In this session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series and Book Club, Prof. Kristin Henning and Ebony Howard, Deputy Director of The Gault Center, will be joined by Thomas J. Bahr, Deputy Public Defender at the Office of the San Diego Public Defender who will discuss the California case In re Edgerrin J.; Dr. Noël A. Cazenave, Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and author of Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism; and Jason Tashea, an expert in technology and the law and adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law.

Please join us to:

• Review the history of civilian policing of Black youth;

• Understand how the law validates and protects civilians who police children of color;

• Demonstrate how civilian vigilantism mimics and supports state-sponsored policing;

• Learn how technology expands the reach of the police state;

• Discuss how defenders can push back against civilian policing that reinforces white supremacy and protects “white space”;

• Strategize about how we can vindicate youth rights in the face of civilian vigilantism.

This session will be built around Chapter 8, Policing by Proxy of Prof. Henning's book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.