Mothers of the Movement is used to describe Black Mothers who lost children to gun violence
The gun violence comes from within the community and from the police.
The mothers tell stories of the difficulty of forming bonds with the police department
Investment in the community is a priority
Some support defunding the police to reinvest in the community
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The priorities of some people concerned about racist violence at the hands of the police those who want to reduce the presence of officers are often framed as being in tension with those of Black people who want their communities to be safer. That’s simply not true. It’s a misconception that exists in part because we don’t hear enough from those who are touched by both components of the crisis and lead the fight against it. So over the past eight months, I asked Black mothers across the country who are the true experts on the issue to tell me about the gun violence that has shaped their lives.
Black Mothers Are the Real Experts on the Toll of Gun Violence By Arionne Nettles
Ms. Nettles is a lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the mother of a 14-year-old son.
241 I recently had a tall privacy fence installed around my house in Chicago. My 14-year-old son has autism. Maybe the barrier will prevent him from wandering away from home and being chased down and shot by police, asRicardo Hayes was, I thought. Maybe it will protect him from being struck by a stray bullet as Hadiya Pendleton was. I’m far from the only Black mother here who is worried that a gun could end her child’s life. Chicago, along withseveral big cities across the country, has seen a rise in gun violence perpetrated by both civilians and police officers since January of last year. In one especially alarming spree last summer, Chicago police officersshot five people in just two months. And shootings and murders in the city were up more than 50 percent overal
Andrew Brown Jr. was shot 5 times by North Carolina deputies, autopsy shows
An independent autopsy conducted by Brown s family found four wounds to the right arm and one to the head
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Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina, was shot five times, including in the back of the head, according to an independent autopsy report released Tuesday by his family’s attorneys.
Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., Wayne Kendall, left, and Ben Crump hold a news conference Tuesday, April 27, 2021 outside the Pasquotank County Public safety building in Elizabeth City, N.C., to announce results of the autopsy they commissioned. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)