I thought I lived in a country that I can feel safe with the complexion of my skin. A place that progressed a lot more than the states over the 200s years of slavery that our people were stolen from the land they once called home, years of our history lost never to be restored and to us at a young age trying to fit into European standards. Finally, we are free is what we thought as our people run out of the slave owner's land being chased down by runaway slave patrol to be able to treat the same finally. Centuries years later the badge still exists, and we are still not treated as equal instead of us being able to be free, we are losing our lives like Eric Garner and George Floyd saying "I can't breathe." At the same time, Unnecessary force puts us between the ground and overuse of power. Over the decades to come before me, I am a black girl terrified to go down the streets, I don't feel safe in the country I call my home. These officers are here to make us feel safe and have fewer crimes within our country. Still, there are the ones you cause more negative effects on our community, saying it was a suicide and not murder, so news stations will not cover the death of a person that you created. Regis Korchinski Paquet did not fall; She did not jump. She was in medical distress with a First Responders made that day her last. I am scared to go outside in fear this could happen to me or anyone within the black community. I do not want my last breath to be at the age of 18, where my life has not fully begun. You broke families killing their fathers, then mocking them being fatherless. You murdered a 12-year boy, not a man but a young boy which you saw in your point a view was a man. Tamir rice was just kid like many of these victims where you saw the colour of their skin to be a treat to you as you are fully armed.
