Tyron Woodley Quotes

I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.

I have been pulled over, and I have actually worried, 'Is something going to happen to me even though I am a law abiding citizen?' That is a real fear and is something that we have to come to grips with.

I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.

Given free play, the best policemen act badly more often than not, which is why they are given free play on any large scale only when their employers discern some social utility in their acting badly.

It is especially jarring when police officers are the killers because they are an entity of the state itself, so when the state shows a lack of sensitivity, community members feel it is an obvious example of abuse..

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

I used to get stop-and-frisked every time I walked out of my house.

There are cops who be racially profiling.

If you've never feared the police - if you don't get a dull ache in the pit of your stomach when you see red and blue flashing lights, even when you know you're not doing anything wrong - consider yourself lucky.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't Oscar's first time getting harassed or held-up by authorities. And over time you start to feel some type of way when you get pulled over. "Oh, I gotta go through this. Again."

I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

Racial profiling has to stop.

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.

Anyone who wears a badge has the government’s go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens