Since March 29, the start date of Derek Chauvin’s trial, 64 people - approximately 3 people each day - have died at the hands of law enforcement in the United States. One officer being held accountable does not come close to rectifying the loss of Black and Brown lives nor does it erase the fact that the United States has a serious problem with policing. We also can’t view the institution of policing in isolation when the whole system is guilty.
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One afternoon in 2009, at a Bible Study held as part of the Global Baptist Peace Conference in Rome, I had a sudden visceral rush as I realized that I was physically present in the seat of the Empire that had shaped and controlled the world of the book we were reading. Rome’s oppressive presence hovers over Jesus’ life from birth to death.
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