black. black officers complicity in police violence goes back much further. as van jones points out, this phenomenon is even enshrines in the hip a classic back in 1989, the ice cube wrap. don't let it be a black or white one, because they will slim you down to the -- black police showing out for the white cop. quick to pounce on van jones, chastising him for injecting race into the discussion, and claiming his analysis was attempting to divide people. it's not just naive to automatically assume that the murder of an unarmed black man cannot be racist because black police officers are accused of that murder. it is a historical, it is ignorant, it is just disingenuous. as richard banks, a law professor and faculty director of the staff -- justice told usa today, quote, black police officers can carry with them some of the same understanding your views of black people as white police