Larry Hogan Quotes

Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

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?

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

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

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

Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, 'Don't worry. We will get justice for your family.'

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.

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

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..

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

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.

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

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.

I feel for the cops; I feel for us as a society as a whole, period.

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.

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.

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

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.

Those weren't criminals in LA. Those were outraged citizens.

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

When I was a kid the police just whupped you. Today, they whup you, and then they arrest you in order to protect themselves.

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