8 years ago
The County: the story of America's deadliest police
A Guardian series examines Kern County, California, where police have killed more people per capita than anywhere else in the US this year. Seventy-five years after Kern County’s leaders banned The Grapes of Wrath from their schools and libraries, complaining that John Steinbeck’s new book portrayed their policemen as “divested of sympathy or human decency or understanding”, officer Aaron Stringer placed his hands on the body of James De La Rosa without permission.
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