In 2k15 America, Black people now have to proactively and publicly declare for the record that we, like anyone else, would neither lynch ourselves nor commit suicide while in police custody.
This is (apparently) necessary now because if we are caught being human and - even once - state that we were even momentarily sad or depressed, that single statement alone can and will be used against us by corporate media and the police to blame us for our own murders…at the hands of the police.
(to hear all of these Black women’s voices and to watch their full videos, please go to the tumblr
or twitter of youth activist/organizer, millennialau. see full videos here)
On July 4, Icarus Randolph woke up in a bad mental place.
The 26-year-old Marine veteran had served in Iraq and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, his family says.
That afternoon, he became a casualty on his mother’s front lawn when a Wichita police officer shot him in front of his family. It was supposed to be a good day at the family home on East Clay, near Rock and Lincoln. Randolph’s mother planned a cook-out. But when Beverly Allen returned from the store, her son’s eyes told her he was upset. She knew it was serious enough to call for help and ended up talking to a 911 dispatcher.
The purpose that day, his family says, was to get help for him. Instead, they say, the two police officers sent to the home allowed the situation to escalate.One officer – the one who fired the shots – spent crucial minutes arguing with the family in the small front yard when he should have been trying to diffuse things before Randolph came out of a door, says his older sister, Ida Allen.
The family disagrees with the police account, saying Randolph didn’t run or charge at the officer, but walked.It is the latest shooting by a Wichita police officer to raise questions about how police respond to mentally ill people.
When Randolph’s mother moved forward, the officer “aimed his gun at her and said, ‘Get back, or I’ll shoot you too.’”
Although “a knife was reportedly found near” Randolph’s body, the claim says, “none of the family saw it in his hand when he came out of the house before he was shot.”
July 4 is Ida Allen’s birthday. Now, it is the day that she saw her brother get shot.
“The irony of it all,” she said, “is now we all suffer from PTSD. …
“That didn’t have to happen the way it did that day.” /source/
I am 100% sure that the cops completely guilty for what happened. Firstly, for what fuck they started to argue with the family, who asked them for help? Second, they were taught how to deal with mentally ill people, not to harm them, but these morons ignore all this. Because the cops do not care for the safety of us, as citizens, they only care about their own safety. That’s disgusting … It is totally unfair …
Teenage boy accused of taking a backpack. The courts took the next three years of his life w/o trial. Boy then commits Suicide.
A young man named Kalief Browder, 22, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime, has just committed suicide.
He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed. There was no proof to suggest he did and when the police searched him they found nothing, but he was arrested anyways. Then he spent more than one thousand days on Rikers waiting for a trial that never happened. During that time, he endured about two years in solitary confinement, where he attempted to end his life several times.
After several attempts at taking his own life, Kalief Browder was taken to the psychiatric ward at St. Barnabas Hospital, not far from his home in the Bronx.
Browder told several stories of being beaten and abused by other inmates or officers, and a disturbing
surveillance footage was released of an officer assaulting him and of a large group of inmates pummeling and kicking him that it Once, in February, 2012, he ripped his bedsheet into strips, tied them together to create a noose, and tried to hang himself from the light fixture in his cell.
As his father explained, he’d apparently decided that these torn strips of sheet were not strong enough. That afternoon, at about 12:15 P.M., he went into another bedroom, pulled out the air conditioner, and pushed himself out through the hole in the wall, feet first, with a cord wrapped around his neck. His mother was the only other person home at the time. After she heard a loud thumping noise upstairs, she went upstairs to investigate, but couldn’t figure out what had happened. It wasn’t until she went outside to the backyard and looked up that she realized that her youngest child had hanged himself.
R.I.P. #Kalief Browder. I’m sorry they took your childhood and your future away like that.
Neighbors call police to a Suburb in McKinney,Texas when they learn that a family Invited “too many Black People” to their pool party . Cops Brutalize only black kids.
A McKinney police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a video that had surfaced online of an officer responding to a disturbance at a pool party in Craig Ranch with violence aimed only at the black teens.
The video shows the officer pulling a 14-year-old girl down and shoving her face first on the ground. When several other teenagers tried to help their friend, the video shows the officer pulling out his weapon and aiming it at them. The teenage girl could be heard screaming on the video, “I want to call my mom!!”
I want everyone to know about the Border Act 2015 which makes it illegal for anyone working in the Naaru detention centre to talk about anything they see there to anyone who is not the government. If they do they can face up to 2 years in jail.
All these doctors, social workers and teachers can’t report any of sexual abuse or child abuse that we know is going on there or THEY WILL GO TO JAIL
the Abbott Government moves closer to a dystopian tyranny everyday and I’m scared and ashamed of my country
“Under the Act, it is a criminal offence, punishable by imprisonment of up to two years, for any person working directly or indirectly for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to reveal to the media or any other person or organisation (the only exceptions being the Immigration Department and other Commonwealth agencies, police, coroners)anything that happens in detention centres like Nauru and Manus Island.“
“The Act not only criminalises whistleblowers but those such as medical professionals and teachers who believe they have an ethical duty to report physical and mental harm that occurs in a systemic fashion.“
I wish platonic bdsm was more of a thing. I want really good friends who will sometimes spit in my mouth and slap me and tell me I’m a filthy little piggy.
‘A disturbing report has surfaced according to which a police department in New Orleans has not fired more than a dozen officers who have been charged with rape and child pornography.
The charges have occurred within the last year, but it appears that the officers who were charged are still patrolling neighborhoods with loaded guns and are not being convicted.
It is appalling that we are told these people exist to “protect us,” even though they are the same ones being charged with such sickening crimes…
…One particularly egregious example involves Officer Bradley Wax, who was charged with 38 counts of possessing child pornography.
The crime was so serious that if Wax had not been a police officer, he would have faced more than 500 years in prison upon conviction.
Officer Wax isn’t the only one.
Officer Michael Thommassie was charged with aggravated rape and reports indicated that the victim was a child under the age of 10.
Just like Officer Wax, Officer Thomassie was placed on “emergency suspension,” but he was never actually fired or placed in prison.
Instead, investigators found him working behind a desk in the police departments fourth district…’ /source/
Cop badges today are just fancy ornaments for licensed criminals.
Goddamnit! Motherfuckers ain’t got nothing to fear! The bastards must be in a jail! Patrolling the streets, they and thousands like them, every day threaten our safety and the safety of your children! See? This is a real horror! Piece of shit, which, by law, must rot in jail, is now patrolling the streets armed. He just does not see the boundaries of his power, and after he got away with the crime, his sense of responsibility is lost completely.
