Levar Jones:"What did I do?" ...
"What did I do, sir?" ...
"Why did you – why did you shoot me?" ...
"I’m sorry." ...
"Why did you pull me over? I was just pulled into the gas station." ...
"Sir, I didn’t do nothing, my wallet is right there." ...
"You didn’t need to …"
You didn't need to shoot me, sir.That's what Levar Jones wanted to tell Trooper Sean Groubert, but he was in too much pain to get the rest of his sentence out. I don't know about you, but hearing Levar address his would-be executioner as "sir" threatened to send me into the ugly cry zone. It tore me up. Hearing Levar ask "Why did you shoot me?" was just too much.
It is a question that I imagine young Michael Brown wanted to ask Trooper Darren Wilson: "Why? Why did you have to shoot me?"
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Something is very wrong with the way the police do their jobs in this country.
We don't claim to have all the answers, but we think we have part of the solution in the Michael Brown Over-Policed Act of 2015.
Join us below the divider and help us fashion a law to protect those who are most at risk. This diary is especially long because of the commentaries. If you have read previous drafts, you could read only the commentaries.
Note: This is a team effort by our group, Support the Dream Defenders. The diary is published under my name only because I am the founder of the group.