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Justice for Nia?
為妮婭伸張正義？
The fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson in a California subway station raises questions about whether the color of her skin made her a target
18歲的妮婭·威爾遜(Nia Wilson)在加利福尼亞一地鐵站被刺傷身亡，這引發(fā)了質(zhì)疑：她的膚色是否造成了她的死亡
After a day spent at a barbecue with family and friends in Martinez, Calif., on July 22, 18-year-old Nia Wilson and her sister Letifah, 26, were in the busy MacArthur BART station, waiting for a train to their Oakland home.
7月22日，18歲的妮婭·威爾遜和她26歲的姐姐萊蒂法(Letifah)在加州馬丁內(nèi)斯(Martinez)與家人和朋友結(jié)束了一天的烤肉野餐，來到繁忙的麥克阿瑟BART站，等回到奧克蘭的列車。
Suddenly, at 9:38 p.m., a stranger approached, pulled out a knife and stabbed both sisters.
晚上9點(diǎn)38分，一名陌生人突然走近，掏出一把刀捅了兩姐妹。
As Nia lay bleeding in her sister's arms, police rushed to the platform—but were too late. Nia was pronounced dead at the scene.
妮婭倒在她姐姐的懷里流著血，這時(shí)警察沖向了站臺(tái)——但是已經(jīng)太晚了。妮婭當(dāng)場死亡。
"We were blindsided by a maniac, for what I don't know," Letifah would later tell Oakland's ABC7 News.
“我們被一個(gè)瘋子搞得措手不及，我不知道為什么，”萊蒂法后來告訴奧克蘭的ABC7新聞。
"I looked back, and he was wiping off his knife and stood at the stairs and just looked... he just stood there, like it was nothing."
“我回頭一看，他正在擦拭刀，站在樓梯上，只是看了看……他只是站在那里，好像根本不算什么。”
By the next night police had arrested 27-year-old John Cowell, an ex-con with a history of mental illness—according to his family—and charged him with murder.
到第二天晚上，警方逮捕了27歲的約翰·考威爾，并以謀殺罪起訴他，據(jù)他的家人說，他有犯罪前科，也有精神病史。
But while authorities struggled to uncover a motive for the attack, the city erupted in grief and anger.
但當(dāng)局努力查明襲擊動(dòng)機(jī)時(shí)，這座城市的悲憤已難以抑制。
Protesters lined the streets of Oakland for days chanting "Justice for Nia" and demanding that Cowell be charged with a hate crime.
幾天來，抗議者們在奧克蘭的街道上游行，高呼“為妮婭伸張正義”，并要求以仇視性犯罪控告考威爾。
(Alameda County D.A. Nancy O'Malley said authorities are studying the evidence to determine if Nia and Letifah were attacked because of their race.)
（阿拉米達(dá)縣地方檢察官南希奧馬利說，當(dāng)局正在研究證據(jù)，以確定妮婭和萊蒂法是否因?yàn)榉N族原因受到攻擊。）
Meanwhile, celebrities like Viola Davis, Janelle Monáe, Busy Philipps and Anne Hathaway called attention to the murder on social media.
與此同時(shí)，維奧拉·戴維斯(Viola Davis)、詹妮爾·莫奈(Janelle Monae)、貝茜·菲利普斯(Busy Philipps)和安妮·海瑟薇(Anne Hathaway)等名人在社交媒體上呼吁人們關(guān)注這起謀殺案。
"The murder of Nia Wilson—may she rest in the power and peace she was denied here—is unspeakable and MUST NOT be met with silence," Hathaway wrote on Instagram, encouraging use of the hashtag #SayHerName in social-media posts to raise awareness about black women who become victims of violence.
海瑟薇在Instagram上寫道：“妮婭·威爾遜，愿她在從未得到的權(quán)利與和平中安歇。她已不能開口，我們決不能沉默對(duì)待。”借此鼓勵(lì)公眾在社交媒體發(fā)文時(shí)使用#SayHerName標(biāo)簽，讓人們更加關(guān)注遭受暴力襲擊的黑人女性。
But for Nia's family, the loss is achingly personal. "That's my heart, she was my heart," Letifah said. "She was the sweetest person on the earth."
但對(duì)于妮婭的家人來說，這種失去難以釋懷，令人肝腸寸斷。“那是我的心，她是我的心，”萊蒂法說。“她是世界上最可愛的人。”
