Panel discusses implications after Ferguson

Wayne State University Law School’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights presented “After Ferguson: A Panel Discussion” on Wednesday, Jan. 21. 

Among those discussing­­­­ the legal, social, moral, and practical implications of the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Mo., and the Eric Garner case in New York City were (seated, left to right) moderator Stephen Henderson, managing director/opinion and community engagement for the Detroit Free Press; Portia Roberson, director of the City of Detroit's Civil Rights and Justice Division; and Steven Winter, Wayne Law’s Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law; along with (standing, left to right) Peter Hammer, Keith Center director and a Wayne Law professor; Nicholas Klaus, a third-year Wayne Law student who twice has served as an observer in Ferguson for the National Lawyers Guild; Saul Green, chair of Detroit’s Youth Violence Prevention Initiative; Blanche Cook, a Wayne Law assistant professor and a former assistant U.S. attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice; and Wayne Law Dean Jocelyn Benson.

(Photo by John Meiu)

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