Calls for justice in the
death of a Black man who was pinned to the ground during a struggle with security guards
at a Milwaukee hotel are growing as thousands of GOP supporters and protesters are expected to gather in the city for the Republican National Convention.
D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death on June 30
has become the most recent flashpoint in how the nation confronts race
and what some see as the systemic brutality of Black people by members of law enforcement
or others in authority,
four years after the May 2020 killing of #George #Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
The outcry comes as Milwaukee is already dealing with heightened security concerns around political protests
days before the July 15 start of the Republican convention.
“Just because they have a big event coming up in Milwaukee,
the killing of D’Vontaye Mitchell is just as important as anything else that’s going to happen in Milwaukee this month,” noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump told reporters Monday.
#DVontayeMitchell
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