Black Lives Matter. Still

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(“folds” = typo for “folks”)

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Officers allegedly planted gun on man after running him over

But “not all cops” right?

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They didn’t kill him, but they certainly fucked up his life.

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He’s 12 for fucks sake. For selling CDs. Really? Some days I hate this world.

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Cobb county cops, still being racist as fuck… Another reason to just wall of that entire part of the metro area until they can get their shit together.

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These photographs are gorgeous.

'Every Black Person Deserves To See Themselves This Way'

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Thread:

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Damn, that is powerful. I suspect the high muckety mucks stopped listening after the first “motherfuckers” in an orgy of pearl clutching, which just proves his point. To some folks, a man cursing in a public meeting is a greater sin than innocent black people being murdered in the street. I can hear the response in my head clearly, "We surely cannot discuss the matter of innocent black people being murdered by publicly sanctioned goon squads if you are going to insist on such foul, unspeakable language (much gasping and affliction of vapors ensues.) I suspect that it would be different if the dead were white, but that is just a guess. (/s)

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Intercepted Podcast: The American Machine — Police Torture to Drone...

JS: As COINTELPRO was in full swing, the U.S. intensified its war in Vietnam. In that war, the U.S. ran assassination operations, including under the CIA’s so-called Phoenix Program. They used torture. They killed massive numbers of civilians. And a good number of the people who participated in these crimes abroad returned home to the United States and became police officers. Among these there was a man named Jon Burge. He was a military police officer in Vietnam and then joined the Chicago Police Department, rising to become a prominent detective.

During his time in the Chicago Police, Jon Burge married the worlds of the murderous war in Vietnam with the most extreme crimes of the COINTELPRO program. He ran what can only be called a torture program in the city of Chicago that was aimed at getting confessions from black men to crimes that many of them had nothing to do with. Burge used many of the very tactics that he learned and implemented in Vietnam as a prison guard on the black men he encountered when he became a police officer in the city of Chicago. This torture included a makeshift torture machine that was used to electrically shock suspects, including by attaching alligator clips to the genitals of men and jolting their bodies with painful electric shocks.

At the same time, the Chicago police — in concert with the FBI — murdered the most prominent Black Panther leader in Illinois in his bedroom in the middle of the night. That leader was Fred Hampton, the chair of the Illinois Black Panthers and a national leader of the party. And our next guest was in that house soon after Fred Hampton and his fellow Black Panther Mark Clark were killed. He recalls standing in a pool of blood on December 4, 1969.

Chicago. Under Democratic control since 1931. Jon Burge’s reign of torture continued into the 1990’s. With the knowledge and approval of the local judicial and political establishment.

It isn’t just the GOP.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-died-61744427?cid=clicksource_4380645_null_card_hed

Skip the comments. Usual racist “I am sure they deserved it” shit. To quote Scotty, “Twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”

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Opening Salvo

Now, it’s the opening salvo
Where poets scope the people like Mohammad and Malvo
A sample of the battle we waged against an animal
Made to snuff us out like the wick of a candle
And all the youth dressed in camo, we’re ready to handle
And no this war was not scripted, can’t change the channel
We canceling all subscriptions, this is the last issue
When the casket’s closed can’t take the cash with you
No post-mortem residuals
We individuals who
Indivisible become the most invincible
But that is not the issue at hand
We demand the simple right to question y’all people
Where the fuck is freedom at?
It’s all we ask but instead we get our asses
Assassinated fast
If they catch you talking trash
Then the first shall be last
It’s time to prepare
Black clouds, sky falling, put a hand in the air

And my people building monuments to weather the flood
I’m a leave how I came screaming covered in blood
Died once born twice both times we knuckled up
Alongside our people we gonna struggle with love

So struggle with love, struggle with love, struggle with love

Now this here’s for those who choose fights whose fruits might
Never not ripen until after they life
It’s not right how they martyr our leaders and target our children
Disrespect the sisters and wonder why we militant
Peace to my third world equivalent
Even if I can’t fight beside you
I write what I can
To get our fam in other lands to understand your pain
Cause your beef is mine and we one and the same
And I know about this privilege
But if you’re from where I’m from
Then you know a bigger burden comes with it
And that’s what I carry when you see me on a hustle
I’m talking as a walking document of our struggle
Kasamas hold me down and remember that I love you
And Johnny hold your head up if they ever take me from you
And please tell him that I tried, don’t cry
Cause no matter where you are, our struggle’s near by

And my people building monuments to weather the flood
I’m a leave how I came screaming covered in blood
Died once born twice both times we knuckled up
Alongside our people we gonna struggle with love

So struggle with love, struggle with love, struggle with love

Right now I want to thank God for being me
My soul won’t rest until the colony is free
1896 revolution incomplete
Silence is defeat my solution is to speak
Resurrect a legacy of martyrs I beseech
Time to choose a side it’s the mighty vs. the meek
My big brother Free brought the word from the East
We’re the bullet in the middle of the belly of the beast

Hey

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Damn, that is powerful. I suspect the high muckety mucks stopped listening after the first “motherfuckers” in an orgy of pearl clutching, which just proves his point.

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"Moving while black": the ACLU says a Kansas homeowner was racially profiled...

Because why not…

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Opinion | We Need More Sister Souljah Moments

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I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner at UGA… a video like that leaking, I mean, not them getting booted.

Georgia Fraternity Members Booted from Organization After "Pick My Cotton"...

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Depressingly unsurprising.

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Police release body-cam video of Willie McCoy killing, showing him asleep in car

The videos, released after significant pressure, show:

• The officers did not try to wake McCoy up or talk to him after they spotted a gun in his lap, and instead pointed their firearms at his head directly outside the car as he slept for several minutes.

• One officer said: “I’m going to pull him out and snatch his ass.”

• The officers then realized the firearm did not have a magazine in it, noting to each other that if it was loaded, it would have a single bullet in it: “He’s only got one shot if he shoots.”

• The officers then appeared to make a plan to fire at him, with one saying, “If he reaches for it, you know what to do.”

• McCoy eventually started to move, scratching his shoulder and not yet appearing alert or saying anything to officers, and several seconds later, all six officers fired at him.

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The police department in Vallejo, 30 miles north-east of San Francisco, has repeatedly claimed that the six officers fired out of “fear for their own safety”. The footage, however, shows some of them talking somewhat calmly for nearly five minutes before they opened fire. Two officers began shooting almost immediately after they arrived on scene as backup.

After the officers stopped shooting, they all kept their guns pointed at the car, shouting, “Let me see your hands! Put your hands up!” One said, “Officers are okay.”

Police hit Willie with an estimated 25 shots, including in his face, throat, chest, ear and arms. John Burris, the family’s lawyer, showed reporters graphic photos of Willie’s body at a news conference Friday, saying, “He was shot to pieces.”