Black, White Folk Talk US Police and the Difference Is Crazy

George Zimmerman, now infamous for his killing of an unarmed, African-American teenager, in the state of Florida on February 26th 2012, was acquitted of second-degree murder. In an interview in May of this year, he admitted that he had no remorse for the shooting. Zimmerman's act sparked a revolutionary movement, known as Black Lives Matter.

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It's a movement that has garnered the attention of the international community.

On this week's episode of Ñ Dont Stop, our hosts walk with protesters in several cities to find out whether or not they've had interactions with police officers in the United States.

The comments from ordinary citizens, of different ethnicities, differ starkly.

One African-American protester said, “My experience is three guns, at point blank range, to me. One at my temple, one at my neck and one dead in my chest, for just walking two blocks from my house, in the middle of the day.”

A White-American said, “They're (the police) are very helpful.”

As we approach July 18, the day when the world remembers a fighter of racial equality—Nelson Mandela—Ñ Dont Stop takes a look back at several high-profile police shootings of African Americans across the U.S., and tries to answer the question, “Why?”