A Police Officer’s Passionate Exchange With Protesters

found online by Raymond

 
From John Woodrow Cox of The Washington Post:

“I’m black before I’m anything else”

When a protester approached and pointed her finger at him, the U.S. Capitol Police officer had already decided that he would no longer stay silent.

“What are you doing as a police officer?” she demanded Wednesday night as he stood behind a stone wall and a short metal fence separating a long line of armed officers from more than 300 George Floyd demonstrators. “What are you doing as a black man with that badge on? What are you doing to change things?”

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