The words of a thirteen-year-old student from Seattle, Washington, unveiled the wicked racism institutionalized within police departments across the United States, and seemingly, wherever Black lives struggle to simply be. "If my blackness is threatening, I will never truly be unarmed to them," stated Desi Maher, in a city where protestors took over several blocks and organized to defund the police.

XREF: Connects to broader discourse on policing, systemic racism, and the defund the police movement culminating in 2020.

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