Briallen Hopper – The Conversation

Demonstrators attempt to keep protests calm during Baltimore demonstrations. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

April 28, 2015

Baltimore riots: the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between

Kimberly Moffitt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Briallen Hopper, Yale University; Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University; John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Kate Drabinski, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Yale University, and Vesla Weaver, Yale University

A panel of scholars comments on the origins and the implications of the violence in Baltimore.

A memorial created at the site of the death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. REUTERS/Randall Hill

April 22, 2015

Charging media for using police‑shooting video may be the price of equal justice

Briallen Hopper, Yale University and Vesla Weaver, Yale University

The man who videotaped the shooting of Walter Scott is demanding compensation from media outlets replaying it. Here’s why this is a reasonable request.

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