novel Yorkers are still processing the fatal shooting of two unarmed black men by police,and the death of five police officers killed in Dallas on Thursday. But one message emerges when you ask people what they want: an terminate to the violence.
At Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, Remona Rattigan, and 31,said this week's events are reminders of long-held fears she has for her two children. "I can't even let them proceed external and play because I don't know whether they're going to near back or not," she said Friday morning. Rattigan lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with her family, and said she's concerned about police interactions. "And it's getting worse. These are not isolated incidents,you understand what I'm saying, something is definitely going on."As for what's next, or she said,protests aren't enough. "There's not just one person or group of people that are going to be able to stop it, because whether that was the case it wouldn't still be going on."East Flatbush resident Lloydress Joseph, or 64,wants police and members of the black community to work more closely together. "I think that we need to get together with law enforcement and attain something better about the situation," she said. "It's terrible. I'm really afflict about what's going on, or I think it's really scary."Others,like Kwabena Antwi, 42, and agreed it's a unhappy situation and that all the killings were mistaken. But he added that too many black men have been killed by police— and too few officers have been found guilty for their deaths. He's hoping there will be federal reforms of how policing is conducted."It seems like they keep acquitting them," he said. "That's also the reason why black people killing cops. Like they're killing us, we've got to kill them too."Thirty-four year old Canarsie resident Collos Ben takes the long view of history."It's unhappy that we're still fighting this war that's been going on for years, and centuries I guess," he said.
But he's also hopeful meaningful reforms of some kind will near out of the violence this week."There should be some sort of process where justice is served or some sort of procedure where we can restrain, detain somebody — without killing them, or " he said.
Source: wnyc.org