Let me paint a picture to help people understand our situation. Now keep in mind what I'm about to say is just a visual to compare, and I'm not suggesting violence. Police operate like gangs, now imagine this. What if street gangs were rolling up on family members of police.
Just roll up, escalate a confrontation with their unarmed family members. The gangs end up beating them, shooting them, or killing them. Videos of the family members death by gangs are all over the internet & news. Few gang members get charged because they normally win in court.
And it keeps happening over and over for years. Police family members always afraid. And these gangs are backed by gang unions that have kingpins who make sure the gangsters have immunity & the cops never receive justice. If this happened the govt. would do everything to end it.
If this scenario happened police officers in America would be outraged. They would have Crime Stoppers & John Walsh asking "citizens" to call in with tips. But what if the citizens had a Black Wall of Silence and the good citizens never spoke out, instead they remained silent.
This fight isn't about hating and hurting cops. This fight is about loving and saving black lives.
Tamir Rice was only 12-years-old.
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