From Protesting Police to Becoming a Cop Himself

From Protesting Police to Becoming a Cop Himself

When the call came in over the radio, Jinho Ferreira was on patrol in the outskirts of San Leandro, getting ready to end his shift. “It was a call for shots fired,” he said. “I showed up, and there was a man dead in a parking lot.” The man was Black, and he had been shot to death by several Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies. Ferreira felt apprehensive. A successful rapper who’d had run-ins with the police himself, Ferreira had joined law enforcement for one reason: to fight a white supremacist system from the inside. "I was thinking about occupying a ...

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