Talk: “The Creation of Black Mistrust in Police: An Exploration of the White Policing of Black Bodies in Fairfax County”

Andrew Snowman, a recent graduate of George Mason University, will present ongoing scholarship that explores the Black experience with white policing through the study of Fairfax County’s Antebellum policing and its evolution through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. New scholarship from African American studies have provided tools that help revisit older examples of historical scholarship to help understand reasons for the current Black perspective toward police.