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.
You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines?
We went looking. The result is 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For—a collection of cases that deserve more than a paragraph in an archive.
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It is September 3, 2026. Here is your reminder that even though civil rights exist on paper, black people are still being lynched in Mississippi. Justice for Tasia Fortune and Robert Elliott.
This is Tasia Fortune, a beautiful young Black woman who was found in Jackson, MS hanging in a tree, so high up, the fire department had to use their aerial ladder to retrieve her. We need a full, transparent, independent investigation. Justice isn't political, its a human right.
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here.
This girl at work asked if I had any extra sanitary pads, then had the nerve to look at me sideways when I handed her these. 😒 I snatched my shit back so fast. 💀
He was burning alive, yet he kept re-entering the burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle until all six soldiers and the Iraqi interpreter were safe. Burns covered 72% of his body. His first words were, ‘How are my boys?’ He died three weeks later. It took 16 years for him to receive the Medal of Honor. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE, NEVER FORGET!!!
kind little reminder that his family is trying to keep his legacy alive with the cameron boyce foundation whilst also trying to raise more awareness about SUDEP. (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy). and is something that should also be shared!!!!