CLEMSON, S.C. — When Gabrien Gillespie watched the video of George Floyd dying under a Minneapolis police officer's knee, he thought of Sharonda Singleton. And he thought of her when he heard how police shot and killed Breonna Taylor, a Louisville EMT, as she sat in her home.
Singleton was one of the nine people massacred by a white supremacist at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church in 2015.
Gillespie, a junior at Clemson University and a Charleston native, played baseball with Singleton's son and knew her well.
She was at the forefront of his mind again Saturday as he marched through downtown Clemson, sign in hand, with about 3,000 other people in a call for racial equality.