Hannah Shmulsky
Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read

As a white female, my first reaction to the Damond shooting was a little stab of horror. But then I got numb. To be honest, I can’t find fault with your POV here. I know I can’t imagine your level of battle fatigue. Every time I hear about another police officer killing a POC, I get more numb to it all. This police-shooting victim just happens to be white and female, a combination we fool ourselves into thinking is literally bulletproof. (I certainly do; I have a disability, which means 45 is after my sorry ass, in a more drawn-out way.) It’s a tragedy that this woman died the way she did, but it’s not more tragic than the deaths of black people at the hands of despicable police officers every single fucking day. It’s just more unusual. Officers who get off scot-free over and over again for killing people. Lives don’t matter anymore. Black lives clearly mean less than all the others, and gods help them if they have any sort of mental or physical incapacity. I’m so sick of this. I don’t know what to do with myself, so I just…I don’t give a fuck either.