Earlier this week, authorities released video of a Cleveland police officer fatally shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice. He was killed within two seconds of the cop’s arrival at a park where he was seen holding an airsoft gun. On the same day the video was released, Northeast Ohio Media Group published a report titled “Tamir Rice’s father has history of domestic violence.”
The article, which has so far been shared on Facebook over eight thousand baffling times, reports that Tamir Rice’s father has a history of violence against women, including Rice’s mother. Although it never explains the significance of this fact, it is preceded by an update:
(Update: A line has been added to this story to give insight into the motivation to investigate the parents’ background)
That line—added after the fact, presumably due to questions about the article’s relevance—doesn’t give the insight promised: “People from across the region have been asking whether Rice grew up around violence.” Oh, have they?
Assuming it is true that “people from across the region” have been asking whether a child mistakenly killed by police while holding a toy “grew up around violence” (and there is obviously interest in the answer, seen in the incredible amount of social sharing), it is hard—impossible, really—to justify taking seriously, and acting upon, the clear search for blame in an innocent child.
12-year-old Tamir Rice was killed by police in two seconds. His parents’ backgrounds, violent or not, had no bearing on his death.
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“Give the pink one sexy eyelashes”
“But it’s a speaker”
“It’s a girl speaker and no one will know if it doesn’t have sexy eyelashes”
- me in 2010: i am straight but i support the community! i love gay people!
- me in 2014: gay
Many people know that women make 77 cents to the dollar compared to men. But did you know that African-American women make just 64 cents to the dollar, and Hispanic women make just 56 cents? One group offers an interesting way to fix this.
We all need to be upset about this.
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women of African descent they NEVER show you…
pssst….information about these women (and the origin of the images) is here.
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Hosni Mubarak acquitted of 2011 killing of protestersBBC: An Egyptian court has thrown out a case against former President Hosni Mubarak for conspiring to murder protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Charges against his sons and some of his senior officials, including the former interior minister, were also dropped. Mubarak, 86, will return to the military hospital where he is being held on a separate 3-year sentence for embezzling public funds.Photo: Mubarak leaves as he is wheeled out of the court after the verdict (BBC / EPA)
please. please do yourself a favor and read this incredibly well-written and thrilling article, written by a woman who willfully sat in a TGI fridays for 14 hours, and ordered far too many mozzerella sticks, in order to see whether or not “endless appetizers” were truly endless.
i am not kidding you when i say that it is the best thing i’ve read in a long time.
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This picture warms my heart.
whats better than this
just guys bein scienceI’m going to imagine they were singing a duet about friendship. Science friendship.
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Reminder that Ferguson is a food desert and school is canceled. People’s movement is restricted. The work of the St Louis Food Bank is vital right now. Help if you can. (x)
If you are like me, and of a very, very practical bent, there is literally no higher or best use of your latte money than to feed kids. In the BEST of times, food insecurity is a huge childhood issue throughout the United States, and one that somehow gets truly ignored for sexier causes.
But with schools being shut down in Ferguson, that’s some kids’ meal for the damn day. It’s even more dire. I cannot be more serious about this, even a dollar goes so far at these food banks, they don’t need awareness, they need MONEY. Currency is the currency of the realm.