Comedian Niecy Nash says she is a 'wreck' after police 'pulled a taser' on her son
‘I’m trying to figure out what to tell my own son’
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Your support makes all the difference.Comedian Niecy Nash has shared her fears as a black mother in the wake of George Floyd’s death after a police officer pulled a taser on her son last week.
The actor, who last year earned an Emmy nomination for her performance in Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, told The Hollywood Reporter that her son Dominic, 28, was recently pulled over for a minor traffic issue when the officers started questioning whether he owned his own car.
“My son got stopped leaving my house last Sunday and they pulled a taser on him for a rolling stop,” Nash recalled.
“[They] then proceeded to question him and ask him, ‘You have on a T-Mobile shirt. Do you work there? Because if you do, how did you afford this car? Because this is a 2020.’”
The mother-of-three continued: “They don’t know if he was a manager. They don’t know if he was an owner. They don’t know if he had a rich mama. But what they probably felt like was, ‘How did this young black boy get a car that I don’t even have?’ And we fitting to make you suffer for it.”
Nash described how watching the constant news of police brutality had made her a “f***ing wreck” and fearing for the lives of her son and two daughters.
“I’m trying to figure out what to tell my own son,” she said. “I used to say, if you just comply, get home, and if there was a wrong that happened, we’ll right it later. But now we watched a murder on national TV when George Floyd was murdered. I don’t know because he complied.
“He was in handcuffs. He was on the ground with his hands behind his back. So I don’t even know. People are calling me, asking me to tell them something. And I’m trying to figure out what to tell mine.”
The death of George Floyd in May, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes, has sparked protests for Black Lives Matter across the US and around the globe.