In the days after the first wave of anti-police brutality protests following George Floyd’s death, Justine “Justice” Shorter wanted to join fellow protesters on the streets. Due to her vision impairment, she didn’t feel safe enough to go alone.
She said “with [so] much police aggression [at the protests], and not having any assistance or anybody who I can connect with [to] give me situational awareness about what was going on around me, cause you never know what kind of environment the police were going to foster with their behavior,” she couldn't go.
But Justine’s presence in the movement is important — particularly because disability is so often left out of police brutality narratives.
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