I sat watching all this last night and holding my breath. In 1967, I was 7 years old, my dad was a Detroit cop and we watched the city burn. 1/13 #protests

Tanks rolling down Woodward Ave and the hurt and the anger and the hatred was to last for so very long. It’s taken the rest of my lifetime so far, to see it rise again. 2/13 #protests

The city is being rebuilt and revitalized, the people are working together to heal finally.
Last night, I watched with terror. Could it burn again? One bad decision by either side and it could have all exploded. 3/13 #protests

The crowd was different though, mostly very young. Black and white; Arabic and Hispanic;Asian and mixed race; this was different. The police exercised restraint, it didn’t really feel us vs. them so much. 4/13 #protests

My son told me he had friends down there. That this wasn’t a black vs white thing, this was a frustration and anger at how the system is rigged against regular citizens thing. 5/13 #protests

The young people, saddled with debt or unable to afford an education. 5/13 #protests

The young people who are caught up in a veritable police state where they make a youthful mistake and get churned through the system for years getting every nickel squeezed out of them. 7/13 #protests

The young people who can’t watch it anymore as the authorities act as judge, jury and executioner on the streets and don’t face the consequences they deserve. 8/13 #protests

The young people in this country are afraid. They are weary. They have lost patience and trust. Too many working dead end jobs with no benefits and no way out. 9/13 #protests

What is happening on the streets of our cities is about hopelessness and fear as much as it is anger. 10/13 #protests

We had better respond with care and solutions or they just could burn down everything we think we built. Our buildings and icons; our empires. 11/13 #protests

They don’t feel a part of it. They are sick of talk. They are sick of political games. They want equality, justice and opportunity right now. 12/13 #protests

These are the children that watched Trump get elected.They watch him flout the law with no accountability for his crimes. Then they watch a man get murdered on the streets for a suspected “crime” that is so small. It is Jean Valjean.Its not who we’ve always told them we are.13/13