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83 Ohio St. L.J. Online 41 (2022)
Martial Arts as a Remedy for Racialized Police Violence

handle is hein.journals/furth83 and id is 41 raw text is: OHIO STATE LAW JO URNAL ONLINE Martial Arts as a Remedy for Racialized Police Violence GREGORY S. PARKS* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. IN TRODUCTION ..............................................................................4 1 II. RACE AND POLICE VIOLENCE ........................................................42 III. REDUCING POLICE LETHALITY THROUGH MARTIAL ARTS ............46 IV . C ONCLUSION ..................................................................................52 I. INTRODUCTION Over half a decade ago, law professor Cynthia Lee offered an intriguing argument in an article titled Race, Policing, and Lethal Force: Remedying Shooter Bias with Martial Arts Training.1 In short, Professor Lee argued that if law enforcement had martial arts training, they would be less likely to incorrectly assume that Black suspects are armed and shoot them.2 Since the publication of her article, police killings of unarmed and nonthreatening Blacks has persisted,3 resulting in a national outcry.4 In this essay, I revisit Professor Lee's argument in a more nuanced manner. First, I contend that police's racialized fear emerges in a variety of ways and manifests itself in several ways, including-but not limited to-shootings. Second, I contend that one way for * Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law. Thank you to Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk (University of South Carolina School of Law) for her feedback on an early draft of this Essay. 1 See generally Cynthia Lee, Race, Policing, and Lethal Force: Remedying Shooter Bias With Martial Arts Training, 79 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 145 (2016). 2Id. at 147-51. 3 See data at Mapping Police Violence, https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ [https://perma.cc/8MUW-9E3P]. 4 See Sarah J. Jackson, The Headlines that Are Covering Up Police Violence,ATLANTIC (June 3, 2020), https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/george-floyd-protests-what-news- reports-dont-say/612571/ [https://perma.cc/7WTP-6XJB]; Wesley Lowery, Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point, ATLANTIC (June 10, 2020), https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/wesley-lowery-george-floyd- minneapolis-black-lives/612391/ [https://perma.cc/WR2K-VZZJ]; Caroline Mimbs Nyce, America's Racial Contract Is Exposed Anew, ATLANTIC (May 28, 2020), https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/05/george-floyd-americas-racial- contract/612313/ [https://perma.cc/U4XH-MCLJ]; Alan Taylor, Images from a Worldwide Protest Movement, ATLANTIC (June 8, 2020), https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/06/images-worldwide-protest-movement/612811/ [https://perma.cc/NA6G-HDQ7]. 2022] 41

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