#BLM
you reckon he'll be able to bond out before the rally? ๐คจ
Proud Boys Boss Enrique Tarrio Accused Of Torching Black Churchโs BLM Banner [HuffPost, 7:30PM ET]
Andre Hillโs loved ones mourn loss of โa chess-playing mindโ [AP NEWS, 44 min ago]
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-columbus-coronavirus-pandemic-734059203149c7373f829cf4ffdf2416
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[19 hrs ago]
Lake Havasu police release video of officer shooting suspect inside Hobby Lobby
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lake-havasu-police-release-video-of-officer-shooting-suspect-inside-hobby-lobby/ar-BB1cmnVP
Columbus Police Kill Black Man Weeks After Protests Against Brutality
โOur community is exhausted,โ said the mayor of the Ohio capital, which is still reeling from the fatal shooting of Casey Goodson Jr.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/columbus-ohio-shooting.html
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) โ A Black defendantโs right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a northern Virginia judge has ruled.
https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-trials-virginia-courts-us-news-21068c718995fd041e82c800943a1efc
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@catlynne333
there's some new stuff in #BLM that you might want to peruse when you have a min or 2?
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Police kept 71 year old Black man naked in yard while looking for teens breaking into cars
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-rock-hill-lawsuits-police-south-carolina-46458c1b93de49c1ef64565a56bc3d97
Trump and GOP sued for breaching KKK act with โcoordinated conspiracy to disenfranchise Black votersโ
NAACP accuses president and his campaign of relying on โbaseless, racist claimsโ to overturn 2020 results
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-naacp-kkk-act-lawsuit-black-voters-b1777750.html
Air Force: Black people more often investigated, punished
https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-air-force-a0b9f4cca885c15af9d4a7a008bcc63e
Video allowed in trial of officers charged in Floyd killing
(yet when police officers do this, they get a desk suspension WITH PAY until it all blows over? WTF!?)
Michael Ferguson Found Guilty For Firing Gunshots Into Crowd Near Mpls. Church, Killing 1
Paris police suspended over beating of Black man
PARIS (AP) โ A Black man beaten up by several French police officers said he is seeking justice after the publication of videos showing officers repeatedly punching him, using a truncheon and tear gas against him for no apparent reason.
Car plows into Manhattan protest, injuring several; driver detained [Reuters]
Yesterday, at appx 8 PM EST there was a federal execution by lethal injection.
Two hours after scheduled execution time 6 PM, SCOTUS denied his request for stay filing where Federal Prosecutors withheld for 18 YEARS critical information that adversely affected his sentencing.
Today, another federal execution will take place, bringing this total under this Administration to TEN.
All were black so far.
That is more Federal executions than in the prior SIXTY YEARS, COMBINED.
#BLM
Black bikers see racism in Myrtle Beach, SC, traffic plan
Eleven APD Officers Disciplined for Misconduct In Police-Brutality Protests
UPDATED: Seven more likely to face prosecution in May incidents
#BLM 65 YEARS AGO, TODAY:
โI would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free.โ
โRosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing a bus driver's instructions to give up her seat to a white passenger. She later recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in.
Libertate Nihil Dulcius!
my only political affiliation is to HUMANITY.
i love animals/cooking/gardening/reading/gaming/sailing
People often scare me.