How is firing over your shoulder, from a car, with a 9mm semi-automatic, into an alley where people are walking, unarmed, with their backs turned to you, fatally hitting one in the head, not at least wreckless conduct and reckless discharge of a firearm?Dante Servin, The Cop Who Killed Rekia Boyd “Out of ‘Fear'” Found …
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“Tragedy.”
One of the more terrifying aspects of U.S. culture at the moment is the normalization, if not naturalization, of violent deaths. Especially school shooting and police brutality, which should be rare and shocking incidents, are naturalized to a point where they are treated not so much as horrific human (inter)action, but as “tragedies.” Don’t misunderstand …
If Dante wasn’t your son, he’d be a candidate for a chokehold. And we’ve got to deal with that reality. The Rev. AL SHARPTON, bluntly addressing New York City mayor Bill de Blasio during a City Hall meeting on Thursday. Sharpton also addressed NYPD commissioner William Bratton: “ I also think, commissioner, that the best way to make …
“I Can’t Breathe” This is powerful: On July 29th, at 6pm WalkRunFly Productions (Warren Adams & Brandon Victor Dixon) partnered with poet Daniel J. Watts, and over 100 Broadway stars, directors, producers, musicians, choreographers, designers and technicians in Times Square to send a message about violence and the killing of Eric Gardner. The death of …
And in 45 years of me being on this earth, that was the very first time that I ever heard my father where he was pleading and begging for his life, someone who I looked at as being extremely strong, to hear him beg for his life, to say that this was his sworn testimony …
Imagine you’re Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old black kid walking home from the store, and some stranger follows you down the street in his car. He’s not a cop, and he’s harassing you. How do you react? What happens when you indicate you will defend yourself & he kills you? Does anyone arrest him? …
“Film the Police” by B. Dolan feat. Toki Wright, Jasiri X, Buddy Peace, Sage Francis is sort of a Strange Famous Records all-star re-working of N.W.A.’s “Fuck the Police” in response to the perceived increase of police brutality surrounding the Occupy protests. I’m still not claiming A.C.A.B., but maybe one of the results of these protests …
Not to diminish what happened at UC Davis, but it’s worth considering what happens in poor neighborhoods and prisons, far from the cameras. I’m not saying that to diminish this video in anyway. But I’d like people to see this a part of a broad systemic attitude we’ve adopted as a country toward law enforcement. …
reflectsthemadnesswithin: fuckyeah-nerdery: ocelott: The actions of the Boston PD will not go unnoticed. Spread this like wildfire. “Support” the troops when they’re fighting and dying for nothing, choke them out when they protest peacefully. If this doesn’t make you angry, there is no hope for you.
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