My observations from what has happened in Kenosha is:

It is safer to be a White criminal/murderer, thank to be a Black citizen in regards to interactions with the police.

We’ve all seen it, time to be real with our societal norms (unfortunately).
I don’t understand how we can all “know” what Jacob Blake had or was doing in a car, but someone comes and opens fire, KILLS and cop vehicles pass him up.

THIS IS WRONG! WRONG IS WRONG!
For some of those who profess to be followers of Christ, Christ like & Christ minded. How is it possible to not address the problem in our country?

CHRIST LITERALLY CAME DOWN TO ADDRESS A PROBLEM IN OUR WORLD, SIN. U think He would just send thoughts & prayers during this time!!
It’s tough it really is, when something like this happens we go digging in peoples past.

BUT WHAT IF IT’S ME?!! How I’ll you justify it.

Library fines
Speeding tickets
HS detention

How?!! How will you justify me being a hashtag?
I’m just TIRED, beyond TIRED because I don’t have the luxury to get and just go on to the next day.

I have a 35 minute commute everyday that I WORRY about, honestly.

Do I have enough KU stuff on for them to recognize me as a staff member?

These are real thoughts.
It’s happened to me here before, coming from a KU basketball game, I’m dressed nicely because I knew I would be interacting with boosters.

Come to my complex, check the mail, walk to car see https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚓" title="Polizeiwagen" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiwagen"> begins my car.

Take a deep breath.
Don’t show nervousness.
Make sure I keep him calm
Get in car
Grab information
Put window
Don’t make him nervous (REAL THOUGHT)

Hello officer, is everything alright?

As I speak to officer there was someone running around vandalizing the complex. Told him I knew nothing about it, thought everything was good until...
2nd cop car comes up, cop flashing lights in my face from passenger side, aggressive in speech.

I didn’t even want to look to see if his hand was on his gun, because I didn’t want to face that reality.

ASK HIM WHERE HE LIVES?
ASK HIM WHY HE’S PARKED HERE?
ASK HIM WHAT HE’S DOIN
Mind you I’m am dressed up to a T! From coming from a donor function at the b-ball game.

I wanted to say I know y’all don’t know all these addresses here, what does it matter?

BUT, my wife and kids were less than 500FT away and I just wanted to make it safely to them.
Cops eventually left, but I felt defeated, wanted to just break down.

I saw plenty of White residents walk by during this and NONE were questioned.

I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t get it off my mind.

What would’ve been your justification if that night I would’ve been a hashtag??
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