Tee Grizzley Quotes

Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.

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

We need not wait for further, well-placed home video cameras to see that low-intensity warfare is being waged against low-income minorities. We need only listen to the voices of the poor; they can testify that they are dehumanized, disparaged, and despised by the police.

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

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

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're old enough to vote. They're routinely stopped, frisked, and searched without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

The violence in 'Visaranai' is based on reality.

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 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.

Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.

I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

I think occasionally it's the presence - or increased presence - of federal law enforcement that can cause that fear.

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

I'm sick of watching 'Blue Lives Matter' supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.

The point that I would make is it's easy for somebody like me to be critical of Colin Kaepernick, but I haven't suffered some of the same issues that Colin Kaepernick has. On some level, it's like, how dare I weigh in on what Kaepernick is doing or feeling?

I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still.

I certainly knew the hard side of urban life, stop-and-search.

The bad you see in N.Y.C. is troubling to know when it rears its ugly head.

Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success.

We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think activism within the queer community continues to need to focus on those issues first.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.