EVERETT — Malia and Jeff Zirkle were tending to their yard last weekend when racism bellowed their way.
Shaken by the experience of hearing, “Black lives don’t matter” and “I hope you burn,” they didn’t intend on planting themselves in the thick of pervasive tension between racists and people asking to be given basic human dignity. They shared the 20-second encounter, recorded on their security camera Sept. 19, on social media later the same day initially only with their…
