Sam Bowers was a Sunday School teacher until he went to jail last year for killing Vernon Dahmer thirty years ago. Bowers was enjoying his life, minding his business for thirty years before finally getting convicted. Today we met with youth at the Kuji Center. We went around and each said what we wanted to change in our communities. There is a curfew of 8 o'clock for everyone under 18.
Police brutality is a big problem.
Young black males are targeted more than I've ever seen in other areas. Until all people are free, no one's free. We spoke to Hollis Watkins, who does much of his work at Southern Echo. Hollis got involved with SNCC at 19 and was put in jail for 55 days on death row for registering people to vote. He and other prisoners were led through mobs of whites, with guns pointed at his head.