“If you’ve been hearing about the “riots” or the #purge or the “Warzone” in Baltimore today, this is important context. h/t Jon Berger Sergio España
“I want to make this as clear as possible:
Step 1: the police created a “credible threat” about some high school students gathering at Mondawmin to start trouble.“
Step 2: the police showed up in force and riot gear before the students got out of school at Mondawmin, which is a major public transit hub, and SHUT DOWN THE TRANSIT, guaranteeing the kids couldn’t leave.
Step 3: the police started macing people and brandishing tasers.
Step 4: the kids understandably responded to being stranded and maced by throwing rocks.
Step 5: the media starts reporting it as “a riot” and “violent protesters.”
This is 100% bought and paid for by the police department. This is absolutely vile.“
- Seth
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This is some scary propaganda dystopian novel shit.
February 9
Twitter user and live streamer, MissJupiter1957, was pulled from her wheelchair and assaulted by police, arrested and charged with “failure to obey police orders and 3rd degree assault” on a police officer. Her wheelchair was also confiscated by police.
She was released a few hours later.
how could you possibly be this cowardly
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Day 9 of #BlackHistoryYouDidntLearnInSchool - Sundown towns
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BOMBSHELL INTERVIEW: Eric Garner’s Death a Retaliatory Move by NYPD | The Free Thought Project
The Free Thought Project has been given exclusive information as to why Eric Garner may have been killed by the NYPD. This new information paints an entirely different picture as to why police were harassing Garner that fateful day back in July.
The information comes from an interview that took place last Thursday with Benjamin Carr. Benjamin Carr is Eric Garner’s stepfather, who was in the media recently peacefully resolving a situation with an angry protester.
The brief clip, obtained exclusively by the Free Thought Project, is part of a much larger collection of video which is going to be part of a documentary on police misconduct, which is why the videographer who gave it to us, has placed a watermark over it.
In the interview, Carr tells us that police didn’t show up that day because Garner broke up a fight or sold loosey cigarettes; they were there because police had a history of harassing Garner.
Carr explains that police had actually stolen money from Garner, who subsequently planned to file a complaint against the NYPD for this theft. Police were there that day, Carr says, not to shake Garner down for selling smokes, but to retaliate against him for trying to expose their theft.
The sexual assault component of stop and frisk chills me to the bone.
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CNN let viewers #AskACop — and it blew up in their faces
Everyone knows police and social media don’t mix — everyone except CNN, apparently.
Anchor Don Lemon’s show CNN Tonight hosted a town hall meeting Tuesday with police officers dubbed “Cops Under Fire” to explore issues related to police brutality that have occupied the national conversation in past weeks. The show also asked viewers to tweet in questions using the hashtag #AskACop.
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Random Headcanon: The social hierarchy of merfolk is based on depth tolerance. Merfolk royalty are terrifying.
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#SOS1DMX
DEAR FOLLOWERS
This is happening Right NOW in Mexico City, we need your help again to make this images travel around the globe, Police in Mex is attacking the peaceful protesters and hitting inocent people, the subway system is paralized and the cops don’t let ANYONE (this includes children, old people and families) get out.
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
PLEASE SHARE RE BLOG AND LET THE WORLD KNOWS WE DON’T WANT PEÑA NIETO ANYMORE.
VIVOS SE LOS LLEVARON!!! VIVOS LOS QUEREMOS!!!
#YaMeCansé
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Actual quote from Ferguson “law enforcement” officer and 35-year police veteran, Dan Page. But hey, let’s keep focusing on all those unreasonable “looters and rioters” (via staininyourbrain)
Boosting BC we can’t forget about Ferguson. We can’t lose momentum.
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PLEASE STOP IGNORING THE FACT THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER MASS KIDNAPPING. 30 MORE STUDENTS IN MEXICO. THE total nuMBER IS NOW 73.
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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”
Vile photos show the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border no one is talking about
With a spate of huge stories breaking in the past few weeks, you might not have caught the massive environmental crisis in northern Mexico that began earlier in August.
According to the Associated Press, local politicians claim that Grupo Mexico, a private mining company in Sonora with a troubling track record of hazardous waste violations in Mexico and the U.S., was slow to report a disastrous fault in its leaching ponds, which hold industrial acid used in the mining process. The spill released around 10 million gallons of acid into the Bacanuchi and Sonora Rivers.
If you use the term ‘cis’, ‘cissexual’ or ‘cisgender’, you should be shot.
the joke is that the people who largely use these terms (read: trans people) are actually literally murdered all the time