On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime nearly 67 years after 14-year-old Emmett was killed in Mississippi.
Valerie Castile is now an advocate against police brutality after her son, Philando Castile, was shot and killed by a police officer."When something happens to your baby that's so wrong on so many levels — this young man did everything right. I have never had to defend him until they killed him. When they were saying that he caused his own death, that's just so far from the truth."I'm a God-fearing woman, and I believe in God and that he is in control of all things.
"I like to be included in different things to keep my son alive. He was a great, spirited man and he suffered a horrific fate. He was murdered for simply being honest and telling the truth. Where do we go from here, when your honesty, your integrity and dignity is at the forefront and you're still murdered? So I'm trying so hard to work on legislation to try to figure out how we can reform the police.
"We're definitely fighting a spiritual war, because we've done everything else humanly possible — we've sat at the table; we've asked; we've pleaded; we've begged, but our children are still killed, whether it's behind a wheel of a car, in their homes in a bed, or out at a store shopping."Burgest's son, Craig Williams, was shot and killed when he stopped at a store to buy gum on December 28, 2013.
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