Ohio BLM Activist MarShawn McCarrel II Commits Suicide Outside Statehouse

[artislife]

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MarShawn M. McCarrel II: "My demons won today. I'm sorry."

I am in shock and disbelief.

He is selfless and will give his last in order to make sure others don't go without,” read a nomination page for the Hometown Champions Award. "MarShawn has come so far in life and has inspired so many people to help others."

On Friday, McCarrel attended the NAACP Image Awards with his mother, according to the Daily News.

My heart goes out to him and all who loved him.

I don't know what to make of this...

[thereismore]

1. I am so sorry... I know some demons too. This hurts. nt

[redwitch]

2. That's awful!

His poor family and friends must be devastated. I am so sorry to read this sad news.

[wilsonbooks]

3. Such a loss.

My heart goes out to his loved ones.

[mwrguy]

4. There were no witnesses

It's premature to state that it was a suicide.

[bunnies]

8. "His last tweet read: “Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before I left.”"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/activist-marshawn-mccarrel-kills-ohio-statehouse-article-1.2525393

Article says he shot himself.

Very sad.

[AtomicKitten]

5. :(

[roguevalley]

6. Oh god. This is horrendous. I wish his soul and his family

peace.

[Arazi]

7. .

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. May his memory be a blessing.

Too sad for words. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

[polly7]

10. Omg ...

how awful. I'm so sorry for the torment he was fighting, and that it won. My dad died the same way, this is going to be very, very hard for his family .. I wish them strength. Poor man. What a tremendous loss.

So sad.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

11. This is tragic

[Skwmom]

12. Looking at his picture, he had kind eyes. In his short life, he did a lot of good.

He did a lot of good.

McCarrel, who had recently worked with Black Lives Matter, helped organize protests in Ohio after a Missouri cop shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in 2014.

He also founded youth mentorship program Pursuing Our Dreams, which launched Feed the Streets, a project to help Ohio's homeless.

He attended the NAACP’s Image Awards on Friday, Pursuing Our Dreams wrote on its Facebook.

The 23-year-old community organizer was named one of Radio One’s Hometown Champions, an award for community activists and volunteers, earlier this year and earned a trip to the California awards show. He took his mom to the Friday night ceremony.

"He is selfless and will give his last in order to make sure others don't go without,” read a nomination page for the Hometown Champions Award. “MarShawn has come so far in life and has inspired so many people to help others”

McCarrel was homeless for three months after he graduated from high school — an experience that inspired him to help others, according to his nomination.

“When MarShawn got back on his feet, he felt the need to give back because so many people helped him when he was down,” it read. “MarShawn stresses the importance of having conversations with the people we feed because they'll get hungry in 2 hours but a good conversation will carry them over for a lifetime.”

“All everyone needs is love,” he told 614 Columbus in 2014, referring to his work with the Feed the Streets. “That’s a human being. That’s a pulse. We’re feeding everyone, we’re sending the message — today I got you; tomorrow, I could be right there.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/activist-marshawn-mccarrel-kills-ohio-statehouse-article-1.2525393

[BeyondGeography]

13. Terrible loss

He was very, very wise.

People have become so conditioned to hatred and racial bias that as a society we need to "unlearn" what we have been conditioned to think. We have to break those walls down before we can build a stronger society. I believe police shoot people out of fear more than anything. The conditioning is what causes the fear, and can lead to tragic outcomes. I don't believe any police officer goes into a situation thinking, "I'm going to kill somebody," but through propaganda and conditioning a 12-year-old kid [Tamir Rice] can look scary and threatening. We've targeted Attorney General Mike DeWine because there needs to be a change in police training and cultural sensitivity classes that bring that fear into the conversation. We need to restore the relationship between law enforcement and the community, because the community doesn't trust law enforcement either.

http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2014/12/11/qa-marshawn-mccarrel.html

[beam me up scottie]

14. This is heartbreaking.

Another life lost, gone too soon.

[TeeYiYi]

15. Tragic!

TYY

[JudyM]

16. My heart goes out to his mom, can't imagine what she's going through, especially after just having

been so very proud of him at the awards ceremony. A positive activist with his whole life ahead of him.

[artislife]

17. What killed him was society

Whether directly or by his own hand, something out there got to him.


I know his last tweet sounds as if he shot himself but I would not be surprised if he did not. I don't know enough about the particulars but I do know that African American people are dying at an alarming rate in this country and it makes me so mad and sad.

I am a a light skinned Latina and I know how much easier I have had it in comparison to my darker skinned brother.

Either way, we need to ask why so many are dying by their hands or at the hands of others.

Makes me weep.

[artislife]

18. Oops I thought I had posted this in GD.

Still, I think BLM factors into the Democratic Primaries and ask the hosts to see it that way, as well. A young man has passed.

[daleanime]

26. Don't think it matters.....

sad event all the way around. Let's keep his family and friends in our thoughts and prayers.

[retrowire]

19. Oh my god.

Our world did this to him...

Our fucking world....

We'll keep marching for you MarShawn. God bless.

I'm actually crying right now.

[artislife]

22. Right there next to you. hugs nt

[retrowire]

23. hugs* Our world is too cruel. nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

20. Such a shame.

[Fumesucker]

21. When you are open to the pain of others sometimes it is too much to bear, RIP MarShawn

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Bingo. He had empathy which is becoming a rare virtue.

[TBF]

25. You never know what folks are dealing with internally -

peace to his family and friends.

[In_The_Wind]

27. Locking

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May MarShawn M. McCarrel II rest in peace.