Every minute of this exchange between the officers & Lt. Nazario is awful to watch. It’s a shameful example of abuse of power and no expected accountability — and it’s predicated on the racism that makes this Black Army officer afraid to exit his car. 1/4
It didn’t matter that Army Lt. Caron Nazario was serving his nation. It didn’t matter that he had apparently violated no law. It didn’t matter that he was respectful and tried to de-escalate the encounter. Only one thing mattered. #PoliceReformNOW https://t.co/XHxQ9gAKQP
An absolute horror. A man, a Black man, in his Army uniform, his sleeve emblazoned with the American flag symbolizing his service to his country, & these racist thugs deny him his constitutional rights, terrorize him, humiliate him. Utterly unacceptable.
See this thread from @JulianCastro ... we must do better. Look at how this American soldier was treated. Look at how the GA state Representative was treated. Compare that to the treatment of the insurrectionists on January 6th. We must do better.
☀️ #OTD in 2009, First Lady @MichelleObama, with the help of local elementary students, planted the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn to start a national conversation around health and wellness.
Lester Holt is exactly right. Journalists need not cover “both sides” of issues when one side is demonstrably false.
If someone says the sun sets in the west, you don’t need an alternative voice to say it doesn’t.
“Our duty is to be fair to the truth.”