Michigan State University professor LaShawn Harris was just 10 years old when Eleanor Bumpurs was fatally shot by a white NYPD officer in her Bronx apartment on October 29, 1984. Living directly across the street, Harris witnessed firsthand how this tragedy would galvanize a community and spark one of New York City’s first anti-police brutality […]
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