Eazy-E Quotes

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.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

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

When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

No one's pro-police brutality.

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

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

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 was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.

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..

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

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.