Good evening. We begin tonight with advice. Dante writes friend and mentor Jonathan Mason used to give him in case he was stopped by police.

Make sure your hands are on top of the steering wheel. He said don't read for anything to which he says Dante would ask him why we got to do all that just for people not to kill us.

Dante writes funeral was today in Minneapolis 11 days after he was shot and killed during a traffic stop just outside town. He was 20 years old.

I sat up until 3.30 in the morning so nervous and scared about what I was going to stand up here and say about Mason.

I never imagined that I'd be standing here. The roles should completely be reversed. My son should be buried in me.

Dante writes is survived by a young son. It is haunting to think that one day someone may have to give him the same advice as father God or about surviving counters with police.

According to polling from Pew Research 84% of black adults said that in dealing with police black people are generally treated less fairly than whites. A substantial majority of white adults 63% agreed.

The polling was done in 2019 before the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, a moderate and of course Dante writes. But the perception was there in 2019 and it's been there for generations.

And so has the reality.

According now from a study published by the National Academy of Sciences, quote, black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police over the life course than or white men.

In 2019, officers not only stop black drivers at higher rates than white drivers. Their analysis suggests that police require less suspicion to search them. The authors caution that their methods have limits and that more study is called for.

That said, even some police officials acknowledge the problem with perception and reality.

We have to deal with the history. There's a long history in our nation of and reasons to mistrust. And we can't just brush that aside and pretend that it didn't exist.

Part of this process is a reckoning and a reconciliation if you will of those things. And when people say, that's the past. The past and the future and the present are connected.

There is history and it is disturbing and there is the present now, which includes along with Dante, right? The name's George Floyd, Mikiya Bryant, who's killing is still being investigated in Andrew Brown Jr.

who was shot and killed Wednesday by sheriff's deputies executing a search warrant.

That present includes the Justice Department of Investigation and the Minneapolis Police, the trial of three other officers, the sentencing of Derek Chauvin and trial of Kempotter who shot and killed Dante, right?

Each of these threats is unique. Each of these people are unique. Not every killing is tragic as they all are, may turn out to be unjustified.

However, they always the same question is justice being served equally in black and white America. First, Dante writes funeral in Sinan's Miguel Marquez.

Right, 20 years old, his parents barely able to say goodbye.

I never imagined that I'd be standing here. The roles should completely be reversed. My son should be buried in me.

Words can't even explain how I feel right now. You know, that was my son.

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