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Nia Berrian

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Nia Berrian is a founding member of Black Students for Disarmament at Yale, and graduated from Yale University with her B.S. in 2019.
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

It’s time to disband campus police departments

Nia Berrian by Nia Berrian

(Content note: This article contains descriptions of anti-Black police violence.) In April 2019, Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon, a young, Black, unarmed couple, were sitting in their car singing love songs a few miles away from Yale University’s campus in New Haven. Suddenly, a Yale police officer, accompanied by a Hamden police officer, began to shoot into […]