Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help.
When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat.
They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car.
Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19.
She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired.
No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it.
The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too.
A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere.
Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost.
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It’s always a blessing to see something created 29 years ago reach so many other generations later & doing the body movement😂 I love it! That’s a IMPACT🔥
En EEUU, un racista contrató a unos trabajadores latinos para que le cercaran su patio con costosas vallas de madera... pero cuando terminaron el trabajo, llamó a ICE para que les deportaran y ahorrarse pagarles.
Sin embargo, no salió como el racista esperaba, los trabajadores eran legales, volvieron a su casa y le arrancaron valla por valla de madera en su cara, deshaciendo el trabajo. Puro karma.
while decorating her granny’s grave when a young man rode by on a bicycle to visit someone he had lost. As she walked toward the trash can with the old flowers, he stopped and asked if he could have them. Her heart just couldn’t allow her to dig through the trash and give him someone else’s old flowers, so she gave him fresh flowers instead.
May God bless her kind heart abundantly.
Student athlete who plays football, basketball & runs track and field shows off her accomplishments, says she’ll be getting NIL deals soon too. 👀😳🥇