Because I don’t understand why you’re here, and I don’t know what this is about,’” Nelda told the Guardian. By the time they looked up, Fort Worth police had already broken through their iron gate and were storming the front door, guns drawn. “We simply don’t know why the Fort Worth police department got things so terribly wrong. “We certainly contend that this was not a product of an individual’s behavior, but rather the product of systemic, structural and institutional racism,” Van Wey said. Almost a decade ago, Fort Worth officer Jon Romer fatally shot disabled father Charal “Ra Ra” Thomas as Thomas’s children watched.

Source: The Guardian December 08, 2020 06:56 UTC