Native people killed by a police officer in the last 8 weeks: Corey Kanosh (Paiute), Myles Roughsurface (Navajo), Christina Tahhahwah (Comanche), Allen Locke (Lakota), and now the currently unnamed 17yo Hupa boy shot by CHP this week (his name has not been released to the public yet). Praying for justice.
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can you imagine? your teenage son killed on christmas eve? shot and left bleeding for 3 hours outside a gas station literally bc he allegedly matched the description of a burglar? in 2014?
i feel immense anguish and empathy for antonio martin’s family and also cannot even begin to fathom what his mother is going through right now. white supremacy is simply so pervasive that this sort of reality is something i will never be forced to encounter
okay if you believe the police account, even for a second, just think
1. why would a teenager pull a gun on a police officer
2. why would a black teenager pull a gun on a police officer
3. why would a black teenager in st. louis county pull a gun on a police officer
it’s been reported by multiple folks on the scene of Antonio Martin’s shooting that police left him to die without getting medical assistance, he could have survived had they made the effort. so not only was he 18 and unarmed, even when they made the exaggerated move of taking him down for whatever reason and he was helpless on the ground no longer posing a threat to em (if there even was a threat) they left him to die.
