Rallying against legislation allowing Johns Hopkins University to create an armed private police force – on the day the bill takes effect – about 150 activists gathered yesterday at Wyman Park, on the edge of the Homewood campus.
Among the speakers was a Hopkins physician who attributed the University’s rebuff of criticism of its police force plan (and its contracts with ICE) to the prestigious institution’s self-image.
“When we start thinking that what we’re doing is good because we’re doctors – evil lies that way,” said Zackary Berger, an associate professor at the School of Public Health. “You have to do good first.”
