Jason Mitchell Quotes

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

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

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

The police seemed to lose their head completely as they dashed into the crowds on their horses and slashed out with their clubs.

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

No one's pro-police brutality.

Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

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.

My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.'

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

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.

When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

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

The term "free society" is a meaningless, empty phrase if it does not mean a society that is free from harassment from its own police.

If you're riding down somewhere, and a cop stops you and starts to put you under arrest, even though you haven't committed any crime, go to jail. Mississippi is not the place to start conducting constitutional law classes for the policemen, many of whom don't have a fifth-grade education.

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..

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.