Amid continuing protests over George Floyd's death, 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' writer Amber Ruffin has been sharing her own experiences with police.
in the wake of George Floyd's killing by a white policeman, Meyers has dedicated the opening segments of this week's shows to Ruffin's stories of her harrowing encounters with police.
"I have a thousand stories like this. The cops have pulled a gun on me, the cops have followed me to my own home," Ruffin, a black woman, says in the first video, which you can watch above. "And every black person I know has a few stories like that. Many have more than a few. Black people leave the house every day knowing that, at any time, we could get murdered by the police."
"I wanted to end this with something hopeful to provide some comfort, but maybe it's time to get uncomfortable," she adds. In all three stories, Ruffin describes scenarios in which an innocuous action — again, driving on the freeway, skipping through an alley, and handing a wallet to another person — led to a "run-in" with an aggressive white police officer. Each time, she says, she was sure that she would be killed.
"Now imagine a bunch of incidents like that over one lifetime," Ruffin says at the end of her second story. "Multiply that by 43 million African Americans, and that is why things are like this right now. That is why people are angry. And if you're not angry...why not?"
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