I won’t be silent over police violence - Serena

Serena Williams has voiced her fears about police violence, writing on Facebook: “I won’t be silent.”

The US tennis star posted that she found herself feeling wary of law enforcement during a recent journey with her teenage nephew.

Williams said that when they drove by a patrol car she remembered a woman whose boyfriend was fatally shot by police.

She is the latest athlete to speak out about friction between law enforcement and the black community in the US.

Williams quoted Martin Luther King Jr, writing: “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

She added: “I Won’t Be Silent”.

Williams spoke out amid a wave of anti-police brutality sporting protests in the US, triggered after San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem.

Some 214 black people have been killed by US police this year out of a total of 821 people, according to Black Lives Matter monitoring group, Mapping Police Violence.

Credit: BBC