I was 9 when the cop that I saw chase my older brother with a gun through our mama’s house then beat him while handcuffed in the backyard and my dad having to hold my mama back while my other brother held me.
This was all over a dime bag of weed.
This same cop was at my school the next day to teach the D.A.R.E program. I saw this man every Thursday for 3 months. The man I saw do nothing but yell, beat up and take people away. They excepted me to trust and learn from.
WE. DO. NOT. NEED. COPS. IN. SCHOOL.
In Middle school, just 3 years later this cops partner would “pull over” me and my homegirls (ALL 6 of us Black girls) because we ‘Suspiciously crossed the street too many times"
We were avoiding a dog chasing us.
He later showed up at school during lunch and gave us a “safety” lecture. Like came to the ONLY table of Black girls in this white ass christian hick town and loudly lectured about us about our walking home etiquette so we didn’t cause suspicion or scare others and how “he didn’t want to have to arrest us in the future”
WE. DO. NOT. NEED. COPS. IN. SCHOOL.