Cedrick Black, a 34-year-old Black man, spent the late afternoon of September 15, 2020 on the North Shore of Staten Island, drawn to Jersey Street in New Brighton where mourners had gathered at a makeshift memorial for someone killed just a day earlier. The gathering was supposed to be a pause in the violence, but it became the next chapter: shots rang out near Jersey Street and Crescent Avenue, and he was struck in the chest. Neighbors who heard the gunfire watched the street fill with flashing
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