Kenya Barris Quotes

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

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

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.

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..

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.'

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

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

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.

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.

There's plenty of law at the end of a nightstick

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

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

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

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?

I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is incredibly corrupt, period.

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

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

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've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

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

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.