I Have Written Ad Nauseum about Police Violence Against Black Americans. It's Exhausting

Through poetry and essay, I have written extensively about police violence against Black bodies for years. It never gets easier.

Photo credit: Leslie D. Rose; Location: South Baton Rouge

As news of the shooting death of Daunte Wright at the hands of Brooklyn Center, MN officer Kim Potter has dominated headlines this week, I found myself processing the specifics of yet another incident of state-sanctioned violence against a Black American the same way I’ve done for years: through a…