Manuel Oliver has become an activist since the death of his son, speaking up for victims of gun violence who no longer can
There haven’t been many laughs in Manuel Oliver’s life since his 17-year-old son Joaquin was shot and killed at his Florida high school last Valentine’s Day. A grief-filled year since losing his “best friend” has been punctuated by Oliver highlighting the tragedy of gun violence in America through an emotional, raw and gritty form of art activism.
So when the disgraced comedian Louis CK fuelled his comeback attempts with some insensitive jokes about the Parkland survivors, it was a given that Oliver would speak up for his son and the 16 other victims in the best way he knows how.
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