(Newswire.net — August 27, 2020) — 2020 has been a year for the history books, and it may take decades to unravel everything that happened, both in the United States and the world. One of the major conversations of the year has been about police brutality, and particularly about the civil rights of minorities when it comes to fatal interactions with police. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died while being arrested by Minneapolis police officers while repeatedly telling them that he could not breathe, and the country aggressively took to the streets to fight for real change.
Earlier in the year, Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot in what many have called a lynching while jogging through a neighborhood. Two weeks after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks was killed by Atlanta police during a DUI arrest and the officers were promptly charged by an Atlanta DA with felony murder, violation of oath, and a variety of other offenses. These cases, among others, are making their way through the court systems while America has taken to the streets. The social fights are prominent on the news every night, but the legal battles being fought in our courts do not get the same national attention.
Behind the three incidents mentioned already is a tireless civil rights attorney by the name of L. Chris Stewart and his law firm Stewart Trial Attorneys. 2020 will be remembered for many things, and the topic of police brutality will be one of them — Stewart is pushing for real change in the American court system and is one of the most important civil rights lawyers of the generation.
Stewart is Pushing the Justice System Forward
Behind all celebrated civil rights advances through American history is a social movement, and a legal battle to match it. If it were not for brave and moral lawyers taking up the gauntlet of civil liberty and justice for all, we may still think that it is completely normal for women to not be allowed to vote, or for segregated bathrooms to be the norm. These issues, among others, seem preposterous to us in the 21st century, but in the living memory of many southerners, it was illegal for a black person to ride in the “whites” section of a bus, and drinking from the wrong water fountain could result in an arrest.
Since the early summer of 2020, police brutality has taken the front seat of our national conversation, with room in the talks for the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and the state of American politics, as well as some other topics that have been overshadowed by these issues. The road has been and will continue to be, long and hard, but with dedicated and aggressive attorneys like L. Chris Brooks, we may someday look back at this summer and realize that a seachange was in motion that we could not yet see.
Civil Liberties Depend on Attorneys Like Stewart
If we do not fight for change in the American legal system, then the social changes that we push for will not stand the test of time. Many argue that racial disparity is not an issue, or that it is an inflated issue, but attorneys like Stewart are fighting to ensure that these issues are addressed in the highest courts in our nation and that we can move forward in our pursuit of a more perfect union by securing the protections and freedoms for all that are only enjoyed by some today.