Portland Cop Speaks Out on BLM/Antifa Racism (VIDEO credit: KGW-TV)

and they don't even know they don't even know the history they don't know what they're saying it's coming from someone who graduated from psu with a history degree it's it's it's actually frightening on how you know they say if you don't know your history you repeat it and watching people do that to other people just because of what they decide to do with their life what are some of those interactions that you're so a lot of times someone of color black hispanic asian come up to the fence and directly want to talk to me hey what do you think about george floyd what do you think about what happened about this i go to the fence someone white comes up f the police don't talk to him that was the most bizarre thing because i could i could see it i could see it coming i even had a young african-american girl uh tell me why is it you guys aren't talking to us i said honestly this is now the 20 i think it was 23rd day of doing it every time i try to have a conversation with someone that looks like me so white comes up and blocks them and tells them not to talk and then right when i said that this white girl popped right in front of her she said he just said that was going to happen i said told you i told you she can't she looked at the girl why'd you do that and i i i straight up i said you know i've been called the n word she's been called the n word why are you talking to me this way why do you feel that she can't speak for herself to me why is it that you feel you need to speak for her when we're having a conversation and she couldn't answer that question all she said was someone told me to do it so that that has been a very strange thing to watch i'm cool with you know people feeling like they want to help a movement but then when you go to a gentrified community and the fur one of the first pictures i saw that one of the business i was looted was a black-owned business i'm like they're not from here they don't even know what they're even doing so that to me was very angry watching you know a business that was looted and that business is across the street from a safeway where before my father became a police officer here in portland he works security at that safe way talk about history and roots and these folks don't even know what they're even doing and and so it's divisive it's it's it's it's hurting the community and i mean i saw that press conference clearly the community was not happy with that and they even asked for the violence to stop and they still are coming out and doing these having these violent interactions with other citizens the police and at some point you just go what what is what is the end goal you know bloody bloody sunday selma those folks march because they want the right to vote and they literally legitimately were beaten in the street for civil rights to have rights that they were told they couldn't have because they were not even human uh and then having folks scream and yell that they're being peaceful protests but you're not peaceful because it is violent and and i actually had a cousin who went to one of the marches and he left and he said this has turned into something else this is weird so having an african-american male marching and then leaving like i said it's been very eye-opening but i did have great conversations i met two young brothers who were literally after i had taken an explosive i had been hit with a full beer can a rock in my chest frozen water bottle had hit me i met two young brothers that were out cleaning up the street dead two garbage bags and they're just running and cleaning up and a few of us from my team we went over and we had to shake their hands i was i was so moved by them and so impressed and they said you know their words we're from here this is our this our city why i don't understand why people are coming here and destroying it and we want to show that you know this we want to clean it up and i was absolutely i i we we took we let them take a picture with us i didn't take a picture they took they had their camera and they had a picture taken but i like i said i was just so moved by that so there's been highs and lows um i know you and i were talking the other day and you were sharing just some of the the hateful and racist things that you and other officers of color have been subject to and i mean i was just floored um but i think that's some of the stuff that people haven't been seeing or hearing and we've worked very hard within our agency to try and recruit and retain a diverse population of officers can you share a little bit about that experience it says something when you're at a black lives matter protest you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd and you have white people screaming at black officers you have the biggest nose i've ever seen and you you hear these things and you go where are these are these people gonna are they gonna say something to this person no so and that's just one example um having people tell you you know what to do with your life that you need to quit your job that you need to you know you're hurting your community but they're not part of the community and and once again you you as a privileged white person telling someone of color what to do with their life absolutely and you don't even know what i've dealt with what these white officers that you're screaming at you don't know them you don't know anything about them and there are racist people out in the world absolutely there are bad cops out there in the world we don't associate with those people they make us all look bad that's not something that i stand for that's not something that my co-workers stand for and you know i i've i've been called on calls the n-word i don't know i can't even count in in the the time that i have been a police officer um and having white officers jump in and defend me and me tell them you know just ignore it and then being absolutely uh shocked and you you really get you and they and they get to see it and so like i said when you're standing on the line and and they're getting called those names and they're being accused of of being racist when though you've seen those officers um helping people of color uh getting blood on them trying to save someone's life that's been shot gang violence domestic violence and you you see them and they're truly trying to help save someone's life and then they turn around and are called to racist by people that have never seen anything like that that have never had to put themselves out there it's it's just it's it's real it's disgusting

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2020