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The police who remained on set as “security” began to, upon the request of production, push Black and Brown people back into their homes, made some of them clean up their own sidewalk so that this company could get the shot that Sandra wanted; her vision. Sibling Films, a colonizing force using the monopoly of violence ordained to the police, to film a Black person dancing for a car commercial. The layers wouldn’t stop and I felt as though I would suffocate under them.

You might not have seen it before because there were no cameras. You might not have given it much thought because it seemed few and far between. You may not have felt so bad because maybe you thought there was a crime severe enough to justify our death. You may not have cared before because you didn’t know any black people, you didn’t know me, but now you do.