AFTER THE PROTESTS, A CHANGING OF THE GUARD?

POLICE shootings; CRIMINAL justice system; TURTLE conservation; LAW enforcement; BLACK Lives Matter movement; CONTRACTS; POLICE-community relations

The article informs that killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in and the worldwide protests that followed have amplified longstanding questions about violent and biased policing and the larger criminal justice system, including the imprisonment of those convicted of relatively minor crimes. It mentions that the protesters remembered Atatiana Jefferson, who was shot and killed inside her home last October by an officer who was standing in her yard.