to change the relationship
between police and the public.
joining me now, omar wasso,
assistant professor at princeton
university's department of
politics.
i know you say history shows
peaceful protest are enormously
effective at bringing about
change.
what about a peaceful police
approach?
isn't it a two-way street?
>> i think that's a really
important question, and i think
it's helpful to begin a
discussion about protesting with
sort of why are people
protesting, and there's this
anger and mourning and grief at
an incident like the police
killing of george floyd.
and for some people, that anger
kind of justifies that sort of
what you might caught an eye for
an eye morality, that we want to
reciprocate the state violence
gechs us.
when i look at the protests of
1960 and 1972, i found that
nonviolent protests,
particularly those that were met
with state violence, where
protesters make themselves the
targets of state violence, those
were very -- they created very
powerful images that...