So good.
Niggas was cracking up in the background
OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZINH PLEASE WATCH
WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT
Sheâs my new hero!
chescaleigh
on TV speaking truth
Only facts !!! This bullshit has gone on for too long weâre all tired stop fucking killing us and making excuses ! Shit !!!! Iâm so tired
THEY ON HIS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bruh this passion in pain on her face after she finished talking, you see her holding it in.
Yaaassss. She got his ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sens8tus IM CHOKING SHE DID IT
Reblog to get this to 100,1000 views.
DRAGGED. SNATCHED. AND SCALPED.
Things @chescaleigh did: THAT
@chescaleigh đđœ
Can someone make captions for this?
Franchesca: I take a lot of issue with Ray Kelly suggesting we are giving up. We are absolutely not giving up and that is why we are here and that is why we are having this conversation and is why people are protesting.Â
The first thing that you need to do is listen. So if the community is saying that we are scared and we donât feel comfortable and we donât want to call the police, donât think about your friends who call the police, cause thatâs not who weâre talking about. Weâre talking about this community and there is a huge amount of not listening happening, just even in the room.Â
Youâre speaking over Kamua Bell. âWell you guys need to do this, you guys are giving up.â Clearly weâre not. And the thing is is that this-the police in some ways it feels like you want us to give up. âStop talking about it, stop playing the race card, stop being the victim.â Weâre being killed. Weâre not asking to be the victim. And-and the fact that you would sit there and say that we are giving up⊠This conversation- *other people speaking over her*
Katie: I think he was referring to Kamau, in fairness.
Franchesca: You might as wellâve said it to me. Cause honestly, you might as well have said it to me. Because-because heâs speaking as a member of this community, and talking about his experience and the fact that he is afraid or feels uncomfortable is not him giving up, itâs him being honest and responding to the situation at hand.Â
I donât break the law, I donât do anything that should cause me to be afraid police, but when a police officer shoots someone in the stairwell of their apartment building, whoâs not doing anything, and there are police walking around my apartment building on a regular basis, yes iâm going to be afraid because people are being killed and theyâre not doing anything wrong.Â
So to tell me that i need to change my behavior⊠Iâm not breaking the law. Iâm not doing anything wrong. And, at the end of the day if you break the law, then you need to go and go to court and have a chance to sit in front of a jury of your peers, not be shot in the street or choked on a street corner. It-itâs unacceptable. And you should take responsibility as someone who works with the police.
Katie: Latoya, you can have the last word here.
Latoya: Thank you. Well thereâs an interesting debate going on on twitter right now, where people are asking, essentially, how should we approach the police. Iâd be interested to hear Rayâs response. Iâll try to keep it quick.
Essentially, thereâs this idea that the police are better trained than citizens to respond to these situations, to know when to escalate or deescalate and thatâs when you have a situation like Tamir Rice. Where someone is going âI think itâs a kid, he probably has a toy gun, can someone come?â and that child ends up dead. Right? So maybe thatâs not working.Â
There are other people who say that the police are going to be adding violence to any situation they arrive on, and to treat the police as a last resort. As something that we donât call unless we know that we can only fight violence with violence.Â
Ray, what is the way in which we should figure out how to solve this debate and figure out how do we treat the police force, because weâre getting two very different messages.
Katie: Ray, whatâs your reaction to that?
Ray: *laughs* the reaction to?
Katie: Yeah, to-to how should you respond to the police. I-Iâm trying to understand the question.
Kamua: How are we supposed to interact with the police in a way that doesnât end with us murdered?
Katie: That doesnât escalate into a situation, is that right, Latoya?
Latoya: Definitely. Thereâs an idea that if youâre bringing police into a situation, period, once youâve called 911 youâve escalated it into what could be a violent altercation.
Franchesca: Truthfully itâs a rhetorical question. Because weâve had situations where people call the police because they or a family memberâs hurt or injured, and they end up dead. We had a women in Brooklyn who called about her sister having a schizophrenic episode, called the police, and the police took the sister put her on the bed and she-she died. So thatâs why weâre afraid to call the police, okay. So please, enlighten us, Ray. What are we supposed to do so that we can act like good Negros and not get killed?
Ray: Obviously itâs a rhetorical question. The-the-the numbers are infinitesimal where something like that will happen. The vast majority of police -
Franchesca: Have you seen the news? How are you saying that number is infinitesimal?
Ray: earning the wage, a good job (unclear???)
Latoya: It shouldnât happen at all
Katie: You guys, let him finish please.
just reading this transcript got me angry all over againÂ
