Did Implicit Bias Lead to Breach of U.S. Capitol?
/Harvard Law School’s James Tierney says police would have treated Black Lives Matter protesters differently.
“‘[T]he cause of this disaster arose long before the Capitol building was breached.
’Bluntly, if the Capitol Police knew a Black Lives Matter march of thousands of protesters were marching down Pennsylvania avenue, their implicit biases would have resulted in a very different kind of preparation. They would have pushed the fences back and been waiting in full riot gear. Their batons would have been at the ready and they would have had plenty of back up. Their predisposition to a Black Live Matter march would undoubtedly have led to assertive and physical responses at the slightest provocation.’”
Jeff Neal, “Did implicit bias lead to breach of U.S. Capitol?,” Harvard Law Today, January 8, 2021.