Fellows mentioned in this story: Josie Howard, Cohort VIII

From The Guardian:

In April, as many Americans sat glued to their screens watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, two fatal police shootings in Honolulu went largely unnoticed.

The killings of Iremamber Sykap, a Micronesian teenager shot by an officer eight times, and Lindani Myeni, a 29-year-old Black man who had recently moved to Hawai‘i with his wife and children, took place just nine days apart.

While there were no witness videos of the killings, the cases involved unarmed people of color, and saw police initially release misleading statements about the circumstances. Yet the deaths have struggled to break through into the national conversation, and, while attention has grown as new information emerges, the deaths have failed to prompt the widespread outcry in Hawai‘i that has turned other victims on the mainland into household names.

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