“A security guard followed me on my walk home tonight. He asked if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious’. I showed my keys and entered my building. He left without apology, “Gorman wrote in a post on his verified Instagram account.
“This is the reality of black girls: one day you are called an icon, the next day a threat,” he added.
Later tweet, the 22 year old said: “In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, inequality, ignorance. Whoever speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be. whatever they are. a threat and proud. “
A few days have passed since a crowd of armed Trump supporters wielding knives, bombs and pepper spray invaded the Capitol.
The encounter with the security guard that Gorman describes is reminiscent of police violence and aggression against black Americans, whose deaths sparked national movements, including #BlackLivesMatter.
Black men are approximately 2.5 times more likely to die at the hands of the police in their lifetime than white men, according to a survey by the National Academy of Sciences.
Based on the 2019 study, black women are about 1.4 times more likely to be killed by the police compared to white women, according to the researchers.
In March 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency technician, was shot and killed by police officers inside her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, during a failed forced entry invasion.
His death spawned a national rallying cry for racial justice and a review of the policing system, including the #SayHerName campaign.
“#SayHerName is based on the sad reality that black women and girls who are targeted, brutalized and killed by the police are often excluded from the dominant narratives about police violence,” says the campaign page.
“You are not safe anywhere. Not even in your own home”, #DigaHerName founder and lawyer Kimberlé Crenshaw said CNN’s Erin Burnett.