Still, as she entered college, Purnell wasn’t ready to imagine a world without police. In high school, Purnell once witnessed an officer break up a fight between two students by punching one boy so hard in the ear that he fell to the floor in pain. Louis public schools, on-campus police or “school resource officers” lined the hallways. Cops were everywhere and police violence, unavoidable. Louis, Missouri, Purnell and others in her community, not having access to other resources, called 911 for almost every issue police accompanied paramedics or arrived alone. Growing up in an underfunded, predominantly Black neighborhood in St. These are just a few of the reasons that Derecka Purnell, an organizer, journalist, and human-rights lawyer currently based in Washington, D.C., used to call the police. Nosebleeds and asthma attacks from unsafe and polluted air.
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