{"id":192942,"date":"2014-09-03T22:40:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/03\/if-i-see-three-or-four-young-black-men-walking\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T22:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:40:04","slug":"if-i-see-three-or-four-young-black-men-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/03\/if-i-see-three-or-four-young-black-men-walking\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names. I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Chief Russell Mills to the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/mar\/17\/nation\/na-race-shootings17\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>\u00a0after shooting and killing black 89-year-old great grandfather Shawn Monroe at a barbecue unprovoked.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policestateusa.com\/2014\/bernard-monroe\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Today, he walks free with no charges, despite numerous witnesses and his own admission that he enjoys terrorizing black people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me again why Black people should be okay with police when they have, since the history of our being kidnapped to this fucking country, have not EVER been about protecting us, but about terrorizing us?<\/p>\n<p>Police are NOT for Black people\u2019s safety. They are about torturing us, terrorizing us and killing us. Period. There is no safety with police. There is no peace keeping with police. They have ALWAYS been a terror to the Black community and I am tired of this fact being pushed to the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sourcedumal.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sourcedumal<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And Ray Kelly, when he was Commissioner in NYC said the same thing.<br \/>Arpaio has said the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>This is a ROUTINE assertion that the point of the police is to be an agent of state terror. And that such terror should be all but exclusively focused on Black and Brown bodies.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/note-a-bear.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">note-a-bear<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The ghost of bull conner&rdquo; ~ MHP<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jcoleknowsbest.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">jcoleknowsbest<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This statement doesn\u2019t surprise me, but please note how boldly and comfortably he came out of his face to say this.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sapphrikah.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sapphrikah<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names. I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested. Chief Russell Mills to the LA Times\u00a0after shooting and killing black 89-year-old great grandfather Shawn Monroe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/03\/if-i-see-three-or-four-young-black-men-walking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,994,4,816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}