must listen to these people and work to help change things and make this country truly better place for all, because no one should have to live this way.

We have failed so many of our fellow Americans so completely. We have to do better.

country feels like a nightmare, and this is only a sliver of what the Black population and other POC communities have experienced the entire history of our country. This is what they have had to endure and survive every day of their lives. All of us in the white population need to remember this and

communities are called riots.

I am not writing this to diminish what happened to Renee Good in anyway or to take attention away from what occurred. I am not even sure how much of a right I have to write about this as a white person.

What I do know is what has been happening right now in this

drugs or armed in order to make them the bad guy.

Right now, there are national protests for what happened to Renee. I remember how frequently things like this has happened to the black community and other POC communities and people go on like it is business as usual or the protests by these

evidence of what actually occurred. How many times have we seen this before with the police who have shot and killed an innocent black person. How many times have they refused to show video evidence or made it disappear. How many times have people reconstituted the story, claiming the victim was on