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Exploring The Concept Of ‘Bluelining” In Police Response

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Damage inside the U.S. Capitol after rioters stormed the building on January 6, 2021.

Aya Gruber is a professor of criminal law and procedure at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. She recently wrote a paper for the Houston Law Review on the concept of bluelining and the perception that a crowd of white people may be less of a threat than a crowd of people of color.