Two first-graders in Florida are not the same children today as they were last month. Consider the distress, fear and confusion that being forcibly taken, handcuffed and driven away from your school by a police officer would cause in any 6-year-old you know. Imagine it’s your child, your grandchild. We both worked in the Obama […]

Roy L. Austin Jr.
Roy L. Austin Jr. is a partner at the law firm, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, a former deputy assistant to the President for the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the civil rights division of the Justice Department.