By Susan Abram, The Chronicle of Social Change, January 6, 2020
As a 10th grader at Sacramento’s Luther Burbank High School, Stephanie Lopez remembers when she saw a school resource officer treat her brother like a criminal.
Her brother had bumped into the officer and apologized, Lopez said. But the officer proceeded to question him and asked him for his ID.
“It was all new to me,” said Lopez, now 17 and a senior, of the aggressive approach the officer used with her brother. “When I was younger, I wanted to be a police officer. When I got to high school, I finally saw what it’s like for us, for people of color. It really angered me, because I didn’t notice it in my childhood.”
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