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Police shoot and kill Philando Castile, his girlfriend live streams aftermath on Facebook

32-year-old black man Philando Castile died in the hospital Wednesday night after being shot by police in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, during a traffic stop. The aftermath was captured live on Facebook video by his girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds. “We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back,” Reynolds says in the video. “The police just, just…he’s covered.“ 

“He’s licensed to carry,” Reynolds explains, “He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out his pocket, and he let the officer know that he had a firearm, and he was reaching for his wallet, and the officer just shot him in his arm.” The video is extremely graphic, read more for a full description.

Update: Although the demand for answers is only getting louder, based on police union contracts and police bill of rights legislation, the name of the officer who fatally shot Castile isn’t likely to be released anytime soon.

Update: Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has issued a statement on Philando Castile. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has initiated an independent investigation at the state level, according to Dayton’s statement. But Dayton is going even higher to get to the bottom of all this.

Update: Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton doesn’t think Philando Castile would have been shot to death if he had been white. At a press conference on Thursday, Dayton addressed the death of Castile: “Would this have happened if the driver or passenger had been white? I don’t think it would have,” Dayton said.

Explosions in Brussels

Around an hour and a half ago there have been two explosions at Brussels Airport and there has been another one at Maalbeek metro station near the EU building. 13 people are reported dead, 35 severely injured(VTM). The terror level is on 4, its maximum, and will be for  months.

Update: Sky News just announced that at least 10 people have reportedly been killed Maalbeek metro blast.

Update: All EU institutions are at alert level ORANGE - all meetings on premises and outside cancelled, access only for staff with badges (https://twitter.com/KGeorgievaEU)

Update: The airport is closed until 6am tomorrow and all incoming and departing flights are cancelled. (https://twitter.com/FlyingBrussels)

Update: Belgium’s prime minister, Charles Michel, has warned the Belgian public to “avoid any movement” for the time being. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/mar/22/brussels-airport-explosions-live-updates)

Update: @heartfilledminds: “If you’re Dutch and in Brussels you can go to this site and tell your friends you’re safe: http://ikbenveilig.rodekruis.nl/ “

Update: Anyone affected or concerned about family and friends can contact the @foreignofficemusic-blog helpline on +44 207 008 0000 (https://twitter.com/foreignoffice)

Update: All trains to Brussels stations from Paris have been cancelled, writes Angelique Chrisafis. (http://www.theguardian.com)

Update: Sky News reported that probably no one died at Maalbeek metro blast but this has not been confirmed yet. There is confusion due to contrasts between two broadcasters.

Update: Belgium’s federal prosecutor has confirmed that the explosions at Brussels airport were carried out by a suicide bomber, according to broadcasters VTM and RTBF reported. (http://www.theguardian.com)

Update: American Airlines have released the following statement. The explosion in the airport occurred near to their departure desk.We are aware of an incident at the Brussels airport departure hall and are taking care of our customers, employees and contractors. At this time, all of our employees and contractors are accounted for with no reported injuries. […] (http://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith)

Update: You are now able to mark yourself safe on Facebook.

Update: Brussels police have confirmed there have been deaths at the Maelbeek metro station but they have not disclosed numbers, AP reports. There are unconfirmed reports that 10 people were killed at the station.(http://www.theguardian.com)

Update: There have been smaller explosions near Maalbeek metro station but: “Small blasts, thought to be controlled explosions, have been heard close the Maelbeek metro. Local media said it appeared to be the work of the police bomb squad, Reuters reports.”(http://www.theguardian.com)

Update: Belgium’s prime minister Charles Michel confirmed in a television press conference that the attack at the airport was carried by a suicide bomber.

Update: Allegedly shots were fired and Arabic and French was shouted just before the two explosions at the airport but along with others @davidcrunelle states: “To journalists : no, nobody shouted islamic sentences before the two explosions. Please stop asking this. Thanks.”

Update: “Our thoughts go to the victims and their families. So far 15 victims, 55 wounded (provisional)” (Brussels metro operator STIB-MIVB)

Update: Belgian TV station, Ring TV, has posted an appeal to people living near Zaventem airport to bring blankets, water, food and essential medical supplies to the local gym being used as a makeshift shelter, writes Oliver Milne.(http://www.theguardian.com)

Update: Entire Thalys high speed rail network closed across Benelux countries(@DominicWaghorn)

@oh-boromir: “If you can go donate blood, especially at the hospital Saint Pierre!” - But still make sure you are safe!

Should you be in Brussels right now: PLEASE, STAY SAFE!!! Don’t go out and don’t come to the airport. All flights are cancelled and trains are stopped. Also, STAY SAFE!!!

SCHOOL CHILDREN MUST STAY AT SCHOOL, ALSO DURING MIDDAY (https://twitter.com/CrisiscenterBE)

TEXT, DON’T CALL IF YOU SPEAK WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY

If you call 112 you will be redirected to an English-speaking officer. 1771 is the local emergency number

https://twitter.com/CrisiscenterBE: Contact via 1771, but give priority to victims and family. Do not call if not necessarily. All Telenet Hotspots are free to use.

