Here’s What I Want My White Friends To Know About My Encounters With The Police

Admittedly, I’ve waited a while before expressing my thoughts on the deaths ofBlack people at the hands of the police, and, in particular, the killing ofGeorge Floyd.”Why now?” my wife asked me when I finally decided to write something. “Afterall, there had been Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and you didn’t vent.”Perhaps it was because all these deaths had left me too exhausted.And what of my white colleagues and friends? Had they too become…