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Monday, June 6th, 2022

‘We cannot trust you’: 13-year-old activist delivers kind of message police should be listening to

Author:     Lauren Sue
Source:     Daily Kos
Publication Date:     Wednesday June 01, 2022 | 2:39 PM PDT
 Link: ‘We cannot trust you’: 13-year-old activist delivers kind of message police should be listening to
Stephan:   If I were a Black, Brown, or Asian teenager, particularly if I lived in a lower-income neighborhood, this is exactly how I would feel and think. American police and sheriffs all too frequently are neither serving nor protecting, as the Uvalde, Texas made glaringly clear.
Naiara Tamminga, 13, accuses the city commission in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of being “accomplices to a murder” after police killed 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop on April 4.

A 13-year-old girl gave a speech during a local city commission meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that just had to have made her parents’ hearts swell with pride. Long tired of city leaders sitting on their hands following the deadly police shooting of Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in April, Naiara Tamminga called city commissioners “accomplices” to murder during a meeting on May 17. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Lyoya’s family and has been a fierce advocate for the public release of video in the shooting, tweeted video of Naiara’s speech on Wednesday. 

Read the Full Transcript of Naiara’s speech:

“My name is Naiara Taminga. I am 13 years old. I’ve lived in Grand Rapids almost my whole life. I’m gonna say it again. I’m 13 years old. All of you are adults. Adults, right. You can drive, you can drink, you can vote. I don’t […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 4:17 pm

    We are all part of one race – the Human race. There is no difference between us and we are all inter-connected and depend upon each other and the Earth which we must protect together. Together we stand, divided we FALL.