Whenever you saw Grier using his body to provide a safe space for Bobby in a crowd, you knew he was doing it for love. He wasn’t going to let us lose this man. We had lost too many in the 1960s to assassins’ bullets—Jack Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. With the country still reeling from the loss of Dr. King, Grier wasn’t going to let that happen to his country again. He wasn’t going to let that happen to Bobby. There was no doubt that Rosey Grier would take a bullet for Bobby.
