Tina Knowles has revealed a longstanding family trauma that left the family „on guard all the time“.
An encounter with police left Beyoncé’s relatives „on guard all the time“, her mother Tina Knowles revealed in her new memoir, Matriarch.
Tina, 71, recalled her brother Skip was arrested in 1967 after a cab driver dropped him at the wrong address when he was trying to get home from a date.
Although the house was near Skip’s, the homeowner didn’t immediately recognise him and called the police to report a strange man on her doorstep. By the time she realised her mistake and phoned Tina’s mother to let her know Skip was at the wrong house, the police had already arrived.
Tina’s family was forced to watch as police arrested Skip and took him into custody.
„Please don’t let them kill my son,“ Tina remembered her mother pleading.
When they collected Skip from the police station the following day, he was bruised and bloody from a police beating.
„They could have killed him… we thought he was dead,“ Tina wrote, adding the experience left her parents with „constant fear and anxiety“.
Following the incident, Tina wrote, members of her family were „harassed by the police for years“, causing them to be „on guard all the time“.
Tina Knowles reveals longstanding family trauma – Music-News.com
