“A security guard put me in line on my walk home tonight. He asked me if I lived there because ‘it looks suspicious.’ I showed my keys and walked into my building. He left, no apologies.” , 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.
In a later tweet, the 22-year-old said: “In a sense he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, inequality, ignorance. Anyone who tells the truth and walks in hope is an obvious and fatal danger to to the powers that be. A threat and a pride. “
It had been a few days since a crowd of armed Trump supporters who had knives, bombs and pepper spray stormed the Capitol.
The encounter with the security guard Gorman describes is reminiscent of the violence and police aggression against black Americans, whose deaths have sparked national movements, including #BlackLivesMatter.
According to research by the National Academy of Sciences, black men are about 2.5 times more likely to die at the hands of police over a lifetime than white men.
According to the 2019 study, black women are about 1.4 times more likely to be killed by police compared to white women, according to investigators.
In March 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency technician, was shot dead by police officers inside her Louisville, Kentucky apartment during a raid on a faulty forced entrance.
His death sparked a national outcry for racial justice and a review of the police system, including the #SayHerName campaign.
“#SayHerName is based on the sad reality that black women and girls who are attacked, brutalized and murdered by the police are too often excluded from the main narratives about police violence,” the campaign website reads.
“You’re not safe anywhere. Not even at home,” he founded and advocate #SayHerName Kimberlé Crenshaw He told CNN’s Erin Burnett.