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“2 years ago today, Ryan Stokes, an unarmed Black man, was killed by KCPD. Ryan was his mother’s youngest child and only son. One racist act can erase an entire legacy. #BlackLivesMatter #RyanStokes#WhyWeFightFor more info, visit RYAN Stokes Speaking Truth to Injustice.” Via One Struggle KC|| https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=54&v=uXAfPO2Is7I
What it’s like to be a Black parent: unsure of, or feeling unable to protect your kids; having your children fear for your life, feeling that they must protect you. To bring life into the world that sees it as value less; to bring a life into the world that is aware of this.
4/25. peep.
Watch this until your eyes break. This is what we’re facing.
cultureunseen:
Charda Gregory abducted, humiliated, violated, restrained, scalped and tortured. If this were reversed, with black police officers who were sworn to uphold peace and justice but instead were documented victimizing a white woman (who was already a victim), this news would have trumped the Olympics! Truncated version: drugged at a party, abducted to a motel, wakes up during unwanted sexual violation in a motel room full of strangers, fights like hell to escape, motel employee calls the authorities, she gets arrested for destroying motel property and it just gets worst from there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBLolqUaNg Every officer who participated in it and even those who witnessed it and did nothing should be punished but instead they just fired the woman? No rape kit, no police report on the people inside the motel room, no investigation of her claims, no accountability for missing motel entry records, no video from the motel but she gets detained for fourteen days? (Btw, when did your tax dollars begin purchasing Abu Ghraib type water boarding chairs?)
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/cut-on-camera-cop-slices-off-young-mothers-artificial-hair
And yet I hear people defending the police all the time… Wtf. If you’re an officer, stand up and stop letting this shit happen. If your fellow officer is abusive, stand the fuck or you’re not better than this trash.
Black mother allegedly shoplifts and gets shot and killed in front of her two children after an officer opened fire shooting into her vehicle, which the children were in at the time, all on suspicion. Her name was Shelley Frey. The family has spoken out saying “she didn’t deserve to die”.
Rich white woman steals loads of clothing and ends up with community service and even her employer said they would continue “to value highly her association with Warburg Realty”. Also, she was not shot and killed.
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PLEASE PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS, THE MAINSTREAM WILL NOT COVER IT TUMBLR AND TWITTER ARE OUR ONLY FORMS OF SPREADING THIS NEWS
WE WERE LESS THAN 50 UNARMED TEENAGERS PEACEFULLY PROTESTING AND 200 COPS CAME SWINGING WITH BATONS. OUR ONLY WEAPONS WERE OUR VOICES AND CARDBOARD SIGNS YET THEY STILL ATTACKED BECAUSE OUR TRUTH THREATENED AND SCARED THE POLICE THAT MUCH.
THIS IS THE AMERICA WE LIVE IN. I DIDN’T WANT TO BELIEVE IT BUT IT’S TRUE.
WAKE UP EVERYONE.
oh my god. oh my god.
I want to point out that when the really bad fighting started, a policeman fell down, and one of the protesters helped him up. The policeman then immediately went and shoved a nonthreatening protester into a metal garbage can. There was one black police officer towards the end of the scuffle that was putting his hands up to calm things on his end down, but other officers were still shoving and hitting. This is just bizarre and frightening. To quote the protesters, “We have a right to protest”.
this is absolutely fucking horrifying.
Thursday, December 4th
THIS SHOULD ALSO MAKE YOU ENRAGED.
POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK WOMEN EXISTS.
BLACK WOMEN (ESPECIALLY TRANSGENDER) ARE GETTING MURDERED, RAPED, AND BRUTALIZED BY THE POLICE AND ARE BEING BLAMED FOR **THEIR** ACTIONS.
DON’T SLEEP ON POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK WOMEN.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE WATCH THIS
a kid was just choked out by the NYPD at the Eric Garner “I can’t breathe” protest happening RIGHT NOW.
REBLOG THIS PLEASE.SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE. PUT THIS ON THE NEWS!
HOLD UP THIS KID GOT THEIR FUCKING ARMS BEHIND THEIR BACK. IM ASSUMING HANDCUFFED???? THE FUCK HE GETTING PUT INTO AN ‼️ILLEGAL‼️CHOKEHOLD FOR!?? DO WE HAVE AN UPDATES ON THIS? OR WHO THE OFFICER IS???
-Holly
…oh my fucking god…
Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194, 216 (2001) (Ginsburg, J., concurring). (via racketstory)
America just told us fuck eye witnesses, fuck camera footage, and fuck the presidents plan for surveilling officers.
Wow
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry because like
You know how with Darren Wilson all the white people were like “We don’t know what happened” or that Michael “attacked” Wilson? Now that Eric Garner’s murder is raw & unedited all over the internet, theyve resorted to saying that Garner had a history of poor health, and died as a result. Not because he was put in an illegal chokehold, but apparently because he was in bad shape. Amazing
This happened in my town just a few days ago.
Her name was Aura Rosser, a woman who probably had a mental illness and was in the Ann Arbor area to try to get help.
Police responded to a domestic disturbance, she had a knife and one of the officers fatally shot her. That’s an important distinction. Cops are supposed to be trained in how to non-lethally subdue people.
She had three kids and was presumably trying to get her shit together. Why is she dead. How many times does this have to happen.
Here is the video proof of my previous post about this officer forcing his way into my moms house (without legal documentation) and arresting my brothers friend without explanation. PLEASE REBLOG TO RAISE AWARENESS!!
Boosting!!!
boost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tip for future reference for anyone who might be watching this: keep the camera on the police at all times.
Not even safe in our own damn homes.
GET THIS TO 5 MILLION NOTES GET THIS NATIONAL FUCKING ATTENTION
Holy fucking shit omg.
"help me get away from him" "no."
YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS
YOU NEED TO FEEL FUCKING SICK AND DISGUSTED BY WATCHING IT
THIS IS NO GAME, THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS
original blog appears to have been deleted. if anyone has info about this please inbox me. hoping these folks are alright.
