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4. This is a very hard read. My heart is pounding.
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 04:50 PM
Dec 2018

I know the beginning of what he's going through because of my brother's 5-year ordeal with repeated police brutality in front of his children, repeated forced entry into his home, false incarceration all because of no longer allowing parking of a principal at a school across the street at the house he just bought. Principal made good on his promise to sic his best friend, a police chief, on him. It was horrifying not knowing if he'd end up dead in prison due to being jumped by white supremacists they sicked on him, too.

I can't tell you of the devastating aftermath and disruption of his family let our parents and his siblings. Recovery will take the rest of our lives and McKelvey's life, too, even if his ordeal goes no further. But Thank Goodness McKelvey is alive and gaining support. Those are the first blessings because where there's life he can fight with everything he's got. What the racists hate is a light shined down on them like fucking roaches.

Thanks for the alert, irisblue.

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