Deep down, white people know exactly whom the police are supposed to protect and serve, and they damn well know it’s not black and brown people.
But when it comes to neutering the police so that the Amy Coopers of the world don’t have that kind of privilege and power over the Christian Coopers of the world, most of those white people will fall silent.
We’ve all seen the pictures of white people gathered in parks as police officers politely hand out masks but no tickets, just as we’ve all seen videos, shot just a neighborhood away, showing black and brown people getting beaten and manhandled by the cops for allegedly violating social distancing protocols.
Most black people know what happens when cops are given power, but we can’t get 51 percent of white people to do anything about it.
More black people will die like George Floyd, because most white people want to live like Amy Cooper.
