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    Amara Enyia

    Commentary

    Amara Enyia: Beware ‘dialogue as spectacle’ in fight to transform Chicago police

    By Amara Enyia | September 15, 2020

    “A truth and reconciliation process may create sympathy,” writes former Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia. “But justice isn’t about sympathy and sentiment – it’s about tangible action.”

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    Amara Enyia

    Amara Enyia: Chicago must defund—not just reform—the police

    By Amara Enyia | June 15, 2020

    “Reform is a perfectly warm, comforting blanket. It is comfortable and sedating. But it also smothers.”

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