: That it could have just as easily been me.

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