Marquell Bridges says the story the public’s been sold about what happened right before Senatobia Sgt. Hunter Foster shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was a lie from the start. The Mississippi-based organizer and founder of the Building Bridges Coalition tells Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek police at Walmart were never responding to a shoplifting call, that no one in the car has been charged, and that Baby Kohen’s death is part of a long pattern of impunity for racist murder in Mississippi, from Emmett Till to the unsolved 2022 death of Rasheem Carter. Bridges breaks down Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s ruling Foster was “justified” in opening fire, weeks after a Jackson County grand jury declined to bring charges in 18-year-old Nolan Wells’s death, saying it was “consistent with drowning.” As calls for justice for Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley spread from HBCUs and campuses in the South to cities across the US, Bridges says families cannot expect justice from a system he argues still carries the deep racist roots of the Klan: “Our governor, Tate Reeves, was seen in a picture with Confederate flags, at Nazi parties and in blackface,” Bridges says. “These people are the Klan…. The rest of the world moved forward, but nothing ever changed in Mississippi.” Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today!

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