The co-founder of Def Jam Recordings is planning to bring about change for the African American community, he said on CNN's "Out Front with Erin Burnett" on Monday night, warning that there will be more protests coming if "demands" are not met.
Taking on a more serious role than creating cool beats, Russell Simmons said the United States will be seeing the beginning of the end of police policing the police, Real Clear Politics reported.
"On Wednesday, we are going to ask for those indictments and a list of other achievable demands," he told CNN's Erin Burnett, referring to high-profile celebrities and athletes that share similar beliefs. "There will be a list of demands, a lot of thoughtful - thought leaders who are activists, who are visible in the streets today, and they are doing an excellent job. And there are conscious athletes like LeBron [James] who I campaigned with for the president when he was only a junior in college. So, he has always been aware of the power of his celebrity."
When Burnett questioned, "You don't feel defeated that has happened again and again and again?" Simmons responded, "We're going to get indictments now because America hasn't seen what's coming."
"When people understand the injustice properly, the way these protesters understand it, they're all going to fight for justice, and that's going to change this system."
The 57-year-old also equated the lack of indictments against officers in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases to a superhuman catastrophe hitting African Americans, according to True Revolt.
"Over 150,000 cases were brought before the grand Jury and only 11 cases didn't come back with indictments," he continued. "It's like lightening striking the black community over and over and over again."
Special oversight committees should be employed to look over the police instead of leaving it to the DAs, explained Simmons.
"So this injustice, and others that have been happening around the country, underneath the public radar, this is something that we can correct, and we will correct it," he said.
"So we have demands, of course police sensitivity training is important, of course we have results that when you wear a camera, 95 percent of the incidents go away, so police should have cameras, and of course we know that police should not police themselves. And we know certain things, simple demands that we are going to achieve results on."
"You haven't seen young people like this in two generations, and they haven't begun. We're going to get indictments, because America hasn't seen what's coming," he concluded.
Meanwhile, there are federal investigations underway into the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson altercation in Ferguson, Mo., and the Eric Garner/Daniel Panteleo in Staten Island, N.Y.
