By Michael Nam
Accounts of police killing unarmed Black people are still making headlines since the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The latest stories involve Rekia Boyd, shot and killed in Chicago, and Freddie Gray, a man who died from a mysterious injury allegedly received while in Baltimore Police custody. Each incident seems more shocking than the last, at least to those who are notBlack.
Rekia Boyd was shot in the back of the head by Chicago police Detective Dante Servin when he discharged his weapon five times claiming he thought one of the members of Rekia’s group, Antonio Cross, had pulled a gun. Police found only his cell phone, and Cross himself was grazed by a bullet.
