I cannot describe how much I believe you and support you. I feel your anger and frustration from a distance because I am from the outside, I’m white. My daughter’s father is a black man and as a mother/daughter we have experienced racism every time we leave our door. However, it is truly happening to her, not me. I can go anywhere by myself and not experience anything like she does on a daily basis both in her experiences and her aloneness. I feel rage and have felt rage not only at the racism she endures but the fact that she endures it. I know as a mother you know what that sick feeling, physically painful feeling, is in your body and mind. Someone posted below that the wish you had gotten that officer’s license plate. To me this proves so much in that if you even got an “audience” with a higher up in the police department you would have been asked insulting questions because of your race and your complaint, if not literally tossed in the trash, then trashed in the mind of the police. Thank you so much for your writing. I work on my unconscious racism every day. I don’t have to tell you that in my facebook posting of the truths about black lives and I am sure after posting your writing about being angry that not one of my white friends “like” or respond. I do however see in my news feed that “all lives matter”, how not all cops are bad etc etc. These are enraging but mostly born out of unconscious racism if not conscious. Again, thank you. I wish your children the happiest lives possible.