The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is senior pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which is organizing the largest digital gathering of poor and low-income people at June2020.org.
Yes, we must radically transform policing in America. But we cannot stop there. We must transform the pervasive systems of economic and carceral injustice that are choking our common life.