Gun Quote by Brian Stokes Mitchell

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually…

— Courtney B. Vance

I've never played a police person before 'Black Work,' and certainly had never worn a uniform.

— Geraldine James

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the…

— Bernie Sanders

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of…

— Boots Riley

The fact is that my mother is a cop and generally kids of cops are a little different from their parents - they tend…

— Vignesh Shivan

Being a cop must be hard. My dad was one and never wanted any of his children to follow in his footsteps.

— Killer Mike

My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head…

— Daryl Davis

The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained.

— Harrison Barnes

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

— Bob Odenkirk

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the…

— Corey Hawkins

I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and…

— John David Washington

There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served by that…

— Sterling K. Brown