Erick Wilson Brown Jr., 38

June 30, 2020

Erick Wilson Brown Jr., a 38-year-old Black male, died Saturday, June 6, after being shot near East 51st Street & South Avalon Boulevard in South Park, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

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Were All We have Got! We Came Over On Slave ships Together, Our Ancestors Fought To make things better, They Marched, they protested, They Shed Blood, So our People Should Share The Love, Now There Is a war Going On IN Our Streets, Were Facing Social Defeat, Fighting Against another Man Because Of red Or Blue, what About those People Who Fought For you, what about Those people who Hung from Trees so we could sit next to white people and earn Degrees, The violence in south central LA Has Got To Stop, Its black On black crime due To self Hate, lets learn to love Our black skin and Celebrate, where we Have come from and how far we have To go, its Only the Beginning you know, why cant You see were not the enemy! Were Not! When will we See we Are all that we got, My PRAYER IS For Us to learn to Love Our Race, The fighting And Poverty is all a disgrace, We have come to Far For us not to see, GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU AND FOR ME, We have To Look Beyond Today, Look Within And We will See a Better Way, I Will Keep PRAYING For All The Violence to Stop, and for everyone to see that WERE ALL THAT WE HAVE GOT!

— Tesa Sheaffers July 3, 2020 at 3:18 a.m.