Grip (Grip, #1)

by Kennedy Ryan

I’m the only black man in the room. As much as I love Rhyson, as close as we are, I’m not sure he can understand the indignity of being stopped for no reason by cops on the regular. Being forced to lie on the ground and get searched without explanation. Targeted. Profiled. Made to feel second-class. It isn’t his experience, but all my life in my neighborhood, it was mine.

And I know all cops aren’t bad, but it’s the damn system. I can’t even call it broken because it’s functioning exactly how it was designed to - profiling us, prosecuting us for shit other people get away with, scot free.”