Hours after addressing the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, President Barack Obama delivered a statement about the police shooting that occurred during a protest in Dallas, Texas, which claimed the lives of five officers.
On Thursday night, the rapper took to his TIDAL streaming service and shared a message with his fans inspired by the disheartening events.
"Can we get a scholarship fund going 4 #AltonSterling's son/kids?" she tweeted Wednesday (July 6).
Clinton praised the Department of Justice for opening a civil rights investigation into the Sterling shooting and stressed the need to reform police forces.
“I don’t even go to sleep until my children come home, my grown children come home. I keep my clothes on in case my children need me in the middle of the day or in the middle of the night.”
Nakia Jones is a Cleveland police officer with the Warrensville Heights Police Department.
Alton Sterling’s death at the hands of Baton Rouge police officers and the recent shooting of Philando Castile, who was shot by Minnesota police during a routine traffic stop, are just two of many that fall into the same category ― Black people being assaulted and killed by police while performing normal, day-to-day tasks.
Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa are the latest mainstream artists to express their disgust with America's systemic oppression and the unlawful killing of Black people.
It seems impossible to scroll through your Facebook timeline, Twitter feed, and news alerts without being bombarded with images of Black and brown men, women and even children being murdered in cold blood at the hands of police all over the country.
