Toforest Johnson

It featured two prominent figures in Black history, Martin Luther King Sr.

and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson.

to be in what we really thought was a revolution.

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That particular night, they said they was going to T's.

And see, he would go to T's every Tuesday.

And he'd have his particular same parking space and everything because he would give them good tips.

My son, when he got shot when he was 15, I had just gotten off of work.

I was tired and the phone rang, rang, rang, and I didn't answer the phone, you know.

And I finally answered it, and they stated that he had gotten shot.

I need to rush to the emergency room.

That was like a dream.

You know, you hear about things happening to other people, but when it hit home, you know, and then he got spinal cord injury, got shot in the back.

Yeah.

Paralyzed from chest down.

T4, they called it.

So that was like a nightmare.

He would cut a broom, you know, the broomsticks.

He would have one to the brakes, one to the accelerator, and he would tape it.

To the car.