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- You don't know which
officer is going to show up.

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You don't know how they're going to react,

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you don't know how the script works.

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The script is non-existent
for a lot of people

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and that's where the problem is.

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It's a dice roll a lot of time.

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It's just one of those
moments where like your

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mind just starts racing.

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How, like, what road is
this going to go down?

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I feel like at this point
you just, like, never know.

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- May parents, I forget
what they were doing,

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but I was standing outside.

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I was seven or eight and I
saw the police beat up a man.

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I remember not asking my parents about it

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because I had the very,
sort of, visceral sense

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that this is just how things were.

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- I think of all the other people

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who were doing nothing wrong.

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And still died in a situation.

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It's just the fear of
knowing that I can do

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a million things that would seem harmless

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to me or anybody else.

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And that it could end my life.

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(sighs)

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- When you just look around a realize

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that the playing field is not level.

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- I definitely struggle
with whether it's even fair

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or ethical to bring a
black child into this world

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with things being the way that they are.

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- With the gamble to live in general,

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but I think there's a
big difference between

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chance things that can
happen and then that there is

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people out here who
will target your child.

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- You know, they might be part of this

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ongoing theater of violence
without repercussion.

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I don't know if I have that in me.

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- I can't recall a certain
moment where I was like,

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"Oh, you know now this happened and so

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now as a result, like I'm scared."

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I think just probably
witnessing things over time.

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I don't think these are
necessarily new things,

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but with technology we just see them

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a lot more instantly.

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And it's definitely intensified.

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- I love to walk late at night,

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and while I think to think I present

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as pretty unassuming and non-threatening,

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there's always a chance that someone

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could not see me that way.

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- Stay safe but also, like,
don't let it change who you are.

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- I don't want them to
make us be afraid to love.

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And to have families.

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- All cops need to play by the same rules.

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And those rules need to be,

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that everyone is treated equally.

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That's what's at the core of all of this.

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(solemn music)