Say Their Names

Abstract

A list of names of the most famous and recent cases of Black deaths by the police will be listed and some of those cases will be fleshed out. Overall, this chapter focuses on the myriad of cases of police brutality that have led to brutal rapes and deaths in the United States amongst the African American population. It will primarily focus on cases such as those of George Floyd, which was one of the most recent cases that was finally successfully adjudicated; Amadou Diallo, i.e., a personal case that I assisted on, et al. The resolve of this chapter is to remember the wounded and the fallen. Like war, many African Americans feel like they live within a battlefield. For many of the names that will be listed, they were merely minding their own buisness doing the everyday activities that go unnoticed.