We arrive in 2023, where nothing has changed other than the system expanding right along with that distrust. Though these feelings may sting Black and brown officers who join the force to allegedly make a change, it hasn’t stung enough for them to remove themselves from this system of policing that has always been inherently racist. We have arrived in 2023, and a young Black man is used as “a human piñata for those police officers. It was an unadulterated, unabashed, nonstop beating of this young boy for three minutes. That is what we saw in that video,” according to the Nichols’ family attorney.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen was an eerie read, for the simple fact that Baldwin’s words fit too perfectly in the present day.