"I’ve had enough with the NYPD shenanigans, and the hypocrisy of media pundits and elected officials, shifting the blame onto peaceful protesters, and privileging the lives of the murdered officers above the lives of 40-plus unarmed Black people who, in 2014 alone, were killed by police under questionable circumstances. That’s right, more than 40 people:
Jordan Baker, D’Andre Berghardt, Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, Rumain Brisbon, McKenzie Cochran, John Crawford III, Denzell Curnell, Michelle Cusseaux, Ezell Ford, Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, Dontre Hamilton, Jason Harrison, Darrien Hunt, Marquise Jones, Ernest Satterwhite, Yvette Smith, Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Myers, Laquan McDonald, Quesean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh, Diana Showman, Victor White III, Levar Jones, Vernicia Woodard, Brian Dennison, Armand Bennett, Jeremy Lake, Kajieme Powell, Dante Parker, Brandon Tate, Tyree Woodson."
"And why do politicians like De Blasio and Brooklyn Borough president Eric L. Adams, and pundits ask protesters to stand down in silence and join in with grieving police officers, when these tools of the State kept their fingers on the trigger all summer long, killing 14 black teenagers as we awaited the Ferguson grand jury decision in the Mike Brown murder. They want protesters to pause the movement even though in the past few weeks we’ve been told that the officers who killed Dontre Hamilton, John Crawford III, Akai Gurley, and Rumain Brisbon have not or will not be indicted. An investigation is still ongoing in the case of Victor White III, who allegedly shot himself in the chest while his hands were cuffed behind his back as he sat in a squad car.