Nakia Jones is the police officer who spoke out against the Alton Sterling police killing in a video of hurt and anger on Facebook. She made it just hours before Philando Castile was killed.
On the Sterling video:
“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.”
Police brutality comes from racist officers policing the very people they are racist against:
“If you are that officer that knows good and well you’ve got a God complex; you are afraid of people who don’t look like you – you have no business in that uniform. Take it off. […] Because there’s many of us who would give our life for anybody. And we took this oath and we meant it. If you are that officer that’s prejudiced, take that uniform off and put a KKK hoodie on because I will not stand for that.”
But Black people not standing together is part of it too:
“the reason why all this racist stuff keeps going on is because we’re divided. We’re killing each other, we’re not standing together. See Martin Luther King and them stood together, you didn’t hear about a bunch of Black people killing each other. We got to stand together because a house divided against each other will not stand.”
She condemned Black-on-Black crime:
“Y’all they’re killing each other left and right, I’m telling you. And people that don’t really want us to exist are sitting back laughing because they’re saying, ‘look at them destroy each other.’”
Black men need to stand up:
“Men, I need for y’all to stand up. Get these young men – mentor them. Teach them. […] but when we [the police] do something that you know is wrong, you need to speak up. You need to go speak to a [police] chief. You need to go sit down and talk to the mayor.”
She has been a police officer in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, since 2002. She became a police officer in 1996 in East Cleveland where she grew up. She wanted to make a difference.
She says she can see both sides: she is a police officer and yet has Black sons. And she is also mixed-race.
What makes the video so great, but also so sad, is that she spoke out – when so many other officers, of all races, remain silent. But even she, when questioned later by the press, became more guarded in her words.
The only police officers you see speak up, like Michael Wood or Adrian Schoolcraft, are those who are no longer police officers. Even in Jones’s case, unfounded rumours flew that she had been fired.
That blue wall of silence undermines the trust many have in the police. It protects the “bad apples”. It makes the phrase “Not all cops are bad” sound hollow.
Thanks to Sharina for suggesting this post.
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- YouTube: Nakia Jones video
- Alton Sterling
- Philando Castile
- other officers who have spoken out
- Michael Wood – Baltimore
- Adrian Schoolcraft – New York
- The police
- Black-on-Black argument – often used to silence any talk of police brutality
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Great post.
I’m sitting back reading this blog and a few others thinking to myself: are the majority of black people in Ameriklan truly unaware of how much black on black crime goes on? It’s amazing to think that we get up in arms over police killing us but then turn around and shoot a brother in his back over some stolen sneakers.
It pains me. I’ll say now that I live in a rural area, I’ve never been to the hood. I don’t know what it’s like in the hood but I just wish those that have any connections to it could find their voice and speak out against the violence we commit against ourselves. The officer is right, we have to clean up our own house first.
I wish I could do more. It’s a lucky day when I see another Black person. There’s virtually no black community where I live and I feel so useless just browsing blogs and preaching to the choir.
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@ jony
I have known people who got killed because of the drug trade or domestic abuse, but NEVER over stolen sneakers.
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I wonder if the threat of being fired did not come up at some point. Reason being is because mayor spoke out to say she did not violate policy, but also a mention of a go fund me account was up for her.
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Jony
People do. They March and protest but that is not working. There needs to be another way.
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There is no such thing as “black on black” crime. “Black” is an intangible social construct that is less than 500 year old. Crime is crime, it is a physical act that is wholly separate from the social construct of racial taxonomy.
The difference between murder by police and citizens is a large one. The police officers work for the government and the government whether it be County, State or Federal is beholden to Constitution. It “is” a big deal when a government worker deprives a citizen of Due Process.
You don’t “clean your own house first” before you address rights that you’re bestowed upon you the very minute you are birthed as a citizen. That is a logical fallacy (Fallacy of Relative Privation…appeal to worse problems”). The two issues are not connected in any way that prevents the parallel action.
No other first world nation incarcerates its citizens in such numbers as the United States. No other first world nation’s police force kills its citizens at the level that we are. We have glaring issues and fissures all over the place that destroy citizen trust, create inequity and prevent integrity within our governmental institutions.
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@Sharina: Thanks for suggesting this think piece. I wanted to suggest this but I am glad you did. Because I saw her on another social media site so this sister kind of broke the internet. When I first saw this YouTube last week, I was moved and thought what a courageous lady. With the F**k the cops mindset that’s pretty strong right now I saw Nakia Jones perspective as refreshing. I second thought will her fellow officers retaliate against her because what I am learning the police culture is like a gang culture and very corrupt. I was praying she doesn’t loose her job or something worse be set up to be killed by one of those dirty cops. I am thankful she hasn’t been fired and as of the present she hasn’t been harmed. Much respect to the sister.
