Justice
What Does It Mean When Police Unions Denounce Protestors as 'Lynch Mobs'?
Lynch mobs served as de jure law enforcement for decades in a South defined by its lack of due process for African Americans. The term speaks volumes about the current dynamic between police and a distrustful public.
In the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died on April 19 from a spinal-cord injury he apparently sustained while in police custody after his arrest a week earlier, the president of the Baltimore police union has expressed his sympathies for Gray's family.
But Gene Ryan reserved his strongest emotional language for protesters.