How Should White People Respond to Police Violence?

Sunday, May 7, 1-4pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] Columbus and Columbus Citizens for Police Review will watch the award-winning film “Peace Officer” and will follow with a group discussion on the abuse of SWAT teams and how majority-white communities should deal with their own experience of police violence. How can these communities find the proper way to build solidarity with other over-policed and marginalized groups?

“Peace Officer” is a feature-length documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later.

Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.

Hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] Columbus and Columbus Citizens for Police Review.