Omaha Lincoln People’s Archive

Interviewee: (00:00) But um, I was driving, I’d just gotten my license, my dad had just put the finishing touches on my new used car, my 1983 Regal Limited. And it was at night, and I cannot remember if I was deriving myself home from work or what the circumstances were as far as where I […]

Interviewee A: When my children were little, I told them very simply, if we get pulled over you stay very still. You don’t come from a background that’s wealthy enough for you not to get killed in the car seat. Don’t fucking move or talk. Interviewer: Have you ever had, like, a negative experience with

I learned to hate the pigs when I was a 16 year old girl. I was a high school student at Bellevue West. A Bellevue Police Department officer pulled me over one day on my way back home at about 36th and Cornhusker for speeding. I was speeding because I was late for dinner, I

Me and my mother drove by and I shouted out the back seat driver side window Fuck Jake Gardner. We drove by twice with me repeating Fuck Jake Gardner. Then the police came after us after the second time. They pulled us over and it was not one car it was 3+police cars and they

I was was sitting at the entrance of Target on 72nd st, my mother was standing there by me when police shot 7 tear gas canisters toward case street then moved up the side walk towards me and my mom. When they reached us the police began to kick me to make me get up,

Attending protests for the murder of Kenneth Jones by the Omaha Police Department. I arrived at the OPD Headquarters shortly after 6pm, and only a few protesters were gathered. Over the next few hours, this number increased to ~100 people. We chanted demands for the OPD to release the body cam footage of Kenneth Jones’