Secoriea Turner is an 8-year-old Atlanta girl who was shot and killed as she sat inside a car near the Wendy’s parking lot that has been the subject of unrest since the death of Rayshard Brooks in a police shooting.
The child’s death shifted the ma…
Secoriea Turner is an 8-year-old Atlanta girl who was shot and killed as she sat inside a car near the Wendy’s parking lot that has been the subject of unrest since the death of Rayshard Brooks in a police shooting.
The child’s death shifted the mayor’s narrative from focus on the police to focus on community violence. At least five other children were also shot and killed across the United States in recent days.
“I want to see the same anger and outrage,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in a press conference. Bottoms has been mentioned repeatedly as a possible vice presidential choice for Democrat Joe Biden. “I want to see it on behalf of Secoriea, and all of the other children who are getting shot in our streets. There’s a lot of change that has to happen across this country, and police reform is a big part of it, but we also have to reform our own community. An 8-year-old girl was killed last night because her mother was riding down the street.”
The child’s distraught parents were at the heartbreaking press conference in which her mother broke down emotionally.
“They say Black Lives Matter,” the girl’s father, Secoriya Williamson, said in the news conference. “You killed your own. You killed your own this time just because of a barrier. They killed my baby because she crossed a barrier and made a U turn. You killed a child. She didn’t do nothing to nobody. You killed an 8-year-old child. She didn’t do anything to any one of you all. She just wanted to get home to see her cousins. That’s all she wanted to do.”
The suspects are at large, and their identities are not yet publicly known.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
