From Grey’s Anatomy: Season 14 Episode 10: ‘Personal Jesus’ (14×10)
Officer: It was a high-pressure situation. An officer made a judgment call.
Jackson Avery: No. There's no judgment in that call. That was just a reaction. You see skin color. We all do. But the reaction that you give to a white kid versus a brown kid in that split second? That's the measurable, fixable difference. Bias is human. You have guns. You're using guns. So yours is lethal.
Other officer: We aren't racist. We just never know who has a gun.
Jackson Avery: I didn't say anything about racist. I said biased. And lucky for us, bias is fixable. You have protocols in place. Those can be adjusted. You can fix it. Or you can keep pretending that it doesn't exist at all. Kids are dying. This kid is dead. For what? So many people that look just like him are dying. For what?
From Grey’s Anatomy: Season 14 Episode 10: ‘Personal Jesus’ (14×10)
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