I ask the lady to see the sign she is carrying. It says 10 percent of all the killings by police in Utah are of black people. And, that Utah leads the nation in the proportion of such killings.
Utah No. 1, can it be?
I come home and try to look it up. I find a map at aljazeera.com, it showing Utah one of only two states shaded dark gray, indicating they are the worst.
Can it be? Utah, a state that prides itself on its good officers. A state that suggests that while there might be racism rooted in police forces in other parts of the nation, there isn't much here.
Can it be? Here the whole nation is in uproar against such killings, and that quiet little state back west, far from the limelight, in some ways is the state that has the biggest problem.
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