My city is about to break it's homicide record by far and we're only in September. It won't even be close. And these are my people that I constantly have to see riddled in the streets by bullets, by perpetrators who look exactly the same. When this happens, guess who is there...
Comforting the family, hugging, praying with them? The police. So many times these families ask where their support is? Why is this acceptable? Where is an Al Sharpton in our community? But we know, he won't come, no one will, besides us, police. Because it's never been about...
preserving black lives. It's only about those that are profitable. People like Ben Crump, Al Sharpton and so many others wouldn't waste their time coming into the hood, because it wouldn't pay their bills. I mean if you could bring in 30 mil for a dead body, instead of actually..
trying to prevent the death, would you? When this BLM and its organization first appeared, I knew it was BS, and years later, still much of the same. And that's not saying the lives of black people don't matter, because they do, can't tell you how many families I've cried with
families with victims not living lives of crime, victims completely minding their business, playing or who just had something that someone else wanted.

I wish we could do things to actually preserve black life, extend black life, prevent these deaths...
But then those other guys I mention wouldn't have a job right? Gotta keep them rich huh? Keep being fooled and thinking black lives matter to the ones profiting off of them
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