INGERSOLL: Black Lives Don’t Matter

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

First thing, bit of an announcement: I will be out tomorrow. So don’t expect to see me in your inbox.

Second, today’s post: We all know already, but it’s worth reminding …

BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER

You probably haven’t heard this story, but a young black man was killed last weekend.

Marvins Antoine, 18, was a freshman running back on the UMass Dartmouth football team when he was stabbed and killed in a Wendy’s parking lot in Providence in the early morning hours of Sept. 19. The team had just suffered a heartbreaking 23-21 defeat against Framingham State and had gone out afterward.

More than a week later, there are still substantial gaps in the public account of exactly what happened.

Antoine and fellow freshman teammate Kensley Macean, 19, were at Mezzo Lounge when an altercation broke out. Police say the confrontation spilled outside and across the street into the Wendy’s parking lot, where Antoine was stabbed in the chest, and Macean was also stabbed. Macean survived.

The suspect, Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma-Eze, was arrested after investigators used license-plate-reader technology to trace the vehicle linked to him to UMass Dartmouth.

And then the story gets considerably more interesting.

As you can probably guess, Uzoma-Eze was not legally entitled to remain in the United States indefinitely.

[Fox’s Bill Melugin laid it all out.]

Uzoma-Eze entered the United States legally through Boston Logan Airport on March 18, 2015, on a B-2 tourist visa. He was seven years old. He subsequently received two extensions of his authorized stay. He then remained in the country after that authorization expired.

In September 2022, the Biden administration granted him deferred action, temporarily delaying his removal. He applied for deferred action again in 2025, and on Oct. 8, 2025, the Trump administration approved that request, with the protection scheduled to run through October 2027.

Both administrations had a hand in this.

That matters because this isn’t a simple story about one party opening the door and another party closing it. It’s a story about an immigration system that allowed a child who entered legally, overstayed his authorization, and remained in the country for more than a decade to receive successive discretionary protections from removal.

We still don’t know some extraordinarily basic things about how that happened.

Who brought a seven-year-old Nigerian child into the United States in 2015? Who handled the two applications to extend his visa? Where did he live? Who was responsible for him? Where are his parents? What is their immigration status?

We know that a young man named David Uzoma-Eze attended Tech Boston Academy in Dorchester and played varsity football there in 2023 and 2024. Public high school records identify him as a 2025 graduate.

We now also have conflicting reports about his college football career. The Boston Globe initially reported that Uzoma-Eze was not a member of the UMass Dartmouth football team. But NBC Boston subsequently reported that his attorney described him in court as a “student-athlete” and reported that he was, in fact, on the team.

Police, meanwhile, have said there was no indication that Uzoma-Eze had a prior relationship with Antoine or Macean.

So which is it?

Was he a teammate who happened to have no prior personal relationship with the victims? Was the original reporting simply wrong? More than a week into this case, the public record still isn’t clear.

And then there is the question of what the American taxpayer provided along the way.

Massachusetts has created a legal pathway for students without conventional immigration status to qualify for in-state tuition and certain forms of state financial aid if they meet the state’s high school completion requirements. UMass Dartmouth itself advertises admissions information specifically for DACA and “undocumented” students.

But we don’t yet know what Uzoma-Eze personally received.

Did he receive in-state tuition? State financial aid? Scholarships? Public health benefits? Other government assistance? How much did taxpayers spend educating and supporting him over the roughly eleven years between his arrival at age seven and his arrest at 19?

Those are not rhetorical questions. They’re questions that ought to have answers.

His lawyer has portrayed him as a bright young man who earned straight A’s in high school, regularly attended church with his parents, and was excited about studying mechanical engineering.

That may all be true.

It may also be true that the circumstances surrounding the stabbing were more complicated than the initial reports suggest. Police say a woman leaving the club was at the center of the original confrontation and that Uzoma-Eze knew her. His lawyer has disputed the basic characterization of his client’s conduct.

Those questions will be answered in court.

But they are separate from the immigration question.

A person can be a good student, a churchgoer, a loving son and a promising athlete — and still have no legal right to remain in the United States.

And a government can make a series of perfectly documented discretionary decisions that nonetheless deserve scrutiny when we later learn that the person at the center of those decisions stands accused of killing an 18-year-old American college student.

There is another uncomfortable irony here.

The immigration decisions weren’t made by one party alone. Biden’s administration granted deferred action in 2022. Trump’s administration granted it again in 2025.

And now Antoine is dead.

There will be no Floyd-style national spectacle surrounding his death. No nationwide movement will be built around his name. No cottage industry of nonprofits will spring up around his killing.

There will simply be a family that lost a son, teammates who lost a friend, and a young man whose college football career ended before it had really begun.

Marvins Antoine deserved better than that.

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