I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.
How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing's regime in Hong Kong.
In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.
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 fear cops and have never felt the protection of them.
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it's so blatant... It's so out in the open that if you can't see it, then you are part of the problem because it is very obvious.
In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.
Why wouldn't the police officers be on edge? Why wouldn't they be alert? And why wouldn't people in the community trust police officers? Because they are consistently harassing them, and they have experience with police officers doing awful things.
I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.
The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.
The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.
I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.
