Tim Meadows Quotes

Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation.

Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.

I was eight years old when I got the talk about what to do if a police officer stops me. I was 15 when I was face-down on the curb for the first time.

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

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

I've physically seen profiling. I've seen me walking up the street with my friends, and the police officers get out of their car and bust the hell out of my friends. And they can't do anything about it, and the cop gets back in his car and drives off.

I used to get stop-and-frisked every time I walked out of my house.

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've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

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.

I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.

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

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.

When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was heavily policed. I witnessed my brothers and my siblings continuously stopped and frisked by law enforcement. I remember my home being raided. And one of my questions as a child was, why? Why us? Black Lives Matter offers answers to the why.

I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country.

You know, I got kids. I got sons, and I try to tell them, 'Look, man, when you in the car and you get pulled over, hands on the steering wheel. 'Yes, sir. No sir.' Your job is to either wind up in jail, so I can come get you, or be able to pull off. That's your job.'

The encounters I had were very few, but they were powerful. The negative encounters I've had with law enforcement were very few, but they stood out.

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

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

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

Police violence against black women is very real.