Police officer blasts ‘racist’ colleagues after Alton Sterling’s death

Jones says she watched footage of the incident in Louisiana over and over.

Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II confronted Sterling as he was selling CDs outside a convenience store.

“I got to see what you all see”, she said.

Jones, who said she was the first black female officer in Warrensville Heights, said that in 1996 she “became a police officer to make a difference in people’s lives”. She knew what it was like to have a parent on drugs and to watch people be picked on and bullied.

The video appears to show a woman sitting in the passenger seat of a auto next to a man who had apparently been shot by a police officer standing outside the vehicle. “And they put us in this negative category when I’m saying to myself, I’m not that type of police officer”, says Jones. “If you are an officer that is prejudiced, take the uniform off and put the KKK hoodie on”. “How dare you? You ought to be ashamed of yourself”, she said.

“I’m here because I wanted to make a difference”. The couple would not go on camera to comment but says they have a lot going on because of this viral video.

In her own video, Jones said her son brought video of Sterling’s death to her attention. We’re killing each other, we’re not standing together.

“We should all be held accountable for our actions, and sometimes our peers need to hold us accountable”, she said during the conference, surrounded by family. We gotta stand together.

It feels futile to say we’ve reached beyond the point where it’s possible to tolerate the good cop argument at all-that there’s no way for a cop to completely separate his/herself from the systematically, disproportionally aggressive police force they work for.

“If I wasn’t a police officer and I wasn’t on the inside I would be saying ‘look at this racist stuff, ‘ and it hurt me”. “How dare you stand up next to me in the same uniform and murder somebody?”

Jones’ video has over 2.4 million views with more than 140,000 shares.

A black police officer from OH has delivered a withering critique of “racist” fellow officers who “murder” people while in uniform.

She also called on blacks to stop killing each other and to put down their guns. Get these young men.