We turn our attention to Gulfport, Mississippi where on October 6th, 2022 police murdered 15 year old Jaheim McMillan in front of his four friends in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree Store. Activists are headed to Gulfport the first weekend in December, from across the country to demand the police release the footage of the shooting. We will be joined by Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Andrew Joseph, Jr is the father of Andrew Joseph III, who was killed after being struck by a vehicle after being improperly ejected by sheriff deputies from the Florida State Fair in 2014. Elayjiah Wooley, an activist from Oakland who founded Free My People – a social media platform to spread mass awareness about police brutality and racial discrimination for impacted communities. And Leo Carney is a freelance journalist in Mississippi, as well as an organizer with the ADOS foundation which uses data-driven advocacy to inform and affirm the need for a federal reparations program and a transformative Black agenda. We also hear from Jaheim McMillan’s aunt, Natasha Boyd, describing her nephew Jahiem.

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