Black woman roughed up by cops

Sunday, while an anti-racism protest was in progress, a family went for a picnic in the Old Port. The mother, seeing protesters and police coming their way, tried to get her kids into her car, but she was stopped and roughed up by police in view of her kids. Natasha Skeete is black, and as told here, it’s yet another data point showing that being black is enough for some cops to assume wrongdoing.

This week, Neil deGrasse Tyson posted a statement on Facebook about being black in America. This is the soundbite: “I’m just trying to learn all I can about the universe. I hardly ever think about the color of my skin. It never comes up when contemplating the cosmos. Yet when I exit my front door, I’m a crime suspect.”