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Having 'The Talk' With Myself About Police Encounters

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  Having 'The Talk' With Myself About Police Encounters

  “As a mother of a little boy, watching the scrolling parade of black bodies and the mounting evidence that black lives don’t matter is both disturbing and distressing.”
  
  As a black woman, in any police encounter I think about my son.
  
  Recently, I had just dropped off my son at daycare and returned home when I spotted a group of cops milling around the parking lot. By the look of things, they were a mixture of local and federal law enforcement officers. Despite being new to my ethnically diverse, working-class Northern Virginia neighborhood, I knew this was not at all usual.