Crime & Safety
WATCH: Ohio Police Officer Nakia Jones is Outraged By Police Shootings and Racism
Nakia Jones is a 20-year veteran police officer, and she is fed up with police shootings.
She says that her son showed her the video of Baton Rouge police shooting and killing 37-year-old Alton Sterling, adding that the video had personal meaning because her son had said that he wanted to attend college there. She said that she watched the video multiple times so that she wouldn't "become judgmental" because she not only is a mother of two African American sons, she is also a 20-year veteran police officer.
In her own video posted on her Facebook page, Jones says she became a police officer in 1996 to help others and to serve and protect her community. She goes on to explain how it hurts her to see men and women wearing the same uniform she wears, killing men and women who look like her.
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She adds the following below her video on her Facebook page:
I am so hurt right now.. I Try not to get into these conversations but Im feeling so torn inside. I became a police officer in 1996 to help others to serve and protect my community, I started in the community I lived in which was East Cleveland I wanted to give back the hurting part was I was protecting my community fron people who lived there and looked just like me. Now I have since left EC and am in another African American community in which not only do I serve that community I live in that community and again I protect that community from people who look just like me.. But what hurts me even more when I see Men and Women who have on the Same Uniform I have on and who are sworn to Protect like me take advantage of that position and Kill Men and Women who look just like Me.. Not all Police Actions are Wrong and Yes we do have Black and White Officers that have integrity and respect for ALL life.. But the ones of you that are cowards, racist, have a God Complex take off the the Uniform and put on the KKK hoddy.. My heart gos out to the family who just lost there son in that sinceless police shooting I saw the video and Im ashamed that they were my brother's in blue.. I have sons to... Also we are killing one another left and right in a minute our black men will be extinct please young men put the guns down and pick up a pin.. Until we becone one Race United all this racism will not stop a house divided against itself cant stand not ny words Gods Words...
Tears.............
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Sadly, the Baton Rouge shooting is not the most recent, as another fatal police shooting took place in Minnesota on Wednesday night.
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