This is incredible. The movement wont be stopped. We will be heard by any means necessary. As those high-level conversations were playing out, Aminzadeh took care of a more prosaic — if equally important — item of business by rushing to NYC Customs, a printing shop in Long Island City owned by his friend Helen Mihalatos. Aminzadeh arrived at 12:30 p.m., he said, and delivered specific instructions: He needed 82 T-shirts, all of them in extra-large sizes, and he needed them as quickly as possible. Dannee LeBlang, Mihalatos’s business partner, jumped behind a manual screen-printing press and went to work, completing the job in about 90 minutes. Aminzadeh flew out the door with a box full of them. “We hustled,” Mihalatos said. It was nearing dusk when Aminzadeh, Perez and their fellow organizer Cherrell Brown gathered outside Barclays Center. Skolnik was in Manhattan with Simmons, who was scheduled to appear on a CNN program later that evening. But in addition to strategizing with James, Jay-Z had passed along Skolnik’s cellphone number to Williams, the Nets’ point guard, who texted Skolnik around 5:30 p.m. His message was concise: He and his teammates wanted the T-shirts. The final hurdle was navigating the T-shirts past arena security. The N.B.A.’s stance was clear: The league did not want its players wearing the T-shirts during warm-ups. So Williams recruited a security guard to take the large box from Aminzadeh, Perez and Brown on the Dean Street entrance of the arena, Skolnik said. #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:30:24 +0000
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