By: Taylor Zachary In a recent edition of the Newswire, Brittany Welch provided Xavier students with a “different perspective on police brutality,” regarding the incidents surrounding Officer Ben Fields versus a non-participatory student in a South Carolina high school classroom. She explicitly urged America to “think before you judge,” and informed us that “the student 16-year-old girl is still at fault.” In an effort to preserve the acute level of temperance I still possess as a Black male at a predominantly white institution, I will not expend my emotional energy discussing the state of police brutality versus Black and Brown … Continue reading The danger in encouraging victim blaming A rebuttal to a recent opinion about police brutality