“Nothing has gotten better” since the shattering summer of 2014, says Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden-Head, as she and Gwen Carr push for police reform while keeping the memories of their sons alive.
It was on July 17, 2014, that Garner gasped for breath on a Staten Island sidewalk, his agony for air choked by the weight of a white policeman’s arm, swallowed by the pavement, all for selling loose cigarettes. His final plea, “I can’t breathe,” rumbled through the canyons of history. Not long after, on August 9, Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, lay sprawled on a Ferguson street, shot and killed by a white police officer in broad daylight after a convenience store’s call about stolen cigarillos.
At what point is enough enough? At what point will parity prevail? There have been plenty of platitudes and empty promises in the 10 years since. Or, as McSpadden-Head put it, “conversations but no actions.” There have been families forced to go to bed every night—even now—with unanswered questions. With an indescribable pain that words can never ever encapsulate.
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