Professor Bennett Capers, director of Fordham Law School’s Center on Race, Law and Justice, was quoted in a Washington Post article discussing the Trump campaign’s usage of misleading posts and a racist trope to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on crime.
Bennett Capers, a law professor at Fordham University who studies race and policing, described the Trump campaign’s tactic as: “Put up a photo of a scary Black man and it will rally your fearful base.” He added: “You have not just the Black defendant but you have him next to the Black woman, painting both with the same brush, even though the brush is inaccurate.”
