Officer Sadaka Kitonyi of the Albany P.D. contributed content to this report.
After footage of George Floyd’s killing spread across the nation, people have been drawing lines in order to explain the injustice: lines between blacks and whites, police and civilians, privileged and less privileged, oppressors and oppressed.Yet, real life always defies such overly simplistic, ideological lines of division. It may make life simpler to draw them, yet they lack the nuance of truth and deprive everyone of their uniquely beautiful identity.