Tag Archive: Black Lives Matter

posted a blog on February 8, 2017
The Kickback from a Toy Pistol

We live in a country where carrying a toy gun while being brown or black or even just ethnically ambiguous can get you murdered by law enforcement, with impunity. As the daughter of a Mexican-American police officer in South Texas, I grew up alongside a loaded 9MM on the kitchen counter for years. I respected...