As Americans face a reckoning over the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others, Atatiana Jefferson's three siblings want to remind America that amid its demands for justice in police killings, protesters should not forget their sister.
Nine months after seeing a policeman gun down his aunt, Atatiana Jefferson, in her Fort Worth, Texas, home, 8-year-old Zion Carr is"doing," his mother says.
Police release censored footage of Fort Worth shooting 02:13"I can't sit in my house and play video games. I can't go out and run for a jog. I fell asleep at Wendy's in my car, and now I'm losing my life. These are crazy things. I can't walk from the store -- Elijah McClain -- and I'm telling you, he's literally telling you he's an introvert," she said."We're literally just doing normal, everyday things and you can still be killed.
Victim's brother: I'm speechless about this 02:05Adarius, 32, loved playing video games with his little sister. Role-playing, fighting games -- nothing was off limits. As kids, they'd play all night and be bushed when it came time to go to school, he said. The memory brings a bright smile to his face. The last time the Navy chief petty officer came home from deployment, he and Jefferson played Warframe for four days --"all night giggling, laughing, telling jokes.
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