It is an understatement to say that the past few weeks have felt like an out of body experience. We, as people from the Black community, are accustomed to police brutality and racial discrimination throughout all the systems that govern us in our society. However, to be senselessly killed in the midst of a global pandemic is beyond anything any of us could have imagined. We are taking a moment of silence to recognize the Black and Indigenous lives lost at the hands of police and racist institutions.