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NEVER FORGET: Few months after this speech, Fred Hampton was brutally assassinated on his bed. He was hit with over 90+ bull€ts while his pregnant partner was beside him. This is how Black revolutions across the globe were destroyed

Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help. When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat. They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car. Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19. She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired. No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it. The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too. A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere. Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost. You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines? We went looking. The result is 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For—a collection of cases that deserve more than a paragraph in an archive. Start uncovering them here savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…