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After Shawn Dromgoole spoke up about feeling unwelcome in his increasingly gentrified neighborhood, he was joined by 75 Nashville residents.
29-year-old logistics processor Shawn Dromgoole, who works at Nordstrom who was recently furloughed due to the coronavirus pandemic, said he was particularly uneasy after the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man shot while jogging in a Georgia suburb, and the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody last week.
Dromgoole told the Washington Post, “What happened to these men could easily happen to me." He also noted an uptick on the neighborhood-based social media platform Nextdoor warning of “suspicious” men.
He added, “I became scared to walk past my porch.”
After he shared his fears on Facebook and Nextdoor, writing “Yesterday, I wanted to walk around my neighborhood but the fear of not returning home to my family alive kept me on my front porch.”
Dromgoole then said, “neighbor, after neighbor, after neighbor started reaching out, telling me they wanted to walk with me.”
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