African american Quote by Marc Veasey

Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation.

— Alex Padilla

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

— Harrison Barnes

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying…

— Viggo Mortensen

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

— GloZell

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

Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police…

— Cornell William Brooks

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

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs…

— James Forman, Jr

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force…

— Alicia Garza

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

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

— Tom Metzger

A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this…

— Matthew Yglesias