This Girl Just Delivered One of the Most Powerful Messages on Police Shootings You Will Ever Hear

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Autocratic forces are ascendant.

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Autocratic forces are ascendant in America. But truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against the unrestrained exercise of power. At a time when billionaire owners of corporate media are making accommodations to political leaders, our nonprofit newsroom cannot be bought or broken. Please stand with us.

On Monday night, nine-year-old Zianna Oliphant took the stand at a city council meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina following the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, to talk about growing up in the city. Her testimony says everything.

Please watch it.

“We are black people and we shouldn’t have to feel like this,” young black girl tells Charlotte City Council. pic.twitter.com/M1l2FdTYx3

— Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) September 28, 2016