She said 'SAY THEIR NAMES!'
, who was declared brain dead after police placed him in a carotid hold and paramedics injected him with ketamine."I still don't think his name is very put out there compared to George Floyd or Breonna Taylor. For me, today was very special in the way that I wanted to represent him very well,"The 22-year-old athlete continued her streak of support on Friday night, when she won her third round playing against Ukrainian player Marta Kostyuk.
She wore a mask that bore the name of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old who died after being shot by two white men as he was going around for a jog."I would like everyone to know that it was completely avoidable — this did not have to happen," OsakaLast month, Osaka initially said that she didn't want to play herin protest of the"continued genocide of Black people at the hand of the police." She said,"Before I am a athlete, I am a black woman.
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