Saying Her Name: Yuvette Henderson. One Year Long.

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One year after the execution of Yuvette Henderson on the streets of Oakland by Emeryville Police, nothing has changed. No officers have been charged, Emeryville’s police still carry AR-15’s, and the Emeryville City Council has taken no action. The carnage, nationwide, continues.

One year to the day after the execution of Yuvette Henderson, some one hundred people gathered in front of the Home Depot in Emeryville from which she exited only minutes before being killed.

With the crowd holding candles and with signs held high, her brother spoke in poignant tribute.

Home Depot itself, whose security had battered Yuvette before she was able to flee, had cowardly closed down an hour before the memorial began.

One year after Henderson was executed people marched in memorial along the Yuvette’s path…

…to the spot where Emeryville police, without any warning, shot her to death.

And yet one year later, some modicum of justice – if not for Yuvette, then for others – creeps forward, almost imperceptibly, across the nation. The country is more aware than ever that #BlackLivesMatter.

Police have actually been indicted for murder across the country in far greater numbers than ever before. The City Council of San Francisco apologized to the family of someone their police gunned down in cold blood and then declared that his birthday would be honored. Both unprecedented events.

One year into the future, there is still hope, if not justice.

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Credit: Top picture by Daniela Kantorova

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