The truth about liberation is that it is all connected. When I think about the movement taking place in Nigeria, it reminds me of the protests across America against police brutality on Black lives. I recall being out in the streets, protesting just like Nigerian youth for a better world, a world where people will never die at the hands of the police, a world where young people don’t have to live in fear of the state. (which might just be the understatement of the year),Keegan Allen He was charged with first-degree murder. St Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson ruled that there wasn't sufficient evidence to prove the death was a murder. Stockley was suspended from the police force in 2013 for possession of an AK-47 pistol at work.Related: She has told me how they detained her for an entire day. It was not until my mother told the officers that she was a United States citizen that she was finally set free. Unlike my mother, most Nigerians do not have this luxury and yet almost every family in Nigeria has a story of police brutality. It’s a reality that transcends generations, a tale that has persisted throughout time.