The sound of rubber bullets being deployed a block away were very much evident from the Black Lives Matter protest gone violent Saturday afternoon.
The same Melrose and Fairfax I had just watched a man pull a gun out on a passing car to unload a round of bullets into, me ducking behind a thin tree and saying a silent prayer that a stray bullet doesn’t find its way towards my body.
It was almost reflective of the nonviolent rallies organized by Black Lives Matter in its infancy, a direct call-to-action response to the slaying of unarmed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black boy killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February 2012.
They write, “Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 Black men can expect to be killed by police.”
Lives had been lost during protests, CNN reporting a 21-year-old man was shot in Detroit Friday.
