.kendrick38 is speaking out after being hit by rubber bullets and a police baton at a protest in Los Angeles on Saturday.
"Y’all ain’t see no police f**king up white folks when they took guns to the statehouse," he said."Y’all didn’t see police attacking white folks, beating 'em up with batons, shooting them with rubber bullets when they brought guns to f**king state houses.
We came up here with no weapons, with masks. And we're the ones who are not peaceful." "We did an event together, peaceful, powerful, talking about defunding the police, talking about building power in our communities and what that really looks like. That's what we were doing. We marched to the intersection at Fairfax, we were there for a bit. We closed it out with a chant," he added. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a curfew for downtown L.A. on Saturday, which was later extended citywide."I'm asking all of Los Angeles to take a deep breath and step back for a moment," he said in a press conference., Sampson opened up about the work BLD PWR was doing to create change for the black community. "On Wednesday, we had a very successful demonstration with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Out in the streets of Downtown L.A., hundreds of people came out in the name of George Floyd and those who have been killed by police in L.A. County here, like Kenneth Ross Jr. and Wakiesha Wilson and over 600 others," he said. While feelings of anger, frustration and devastation have swept the country, Sampson said he still felt"hopeful" that things will change."I feel like right now, as heavy as it is, what I hear organizers, activists, and people involved in liberation work saying all over the United States is that their hope is in the fact that people are primed for an ideological shift," he shared."People are fed up and these systems are exposed. And it is forcing people to expand their imagination as to what's possible." "There are oppressive people and systems that are very well funded that are tormenting that change with all their might. But we have exponentially more people than the people that benefit off of this oppression. We are seeing that we have that people power, and we do have the power to change these things," Sampson continued."The examples of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Brionna Taylor... [occurred because these systems] were not founded to care for our communities. And we, because people are ready for this shift, we can imagine better." Sampson added,"I really, truly believe I can imagine better than this. I know that it exists. I have seen it, so it's not as hard for me to imagine. I know a lot of people have not seen these examples, but I believe that the bar is so low that we definitely can imagine better. And these systems, a lot of them don’t need to be reformed, they need to be transformed. We need to actually put a new foundation that is built on care, and radical love of the most vulnerable in our communities."
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