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This is a love letter to all black people.

Very soon a video of the execution of 17 year old

Lacline McDonald will be spread across the internet. It had been 400 days since Lequon McDonald's killing was captured on a police dash cam.

Now, two days before Thanksgiving in 2015,

there'd be no more waiting for the video.

City leaders were scared. Scared of the community fallout,

scared of the political fallout,

scared of the unknown about to hit them.

Activists were also worried about the fallout, but they were worried about something else too.

The trauma of watching another police shooting.

Black people, this is a love letter to you.

This is a love letter to black people. Before you watch this, I want you to know you

are loved. Before you watch. It began as Facebook videos created by a group called Black Youth Project 100.

Soon it became a hashtag, giving other space to spread their own words of strength on social media. I think in that moment of just like hyper visible police violence we were really afraid that you know black death was

becoming a spectacle. Activist and poet Malcolm London. The feeling is like if you

need another horrific video or someone being murdered by police to care,

then you don't.

Before you watch this, people will try to tell you to be calm and your righteous anger and I say to

that in the words of Frederick Douglass the only thing worse than a rebellion is

the reason for it. From W.B.E.Z Chicago in the Chicago Tribune, I'm Jen White, and this is 16 shots, the police

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