'[Rayshard Brooks'] killing ... certainly highlights the need for police reform. But it demonstrates something else that is equally urgent, though rarely discussed: America's desperate need to overhaul our probation system,' writes VanJones68, CNNOpinion
CNN host Van Jones is the CEO of the REFORM Alliance, a criminal justice organization. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
"I just feel like some of the system could, you know, look at us as individuals. We do have lives, you know, just a mistake we made, and you know, not just do us as if we are animals." Those are the words of Rayshard Brooks during a heartbreaking interview filmed in February of this year -- just a few months before he was tragically shot by police. Brooks talks about the agony of being trapped in a prison reentry and probation system that won't let him get back on his feet.His killing at the hands of Atlanta police certainly highlights the need for police reform.
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