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One time? In berks county jail? Four kids locked up. I mean like 14ish. Killed another boy for his sneakers. It happens.
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@Mary Burrell:
As always, you hit the nail on the head. Ms. Jones had the balls to speak out. You can feel her passion. Everything she said is on point. She’s a great example of a good cop. God Bless her!
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I’m quite glad the black on black crime argument doesn’t hold up. It pisses me off to no end when whites use it and then lay down statistics because it leaves me with nothing to say.
Now I have a few ideas. On how to respond that is.
We all know the police are as corrupt as they come, but what do we really do about it? We can’t ask the police to “stop bullying us” they won’t ever stop. Marching won’t change that. We have been marching for a very long time and little has changed. I’m sad because well, I feel like we are screwed sometimes. We can’t even get on the same page as to what we should do about police corruption. We can’t come together in any meaningful way and it seems like because of that we can’t take care of the real problems.
Gender wars, the crime that does persist in our communities, the uncle toms who refuse to wake up and are little more than tattle tales. A these forces working against us and we are expected to be hopeful about the future? Idk man.
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Jony
I will share my stance on it. I have taken a black panther mentality. Put my money in black banks and black businesses. Build my black community and service my black community. If I have to spend white, then I go for small businesses. Buy land in black communities and fit them up and rent out of sell at a reasonable price. Make it better.
We rely on white mercy too much and it takes away from our ability to stand in unity. As to uncle toms, argee to disagree with them. Never full out argue because it creates a divide, but also because white people get a thrill watching it and using it to pit us against each other.
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Most plights of POC, even from struggling countries outside of America, seems to come because of the programming of success via materialism, popularity, and petty reasons concerning respect. You better educate these communities about how the world works and what material possessions are really meaningless and you build a humble more educated community. But that’s not what America wants. Michael Jordan and his Team Jordan empire should step down and intervene…
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Mary
Like you I found her refreshing and I think continued prayer is a must. Other cops white and black alike came forward and they found any cause to fire them.
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TeddyBearDaddy
Jordan won’t say anything knowing he gets rich off a people willing to kill for those ugly shoes of his.
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@leigh204: I saw this video last week on Google+ My first reaction was to not click on but it was all over other social media sites. Nekia Jones was a trending topic so I decided to listen to what she had to say and I am glad that I did.
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@Sharina: I wonder about Jordan too. In my opinion being pro-Black is just too risky for some folks because to do so compromises their finances. They are not going to have their money messed with.
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This the most idiotic post I’ve read so far. How the hell is her diatribe “speaking out”? One thing we know from the cop murder of that guy in the van, in Baltimore, is the mentality of black cops. It isn’t all that different from their white colleagues.
So, because she’s “mixed-race”, female and a cop, she gets credit for comments that are besides the point. Alton Sterling was gunned down while trying to earn a living, what has “Black-on-Black crime” got to do with it?
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@gro jo
The part of it that is consider “speaking out” is her calling out racist cops rather than pacifying them or saying “that is not a problem”. She gets credit for that as most cops (black, white, Asian, and Hispanic) will not say anything.
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@ Sharina
That is an excellent strategy in general, but Jony wrote above: “I live in a rural area…. It’s a lucky day when I see another Black person. There’s virtually no black community where I live.”
What strategies might you (or others) suggest in that situation? (Besides relocating, which might not be feasible for Jony.)
All I can think of myself at the moment is internet shopping with black-owned businesses.
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Black cops shoot blacks 2:1 compared to white cops shooting black suspects. As mentioned above, blacks shooting other blacks is over 90% of the problem. Killings by cops are personal tragedies but only %0.6 of homicides.
So you have to wonder why the (((media))) and BLM – funded by (((George Soros))) are inciting a race war. This is only waking up average whites to black crime, violence, and low IQs.
Blacks will end up being sent to Africa where they will live in slavery under the Chinese.
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@Solitaire
I live in a rural area myself, but black owned businesses are not really that far for me. Here black owned businesses are limited to food and car detailing shops. The only other thing can recommend is online shopping, as you have mentioned. In that regard I know a few businesses I can share.
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@Dave ASBO
You poor soul. The media is not inciting a race war and BLM being funded by George Soro is false. The media throws bs sensationalism out and people just show their true colors.
Average whites have been using the black crime, violence, and low IQs argument for years. How are they just waking up?
