US cop blasts racist officers in viral video posted after Alton Sterling killing
Her impassioned response has been viewed over two million times as she says: "How dare you stand next to me in the same uniform and murder somebody"
A BLACK female police officer who delivered an impassioned speech about her own feelings on the fatal shooting of a man in Louisiana has gone viral after people were moved by her words.
Nakia Jones, who works in Ohio, US, posted her powerful, emotional response on Facebook on Wednesday.
Within hours it had been shared over one hundred thousand times and viewed by over two million people – in the clip she explained, as a black woman in uniform, what his death meant to her after he was shot by a white police officer.
Speaking out Jones said: “How dare you stand next to me in the same uniform and murder somebody.”
In her personal commentary, she revealed she watched the graphic video “over and over” of Sterling's shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Jones became a police officer in 1996, in East Cleveland and then became the first black woman officer in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.
She said: “The reason I became a police officer is to make a difference in people's lives.
“I know what it's like to have a parent on drugs. I know what it's like to watch people be picked on and bullied and all kinds of things.”
“I said I wanted to make a difference and I want to be that change, so I became that change.”
Jones revealed one of her sons showed her the video, and after watching it a number of times she got upset and angry: “How dare you stand next to me in the same uniform and murder somebody.
"How dare you? You ought to be ashamed of yourself. If you're that officer and you know you have a God complex and you're afraid of people who don't look like you, you have no business wearing the uniform. Take it off.”
Jones also spoke up against being catergorised with other officers who were involved in gun violence: “I'm so hurt, it bothers me when people say: 'police officers this' or 'police officers that'. They put us in this negative category.
“But I'm saying to myself, 'I'm not that kind of police officer.
'I know officers that are like me that would give their life for other people.
“So I'm looking at it, and it tore me up because I got to see what you all see.”
In the seven minute long video she went on: “If I wasn't a police officer and I wasn't on the inside, I would be saying, ‘Look at this racist stuff. Look at this.' And it hurt me.”
Defending other cops like her she said: “There's many of us who would give our life for anybody, and we took this oath and we meant it.
“If you are an officer who is prejudiced, take the uniform off and put the KKK hoodie on.”
Jones added: “If you are white, and you work as (a police officer) in a black community, and you are racist, you need to be ashamed of yourself.
“You stood up there and took an oath. If this is not where you want to work, then you need to take your behind somewhere else.
“If you're afraid to talk to an African American female or a Mexican male or female because they're not white like you, take the uniform off. You have no business being a police officer.”
In her speech she also asked for black men and children to turn their backs on firearms, and unite as a community: “Put these guns down because we're killing each other. And the reason why all this racist stuff keeps going on is because we're divided. We're killing each other, not standing together.”
Her video went viral just hours before the tragic shooting of Philandro Castile, 32 – his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds live streamed his death on Facebook, after he was shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights Falcon Heights, Minnesota, on Wednesday.