Tamir Rice was playing with a toy gun in a park when Officer Timothy Loehmann, who’d previously been deemed emotionally unstable and unfit for duty, gunned him down. Tamir was 12.
#TamirRice
Philando Castile told Officer Jeronimo Yanez that he was licensed and carrying a registered handgun. He was shot seven times. The 4-year old girl in the backseat pleaded with her mother Diamond Reynolds to stop screaming. “Mama I don’t want you to get shooted.” Philando was 32.
Breonna Taylor was in her home when officers burst through her door on a no-knock warrant with a battering ram seeking two suspects already in police custody. She was shot eight times. Breonna was 26.
#BreonnaTaylor
As a black woman and mother of 6, I grieve for them and for their families. Not just on the day they died. Not just on the day George Floyd was murdered. But every day.
Every single day…
Today I ask you to mourn with me, to pray with me. And to stand with me in Washington DC against the oppression of black America.
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