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Thanks for your concern. Here is something recent on George Soros
“More recently, Soros has given more than $33 million to the Black Lives Matter group, which has been involved in outbreaks of social unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, in 2015. Both of these incidents contributed to a worsening of race relations across America.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/how-george-soros-singlehandedly-created-european-refugee-crisis-and-why
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Would love to see Abagond go through these 10 points on why American blacks will never go to an ethno state.
1.) Haiti and Liberia – In the early 19th century, the American Colonization Society created Liberia as a colony for the free black population. From the outset, there was strong black resistance to colonization, and the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison credited the black abolitionist David Walker for turning him against the idea. Liberia failed as a solution to the Negro Question before and after the War Between the States because so few free blacks were willing to voluntarily settle there.
After Haiti won its independence in 1804, several Haitian presidents were taken with the idea of offering land and citizenship to free blacks in the United States. After all, why would free blacks want to stay in the United States and live under racism and white supremacy when they could relocate to Haiti and put their skilled labor and capital to use in building the Black Republic, the beacon of freedom to black people around the world?
A handful of free blacks from the United States did settle in Haiti. Most of them returned to the United States because living under white supremacy in 19th century America was preferable to living under what has made Haiti into Haiti.
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” Put my money in black banks and black businesses. Build my black community and service my black community. “–This way of thinking is constructive and positive—to empower communities and thereby empowering the self….
changing the “narrative” might be helpful? If the dominant narrative is that there is too much black crime, violence, low IQ—then a way to solve it is to change the justice system from punitive justice (punishment) to restorative justice (one that restores families and communities)—this would also be more in line with values of Judaism , Islam and Christianity and therefore a persuasive point? So, incarceration would be for only the most Heinous crimes such as multiple murders, serial killing and such—lesser crimes would require rehabilitation not incarceration and with ankle monitors and such—it would be easily accomplished. Thus, fathers would be able to have a job and be with their families and communities would become stronger—and maybe rehabilitation can also offer career training and other things. More people in the community will create space for more people to apply for community police jobs as well as other such jobs. With more income in the community, it can spend it on its own community businesses which would further improve the prosperity of community..etc…with more prosperity education can be improved so that the community can have its own lawyers, judges, physicians educators etc…stable family structures, increased prosperity, better quality of education—will reduce the “problem” that is claimed to be the “cause”….
The first step is to change the narrative that punishment in the form of oppression/violence (incarceration) does not solve the problem—rather compassion and mercy in the face of human frailty and error is the better way—just as all of our wisdom traditions have told us…..
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David Asbo
That article actually engages in conjecture. It was believed that he gave Ferguson protesters $33 million not BLM and it was based on an organization he found funding not him directly. Here is the full snopes report.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/sorosferguson.asp
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@Dave ASBO
That article about Ethnostate was opinionated bull. I do however think abagond should do a post on it just to educate you on why it has not happened.
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“A handful of free blacks from the United States did settle in Haiti. Most of them returned to the United States because living under white supremacy in 19th century America was preferable to living under what has made Haiti into Haiti.”
Most of them returned to the United States? How do you know that? They were one of the most prosperous communities on the island.
“The Samaná Americans (Americanos de Samaná) are descendants of African American freed people who, beginning in 1824, immigrated to the Samaná Peninsula in Hispaniola—then under Haitian administration—benefiting from the favorable pro-African immigration policy of president Jean Pierre Boyer. They constitute the most sizable group of native English speakers in the Dominican Republic. Aware of its distinctive heritage, the community, whose singular culture distinguishes them from the rest of Dominicans, refers to itself as Samaná Americans, and is referred to by fellow Dominicans as “los americanos de Samaná.” Over 80 percent of Samaná’s population is of African American descent. It is estimated that there are over one half million Dominicans who are descendants of the African-American settlers. Eight thousand speak the English of their ancestors.
These African Americans included ship-builders, traders, educators. They traded across the Caribbean and to the US in their own boats and maintained ties in the US to sell their products.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oDgbDGxI4s)
You might get a kick out of the fact that some of their descendants turned white.
Even Jane Maria Eliza Cazneau, the filibuster publicist, was impressed by them.
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@ David ASBO
He is making the “Go back to Africa” or White Saviour argument that goes back to slave times. It is based on a self-serving Whitewash of history.
