April Pipkins holding a picture of her murdered son, Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr.

When Cops Shoot to Kill, Blackness Is The Deadly Incentive

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readDec 6, 2018

It’s abundantly clear that the fundamentals of police brutality is regulated to the direness of being unarmed and Black.

Eric Garner who was murdered by the strong chokehold of lawless cops wasn’t wielding a gun. And Chinedu Okobi wasn’t brandishing a weapon when he was callously killed by a Taser, that was illegally turned it into a lethal weapon — aimed at the…

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