March 6, 2018 Hello ,
This week the world remembered Civil Rights Crusader Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.
One of the largest ceremonies honoring King took place in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was gunned down while supporting striking sanitation workers.
Meanwhile, in a North Memphis neighborhood, people gathered at a corner convenience store to protest the shooting of a 17-year-old boy. Dorian Harris, allegedly stole an 89-cent wine cooler from Top Stop Shop and was shot by a store clerk as he ran away.
The clerk never called 911, and Harris’s body laid outside in a Memphis yard for two days before it was called in.
Authorities say Dorian had been shot in the thigh and his body was discovered in
the back yard of a house near the store.
At the protest, Dorian's grandmother, Effie Peete Fitch said believes that it the clerk had reported the shooting her grandson might have survived the leg wound.
She said Dorian was well-liked and often looked for yard work in the neighborhood, even doing
odd jobs at the convenience store where the shooting happened.
"It's just really disheartening," said protester Dominique Carpenter said. "Stealing is wrong, yes. Should he be punished? Yes. But it didn't
warrant death. That's why I'm out here."
This event where Memphis police arrested several protesters the same week they took their noisy motorcycles on parade during a moment of silence in memory of King blows the mind and breaks the heart.
The store clerk has been arrested and charged with first degree murder after admitting he shot at the boy several times.
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