"If I'm a cop and every time I see a young black youth, whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out, and they're not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day – things that a man does, you're going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. I think that's another big issue we gotta pay attention to. Is the image that we portray that could invoke a fear into a white officer, or any officer."

RZA added that the image issue works both ways, saying, "Now that there's been so much police brutality, a lot of the young people are scared of the cops."

RZA told Bloomberg, "Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rza-on-black-lives-matter-image-we-portray-could-invoke-police-fear-20160108