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    Glitter and Glue

    Aug 15, 2020 4 minutes
    By ROBERT REED
    Illustration by DANIEL FISHEL

    A FEW YEARS AGO, GARY’S THEN MAYOR, KAREN FREEMAN-WILSON, WHO NOW RUNS the Chicago Urban League, listened as her constituents described their fear and loathing of the Indiana city’s police force. During hearings between the mostly Black community and its top cops, residents complained of abusive behavior, including military-like sweeps of neighborhoods and predatory fines for minor traffic violations. “It was heart-wrenching to hear them talk about how they viewed the police,” says Freeman-Wilson. “As a kid, they always teach you that the police are your friends, and today that’s not a given.”

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