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We know what impunity looks like. It’s law enforcement.

Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.