"When Eleanor Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African-American grandmother was killed by a shotgun blast to the chest fired by police officers who had come to assist in her eviction from public housing (because she was less than ninety dollars behind in her rent), Black communities in New York City rose up in outrage. When Tyisha Miller was shot twenty-five times by police officers who, responding to a distress call, found her in the midst of an epileptic seizure in her car, yet claimed she pulled a gun – which was never found – Black communities in Riverside, California, too to the streets..."