Craig Futterman at Chicago Ideas Week: A Tale of Two Constitutions

Chicago Ideas Week: Police experts tell a tale of two Constitutions

Sometimes it seems like there are two U.S. Constitutions: The one applied in minority communities and the one Professor Craig Futterman teaches in his law classes at the University of Chicago.

Futterman, who was instrumental in the Chicago Police Department’s release of the dash cam video from the Laquan McDonald shooting, told the crowd gathered at a Chicago Ideas Week panel Tuesday that he’s seen it firsthand.

He’s spent hundreds of hours talking to kids at schools blocks from his university on the city’s South Side. The kids at those schools, most of whom are black, won’t go to the police even if a loved one is hurt.

“They’re just everyday kids who live with the ever-present possibility of being stopped and frisked and being treated like a criminal,” he said.

Read more at The Chicago Tribune