Echo tree henry dumas6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() “Police said Dumas and an unidentified man were scuffling in the subway when the officer walked up to them and attempted to stop the fracas,” the paper reported. One account of the incident in which a transit officer shot and killed Dumas was printed in these pages. The killing of author/poet Henry Dumas, except for a few activists and concerned citizens in the city, practically went unnoticed. Of all the victims who can be counted among those slain by the police there was one in New York City almost 52 years ago to this month who did not have the advantage of social media or a video to show what happened. “I can’t breathe,” were the last desperate words uttered by Garner and Floyd. Most immediately we are reminded of Eric Garner’s death in 2014 when he, too, had his breath cut off, this time by an officer’s chokehold. It is easy to summon a list of Black men whose lives have been snuffed out by unwarranted violence by white police officers, a list that is provoked by the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis when an officer compressed his neck to the pavement for nearly ten minutes. ![]() ![]() Black Financial Health Open dropdown menu. ![]()
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