In the spring of 2021, Shalimar Birkett, a 32-year-old Black woman and mother of two from Queens, New York, found her life tragically cut short in an act of senseless violence. On the night of May 17th, she was in the Weeksville neighborhood of Brooklyn to mourn a friend, Miles Bobbsemple, who had himself been killed just hours earlier. A vigil was being held in his memory on Park Place, with about 60 to 70 people gathered to pay their respects. It was a somber and quiet affair until just after
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