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Commemorating 25 years since the Frederick Finley Protest: A call to continue the fight for justice

Commemorating 25 years since the Frederick Finley Protest: A call to continue the fight for justice

DETROIT – On June 22, 2000, Frederick Finley—a 32-year-old Black father—was brutally killed by security guards outside Lord & Taylor at Fairlane Mall in Dearborn, Michigan. Accused of nothing himself, Finley was trying to protect his 11-year-old stepdaughter when he was placed in a fatal chokehold over an alleged $4 bracelet. Thirteen days later, on […]

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