Carla Gomez's List: Race and Law Enforcement

• Oscar said, 'Please don't shoot me, please don't Taser me, I have a daughter,' over and over again, real fast, and he sat down."
• However, if it turns out that Mr. Grant had no such weapon, it is awfully difficult to imagine what might have justified the use of deadly force."
• BART police Officer Fred Crabtree was cleared of wrongdoing after he shot an unarmed 19-year-old man, Jerrold Hall, from behind at the Hayward station in 1992.

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• WHEN I was 14, my mother told me not to panic if a police officer stopped me

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• I can’t write about the untimely and unseemly death of this young African-American man.  I am, after all, the mother of two African-American boys– boys who, like Trayvon Martin, love basketball and lemonade and Skittles. Boys who wear hoodies when it’s cold; wear hoodies when it’s not; wear hoodies because hoodies are cool. Boys who frequent gated and affluent communities. Boys who are often on foot.

   

  I can’t write about this because it hits too close to home.