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OHIO STATE LAW JO URNAL ONLINE
Martial Arts as a Remedy for
Racialized Police Violence
GREGORY S. PARKS*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. IN TRODUCTION ..............................................................................4 1
II. RACE AND POLICE VIOLENCE ........................................................42
III. REDUCING POLICE LETHALITY THROUGH MARTIAL ARTS ............46
IV . C ONCLUSION ..................................................................................52
I. INTRODUCTION
Over half a decade ago, law professor Cynthia Lee offered an intriguing
argument in an article titled Race, Policing, and Lethal Force: Remedying
Shooter Bias with Martial Arts Training.1 In short, Professor Lee argued that if
law enforcement had martial arts training, they would be less likely to
incorrectly assume that Black suspects are armed and shoot them.2 Since the
publication of her article, police killings of unarmed and nonthreatening Blacks
has persisted,3 resulting in a national outcry.4 In this essay, I revisit Professor
Lee's argument in a more nuanced manner. First, I contend that police's
racialized fear emerges in a variety of ways and manifests itself in several ways,
including-but not limited to-shootings. Second, I contend that one way for
* Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Professor of Law, Wake Forest
University School of Law. Thank you to Professor Madalyn Wasilczuk (University of
South Carolina School of Law) for her feedback on an early draft of this Essay.
1 See generally Cynthia Lee, Race, Policing, and Lethal Force: Remedying Shooter
Bias With Martial Arts Training, 79 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 145 (2016).
2Id. at 147-51.
3 See data at Mapping Police Violence, https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
[https://perma.cc/8MUW-9E3P].
4 See Sarah J. Jackson, The Headlines that Are Covering Up Police
Violence,ATLANTIC (June 3, 2020),
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/george-floyd-protests-what-news-
reports-dont-say/612571/ [https://perma.cc/7WTP-6XJB]; Wesley Lowery, Why
Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point, ATLANTIC (June 10, 2020),
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/wesley-lowery-george-floyd-
minneapolis-black-lives/612391/ [https://perma.cc/WR2K-VZZJ]; Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
America's Racial Contract Is Exposed Anew, ATLANTIC (May 28, 2020),
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/05/george-floyd-americas-racial-
contract/612313/ [https://perma.cc/U4XH-MCLJ]; Alan Taylor, Images from a Worldwide
Protest Movement, ATLANTIC (June 8, 2020),
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/06/images-worldwide-protest-movement/612811/
[https://perma.cc/NA6G-HDQ7].
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