Police terrorism has made the melanin human personality its prey for hunting season: an imbibed premeditative posture of bigotry has fueled the grotesque prematurity of black lives by officers who have disregarded their oath to protect and serve the public.

Sonya, in the waning seconds of her demise, made an emotive appeal to a theological deity, yet that sound note did not yield a semblance of compassion. The proverbial guillotine wielded by the men in blue has been used incessantly and indiscriminately toward the genocide of black lives.

To the body politic that exclaims race is solely a fudge factor in incidents of police brutality—a re-examination of such an immoral conscience is merited.

Sonya lived in anonymity, but her death by police terrorism raised her public profile posthumously—warranting sympathy from persons of goodwill.