The fact that police brutality and the police force, in general, has been fully flourishing based on the tax dollars we pay, yet they are continuously killing us and completely living their lives and making a salary and a living off of us is completely unacceptable. This isn’t new. It’s been happening for generations and generations since the police force started. Except now we can finally film it. And that is the biggest issue. My own father is a police officer. I completely understand they are not all bad. But the majority are. And that is why we have to put a stop to this.
Every single human on earth needs to be held accountable for each other. Because we are all in this together. There is no black and there is no white. Everyone needs to be holding everyone accountable. No police officer should be allowed to let white people go completely free yet black people are killed in broad daylight every single day. That is why we are here. That is why we are standing and that is why we—my friends who are white, my friends who are black—that is why we are all coming together because no one should be living in fear of someone we are paying to protect us. —Anjelika Washington, actor, Dear Vivian
“My kids, my grandkids, my siblings, are going to walk these streets free.”
Protestors stand on a bus at 3rd Street and Fairfax in Los Angeles on March 30. Photo by Stacey Leasca.
The fact that we are doing what my grandmother was doing when she was alive, and she was fighting for literally the exact same thing. What our ancestors have been doing for years. And if I have to bow behind my color, then that’s just what’s going to have to happen because my kids, my grandkids, my siblings, are going to walk these streets free. That’s it. Point blank. Period. —Gionna Kamille
“I’m here in solidarity.”
Protestors march through the streets of Los Angeles on March 30. Photo by Stacey Leasca.
This isn’t the first one, unfortunately, that I’ve had to come to. It’s my baby girl’s first. We came from St. Louis. We were in Ferguson. So it’s tough to keep seeing the same things happen and it’s important, it’s significant, it’s vital, that these officers be held to account. Furthermore, that society be held to account as well. If we keep funding people to do the same things then we can only expect the same result. So I’m here to show my family what it looks like I’m here in solidarity. I can’t be in Minneapolis. I can’t be in Louisville right now and I can’t be in Georgia, so we’re here. That’s what we’re doing. —Anonymous
