Mothers Of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice first appearance together
The mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice appeared together in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
The mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice appeared together in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
All four mothers expressed their beliefs that their sons would still be alive if they were white. Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, said, “I think absolutely my son’s race and the color of his skin had a lot to do with why he was shot and killed.”
Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, added, “If Eric Garner was a white man in Suffolk County doing the same thing that he was doing — even if he would have been caught selling cigarettes that day — they would have given him a summons and he wouldn’t have lost his life that day… I believe that 100 percent.”
Fulton added that white communities could not understand what communities of color were experiencing.
“It’s not happening to them, so they don’t quite get it… They don’t quite understand. They think that it’s a small group of African-Americans that’s complaining… The people say that all the time: ‘What are they complaining about now? What are they protesting about now?’Â Until it happens to them and in their family then they’ll understand the walk. They don’t understand what we’re going through. They don’t understand the life and they don’t understand what we’re fighting against. I don’t even think the government quite gets it.”
Martin was killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. Brown was shot by a Ferguson police officer, Garner died in a police chokehold by the NYPD, and Rice was shot by police in Cleveland. All were unarmed.
