An unarmed stare from a teenager holding a puppy so piercing, so sinnister, so dehumanizing officers with guns felt threatened enough to grab him from behind and throw him down in a choke hold.
My high school social studies teacher would’ve called this post Jim Crow institutional racism, in the drawer lily white racism acceptable to the establishment. He wasn’t a militant, just a common sense in your face realist and that was 30 years ago!
What’s a parent to do when confronted with a situation involving police and your 14 year old.
