We have seen their faces, heard their names, another senseless loss of life. Gone before their time and all for holding a “toy”. As you will see I use “s” when referring to these “toys”. What I’m talking about are air soft and BB guns/rifles. This is the story of 3:
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Dornnella Conner was inspired this week to travel to Ferguson, Missouri and join along in the ongoing protests there against police brutality in the wake of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.
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Source: ushypocrisy.com
Remembering Black Lives Unjustly Lost http://t.co/vEAHgg5NcF cc @NotAllBhas @getgln @SeouljaboyPark @arjunsethi81 pic.twitter.com/T1GER1Pj67
— Sharon H Chang (@multiasianfams) November 26, 2014
A Cleveland police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice about two seconds after the officer and a partner pulled up.
Source: www.cnn.com
Does the police car not have bullet proof glass and a PA system that can be used to say ‘DROP the GUN”???
The US preaches the right to bear arms, but the second a Black person has a gun, or a black wallet, or cell phone, or nothing in their hand, the Black person is shot dead.
Eyes from around the nation and world have been watching events in Ferguson, Missouri, for some time now.
The bifurcated nature of the responses is particularly problematic when it specifically comes to the inability of many people colorized (or racialized) as White, regardless of their otherwise everyday political leanings. Our nation, especially its institutions, have serious issues with all things related to racism/colorism, privilege, acknowledging history (and remember I define history as everything and anything from less than a microsecond ago), and seeing how this affects the future.
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We are asking you and your organizations to support a mass walk out on Monday at 12:01pm—the time that Mike Brown was murdered. Folks can put their hands up as they leave their job, schools or wherever they are and gather together. Please share widely on social media using #HandsUpWalkOut. Click here for an image to share.
Source: fergusonaction.com
On Monday November 24th 2014 in the US, the grand jury of St Louis County said it would not charge Darren Wilson with a crime. Wilson is the White police officer who gunned down Michael Brown in broad daylight and let his body lie there in the street for four hours. Brown was 18 and unarmed. This was in Ferguson, Missouri, a mostly Black township in suburban St Louis. Nights of violence between police and protesters followed and 108 days of protest.
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Save our children or be a willing participant in our extinction…#Ferguson
— Wakiti Muhammad (@WakitiMuhammad) November 25, 2014
An unidentified motorist in Minneapolis drove into protesters at a rally in solidarity with the family of slain Missouri teen Michael Brown, leaving one woman in need of medical attention, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
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Source: www.rawstory.com
Tamir Rice (age 12)
Rice’s parents on Tuesday sent a letter through attorneys Tim Kucharski and David Malik to Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland Division of Police asking for the release of the video, which police said depicts one of their rookie officers shoot Rice twice after he pulled a replica gun from his waistband.
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Source: www.cleveland.com