Meleah Williams,
New Orleans, LA
Growing up I experienced police brutality three times before the age of 18. But that’s a black girl in a white world. Looking at a white man slam my mom into a police car as she tried to call my aunt while his partner pull a weapon because I ran at the age of 5 to help my mom was the first time. Being pulled over by three patrol cars because I turned in front of an officer so I deserved to be pulled out of my car and searched in front of my 12 year old sister to prove a point to the rookie at the age of 16. Age 17 pulled over “ going 120 in a 70 “ when my car is parent locked at 90 but I deserved to have to cops pull a firearm and hold it at me and only saved by the badge that my dad holds pleading for my life. So I am a black girl living in a white world but the white man wont define me.