PRAY FO BRUSSELS

(22 March 2016)

Oh where do we begin the rubble or our sins ? … if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all ? (lyrics insp. x)

Grand jury decides not to indict officers for fatal shooting of Tamir Rice

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosecutor Tim McGinty announced Monday there would be no indictment or criminal charges filed in the police killing of a 12-year-old black boy in Cleveland last year. Why critics have called out the tactics used by McGinty in the case.

   IT’S THE SAME FUCKING FACE PLEASE END ME  

(ノ ゜Д゜)ノ ︵ ┻━┻

(thanks shinka for pushing over the edge of INSANITY)

He is so in love. So heartstoppingly and openly in love.

He really, really is.  And this is the face he makes whenever he catches tiny glimpses of the great hearts that dwell inside the reserved, anti-social and seemingly cold men he chooses to love.  

You see something like it when Sholto corrects himself and uses John’s first name, a kind of tenderness and regard sneaking into his tone when he does:

But I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but, after that. Every night after that. I’d see it all again; I do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways - every night I save you.

Really excited for the season finale of the government tonight.

"Project Future" (via alchemy)

what

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just brilliant

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Let that sink all the way in. Then check your voter registration again.

(via blissandzen)

your name is Jim.

#JESUS. FUCKING. CHRIST. #DO YOU THINK THAT JIM KNEW #WHEN HE WENT INTO THE WARP CORE #WHAT SPOCK HAD DONE. #DO YOU THINK HE REMEMBERED. #MAYBE THIS IS NOT FUCKING NEWS TO ANYONE ELSE BUT MY ENTIRE BRAIN IS EXPLODING RIGHT NOW. #DO YOU THINK THROUGH THIS ENTIRE KHAN DEBACLE KIRK WAS RUNNING SCENES FROM SPOCK’S MIND MELD THROUGH HIS HEAD\ #REALIZING WHAT CAME NEXT #KNOWING WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE #TELLING SPOCK NOTHING THE ENTIRE TIME #BECAUSE THEN SPOCK WOULD’VE TRIED TO FULFILL HIS OWN MISGUIDED SENSE OF DESTINY #AND NO ONE TRUMPS JIM KIRK AT ANYTHING DAMNIT #ESPECIALLY NOT THIS #I DON’T EVEN SHIP THESE ASSHOLES #OH MY F UC K ING GOD#THIS IS JUST A JIM KIRK CASE STUDY #HE HAS TO SAVE THE GODDAMN FUCKING DAY #’AT TREMENDOUS COST’ #FUCK #god #i hate #star trek #so much why do i have these fucking feelings i never #wanted to live this way (tags via historianisms)

Objectification and body shaming in PETA ads (an introduction).

If you’re interested at all in becoming an animal rights  advocate, my advice is to just look at whatever PETA does and do the exact opposite.

I’ve always hated PETA, here is one reason why.

nothingsacred-nothingnew:

I haven’t seen a post about this yet and I am dying to talk about it.

I know a lot of people were freaked out by this suddenly happening, I know I was. But after a minute, when Dean tried to cover his face to block what was scaring Elle and stating that what she was seeing wasn’t real, my mind jumped back to the end of season 3 when Dean was going through the same thing as her.

I remembered specifically when Bobby told Dean that “You’re almost hell’s bitch, so you can see hell’s other bitches.” and the one time when Dean saw Sam’s face twist like the demons’ because his little brother was ingesting copious amounts of demon blood from, you guessed it, hell’s bitches.

It hit me then that this twisted face was in fact, Dean Winchester, hell’s ex bitch in the flesh minus the angel mojo.

It’s not a simple trick of the hellhound getting close, otherwise Elle would be seeing more than just Dean’s face twisting into something horrifying and Dean would have seen Bobby’s and other human faces twisting into demonic images of themselves back in season 3. From the past episodes with hellhounds, the only things who had this happen were actual demons and Sam, the boy with the demon blood.

Now you might be wondering, “How can that be Dean?”

Well if you recall, Dean was dragged to hell and thrown onto the path of tortured turned torturer for forty years. A path that is often the root that souls follow to become demons. This means that before Castiel came along with his lovely angel mojo, Dean looked like this, a 75-76 year old (approximately, I hear several different total age ranges for Dean) demon in progress that was halted by the touch of an angel because he was the righteous man and the first seal.

This is Dean Winchester’s true face.

And him hiding his face and jumping up so quickly can be explained easily as him moving to try and kill the hellhound before it got to Elle or Sam got any bright ideas, but I think it was also because he knew what she saw and didn’t like that she saw it.

I mean, who would like to know that they’re suspicions that they look like a demon in the eyes of someone about to be dragged to hell were true? Dean spent more time in hell than he has on earth and this is just a lingering reminder of that torment that he can’t get rid of no matter the angel scrub he gets. It’s imprinted on his soul.

And if you think that’s bad, think of how this might be the way Cas sees Dean all the time. Or what Elle might have seen if it had been Sam, the man who spent over 180 years (going by Dean’s time span in hell) to about 5000 years (going off one of the calculations based on a time span Soulless Sam mentioned) in Lucifer’s cage. That might not have been the pathway to becoming a demon like Dean was on, but that amount of torture probably twisted Sam’s true face just the same.

this, while being beautifully insightful, hurt like a fucking bitch