The footage shows the 10-year-old boy dribbling a ball as the patrol car drove by, prompting him to hide behind a vehicle until the perceived danger was over, CBS News reported.
“Why does he feel like he has to hide when he isn’t doing anything wrong?” the child’s father, Stacey Pierre-Louis, wrote on Instagram, where he posted the clip.
Pierre-Louis, a resident of Trumbull, said he debated whether to share the video.
“I was at work watching my son shoot hoops in the driveway when I caught this. It floored me,” he wrote.
“I’ll save the dramatics, but growing up black or brown most of the time means fearing the police vs looking up to them,” Pierre-Louis continued. ”I live in an affluent neighborhood in Trumbull with a really good school system. This kid has all the opportunity to do/be whatever he wants unlike many kids who look like him because resources aren’t made available.
“I asked him why he did that when he got home. He replied; ‘because they killed George Floyd.’ Stunned, I replied; ok kiddo. I didn’t know what and still don’t know what to say to him to make it better,” he added.
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Hnmmm his perception about the po po (in Madea's voice) has changed.
ReplyDeleteCrazy Madea 😁. It's well.
DeleteImagine!
ReplyDeleteBetter for you boy.
Awww see how they're messing with young black minds.
ReplyDeleteAwww see how they're messing with young black minds.
ReplyDeleteeven with all those... that country is way better than nigeria, i better live there than here in nigeria
ReplyDeleteThen leave, nobody is holding you back na. Be going. Nigeria is already depicted as the worst place to be, continue to add chilli to the pepper soup
DeleteHe should leave in lockdown?
DeleteI dont know why but this convo cracked me up.🤣🤣🤣
DeleteLmaooooo 12:43 you're not serious at all 😂😂😂😂
DeleteThis is so heart breaking, can't imagine what the teenagers in the ghetto go through.
ReplyDeleteAs an adult wey I be, I fear Nigerian Police more than anything. I fear their stray bullet, haressment, intimidation, etc. I don't know when this fear started but I guess it was when I was a toddler. When our Nigerian parents would threaten you with, "I go call ojoju", or "I go call police to arrest you". My impression of them being an 'ojuju' didn't change growing up as we constantly read stories of people who died even in their homes by 'stray bullet' at the hands of the Nigerian Police. People extrajudicially killed and labelled 'armed robbers'. Innocent citizens going home or outside of their houses that have had the police arrest them for prostitution or some trumped up charges inorder to extort money from them. You see, my heart beats heavily whenever I run into them, be it at a check point or just merely seeing them walk by. To me, it's a life or death situation. They are the last people I'll meet for directions when I'm new to a city. Unfortunately, I'm telling my children same. There are no greater monsters to me than the Nigerian Police. I get panic attacks when I see them.
ReplyDeleteNigerian police are the most dangerous.
DeleteVery dangerous people. In fact, so far as I'm concerned, they are part of our problems especially Nigerian police . They are all shades of bad 😎😎
DeleteSad....
ReplyDeleteJust the way many people avoid police here. There is a particular route to my former office i use to avoid just bcos police is always stationed dere. Even if u have complete papers;young guys in a car dey use dem to eat daily.
Hmmmm,it is well.
ReplyDeleteTHUGLIFE..The Hate U Give...
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That running act alone could have gotten him killed if spotted. Smh for the times we live in.
ReplyDeleteDamn!!
ReplyDeleteGood
ReplyDeleteChai😢.
ReplyDeleteSame way I avoid police and soldiers here.
I remember when I went to the market one day to get foodstuff,a military car was positioned in front of a shop and I was going to the shop to get vanilla essence extract, immediately I saw the car I refused to enter oh,one of the soldier saw me and smiled: fine gal,come nao,eh😲,the way I turned and ran ehh, people around were laughing at me,omo I didn't send I ran like mad.
Really sad
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ReplyDeleteThis is very sad, innocent minds has been messed up with the atrocities been committed so sad
ReplyDeleteE reach to run, I don't blame the little boy. Police brutality is becoming a serious threat to lives both in Nigeria and the US
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