{"id":60868,"date":"2021-06-06T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60868"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:43:24","slug":"no-mass-protests-after-honolulu-police-shoot-kill-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60868","title":{"rendered":"No mass protests after Honolulu police shoot, kill Black man"},"content":{"rendered":"

No mass protests after Honolulu police shoot, kill Black man<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

ABC News<\/strong><\/a>
\n2021-06-06<\/p>\n

Jennifer Sinco Kelleher<\/strong><\/a> and Mogomotsi Magome<\/strong><\/a>, Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nn a 2021 photo provided by Bickerton Law Group representing the family of Lindani Myeni, he is standing on a beach in Waimanalo, Hawaii<\/a> with his wife and two children. Some Black people in Hawaii<\/a> say Myeni’s shooting death by Honolulu<\/a> police is a reminder that Hawaii isn’t the racially harmonious paradise it’s held up to be. (Myeni Family Photo\/Bickerton Law Group via AP)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Honolulu<\/a> police shot and killed Lindani Myeni, a Black man, three months after he moved to Hawaii<\/a> with his wife, believing it would be safer place to raise their two Black children<\/em><\/p>\n

HONOLULU<\/a> — Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state.<\/p>\n

Three months after they arrived, Honolulu police shot and killed her husband, 29-year-old Lindani Myeni, who was Black.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never thought anything like this would ever happen there,\u201d Lindsay Myeni, who is white, told The Associated Press<\/em> in an interview from her husband’s hometown, Empangeni<\/a> in Kwazulu-Natal<\/a> province.<\/p>\n

To some, Lindani Myeni\u2019s death and the muted reaction from residents, is a reminder that Hawaii isn\u2019t the racially harmonious paradise it\u2019s held up to be.<\/p>\n

The couple moved to Honolulu from predominately white Denver<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Hawaii, where white people are not the majority and many people identify as having multiple ethnicities, felt right: \u201cWe were refreshed to be back to somewhere that is so diverse.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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