Cleopatra & Nate Pendleton Talk About Their Daughter Hadiya's Murder | We Are Witnesses

In 2013, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed while hanging out with her volleyball team in a Chicago park when a gang member mistook her as a rival. Watch the rest of We Are Witnesses: Chicago here: /watch/stkQBZsqiNMqQ . As an active community member who had also participated in the events for Barack Obama’s second inauguration, Hadiya quickly became a symbol of the bitter cost of the city’s rampant gun violence. In this installment of We Are Witnesses, Hadiya’s parents Cleopatra and Nate talk about what it’s like to survive a tragedy and the difficult ties between forgiveness and retribution. “Who’s gonna tell me how to feel when I’m visiting a cemetery,” Cleopatra told The Marshall Project. “Until you walk a day in my shoes, you can’t tell me anything.” After their daughter’s death, Cleopatra and Hadiya founded Hadiya’s Promise, an organization that advocates for solutions to gun violence. Watch the rest of We Are Witnesses: Chicago here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/chicago Subscribe to The Marshall Project on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SubscribeMarshallProject For more criminal justice and immigration coverage, visit The Marshall Project's website: https://www.themarshallproject.org And follow The Marshall Project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMarshallProject.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marshallproj Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marshallproj/ The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. Join us on our channel as we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice. The Marshall Project achieves this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.

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