Tina Knowles opened up a couple of brutal police encounter involving her brother that left her household residing in concern for many years.
Tina Knowles detailed a harrowing second of police violence and its lasting emotional toll on her household in her memoir Matriarch, revealing that her brother Skip was crushed by officers in 1967 after being mistakenly recognized as a trespasser.
The incident unfolded when Skip, making an attempt to get residence after a date, was dropped off on the improper home by a cab driver.
Although the house was near his personal, the girl inside didn’t acknowledge him and known as the police. When she realized the error and contacted Tina’s mom, officers had already arrived and arrested him.
Tina, 71, wrote that her household watched helplessly as Skip was taken into custody. “Please don’t allow them to kill my son,” she recalled her mom pleading.
The following day, when the household picked Skip up from the police station, he was bloodied and battered.
“They may have killed him… we thought he was lifeless,” Tina wrote. She stated the incident left her mother and father with “fixed concern and nervousness.”
In accordance with Tina, the trauma didn’t finish there. She stated the household endured years of harassment from legislation enforcement that left them “on guard on a regular basis.”
The memoir Matriarch is in shops now.
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