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There is a point where language feels inadequate or where language is exhausted, when there is nothing more to be said about this national disgrace. I wonder if I will ever stop worrying about my Black father, my Black brothers, my Black nieces and nephew, or even myself. There is always another Black life lost under unfathomably tragic circumstances.Įach time I write about a life taken too soon and so callously, I wonder how much longer I will have to participate in this merciless cycle of raging against and mourning and lamenting the fragility of Black life. There is always a new name to add to the list.
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I have written about many of the Black people who have lost their lives to police brutality and the ills of white supremacy. Reinhold is one in a long line of Black people who were not granted dignity or due process. He was vulnerable and he was not afforded the compassion or protection he deserved. In the end, his humanity was a death sentence. He was human, in the wrong place at the wrong time where everywhere is the wrong place and every hour of every day is the wrong time. At the time of his passing, he was in and out of homelessness and suffering from mental illness. It is important to be clear about this kind of atrocity, to use language plainly and directly, to place culpability where it belongs-in the bloodied hands of people who were supposed to serve and protect. And by that, I mean he was murdered by two police officers whose greatest fears are, seemingly, embodied by Blackness. As is all too often the case when Black people deal with law enforcement, Reinhold did not survive what should have been a routine encounter.
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On September 23 rd, 2020, Kurt Reinhold was stopped by police for jaywalking in San Clemente, California.