Your ‘good’ Black friend can be the next Breonna, Botham, Elijah, etc.

Elijah McClain. Photo courtesy of CNN.

Five years ago, after a police officer in Charleston, S.C., killed Walter Scott, I spoke with several peers about the likelihood of Black men getting killed by police.

Those conversations went something like this:

Me: “Police kill Black men all the time. It really doesn’t matter who you are or what you do. If you’re…