Community Reflections on Justice for George Floyd and the 2020 I Can’t Breath Rebellion
The City of Los Angeles hasn’t dealt with this much commotion since the 1992 Los Angeles Riots when LAPD officers brutally beat Rodney King.
When we had an opportunity to respond to this movement and this moment with mental health professionals, community leaders, civic response, strategy to address and figure out how to get rid of racism in the Department’s both in the police and other City departments we decided to respond with an army of police officers and actual military.
My experience is you know, there may have been a hundred people actually standing up for the first time and maybe 10 were black people because Black people are home due to COVID-19 and in the face of protest, police usually attack the Black people.
As a black man, I just felt like we’re fighting for Black Culture, our race as a people and we must be out here on the front lines.
The global uprisings we are seeing are for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and all the Black people who were taken away as a result of racism and white supremacy.
