US: Tearful 9-year-old girl delivers speech as another black man is shot dead
As a nine-year-old black girl tearfully pleaded for respect for her community in North Carolina, another black man was killed by police, this time in California on Tuesday
As a nine-year-old black girl tearfully pleaded for respect for her community in North Carolina, another black man was killed by police, this time in California on Tuesday.
“It’s a shame that our fathers and brothers are killed and we can’t see them anymore,” Zianna Oliphant told Charlotte city council.
“It’s a shame that we have to go through that graveyard and bury him. We need our fathers and brothers to be by our side.”
“I feel like that we are treated differently than other people. I don’t like how we’re treated. Just because of our color doesn’t mean anything to me,” she said in a short speech, videos of which have gone viral on the net.
“We are black people, and we shouldn’t have to feel like this. We shouldn’t have to protest because y’all are treating us wrong. We do this because we need to and have rights.”
Her father, Keith Scott, was killed last week.
That was the second fatal shooting of a black man by the police that week — the first was Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Florida.
And now, Alfred Olango, 30, who was shot dead by police Tuesday afternoon in El Cajon, California.
The police said they found him behaving “erratically”.
A woman who identified herself as his sister has said, according to local media reports, he was mentally disabled and she had called the police for help.
That’s three black men killed by police in a matter of days.
According to an ongoing investigation by The Guardian newspaper, black people are killed by the police at twice the rate of white people, and are twice more likely to have been unarmed.