Race, sport and “Criminal Just-US” became intertwined when two of the early victims who helped give Black Lives Matter its social context were unarmed Black athletes shot and killed by White policemen. In 2013, Jonathan Ferrell, an ex-football player for Florida A&M, was shot to death after he crashed his car in a predominantly White community in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ferrell, seeing a laser light on his chest, tried to dodge the shot and r…
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