John,
This week I witnessed another horrible act of police brutality and this one was harrowing because one of my oldest childhood friends, Christopher Lynch, was the victim.
In Gold Rock, North Carolina on a dark country road with no lights, North Carolina State Highway Patrol officer L.M. Caskey pulled up behind Christopher and flashed his lights. Instead of stopping on the dark road because he was fearful of what could happen, Christopher pulled up to a nearby gas station and immediately turned his car off, and put his hands on the steering wheel.
The officer then pulled Christopher out of the car and proceeded to beat him. Pushing Christopher’s face into the concrete, the officer kneeled on his back and neck and even had a white supremacist civilian join in on the beating.
Thankfully Christopher was not murdered but it shouldn’t take someone’s life being taken aways for us to be angry.
What transpired was absolutely disgusting and it put on full display the acts of white supremacy and the system of criminal injustice that Black people have to try to survive.
Join Democracy For America and Black Male Voters Project as we call for a swift investigation into this horrible act of police brutality.
You don’t have to know Christopher like I do to understand that this act of police brutality must be investigated.
Cops like L.M. Caskey think that they can get away with this because they always have. We cannot sit by and wait to watch yet another act of white supremacy terrorism.
America has a dark history of white supremacy terrorism that continues to this day. If we stand together and push for a swift investigation, we can begin to fight back against a system that so callously ignores Black bodies.
We cannot hem and haw over this, an investigation into what took place must happen immediately.
Join Democracy For America and Black Male Voters Project as we call for a swift investigation into this horrible act of police brutality.
Thank you for taking the time to call for a swift investigation into this horrible act of police brutality, my friend Christopher and I are truly grateful.
— Mondale
Mondale Robinson, Political Director
Democracy for America
