![]() On that day in 1984, DeThorne Graham, a diabetic black civilian, experienced an insulin reaction while at his home on Mayfair Avenue. 12, 1984 to a house on Mayfair Avenue in Charlotte, not more than a 10-minute drive from the Burger King at which Kerl took Franklin’s life. However, in order to understand that decision, we must first go back to Nov. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Graham v. To begin to answer these questions, we must travel back in time exactly 30 years, to May 15, 1989, when the U.S. Why is it that police officers get to decide who lives and who dies in Charlotte and elsewhere? Why is it legal for police officers to kill just about anyone they choose? ![]() This killing by police-one of hundreds that have taken place across the country in 2019 alone-was wholly avoidable, and is part of a sordid history of police violence against black people in the U.S. Kerl ordered Franklin to drop his gun, and killed Franklin when he attempted to do just that, based on body camera footage reluctantly released by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. ![]() On March 25, Wende Kerl, a white police officer, shot and killed Danquirs Franklin, a black civilian, in the parking lot of a Burger King in west Charlotte. ![]() Connor legalizes police violence against civilians, which has far-reaching ramifications for African Americans.
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