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@sharinalr
I didn’t expect Soros to spell out his intentions. But you can see how he spends tens/hundreds of millions a year bringing down governments and then reaping rewards from newly installed puppet governments through national asset stripping. He is a hazard. I don’t believe he is motivated by love of POC.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardminiter/2011/09/09/should-george-soros-be-allowed-to-buy-u-s-foreign-policy/#6e6592c98f79
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Dave Asbo
I don’t expect him to spell out his intentions either, because I dont know him or care about him. But when you make up a false allegation and run it as a fact, then you have a problem.
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@anon
“this would also be more in line with values of Judaism , Islam and Christianity”
In the Koran it is stated in the day of justice a rock or tree which a Jew was hiding behind would call out to Muslims to kill the Jew. There is a lot of nastyness in the Koran and Hadith. In one of the two branches of Islam puberty is defined at age 9 for girls (15 in the other branch).
The Bible talks about racial purity.
The Talmud says a pious Jew should curse the mothers of the dead, as a blessing to God, when passing a non Jewish cemetery.
Not sure we should rely on principles from these fables. You may as well base your society on principles from Star Trek episodes.
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@sharinalr It isnt a false allegation. We know he funded certain organizations. we have his past history. we can judge his intentions.
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@David Asbo:
Is this Soros married? I’m looking for a rich elderly man with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Can you introduce us? Thanks in advance!
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Dave Asbo
Judging by intention is still conjecture and is false. You don’t know for certain. What he did. Just like the $33 million was thrown out and you like many assumed one group got that amount when in reality it was the total they gave out over years.
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@abagond I read that article.
Whites turned New Zealand into a first world country in 150 years. Blacks trashed Haiti, the Jewel in the Caribbean, over 200 years.
Germany was trashed during WW1 and WW2. They suffered under oppression, occupation, and had their industrial machines and raw materials stolen. As white ethno states they rebuilt in a few years.
There is no magic dirt or white oppression that happens mysteriously all over the world to black people.
Today virtually all whites would kiss every black behind if it would stop racism. I want to make them indifferent or hostile to black people. If white people controlled our own countries there would be no problem (at least for us). We whites are living under governments hostile to us.
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Isn’t it ironic? Whites Whining about how they are treated in a country they stole. LOL
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@sharinalr “Judging by intention is still conjecture and is false. ”
It is a theory, a conjecture, that does not make it false. The modern world, and history, are built on theories.
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Is that you David Duke? Slow day at stormfront?
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@Dave ASBO
A theory still does not make it true and if you have nothing more than a theory then it still makes it false until you can present something to make it true.
Theories are tested to be determined of its truth.
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@sharinalr
Gravity is a theory.
“Isn’t it ironic? Whites Whining about how they are treated in a country they stole. LOL”
People have done this throughout history. Amerinds don’t allow DNA testing on the earliest US remains because they look too European 😀 The earliest settlers may have ended up in the pot roast.
@Herneith
These days it would be the Daily Stormer.
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@ASBO
“There is no magic dirt or white oppression that happens mysteriously all over the world to black people.”
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WTO & IMF! But then these organizations and other NGOs are very mysterious now, are they?
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“These days it would be the Daily Stormer.”
So what brings YOU here from the “… Stormer?”
Is it that unquenchable (white people) urge to teach those you deem as lessers??
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Either that or the line up at the liquor store is too long!!!
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Dave Asbo
Gravity was a theory until tested and shown as true. Please learn what a theory is and the process it entails to show it as true. DNA testing has actually already been done on earlier remains. They weren’t white. Sorry to break this news to you.
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“Whites turned New Zealand into a first world country in 150 years. Blacks trashed Haiti, the Jewel in the Caribbean, over 200 years.”
Was it Blacks who tried to restore slavery in 1802, thereby starting a war that Whites lost ? No.
Was it Blacks who convinced Dominicans they were “White” and should separate from the Black Haitians? No.
Are you aware that your Jewel in the Caribbean was made by Black labor and a third of the plantations, a fourth of the slaves were owned and operated by nonwhites? Did the USA steal valuable territory like Navassa island from New Zealand as it did from Haiti? No.
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By the way, New Zealand wasn’t that different from St-Domingue i.e. pre-liberation Haiti. Check out the definition of Blackbirding.
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@gro jo:
I doubt this POS has a clue to what you are writing about, but then he/she is here to incite not impart information.
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Is this a** clown Dave ASBO some vermin from Stormfront? It appears they are just on this forum to cause confusion and derail the thread. This jack hole is a troll.
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This Dave ASBO is trying to tell the Black people if they don’t like it in America we should be in Africa. He is some white supremacist who wants Black people erased.
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OFF TOPIC: George Soros, Haiti, New Zealand, Black ethnostate.
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