While sharing her thoughts on the current protests against police brutality sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Actress, Author, and Mother Niecy Nash revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that a police officer had recently drawn his taser on her son, Dominic Nash, ‘for a rolling stop.’
“I’m a f**king wreck,” Nash said.
“My son got stopped leaving my house last Sunday. And they pulled a taser on him for a rolling stop. And then proceeded to question him and ask him, ‘You have on a T-Mobile shirt. Do you work there? Because if you do, how did you afford this car? Because this is a 2020 [vehicle].’ They don’t know if he was a manager. They don’t know if he was an owner. They don’t know if he had a rich mama. But what they probably felt like was. “How did this young Black boy get a car that I don’t even have?”
“I used to say, if you just comply, get home, and if there was a wrong that happened, we’ll right it later,” the star said. “But now we watched a murder on national TV when George Floyd was murdered. I don’t know because he complied. He was in handcuffs. He was on the ground with his hands behind his back. So, I don’t even know.”
George Floyd was an unarmed black man that was killed by Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes while he was on the ground. Since Floyd’s death, Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder. The other three officers (J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao) that were present during Floyd’s death have also been charged, but with aiding and abetting second-degree murder, instead. Nash, who plays a cop on Reno 911, said that the cast gathered together to donate $10,000 towards Floyd’s funeral costs.
“Our entire cast is brokenhearted about the passing of George Floyd, and prayerfully this donation will be a small step towards healing for his family,” Nash told GMA.
While many have joined in to help console Floyd’s family, while they seek justice during their time of grief, many are still upset that they have to live in daily fear because “the people who we pay to protect and serve are beating and killing [blacks].”
Through data collected from reported cases in 2016, police officers in the United States, are nearly four times more likely to use force on black people than white people. CNN also says that black men are almost three times more likely to be killed by police intervention than white men are.
“America is only America and belongs to white people because they stole it from the Indians,” Nash said. “And then they stole Black people from Africa and forced us into service for 400 years and then have the audacity to look at us and say, “Well, what can we do to fix it?”
While people are looking to the actress for answers during this time of unrest against systematic racism, Nash feels its not on her or any other black person to right the wrongs of America.
“It isn’t the responsibility of the oppressed to tell the oppressor what to do and how to right the wrong,” she said. “So, my suggestion is you need to ask non-Black people what they can do. Don’t call one more Black person and ask them nothing about nothing. You call the white people and ask them what they could do because Black people, by definition, can’t be racist because we’re not the ones in power.”
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