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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 01:02 PM Aug 2014

7 Things Worth More Than a Black Person's Life in America

Complete article at: http://mic.com/articles/96378/7-things-worth-more-than-a-black-person-s-life-in-america?utm_source=policymicFB&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social

3. Renisha McBride = 1 phone call (approx. 25 cents)

McBride, 19 and unarmed, was seeking help after a car accident when she knocked on Theodore Wafer's front door the night of Nov. 2, 2012. Wafer shot her to death on his front porch outside of Detroit, Mich.


6. Anthony Kyser = 1 tube of toothpaste (approx. $3.89)

Kyser, 35, homeless and unarmed, had allegedly stolen a tube of toothpaste from a Chicago, Ill., CVS when the store's manager, Pedro Villanova, followed him outside into an alley and choked him to death on May 8, 2010.
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