#RIPAltonSterling

It is a scene that is being described as “legal lynching” after a 2 minute video clip surfaced on social media of a black Louisiana man being harassed and killed by white policemen.

Tuesday night a call was made to Baton Rouge police about a black male selling CD’s outside a local food mart being disorderly and making threats.  Alton Sterling, 37, was later approached by two police officers that man handled him, placed a gun to his head, and pulled the trigger multiple times.  Witnesses say the initial interaction between Sterling and the officers didn’t call for such a reaction.  That Sterling didn’t pose an immediate threat to the officers.  Both cops are now on administrative leave while further investigation is taken place and the city of Baton Rouge is protesting.

This tragedy occurs just about a week after Jesse Williams moved mountains with his powerful-politically charged speech at the BET Awards.  It’s so easy to chant “black lives matter”, or print it on a T-shirt, or post it on social media, but what are we doing to execute our stance.  Reality is, for majority of us, black lives really only matter when it hits close to home.   We bandwagon until the hype dies, and then we repeat.  How many speeches will Jesse Williams have to make for us to really take action and revamp our nation??

#RIPAltonSterling

Rochester reacts  to Alton Sterling below:

Racqui B