Police Brutality, Burning dumpsters, Smashed windows: Mike Brown Protest, Oakland || SpeakReel
Channel: Speak Reel
Date: 04/02/2015

Easily one of the craziest experiences of my life. Thank you to the activists that I accompanied in Oakland and to the people that were willing to express themselves on film. 

Oakland is hurting bad. Its a city that experiences the weight of a militant police force on a daily basis. I wasn't there when Mike Brown was shot. I don't know how the struggle went down. But I am angry that this has happened again. Another unarmed black child was shot and killed by a police officer, and the police officer was found to be innocent. again. Really? Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Alex Nieto, Oscar Grant, Amadou Diallo, and all other famous cases of police shootings happen practically everyday. They just don't get caught on video, they don't catch the ear of a local news channel, and they are hidden and swept under the rug. The rioting, protesting, violence, anger, its not just about Mike Brown. Its about the daily relationship (there has to be a better word than relationship, if so its an one of abuser and abused) between the police and people of color. Its about being harassed, humiliated, searched, frisked, stopped, questioned, disrespected, abused, framed, beaten, and murdered every single day. 

That's my two cents on the issue. If you have an opinion, please, be respectful. This isn't a race issue. Its a human issue. The question is when we are going to begin to treat each other better. 
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Male Interviewee:
I'm here tonight because on multiple occasions I've been the victim of police brutality. In Flagstaff Arizona, I was beaten down by four police officers for being a homosexual. I had no crime that I had committed. I had done absolutely nothing but tell them I did not consent to a search. They waved their guns in my face. They pushed me to the ground, they cuffed me, they kicked me, they beat me, and then they planted an ounce of cocaine in my household which never showed up in trial.