Craig Futterman admittedly is sleep deprived these days.

The clinical professor of law and director of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project at the University of Chicago has been a recurring voice in the news regarding Chicago’s police department and its handling of several high profile cases, including that of Laquan McDonald, the 17-year-old shot 16 times by a police officer.

“Part of the reason I’m not getting sleep is that I have never experienced a moment like this in my lifetime,” says Futterman. He is hopeful that soon the city—and the country—can address the issues underlying why, as he says, “large segments of the black community are so alienated from the police, and why the minority of police officers have been allowed to abuse the most vulnerable among us without fear of consequences.”

Read more at Urban Research Review