Jason Reynolds Quotes

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

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

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.

When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.

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?

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

Police violence against black women is very real.

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'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 can't think of an experience I've had with police that I felt was based on race, which is one difference between England and the U.S.

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.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

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

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

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

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..

Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.

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

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.

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

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.