George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Travyon Martin. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. Bet you know those names. If you’re my age or older, you remember Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo. What about Akai Curley? Daniel Prude? Ousmane Zongo? Shem Walker? Shereese Francis? Shantel Davis? Reynaldo Cuevas? Saheed Vassell? Maybe Danroy Henry Jr., Kenneth Chamberlain, Ramarley Graham, Tamon Robinson, Noel Palanco, Kimani Gray, Kyam LIvingston, Carlos Alcis, Barrington Williams and Deborah Danner don’t ring a bell. Every name on this list was Black, unarmed and killed by the police. Every name from Garner through Danner was killed by New York police.
On February 23, 2020, a month before Kentucky police killed Taylor, three months before Minnesota police suffocated Floyd, 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery went for a run under the Georgia sun.