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A police officer’s knee pressing down on a Black body. This is not foreign to me. George Floyd’s horrific murder was far too familiar. As a young Black girl growing up in the Bronx, New York, I have lived this horrifying reality many times. In 2013, I was under the weight of a police officer’s knee while being arrested. They charged me with two felonies for trying to defend a young person who was being beaten by the police.
Opinion|No More Money for the Police https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/george-floyd-police-funding.html Redirect it to emergency response programs that don’t kill black people. May 30, 2020 Municipalities could change policies so social service workers, not the police, are dispatched for certain kinds of 911 calls. Credit...Michael Appleton for The New York Times Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
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