Say his name! Say her name! Say their names! (a storify)
Submitted by wendy davis on Fri, 04/20/2018 - 4:52pm
Some updates:
“A Broader Pattern of Police Shooting Black Women in Distress
“Decynthia — like Saheed Vassell, who was killed by Brooklyn police last week, and like up to half of people killed by police — was (or was perceived to be) in a mental health crisis at the time she was shot. She became one of the many Black women whom police officers were called to assist but ended up killing instead: Deborah Danner, Kiwi Herring, Charleena Lyles, Aura Rosser, Tanisha Anderson, Michelle Cusseaux, Eleanor Bumpurs…. The list is long and painful.”, truthout.org above
Killedbypolice.net has corporate news reports of 387 Amerikan citizens killed by police since Jan. 1, 2018 #FuckThePolice
Crossposted from: café babylon
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wish there were hashtags for brutality in the ongoing ice raids
and border patrol 'arrests'. this is a polite version, of course. 'ICE Blames New York's Sanctuary Policies For Crackdown That Led To 225 Arrests', newsweek
'O'odham Suffering from Malnutrition Because of Border Restrictions and Arrests', censorednews.com
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bless your ♥,
i'm glad that janelle and co.said her name. hung herself in jail? OFM no. hard to say which killings by the po-po were most grievous and fucked up. for me, i reckon one at the top (besides the young uns) was pastor marvin booker, eventually MLK street preacher in denver at the PD, assassinated for going back to his seat to...retrieve his shoes.. may he rest in power and our love...forever. or mentally ill kelly thomas in fullerton, as he cried for his mama, crushed by the po-po as onlookers called it like a horse race, the assholes... jayzus.
dunno why this part of my comment dinnae show up;
it's there when i open it in 'edit'. but anyhoo:
james boyd in ABQ.
(when i could still actually write coherently), oh lordie...too many too many.
I'm seriously at a loss for words
Maddening. Depressing. Terrifying.
I hope the families of the victims find peace and justice in this lifetime.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
hard to take in in one fell swoop, isn't ?
even these few recent stories. i suppose some families and loved ones may find peace eventually, but for many that includes still seeking Justice. the po-po who've (albeit rarely) prosecuted, there are many defense attorneys who hire professionals to show that the 'imminent threat' threshold was in play, the po-po/s were justified in their killings. it's bullshit, of course, like lt. col. dave grossman...who also trains others. but there are others, of course, and many 're-enactments' sway juries into 'not guilty' verdicts. impunity, impunity...
Thanks Wendy. As someone who marched with BlackLivesMatter
and participated in die-ins in Times Sq, I think it's way past time we have a serious conversation about the role of policing.
I like to get a rise out of friends by telling them I think we should abolish the police altogether. I'm too tired to get into a full discussion about it but there's plenty of evidence and grounds for a major comprehensive overhaul for how policing should at all in fact be done. Too many very bad outcomes, especially when cops are held to arrest quotas. It's a stewing disaster in so many ways.
This professor at CUNY is one of my favorite in making the case:
There's just so much to say that I don't have the energy for now.
Just wanted to thank you for putting this together and add this information. I find it too painful to read about each and every next horrific, cold-blooded cop murder of an innocent, unarmed person.
Did you hear about the prison massacre in South Carolina? Caught it on Democracy Now (Amy has alternating moments when she remembers her roots):
As Paul Robeson appealed to the UN almost 70 years ago, "We Charge Genocide." Nothing's changed.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Btw, I believe Keegan Stephan is in the first video w/ Vitale.
On Twitter he's been on the very best citizen journalists out in the streets documenting police brutality demonstrations and helping to keep visible the police atrocities in NYC.
And inspiring, sharp guy, the kind whose commitment gives me hope.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
shaun king used to be great, too...
but now he's in The Intercept's stable, pfffft. dan cohen is calling it 'the intervention'.
Imagine hating your ruler (Trump) so much that you
would advocate for a much more powerful nation with the largest military ever assembled to attack your country and kill and displace millions to try to get rid of him.
whooosh times 10,
but allow me to add this part (folks who comment t the café are often two or three diaries behind) from a commenter after likening proyect to a product of the aeolus (winds):
"CP, I guess, tries to prevent a variety of viewpoints but for fudge’s sake, St. Clair today refers to “The Pro-Assad contingent” to which I say fuck you Jeffrey. behind all this lies the absolute right of Syria to defend itself from US imperialism, which defense just so happens to fall to Assad & Putin. “Assad rented torture chambers to the US”!!!! uh huh. and the mafia bosses still want their sometime useful bastard dead despite his service? so I’m pro-Assad b/c I don’t want the party that is much, much worse than Assad to win? let’s try to chew bubblegum & walk at the same time people.
and helpfully, when not shrieking about Russia & #metoo, the NYT has started a new series called “the caliphate”. lol.
but the intercept? seems to me to be the correct name as they work for the empire for the most part. part of the bad blood w/ assange over 'not naming afghanistan' cuz it would hurt the war effort or what.ev.er. assange eventually did, of course. and oh! those white helmets! (murtazza hussain).
@wendy davis I was referring
I was referring to the writer of that article and the Syrians (or supposed Syrians) that pop up in defense of imperialism.
I wonder who he's pointing at when referring to the "pro-Assad" contingent. I've not seen much of that at all from my readings. As the commenter said, inferring someone is pro something just because they're anti something else is pretty short sighted.
As far as the Intercept, I've been ant-Intercept since I heard Pierre was funding it. I'm just that way darn it. Course, there's Scahill's diss of truthers and Greenwald's support of war when it's "necessary".
apologies for not being clear.
yes, i knew who you'd meant, but i was continuing w/ the theme of my diary re: some of the 'leftist except assad', etc. the subtweets were pretty good, too, and one mentioned the intercept's hits on julian assange, which pissed me purple. margaret kimberly didn't mince her words a bit naming actually known war criminals who will never see the hague. a few, of course, said that of course assad is a terrible man (war criminal?), but...and gave no evidence of such.
the intercept has so many journalists for a reason: to control the news, and they are failing mightily, as more and more readers tell them to fuck off. and a quarter of a billion bucks of pierre's later...they're asking for donations. hmmmm.
good on you for joining in such activism,
and blessings on you for it! i've seen 'end the police', 'disarm the police', and 'local policing by locals'. glenn ford had once called for 'black policing for black communities', but as we''ve seen before, many black po-po just zip on the 'police security state' with their uniforms and badges before their shifts. meaning...i'm not so sure he's correct, if well meaning.
i had seen the news about the prison massacres, but only the print version. glad amy got it right this time, smile. i hope i'll find the time to watch your videos, but oof: an hour one, and a 27-min one? hard for me, to say the truth. at trnn, i wait for the transcript when i'm interested in a guest or subject...
and keegan's awesome, and is in law school, to boot! bless his good ♥.
i regret that so few here cared about this subject.
should i have titled it differently so that folks unfamiliar w/ the anti-police state movement might have twigged?
ah well; live and learn, or conclude w/o evidence i guess. tonight's shutdown song will be from boots riley and the coups.
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