Deborah Jacobs
4 min readJun 21, 2021

Stop police false narratives about officer-involved deaths

After every officer-involved death comes an effort by police to control the narrative through the selective or false release of information. Take the refusal to publicly release body camera video of the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. by North Carolina deputies, and the false and misleading statements in the Minneapolis Police Department’s initial news release about the murder of George Floyd, as just two examples that highlight…

Deborah Jacobs

I write about rights, liberties, justice, and a little death anxiety for good measure.