Rashad Turner Had Wanted To Be A Cop. He Founded A Black Lives Matter Chapter Instead
The St. Paul, Minn., native trained to be a police officer — because he wanted to help. To him, the cops were the good guys. But what once felt like a calling to wear a badge ended long ago.
Growing up in St. Paul, Minn., Rashad Turner remembers playing cops and robbers.
It was always a given which side he'd choose.
"We'd ride our bikes," he says. "I'd always be the cop."
He always knew. It was that way for years.
He trained for it. He got a bachelor's in criminal justice. He enrolled in the police academy. All because he wanted to help.
To him, the cops were the good guys.
Turner is 35 now. When he was two years old, a man shot and killed his father in an alley during a dispute. No one should lose a parent that way, he thought. And policing was one way to protect a community.
"I had this idea of
