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“You got i.d.?” It can be just that simple. #WhenTheySeeUs
Today, where are every one of the NYPD officers who interrogated those boys? Did they go on to supervise and train other officers? Are they still on the force? Did they retire w/full pensions? #WhenTheySeeUs
At the police station. Hearing a 14 year-old child say to his father, “I got this,” and “I made a deal,” while shackled to a chair. Children. Alone. Under this pressure. #WhenTheySeeUs
That moment in the holding cell. “Cop hit me. In the park.” Antron: “I saw that. With his helmet.” The dawning realization that they were witnesses to one another’s victimization. #WhenTheySeeUS
#YusefSalaam’s mom with dawning horror after seeing the #Donaldtrump add encouraging execution if the five: “they want to kill my son.” This realization of so many African American women down through history. #WhenTheySeeUs
“You don’t have to be who they say you are.” -@JohnLeguizamo as father of newly released #RaymondSantana #WhenTheySeeUs
#KoreyWise. #KoreyWise. He convicts us all. #WhenTheySeeUs
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