This comes as tennis superstar Serena Williams has also spoken out about police brutality. In a Facebook post, she describes riding in the car recently with her 18-year-old nephew, who was driving. When she spotted a police officer, she remembered the video of the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, which was filmed by his girlfriend, Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds, in which she narrated the aftermath of the shooting while she was still in the car, with a police officer pointing a gun at her and her four-year-old daughter as her boyfriend lay dying next to her. Serena Williams wrote: “I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all 'the others'. … I won’t be silent.”
“I Won’t Be Silent”: Serena Williams on Police Killings of African Americans
HeadlineSep 28, 2016