The video of Nakia Jones, an officer in the Warrensville Police Department in oh, went live on Facebook Wednesday afternoon ― mere hours before the deadly shooting of 32-year-old Philando Castile in Minnesota. She said that she became a police officer “to make a difference in people’s lives”.
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Jones also said she had taken guns away from young men who were 15, 14 and 13 years old, and that young black men needed to stop the violence against one another. “They put us in this negative category when I’m saying to myself, ‘I’m not that type of police officer.’ I know officers that are like me that would give their life for other people”, Jones says in the video.
“If you’re that officer, then know good and well you got a God complex, you are afraid of people who don’t look like you, you have no business in that uniform”.
A bystander video shows Sterling restrained by two police officers on the ground when one pulls out a gun and points it at his chest. “And it hurt me”.
“If you are white and you work in a black community and you are racist, you need to be ASHAMED of yourself. If you are that officer that’s prejudiced, take the uniform off and put the KKK hoodie on because I will not stand for that!” “If this is not where you want to work then you need to take your behind somewhere else!”
Jones also despaired that so numerous people she has arrested during her time on the force were “the same color as me”, she said. She said any young men who feel police are treating them unfairly should talk to the police chiefs and mayors of their towns.
“I know officers that are like me that would give their life for other people”.
“I’m here because I wanted to make a difference”. “And the reason why all this racist stuff keeps going on is because we’re divided”.
Jones in the video said she’s been a police officer since being hired in 1996 in East Cleveland.
In the post, she said she watched the video over and over.
Jones’ video has been viewed more than 2.7 million times and shared over 157,000 times she posted it to her Facebook page Wednesday.
“How dare you stand next to me and wear the same uniform and murder somebody”. We’ve got to stand together.
“Put these guns down because we’re killing each other”, she said. The video turns away when the police officer starts shooting Sterling, but you can hear the gunshots. “Be smart. I am my brothers’ and my sisters’ keeper”.
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The post also has dozens upon dozens of comments praising Jones.
