Charles L. Brown, Jr. is a Baltimore, MD native who is the founding pastor of Family of Faith African Methodist Episcopal Church, in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and co-founder of The Virgin Islands Alliance for Consumer Justice. Before engaging in consumer advocacy and public policy in the territory, he served as Capitol Hill legislative staff for members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and afterwards as a lobbyist for a national, non-profit called Teach For America. From Scapegoats to Lambs, How God’s Word Speaks to George Floyd’s Murder is my seminal offering to the world that police brutality of marginalized people has roots that go all the way back to the bible, and that we would be wise to recognize and value the insights the biblical text affords us, as opposed to staying fixated on passing legislation alone. He has been an ordained minister in the A.M.E. Church for over 30 years, and after sitting in multiple graduate courses under Dr. Cornel West while matriculating in seminary, he became relentlessly passionate about the nexus between faith and social justice.