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Down on the floor, or we are going to shoot!

“We walked to a corner store.  A police car came.  Two police. The lady officer pulled a gun on us and yelled ‘down on the floor, or we are going to shoot!’ They searched us. We said, ‘Why you stop us?’  They said, ‘Four Black men broke into a house.’ I said, ‘Do I look like a Black man?’”  – Hmong interviewee
 
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It was based on my skin color
I've been taught to be ashamed
We saw their anger.
What are you hiding? Disease, dirt or what?
You look like us
 
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