“And I don’t know if it was because of the hostile presence of the Officers or the Passengers chiming in, but that statement really stuck with me that day. Because they were just children trying to get home. And for the rest of the bus ride, I thought about how many Black boys in D.C. get mistaken, followed, frisked, or harassed for crimes they didn’t commit, and how those boys could’ve easily been my younger brother and his friends.”

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