Police vs. Black People???? Is It A War???? #BlackLivesMatter #CopsLivesMatter

A few hours ago my wife asked me if we could just leave the country for good. It wasn't a rhetorical question, but a serious, sobering, painful one coming from a distraught black mother of five young black children. Her question was not one of travel, but survival.

She already knew that being black in America is not safe, but the videos of Alton Sterling being killed by police in Baton Rouge and of his devastated son crying his heart out on national television hit her hard. They hit millions of us hard. His name and those videos are now seared into the widely known roll call of black men and women murdered by American police in cold blood.

While millions of us grieved and processed our anger and pain about the death of Alton Sterling, something unthinkable happened right before our eyes - live on Facebook for all of us to see. Riding in the car with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter, Philando Castile was pulled over by police in Minnesota Wednesday night. As he reached for his wallet, as the officer requested, the officer shot him four times and killed him.

-Shaun King

Having just witnessed her boyfriend shot to bits in front of her young daughter, Diamond Reynolds had few choices. She couldn't call the police, of course, they were there, with their guns now pointed at her. So she pulled her phone out, opened up Facebook and chose to broadcast live, for the whole world to see as Philando fought for his life, bleeding out right there in the car.

-Shaun King

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