Civil rights leaders and a Memphis , Tennessee, community are seeking justice for Alvin Motley, an unarmed Black man who was killed by a security guard at a gas station on Saturday. The security guard, Gregory Livingston, is accused of fatally shooting the nearly blind 48-year-old man after arguing over loud music, the Commercial Appeal reported . Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined Motley's family members at a news conference on Tuesday, describing the killing as yet another example of slayings of unarmed Black men. "Nobody has a right to kill a young Black man for playing music!" Crump said. "I don’t care how loud you think it is, you do not have a right to kill a young Black man for playing music." Kevin Walters, a spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, said Livingston was never licensed. According to Walters, Livingston applied for an armed security guard license in 2017, but the registration card was not issued because he didn't...
