The purpose of jaywalking laws is to prevent vehicular injury of inattentive or impaired pedestrians. Unless the Sacramento PD is citing people who aren’t actually jaywalking, enforcement in this case is an affirmation that Black Lives Matter. Those opposing enforcement need to explain why they would prefer that black people be run down, injured, or killed.
It’s time to have that open and honest conversation about race in America that Holder admonished us for.