'I'm Black Before I Am Blue': Boston Sgt. Reflects On Being Black And A Police Officer

BOSTON — Boston Police Sergeant Eddy Chrispin finds himself in a double universe: Black officer on the clock, black man always.

“I get home, I take off my uniform. Maybe I’m running around. Maybe I’m Ahmaud Arbery. Maybe my son is,” Chrispin said.

“I’m black before I am blue,” Chrispin told WBZ. “We face the same issues that are black and brown people do.”

So, when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck thousands of miles away, Chrispin said, it hurt.

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