Professor Ron Tyler is cited in this Stanford Daily article for an address he gave at SLS’s “My Life Mattered” candlelight vigil on January 5, 2015. 

On Monday night Stanford Law School students, professors, and administrators in commemorative tee shirts gathered in front of the Crown Quadrangle in order to honor black people killed by police officers.

Krista Whitaker, third year law student, and Darryl Long, first year law student, organized the event with the help of other members of Stanford’s Black Law Student Association (BLSA). Approximately one hundred people attended the event, the vast majority wearing black “My life mattered” shirts, each with the name of a person killed by police on the back.

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Stanford Law Professor and Criminal Defense Clinic Director Ron Tyler spoke after Whitaker, touching first on the historical roots of slavery, and then addressing “the cast system that is America in 2015.”

While Tyler and others addressed the high profile cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the vigil also focused on other instances of officer-involved shootings. As Whitaker emphasized, the point of the night was not to focus on circumstances surrounding a few individual cases, but rather to place a value on the many lives lost.