Goapele Quotes

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang.

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

It was my long-held belief that police brutality would increase under the Trump administration.

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

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

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

I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death.

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

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

I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?

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.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

We need to statutize what is permissible and what is not permissible. If a law enforcement agent uses a clearly unapproved technique like the knee that was on the neck of George Floyd for over eight minutes, no law enforcement agent thinks that that's right and that officer should be held accountable.

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.

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops.

There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

Anyone who wears a badge has the government’s go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens