Law Practice
Jun. 4, 2020
We have a choice
We have a choice. To stay silent. To yell. To destroy. To blame. To not see. To not hear. Or — like Gandhi, King, Mandela, Kennedy and several heroic police chiefs across our country — to boldly listen and share narratives of respect and kindness and unity that can lift us all to a higher plane.





Sidney Kanazawa
Mediator/Arbitrator, Attorney
ARC (Alternative Resolution Centers)
Email: skanazawa@arc4adr.com
USC Gould School of Law
As a mediator and citizen, I'd like to underscore the courageous choices of a few police chiefs (Chris Swanson, Flint, Michigan; Andy Mills, Santa Cruz, California; Kenneth Miller, Petersburg, Virginia; Anthony Ambrose, Newark, New Jersey; Joe Wysocki, Camden, New Jersey; Art Acevedo, Houston, Texas) who have put down their batons, taken off their helmets, listened, kneeled and walked with the protesters. Heeding the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "a riot is the la...
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