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  • - Bring it in.

  • Wanna do the handshake?

  • (mellow jazz music)

  • I'm Antjuan, this is my daughter, Arriell.

  • She's my little twin.

  • - It was, Black Parents Try and Explain

  • How to Deal With the Police.

  • I'm Arriell Sky Williams,

  • and I have nothing that'll harm you or hurt you.

  • - Thank you.

  • - I think she got taller.

  • - Oh.

  • Yeah.

  • - Makes me feel unfair.

  • It makes me feel really frustrated,

  • how white people get more privileges than black people.

  • - This was after Philando Castile got shot.

  • My daughter woke up, I was getting ready to leave

  • and she was like, are the police going to shoot you?

  • That was a question she actually asked me

  • and so I was like, you know what, we gotta fix this.

  • All police aren't bad.

  • I took the day off work, we wrote down

  • all these pieces of paper like, you know,

  • black lives matter, you know, blue lives matter,

  • jesus is love, we wrote down all these different things,

  • and I took my daughter and my youngest son

  • and we went out to protest in front of the police department

  • but a show of love and that picture made it here

  • and that's how we got contacted.

  • That time they tased me, because

  • they said I wasn't complying.

  • - [Antjuan] What's wrong baby?

  • - The reason why I cried was because

  • I knew that the world was like that

  • but I didn't know that my dad had to go through it as well.

  • - Yes, as it was being shared,

  • we had friends like, oh my god, is this you,

  • like we were getting text messages,

  • we were getting all type of things

  • and it was like, yeah that was us.

  • I made the mistake and stayed

  • up one night and read comments.

  • Worst idea ever.

  • A lot of people were in the comments

  • saying, you know, things like, I'm a bad father.

  • Do you think I'm a good dad?

  • - Of course.

  • - There it is guys.

  • - Yes. - Yes.

  • - So the spinoff of the Black Parents Explain

  • How to Deal With the Police was they actually

  • brought a police officer in and Ariell got to meet him.

  • - Hi Mr. Peter.

  • - What's your name?

  • - Ariell.

  • - Yes.

  • (laughs)

  • - Do you think that police officers

  • across the nation are treating different races fairly?

  • - When we got the email saying

  • hey, we're going to do this Kids Meet a Police Officer video

  • and Ariell was like, oh I have some of my own questions,

  • and she literally had a paper where she wrote down

  • so many questions and she did it all herself.

  • I didn't help her, Mom didn't help her.

  • - If you had a family member that was

  • in danger and that you had to save them

  • or if there was another person that was in danger,

  • would you save your family, or that other person?

  • - That's a really tough question.

  • - It was the tattoo video.

  • - I let her draw a tattoo for me.

  • These are my babies and I approve this tattoo.

  • I'm doing it.

  • - Thankfully it wasn't scribble.

  • - It wasn't scribble, you know, high five on that.

  • Its a real tattoo guys.

  • - I drew this.

  • - It's my favorite tattoo, it's literally my favorite.

  • She was nervous and she wasn't even getting a tattoo.

  • - Cause when we first got there,

  • the Director said that the first mom passed out.

  • - Yeah.

  • (laughs)

  • - Squeeze really hard.

  • - Why do I need to squeeze your hand?

  • - I'm scared.

  • - This is so backwards, she should be

  • comforting me, and I'm comforting her right now.

  • - She was like, don't pass out dad,

  • and I was like, I'm not going to pass out.

  • Seriously.

  • (laughs)

  • - I didn't want you to pass out.

  • - I wasn't going to pass out.

  • - What do you think of the tattoo?

  • - I think it's actually pretty cool.

  • - It's pretty cool?

  • Yeah, I think so too.

  • - Thank you.

  • - She's me.

  • - And I'm him.

  • - She still has some levels to get cool like me.

  • You're like here, and I'm like still here.

  • - One, two, three. - Oh, no, you're not there.

  • No, you got some work .

  • - Thank you guys so much for watching.

  • - Thank you.

  • Be sure to watch more of the throwback Thursday videos

  • that's coming your way and don't forget subscribe to Cut.

  • - It's her.

  • - I thought it was you.

  • - Seriously, I think it's you.

  • No one wants to see my ugly mug.

  • They want to see this cute little face.

  • (giggles)

- Bring it in.

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