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I wrote "The Trial" on June 11, 2021, the day Darnell's Frazier—an 18 year old Black girl— received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her video of George Floyd being murdered by those cops. Today, though, I share it because I’m struck by how it applies to Tyre Nichols as well.
The Trial I don’t watch the video but can feel it playing on a loop in a room miles away from where he keeps dying behind my eyes. All I have left are tiny twitches, small choices. “Please,” I beg alone in the box of my dark, “I don’t want to hurt that way today. I already hurt that way yesterday. Please don’t kill him again.” No one listens when I talk myself in circles, not even me. When I hurt like this, I’m just someone’s redaction, a slur the other slurs prefer not to say, used and useless while the video plays me, rewinds to unwind me, records over an old innocent video of me breathing. This video has got me against the wall or by the throat or on my back or— oh, who cares? Even my exhaustion is tired. Just pick a position, pick a “reason.” And if it doesn’t kill me the way you prefer, try again tomorrow.
May 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM