Month: June 2015

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.24
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.24

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Governor Orders Confederate Flag Removed from Virginia State License Plates

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has ordered the Confederate flag removed from Virginia state license plates. The flag is displayed on a specialty plate designed for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The governor’s announcement came in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state of Texas was allowed to reject a license plate design that featured a Confederate battle flag and the removal of the flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds following last week’s fatal shootings at am African-American church in Charleston.

 

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#CharlestonShooting #TakeDownTheFlag Tweets 6.23
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#CharlestonShooting #TakeDownTheFlag Tweets 6.23

#Racism Tweets 6.22
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#Racism Tweets 6.22

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Man with towel-wrapped arm shot by LAPD in Los Feliz was unarmed

Los Angeles police shot and critically wounded a man after he raised his arm, wrapped in a towel, toward officers Friday in Los Feliz, police said.

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Florida police murder black computer engineer as he listens to music; attempted cover-up exposed

On July 31, 2013, Jermaine McBean, a 33-year-old computer engineer with no criminal record, paid $100 for a camouflage BB gun at his local pawn shop. As he walked to his home with his headphones on, listening to music, he was shot and killed by police in Oakland Park, Florida. Police claimed that he ignored their requests to put down his weapon and then aimed the gun, which was empty, at them in an aggressive manner.

Now, nearly two years later, it turns out the police told multiple lies in attempt to cover up their killing of McBean. Below we will expose each of the lies they told.

 

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#CharlestonShooting #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.19
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#CharlestonShooting #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.19

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The FBI has no idea how many hate crimes happen in America each year

By J. Richard Cohen

 

Our national reports vastly underestimate the problem

 

According to the FBI’s most recent annual hate crime report, which is based on voluntary reporting by law enforcement agencies across the country, there were 5,928 hate crimes in 2013. In South Carolina, the FBI report says, there were 51. Those numbers vastly underestimate the problem, according to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Statistics. A comprehensive analysis in 2013 showed that about 260,000 people are victimized each year by hate crime. The statistics bureau’s estimate is based on the National Crime Victimization Survey, the nation’s primary source of information on criminal victimization.

 

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SPLC statement on the #CharlestonShooting in South Carolina

By Richard Cohen, President
A white man who admires apartheid walks into a black church and kills nine people.  According to an eyewitness, he says that he has “to do it” because black people “rape our women” and are “taking over our country.”  It’s an obvious hate crime by someone who feels threatened by our country’s changing demographics and the increasing prominence of African Americans in public life.

 

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