One man
recently stood alone in the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, to protest the
death of the 9-year-old girl shot dead in her own home in nearby Ferguson,
reports TheBlaze.
Jamyla
Bolden was sitting on her mother’s bed on Aug. 18 while she did her homework
when shots suddenly fired into the house. While her mother was hit in the
leg, Jamyla was wounded more seriously and died not long after. Police
have yet to arrest anyone for the incident.
While
the streets of St. Louis recently saw massive protests for the shooting of
Mansur Ball-Bey, no one, except for one man, came out to stand for the young
victim.
Although
he did not personally know Jamyla, Shawn Williams walked around a busy St.
Louis intersection on Aug. 19 with a makeshift cardboard sign that read “stand
up 4 Jamyla Bolden,” according to TheBlaze.
Kimmy
Brooks was passing Williams and, in awe of his one-man march for the little
girl, she took to her social media account to publicize his protest.
“This
man is Shawn Williams. He is standing alone, walking around at the intersection
of Page and Union. He wants justice for Jamyla. Many of us do,” she posted on
her Facebook. “Yet he stands alone.”
Brooks’
post raised awareness of the small protest, sparking another Facebook user,
Eric Stillthesamesize Strickland, to post a video of Williams.
“Shooting
at little girls, shooting at people’s houses. Somebody don’t kill this little
girl. It’s up to the community. If I have to stand out here all day, it’s up to
people like me, to make somebody feel some type of way to go to the authorities
and say ‘I know what happened,’” Williams stated in the video.
While
few protested in St. Louis over the child’s death, in Ferguson, hundreds gathered
together on Aug. 20 for a vigil. During the event, people released balloons in
Jamyla’s favorite color, pink, according to KMOV.
“We have
to keep thinking about the blessed opportunity we had to encounter her
presence,” said Teressa Kindle, Bolden’s teacher at Koch Elementary, reports
Fox News.
“Everyone
knew her drive for success: academic success, behavioral success, any success —
kickball success, jump rope success.
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Food for thought: My heart goes out to the entire city of St. Louis. May God bring peace to her streets so she can protect the lives of our innocent children once again! Thank you Mr. Williams for caring!!!