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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 3568858, member: 1644"]
A name that I had not heard in years, brought me right back to when it happened when watching This Is Us last night.

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"NBC’s “This Is Us” made an emotional return in its season 5 premiere Tuesday, featuring the story of a Syracuse man who was killed by police in Pittsburgh.

...Randall (Sterling K. Brown) having an emotional reaction to the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that followed.

Randall then shares the story of Jonny Gamage, a Black man from Syracuse who was killed by police in Pittsburgh 25 years ago, with his daughter’s boyfriend Maliq (Ashante Blackk).

“He was the cousin of Ray Seals. Ray was a former defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers,” Randall says. “Jonny was 31. He was driving home one night in this fancy car. Cops tried to pull him over for an expired registration. He ended up getting pinned down by five of them for resisting arrest. He died right there.”
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