A nine-year-old Charlotte girl’s tearful speech about how African Americans are “treated differently than other people” has gone viral as protests about police brutality continue to ignite the North Carolina city. “I feel like that we are treated differently than other people. “Don’t stop.”Speaking through sobs, Oliphant continued: “We are black people, and we shouldn’t have to feel like this. The encounter is the latest fatal shooting by officers to spark outrage in US cities this year, with videos of numerous high-profile incidents going viral in recent months. Young black men were nine times more likely to be killed than any other group.
Source: The Guardian September 28, 2016 01:10 UTC