of discrimination that will not be tolerated.
You reject systemic bias and violence.
You address a shameful past,
promise a better future.
But the names you know
are limited: George Floyd,
Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery.
Awful as their murders were,
police also shot and killed 171 Hispanics.
Antonio Valenzuela was
put in a vascular neck restraint
never to regain consciousness,
and charges against the officer dismissed.
Do you know Jayne Thompson,
who was deadnamed and misgendered
after being shot by a trooper
sent on a wellness check?
You would not be able to discover
why Brandon Laducer
was shot an unknown amount of times
by police in his home
on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation,
but Native Americans are most likely to die
from police shootings than any other American.
