On the evening of 19 February, a group of four women were standing in an intersection of a residential neighborhood in northeast Portland, Oregon, working as traffic safety volunteers for a demonstration in a nearby park to demand justice for Amir Locke – a 22-year-old Black man killed by Minneapolis police officers earlier in the month.
As the women stood directing traffic, a man walked out of a nearby house and angrily confronted them “about protesters in the neighborhood”. Then he opened fire, killing beloved community activist June Knightly and sending five other people to the hospital.
