Alicia Garza Quotes

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

An increase in press coverage of police shootings isn’t the same thing as an increase in police shootings.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

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.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

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.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes.

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?

I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.

It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public - especially Black communities - from police violence. Our system's integrity depends on it.

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