Chattanooga City Councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is as tired of black people dying from police use of excessive force as the next person.
Referring to the most recent example of George Floyd in Minneapolis during a virtual City Council meeting earlier this week, she said “those behaviors are just not acceptable in 2020.”
In other words, they shouldn’t be glossed over or minimized by being called aberrations, one-time incidents or someone just making a mistake.
But Coonrod dared to go further – to broach the problem of black-on-black crime.
“[W]e are losing too many black men and women due to violence from our own people, from black people,” she said. … “Sometimes that’s a harsh reality and we don’t want to talk about it in the black community, but we’ve got to start talking about it because we’ve got too many families hurting, we’ve got too many people that’s left without their dad.”