Warrensville Heights officer's Facebook post on Alton Sterling shooting goes viral
By Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com
on July 07, 2016 at 9:13 AM
Nakia Jones
Warrensville Heights police officer Nakia Jones
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WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio — A Warrensville Heights police officer's personal Facebook post about the fatal shooting of a black man in Louisiana by white police officers went viral hours after she posted the video.
Officer Nakia Jones's seven-minute video, which had 1.3 million views as of Thursday morning, references Tuesday's police-involved fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, by two white police officers in Baton Rouge. Sterling was shot while being handcuffed on the ground in front of a convenience store.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the shooting that was recorded by a bystander.
"If you are white and you're working in a black community and you are racist, you need to be ashamed of yourself," Jones said in the video. "You stood up there and took an oath. If this is not where you want to work, then you need to take your behind somewhere else."
Jones in the video said she's been a police officer since being hired in 1996 in East Cleveland. She also said she's the first black woman officer in Warrensville Heights.
She said she's a wife and mother and that she was inspired to become a police officer while growing up on East 93rd and Kinsman and later in East Cleveland.
"The reason I became a police officer is to make a difference in people's lives," she said. "I know what it's like to have a parent on drugs. I know what it's like to watch people be picked on and bullied and all kinds of things. I said I wanted to make a difference and I want to be that change, so I became that change."
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