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It shouldn’t take video of a white woman frantically calling police and lying that her life is under threat by Christian Cooper, a Black man who was birdwatching. It shouldn’t take video of Ahmaud Arbery’s last moments, killed because he was Black. #ChristianCooper #AhmaudAubrey

There will be people who say these are isolated incidents. They’re wrong.

Black Nebraskans are more likely to be pulled over by police than white people and they’re more likely to be killed by police.

Nebraska’s Black students are more than twice as likely as white students to be arrested at school.

Nebraska’s missing persons cases are disproportionately boys who are Black or Native. Cases of missing indigenous women and children span our state.

People of color are imprisoned at a grossly higher rate than white people in Nebraska's prisons.

Just last month, three Omaha police officers involved in the brutal arrest and death of Zachary Bearheels, a Native man, were reinstated.

Our meatpacking plant workers, many of whom are Black and Latinx, are facing the brunt of the COVID-19 outbreak because Gov. Ricketts and other officials will not mandate the safety protections they need and instead blame workers' culture and communities.