Dentons global CEO speaks out against racism in wake of George Floyd killing (Dentons Global)
Dentons Global, June 2, 2020
Dentons global CEO speaks out against racism in wake of George Floyd killing
Arnold & Porter partner Sheila Boston, who became the first woman of colour to serve as president of the New York City Bar Association in May, said she saw ‘glimmers of hope’. ‘Young people of all races are peacefully marching and protesting in the streets, expressing moral indignation,’ she said in a statement today. ‘Civil rights leaders and lawyers are meeting, planning and mobilising to implement legislative and policy changes, for example to ensure that citizens are protected from police officers who are unworthy of wearing a badge.’ She added: ‘As Dr Martin Luther King Jr remarked to a room full of lawyers at the City Bar in 1965, ‘I am impelled to wonder who is better qualified to demand an end to this debilitating lawlessness, to better understand the mortal danger to the entire fabric of our democracy when human rights are flaunted.’
