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  • I'm kidding.

  • We asked black men aged 5-50 to do word association on camera.

  • These are their responses to the word "police"

  • Bad and good.

  • Officer.

  • Job.

  • Helpful.

  • People.

  • Brave.

  • Men and women who are making sure that everyone's doing right things I guess.

  • Popo.

  • Justice.

  • They fight crimes, like superheroes.

  • Conceded.

  • Officer.

  • Corrupt.

  • Justice.

  • Helpful.

  • Safe.

  • Brutality, like abusive.

  • Friendly.

  • Brutality. Man, it's cause... it sucks right now man. Police used to stand for something good.

  • Change.

  • I would say help. My times that I've ever dealt with the police have actually received a lot of help.

  • Beat downs.

  • Victims of a generation. I get an issue of this generation, I don't think they value life anymore.

  • self-post protectors.

  • Brutality.

  • Authority.

  • If they don't mess with me I don't mess with them.

  • I look for them like they're looking for me.

  • Doing their jobs.

  • I believe most of them like to protect their families. They love to protect their families. Love to protect their own well-beings.

  • It's said.

  • Detached. If you look at a lot of police department, they don't actually live in the neighborhoods that they police.

  • Scary.

  • Crisis.

  • Untrained.

  • Evil. I think that's self-explanatory. Just open a paper, open a news or live a day as a black man and you will understand.

  • Law enforcement.

  • Fear.

  • Power is what... the first thing that came into my mind.

  • Stay away from them. When I was younger I used to do a lot of stuff, you know, I used to hate them.

  • But now that I am older and I have kids, it's kinda like, maybe we do need them you know.

  • Brutality.

  • Police are just another gang.

  • Protection.

  • Hands up.

  • Sl*ng. Because they kill my people with impunity, and they're getting away with it, and they have no regard for it.

  • The only way we can get the police stop choking people to the death, is it the police start pretending that black people are really people.

  • But they ain't do that shit necessarily so major help.

  • So instead of just filming somebody black get choked to death, why don't you yell over there,

  • Hey stop it! He's really white and rich!

  • That's just Jimmy Fallon in a mask, mother f*cker.

  • Violence.

  • Force.

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