Ohio police officer addresses police officers involved in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
A Cleveland police officer’s Facebook video responding to the deadly police-involved shooting in Louisiana is going viral. The video, which was live on Facebook Wednesday afternoon, shows officer Nakia Jones expressing her emotional reaction to the shooting in which a 37-year-old man was killed by police.
“It bothers me when I hear people say, ‘Y’all police officers this, y’all police officers that. They put us in this negative category when I’m saying to myself, ‘I’m not that type of police officer.’ I know officers that are like me that would give their life for other people. So I’m looking at it, and it tore me up because I got to see what you all see. If I wasn’t a police officer and I wasn’t on the inside, I would be saying, ‘Look at this racist stuff. Look at this.’ And it hurt me.”
By Tuesday morning, her video had been viewed more than 1.2 million times with nearly 100,000 shares.
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