I can’t bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don’t care, but because we’re all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.”

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal, “I know that it’s hard to believe that the people you look to for safety and security are the same people who are causing us so much harm. But I’m not lying and I’m not delusional. I am scared and I am hurting and we are dying. And I really, really need you to believe me.

Our police force was not created to serve black Americans; it was created to police black Americans and serve white Americans.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe”

You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is a real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority.

There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there’s a problem, the nice man in uniform who pats a toddler’s head and has an easy smile for the old lady as she buys her coffee. For others, the police are the people who are called on them. They are the ominous knock on the door, the sudden flashlight in the face, the barked orders. Depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror.”

When Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Flyod’s Neck while the other 3 officers held him down and the 4th played lookout while bystanders pleaded for them to stop He didn’t care he was being filmed He didn’t see a man with hopes and dreams fading away below him, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.

When does it come to the point that instead of standing there filming that we are not afraid but after seeing what I witnessed still do not understand Why he would stand in watch our people get slaughtered and why we don’t protect a man from police brutality?

is it because he says to himself
Being poor and black,
I’ve no weapon to strike back–
So who but the Lord
Can you protect me?

We live in, arguably, the most developed, powerful country in the world, yet we are still unable to find a way to keep corrupt cops from killing black men. Why is that?”

Some critics will counter that poverty is a choice made by those that are lazy or who lack the desire to change their lives for the better. I agree that poverty is a choice. But that choice is not made by the people who live under its oppressive effects. Rather, the choice is ours. It’s the choice of government that represents our priorities and allocates our investments. Its a choice reinforced by the companies we patronize and the organizations we support.

I just hope that we can get justice this time but if we have to burn it all down to do it then so be it because we can no longer be silent.

Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs, and the government.”