No Family Fights Alone.

Who We Are.

The Racial Justice Police Misconduct Clinic (RJPMC) is a statewide, Black-led legal advocacy and civil rights clinic rooted in the lived experiences of families impacted by police violence. Co-founded by Nickeia Hunter—activist, organizer, and sister of Carlos Hunter, who was killed by police—RJPMC was born from grief, but built with purpose: to provide legal support, investigative guidance, and advocacy for families left behind by systemic injustice.

We are a first-of-its-kind initiative in Washington state, designed not only to respond to injustice but to prevent it—through legal access, truth-telling, and unrelenting community advocacy.

Every family we serve is a reminder that police misconduct is not just a policy issue—it’s personal, generational, and deeply racialized. We exist because the justice system too often fails the very people it claims to protect. We step in where the state steps back. We fight where silence is demanded. And we hold the line, even when it costs us everything.

We fight—
because no mother should ever have to understand
why her child isn’t coming home.

We fight—
when the silence is louder than the gunshots,
and justice is just another word twisted
by the weight of a badge and the lie of protocol.

We fight—
when the only thing they offer grieving families
is a closed file and a press release.

We fight—
because they call it justified
if the trigger wore a uniform,
if the lie passed policy review,
if the suit they wore
was stitched in immunity and status quo.

We fight—
because “procedure”
should never be the reason a father bleeds out in the
street,
or a sister stands at a podium
trying to explain humanity to lawmakers.

We fight—
when laws protect the killer
but shame the slain.

When the standards of care
only exist on paper,
not in the moments
when our loved ones beg to breathe.

We fight—
because families deserve more
than a funeral and a folder.

Because someone must tell the truth
when the state scrubs it clean.

Because behind every name on a banner,
is a legacy—
a child, a parent, a dream
that deserved to live.

We fight—
because no one else will.

And we won’t stop
until policy becomes people-centered,
until law means life—not loss,
until no family stands alone
at the grave of another stolen soul.

Our Why? –
Impacted
Families

We fight because our loved ones can no longer speak for themselves.

We fight because no badge should silence the truth or shield injustice.

We are mothers, fathers, sisters, aunts, cousins—each of us tied together by a tragedy that should never have happened.

Each of us knows the pain of hearing “officer-involved” and realizing it meant life stolen, not saved.

We fight:

  • So no parent dies holding their child.
  • So mental health isn’t met with deadly force.
  • So welfare checks don’t leave families shattered.
  • So our tools, our bodies, our confusion, our pasts are not used as justifications for execution.
  • So we can raise our children, cheer for them, protect them—and not have to bury them.

We are not activists by choice.

We are grief turned into fire.

We are the resistance born from the ashes of loved ones we’ll never hold again.

This is our why

So that no other family has to walk the road we walk.
 So that justice becomes more than a dream deferred.
 So that policies change, laws are reformed, and lives are spared—not stolen.

We are the Racial Justice and Police Misconduct Center.

We stand united, not because we wanted to—but because we had no other choice.

Until the system changes…

Until accountability is real…

Until justice is not a gamble for the poor, Black, brown, Indigenous, mentally ill, or marginalized…

We will not rest. We will not be silent. We will not stop.