Before Kohen Wiley was shot, his mother lifted him up so police officers could see there was a child in the car.
The recent cases of Karmelo Anthony and Cyrus Carmack-Belton feel like a get-back or a snapback, backlash that has been waiting underneath the Black Lives Matter movement.
Once again, the legal system has reminded Black America that our children can be murdered in the marketplace and their killers can be afforded reasonable doubt.
Monday, Rick Chow, the man who fatally shot 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton, was found not guilty of murder by a South Carolina jury.
The family of Cyrus Carmack-Belton expressed deep sorrow after a jury found the defendant Chikei Rick Chow not guilty for his 2023 shooting.
On Monday, a jury found 61-year-old Chikei Rick Chow not guilty of murdering Cyrus Carmack-Belton, who was accused of stealing water from the Shell gas station Chow owns
The Black boy, 14, was killed by a store owner in South Carolina.
Cyrus Carmack-Belton’s murder by Rich Chow draws attention to the worst stereotypes among Black and Asian relations.