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“We Want Justice” by Khadiga Ghirani, Vanguard High School

then shouldn’t we have more say? 1 and 1 together. But there are more
sides to every story. If we’re looking
If you’ve ever played the game, at the cops as white and the robbers
Cops and Robbers, then you know as people of color, then see how it
that the cops have to catch the rob- changes things. It’s made out to look
bers, and put them in jail. The robbers like the police are the good guys who
run away. If you think about the game save everyone. And the robbers are
as real life, then see this. The robbers the bad guys.
are looked at to be running away
from the cops, as guilty, as cowardly, George Floyd was the “robber”
as having done something wrong. At one day. He was seen as the Black guy
that moment, they’re just seen as bad who did something wrong. He was
people. A person who did bad things. arrested for using counterfeit money.
Has anyone ever asked them why they He wasn’t putting anyone in danger,
did it? Has anyone ever asked about and he wasn’t even resisting arrest.
their life? Or do people just look at Yet he was thrown to the ground
the skin color, and the crime, and put and the white cop, put his knee on

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