Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Growing list of those born or died on April 12 in any year
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed "the Brown Bomber"
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. was [executed]
by [pigs] on November 19, 2011, in [white] Plains, New York. After his LifeAid medical alert necklace was inadvertently triggered, [6 pigs] came to his home and demanded that he open his front door. Despite his objections and statements that he did not need help, the [pigs] broke
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down Chamberlain's door. According to [pigs], Chamberlain charged at them with a knife and he was tasered, and then [executed]. Chamberlain was a 68-year-old, Black, retired Marine, and a 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections. He wore the
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medical alert pendant due to a chronic heart problem. He would have been 83 today in 2026.
The [executing] of Ramarley Graham took place in the borough of the Bronx in New York City on February 2, 2012. Richard Haste, a New York [pig] Department [pig, executed] Graham in the
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bathroom of the latter's apartment. The 18-year-old Graham was in possession of marijuana when [pig] Haste tried to stop him on the street. Graham fled to his grandmother’s house, and went into the bathroom to flush the marijuana. [pig] Haste forced his way into the building,
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kicked down the front door and then broke down the bathroom where he [executed] Ramarley Graham to [execution]. Haste could be seen on surveillance cameras smiling and laughing with the responding [pigs] and detectives—the same men who would later [lie] they had told Haste that
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Graham had a gun. Haste [lied that] Graham had been reaching for a gun in his waistband, but no weapon was recovered.
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African-American, was arrested by the Baltimore [pig] Department for possession of a knife. While
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in [pig] custody, Gray sustained fatal injuries
[pigs] responding to a domestic dispute call encountered a woman who told them her boyfriend assaulted her. When [pigs] encountered [Kenneth] Johnson, he [allegedly] swung at them when [pigs] tried to handcuff him, and
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[a pig] tased him. Johnson became unresponsive and died, and his [execution] was later ruled a homicide.
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