HENNING: Really, America has a long history of failing to see Black children as children. In your experience, what is it about how Black children are being perceived that might account for those disproportionate numbers?
MCCAMMON: You've represented Black youth in juvenile court cases for a long time. Kristin Henning is director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Georgetown University's law school and joins us now to talk about this. An analysis this week from The Associated Press looked at more than 3,000 incidents of kids being handled forcibly by police, and more than half of the children were Black despite the fact that they make up just 15% of the child population in the country. More than a year and a half after nationwide racial justice and law enforcement protests came with renewed calls to scale back police use of force, new reporting offers a look at how often such force is affecting children.