Oscar Grant. Alex Nieto. Mario Woods. Jessica Williams. Alfred Olango. Stephon Clark.

Since the 2014 Ferguson Uprising lit up smartphones and televisions across the country, there has been an expanding movement to curb the disproportionate killings of people of color at the hands of police officers. People protested, marched and filled city halls in throughout the country, calling for change. Too often those calls for change were met with more of the same: law enforcement and white people dismissing generational claims of systemic and cultural injustice lamenting throughout communities of color.