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99 Tex. L. Rev. Online 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/seealtex99 and id is 1 raw text is: Texas Law Review Online Volume 99 Essay Reclaiming Black Dignity John Felipe Acevedot Abstract As American society seeks to institute police reforms in the wake of the protests following George Floyd's murder, the imperative to include commu- nities that have been disproportionately victimized by police in those reform processes becomes increasingly apparent. For members of these communi- ties, questions of police reform implicate not only physical violence, but vio- lations of human dignity itself When police discriminate against individuals from a particular community, they enact a dignity taking on that community and claim that dignity for themselves. Therefore, for reform to be meaningful, the dignity taken by the police must be restored to the communities it was taken from. This can be achieved by excluding the police and their unions from the reform process, creating elected civilian review boards with the power to fire, and removing an assortment ofpolice privileges. IN TR O D U CTIO N ...................................................................................... 2 I. D IG N ITY T A K IN G ............................................................................... 3 II. WHERE DOES TAKEN DIGNITY GO? .............................................. 5 III. D IGNITY RESTITUTION ................................................................... 7 T Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Alabama School of Law. I would like to thank Bernadette Atuahene, Jenny Carrol, Richard Delgado, Amy Kimpel, and Jean Stefanic for their comments. As always, I thank Deepa Das Acevedo for her comments, corrections, and inspi- ration. All errors remain mine alone.

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