‘We say it’s a racial paradise’: how two police killings are dividing Hawaii

Cases of Iremamber Sykap and Lindani Myeni have challenged the state's view of itself as a mixing pot' free of discrimination

In April, as many Americans sat glued to their screens watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, two fatal police shootings in Honolulu went largely unnoticed.

The killings of Iremamber Sykap, a Micronesian teeenager shot by an officer eight times, and Lindani Myeni, a 29-year-old Black man who had recently moved to Hawaii with his wife and children, took place just nine days apart.