“A gentle man who was fierce when he faced injustice,” Faizan Syed wrote of Masri, who he credited with helping to unite the fight for “black liberation and Palestinian liberation.”
“We ask everyone to pray and make dua for Bassem and his family. May Allah accept his sacrifices for justice and overlook his flaws and mistakes,” Syed added. The causes and circumstances of Masri’s death are still unknown.
Tributes to Masri poured in from people who worked within or covered the Ferguson Uprising, which protested police brutality in the St. Louis area after Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson. Basri would livestream the protests in and around Ferguson and St. Louis. People who knew him described Basri as being an essential, “fearless” voice in the movement.
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