C is for Compassion
April 29, 2025
Two years ago today, the local Phoenix Coalition organized a community memorial to David, who’d been killed just three days before. I was in Ann Arbor and could not be there. I’m so grateful to have stumbled across this photo on Lucas’s FB feed tonight. It’s really something. One of the commenters on the post said, “Now we know what the C in C Street stands for.”
A year later, the City actually designated the corner of Third and C: Compassion Corner.
Another commenter on the thread mentioned how eloquent Maria and Robb had been in their remembrances. Maria had shared a text she’d received from David some years prior to his murder. She committed that from this moment on, she would carry forward David’s prescient and moving message of compassion.
Shortly afterward, another guy created a graphic of what David had said in his message to his sister:
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