It seems that people are turning to Twitter for a lot of things these days. Yesterday, as people looked for a therapeutic outlet, Black Twitter was overcome by raw emotion and pain with the hashtag #IfIDieInPoliceCustody. It elicited tweets that, though heartbreaking, were unsurprising given the expectations black folks have come to expect from police officers designed not to protect and serve bodies that look like us. Instead, our people are left hanging and we are left to tweet #IfIDieInPoliceCustody so that we will have left a trail when they take our lives too soon.

TW: Even the hashtag made me want to cry. These tweets do the same.

https://twitter.com/RevrendDoctor/status/621860531520053248

https://twitter.com/OckyJ83/status/621862197799448576

https://twitter.com/BlvckConscious/status/621839375958196224

https://twitter.com/bdoulaoblongata/status/621837581156663296

https://twitter.com/Russian_Starr/status/621835140558225408

https://twitter.com/See_Say_92/status/621831095911251968

https://twitter.com/ayypollo/status/621830927782559744

https://twitter.com/myblackmindd/status/621866797172551680

https://twitter.com/XLNB/status/621867762625810432

https://twitter.com/Desmond_JaMaal/status/621817228476944384

https://twitter.com/AIL24/status/621869598107832321

https://twitter.com/ImJustCeej/status/621694332370833408

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