Tara Murray

Tara Murray served as deputy legal director for London-based human rights charity Reprieve. In that role, she worked on extra-judicial killing and detention cases around the world. Prior to joining Reprieve, she was a Prettyman Fellow in Georgetown's Criminal Justice Clinic and represented indigent criminal defendants in felony and misdemeanor cases in Washington, DC.

Watching Ferguson, but still unseeing

Scaling back police militarization will not end the abuse of the state; the US has consistently mobilized the same tactics and attitudes towards undesirable communities domestically and abroad.

By Tara Murray

/ 1 Sep 2014