Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

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

I fear cops and have never felt the protection of them.

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

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.

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

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.

The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.

Our country has a painful history of mistrust between police departments and people of color. The overuse of stop-and-frisk has made those divisions much worse.

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.

The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It's nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they've been complaining about. That's one thing that has changed over time.

I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing.

The worst teacher in America could never do as much damage as the worst police officer in America. But the right wing has never even been slightly curious about evaluating the job performance of police officers.

Everyone could relate to that feeling of when, even if you've done nothing wrong and you see the police behind you, you get nervous.

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.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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