My nephew is a career law enforcement officer in Hillsborough County while another works for the FBI.

I have mentored many young men and women over the years who are now active law enforcement officers at the state, county, and local levels.

I interacted with many other law enforcement officers in reviewing search warrants, testimony in court or daily interaction.

He allowed an off-duty local White police officer that I know to cross the same bridge in his private car.

Obviously, these are small examples, but they show that every Black man, no matter the title or status, is only one bad circumstance from being mistreated or God forbid, in the case of George Floyd, being killed.