Rashad Robinson’s Freedom Table explains how crime TV normalizes police violence

On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Renee Good multiple times as she sat in her SUV in Minneapolis. One week earlier, an off-duty ICE agent killed Keith Porter Jr. outside his Los Angeles apartment complex on New Year’s Eve. In both cases, federal officials defended the shootings using language that witnesses and local authorities later disputed.

The killings occurred days after Rashad Robinson launched Freedom Table, a monthly conversation series. The first...