Texas man writes names of 1,400 Black people killed by police on his car
(KEYE/CNN/Meredith) — A man from Texas is using his car to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jeremiah Hindberg said he used a database to research African Americans who have died at the hands of the police in the US.
He found 1,400 names.
“A lot of sadness. I cried in my garage for hours,” Hindberg said.
The 20-year-old hopes his car will start conversations that might be uncomfortable for some.
It took him several days to write the names of 1,400 black Americans. He wrote the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor on the hood of the vehicle.
“This is my representation of BLM,” he told KEYE News.
What Hindberg witnessed and experienced while at a protest in May lead him to turn his car into a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hindberg and his father were medics helping bring injured protesters to aid.
His father was shot in the arm and is still recovering from nerve damage today.
“It changed who my dad was fundamentally, as a person,” Hindberg said.
As a food delivery driver, reaction to the car ranges from being cursed out to more moments of gratitude.
“She just looked at me in the eye and said thank you so much. She started to tear up and cry,” he said of a woman admiring his car.
Hindberg says it’s those moments that remind him of why he wrote the names of all those men, women and children.
“Somebody knows that they’re cared for. They’re not just another number, they’re not just another person,” he said.
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