On February 10th, BIPOC and queer skate collective FroSkate held a candlelight vigil at Grant Skate Park in honor of Tyre Nichols and other victims of police brutality. | ✍️ Ejun Kim
, the city’s first skate collective centering BIPOC skaters of trans, gender nonconforming, womxn, and queer communities, hosted the vigil at sunset to honor Nichols. He was a 29-year-old Black man who died three days after being beaten by Memphis police in a traffic stop in early January. According to, Nichols went to Shelby Farms, a park just east of Memphis, almost every day to watch the sunset.
“Once we found out Tyre Nichols was murdered, we were, of course, distraught,” said Thornton. “But once we heard he was part of our skateboarding community, we were hurt on a whole nother level because this feels like losing a family member. We felt like doing something in his honor, as we would for anyone else in the community.”As attendee Blake Davis performed a rendition of Sam Cooke’s “It’s Been a Long Time,” the crowd swayed together in solace. Damon A.
“The only way we can make more freedom is to live and embody freedom,” he said through the megaphone. “Write your poems and sing your songs. But don’t do them alone. Know that you are not an individual—you are part of a collective experience, and we are trying to create this new world.”Credit: DuWayne Padilla for Chicago Reader
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