“It’s very hard to relive the death of your child each and every time,” Wanda Johnson told BuzzFeed News.
Members of the Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant hold a demonstration in downtown Los Angeles in 2010.
Grant’s killing on New Year’s Day 2009, like Floyd’s, followed a series of troubling police decisions. Grant was tackled to the ground while being arrested for allegedly obstructing officers, though video footage showed he had put up little resistance. The officer who fired a bullet into his back did so even though the second officer had him pinned. Later, at trial, the shooter said he had meant to use his Taser, not his pistol., was one of the first to be captured on cellphone video.
She tells them she is willing to do whatever she can to help. She hugs them. She prays for them. And she gives them a piece of advice: to focus on processing the death of their loved one before advocating for justice to be doled out.Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, left, speaks next to Rev. Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, at the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2019.
The fatal shooting was captured on cellphone videos taken by several witnesses. Moments before, a passenger is heard yelling “Let him go!”“It’s very hard to relive the death of your child each and every time,” Johnson said, describing the experience of seeing a video that’s constantly on television news and social media. “It opens up the very heart that has been broken, that’s been hurt so badly and unnecessarily.
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