KRS-One Quotes

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

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.

Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today - except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

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.

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

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.

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.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

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

We need to statutize what is permissible and what is not permissible. If a law enforcement agent uses a clearly unapproved technique like the knee that was on the neck of George Floyd for over eight minutes, no law enforcement agent thinks that that's right and that officer should be held accountable.

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'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

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

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

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

There are 18,000 different police forces in the United States and sometimes something wrong happens.

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..

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

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

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

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?