Richard There were good reasons to release the videos. One among them is to lay bare the full extent of these wrongs and make them undeniable. Look at the result when Emmett Till’s mother insisted on an open casket. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to look in order to fully see the problem.I did not want to watch the videos but considered it a civic duty. As A.O. Scott wrote in the Times, “The cost of looking is thinking about what you see.” I thought I knew what the videos would show, but I was wrong. It is far, far worse. The videos make absolutely clear that the problem is systemic, not just “bad apples.”

Richard There were good reasons to release the videos. One among them is to lay bare the full extent of these wrongs and make them undeniable. Look at the result when Emmett Till’s mother insisted on an open casket. Sometimes we have to force ourselves to look in order to fully see the problem.I did not want to watch the videos but considered it a civic duty. As A.O. Scott wrote in the Times, “The cost of looking is thinking about what you see.” I thought I knew what the videos would show, but I was wrong. It is far, far worse. The videos make absolutely clear that the problem is systemic, not just “bad apples.”

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