![]() ![]() I DO NOT CARE that an officer knows every step to Single Ladies and Formation. I DO NOT CARE that an officer can do the electric slide. I DO NOT CARE that an officer can break dance. ![]() REALLY? Being able to have a little blue-eyed soul? Being able to clap on the beat? Being able to move with rhythm? Is that the measuring stick? One stanky leg and ya’ll ready to invite EVERYONE to the cookout! These videos, of course, go viral and is a convenient way for people to say, “See not ALL police are bad. Hello! It seems EVERY TIME there is a police shooting up pops a video of an officer, in full uniform, breakdancing, pop locking, voguing, duckwalking, twerking, moonwalking, or doing the Single’s Ladies dance. This will never change the fact that they’re all part of a cancerous, racist system that murders PoC with impunity. ![]() They were my brothers, my sisters, my cousins, my sons, my daughters…Ĭops can dance with neighborhood kids, give a random family gifts, or visit kids in the hospital all they like. Trayvon, Aiyana, Sandra, Mike, Rekia, and now Stephon. I was once again in this awkward space, mourning children that I never birthed, mentally preparing to bury children that were never biologically mine. I watched the funeral of Stephon Clark, and my heart shattered. Being racist has always been lucrative in America. How could I stand in front of them and tell them that their lives mattered when everything in the world is telling them that was not the case? Even Faith Linthicum, a nurse that was fired for saying that Stephon Clark deserved to die, raised over 20,000 dollars on GoFundMe. The news of Vassell’s death came on my Twitter feed just as I was about to teach a workshop to Black youth on the 50th Anniversary of Dr. While many Black people were dealing with the devastation of yet another murder by the police, just days later, Saheed Vassell, a 35-year-old Black man, diagnosed with bipolar disorder was murdered by the police, who claim the showerhead he was holding, looked like a gun. On March 18, Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old Black man was murdered in his grandmother’s backyard by Sacramento Police after the police claim his cell phone was a gun. ![]()
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