- Wesley Lowery: Frederick Douglass said, 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.' And the power that is American policing hasn't conceded anything. If anything, it's doubled and tripled down on that power.
- Wesley Lowery: Think of the most powerful person you can think of in the United States, be it Joe Biden or Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, if you think they're still in charge of everything secretly. None of them can pull out a gun and shoot you in the chest. Every single sworn police officer in the United States of America has the right, has the power, to pull out a gun and shoot you.