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Demonstrators and police clash outside APD headquarters during the May 30-31 protests against police brutality last summer (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
Editor s note: This story has been updated since publication with new information concerning the shooting of Justin Howell. I don t mind talking about how it s affecting me, I don t mind talking about the surgeries I ve been through. But running through the actual memory of being shot, and right after being shot – that s really difficult.
There s a lot that Sam Kirsch would rather talk about. The origins of policing, the evolution of the civil rights movement – anything other than what happened on May 31, 2020. But Kirsch knows his story will bring attention to the Black Lives Matter movement, to the violence against Black and brown citizens that he believes is an inseparable part of police culture. He feels he has to tell it.