Why Jay-Z is helping family targeted in violent mistaken Applebee’s arrest
The full 20 July 2023 arrest inside a Kenosha, Wisconsin, Applebee’s restaurant was recorded on police body camera video, but different viewers have very different understandings of what happened that night.
To some, the tape shows police attacking a man holding his baby in a case of racist mistaken arrest, while others see a man needlessly escalating a calm law enforcement encounter.
To Zion, Illinois, residents Jermelle English Jr, Shanya Boyd and their one-year-old son, the tape shows textbook police brutality, an arrest so egregious that Team Roc, the social justice arm of ’s Roc
