Graham (Jarvis) Cromwell

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Graham (Jarvis) Cromwell was a Black Nova Scotian. On June 8, 1985, at age 32, he was shot and killed by a white man, Jeffery Wade Mullen, 29, in Weymouth Falls, a historically Black community.^[1] Although Mullen claimed self-defense, Jarvis was six feet away from him at the moment of the shooting, and Mullen did not provide assistance or contact paramedics as Jarvis was bleeding out, on the pretext that "his wife had just painted the floor of his home".^[2] An all-white jury acquitted Mullen of second-degree murder, with Justices John J. Nichols and Peter Richard making racist comments about Jarvis in the courtroom and to the press, among which "You know what happens when those Black guys start drinking".^[3] The Black Nova Scotian community rose up to claim justice for Jarvis, and a judicial inquiry was triggered. The inquiry later declined to find a fault, citing a lack of evidence.^{[4] [5]}

Jarvis was himself the descendant of Annapolis County Loyalist slaves.^[6]

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