One reason for a lack of outrage, he said, is that police have released limited details of what happened. “When you're told you live in a paradise and you point out that it's not paradise for people of color, that makes people uncomfortable,” he said. Myeni's death “would have generated mass protests in any other American city,” said Kenneth Lawson, a Black professor at University of Hawaii's law school. While there have been some local gatherings and small protests decrying Myeni's death, it hasn't inspired the passionate outrage seen elsewhere in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed last year by a white officer in Minnesota, and other killings by police. Yet in Honolulu alone, Black people made up more than 7% of the people police used force against, according to Honolulu police data for 2019. Of Hawaii’s 1.5 million residents, just 3.6% are Black, according to U.S. Hawaii, where white people are not the majority and many people identify as having multiple ethnicities, felt right: “We were refreshed to be back to somewhere that is so diverse.” The couple moved to Honolulu from predominately white Denver in January.
To some, Lindani Myeni’s death and the muted reaction from residents, is a reminder that Hawaii isn’t the racially harmonious paradise it’s held up to be. “We never thought anything like this would ever happen there,” Lindsay Myeni, who is white, told The Associated Press in an interview from her husband's hometown, Empangeni in Kwazulu-Natal province.
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