How to Protect Black Girls

Ashley Gantt, organizer with the Rochester chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Ashley Sawyer, attorney and director of Policy and Government Relations at Girls for Gender Equity, an intergenerational organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women, talk about the "adultification" of Black children in the aftermath of an incident in which Rochester police pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl while responding to a report of “family trouble," and the need to protect Black girls from gender- and racial-based violence.