Month: August 2015

#RadazzHearns #JoeBart Tweets 8.13
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#RadazzHearns #JoeBart Tweets 8.13

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‘I Don’t Want To Die In Your Cell’; Hours Later, Woman Found Dead in Jail – DiversityInc

New video footage shows 37-year-old Ralkina Jones expressing fear for her life while held in jail, only to be discovered unresponsive on July 26.

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Condolences to the parents, family and friends of #RalkinaJones

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.12
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.12

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Obama plan leaves child migrants adrift

By David Rogers

 

One year later, child migrants from Central America are still paying a heavy price for President Barack Obama’s decision last summer to rush them into deportation proceedings without first taking steps to provide legal counsel.

New government data this week offer a first, full-year tally for the immigration courts, and the numbers show that among the 13,451 cases completed since July 18, 2014, barely half the children had legal representation.

The picture has improved over time, but in 38 percent of the cases completed since last Christmas, the child was still without counsel. Even since mid-April, there have been an average of 100 case completions per week in which there is no record of a defense attorney.

At one level, this picture is skewed by the stubbornly high level of deportation orders issued by judges “in absentia,” when the child defendant does not appear in court. But migrant rights attorneys argue that this is a Catch-22 situation: Without access to counsel, more children stay away and have no realistic chance of appeal.

 

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Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.politico.com

Freedom of movement. No double standards.

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Family of #ZacharyHammond, age 19, killed by police demands federal probe

The family of police shooting victim Zachary Hammond request federal intervention into his death.

 

…an attorney for Hammond’s family says an independent autopsy commissioned by the family determined that the car wasn’t moving when the teen was shot in the back.

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.cnn.com

Justice for unarmed #ZacharyHammond age 19

 

Condolences to the parents.

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Unarmed Black Americans killed by police in 2015

Here is a somewhat complete list of unarmed Blacks killed by police in the US in 2015. So far.

Unarmed Blacks are five times more likely to be killed by police than unarmed Whites. Unarmed Native Americans too are killed by police at almost the same rate as Blacks. Everyone else is killed at a way lower rate, even Latinos.

Those I have done posts on have a bolded link.

format: date: name, age, town, state, cause of death

 

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All #BlackLivesMatter all day every day.

 

This is genocide.

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#VotingRights Tweets 8.11

#Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.10
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#Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 8.10

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The Babies – Jasiri X

“The Babies” was produced by Idasa Tariq, shot by Haute Muslim, edited by Jasiri X, and features performances by A. King, Jannah Johari, L.U.C., Idasa Tariq, Paradise Gray, and Akil Esoon and artwork by D.S. Kinsel inspired by #chalkedunarmed

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Condolences to the hundreds of parents who loose their children to oppressive U.S. police.

 

Do we need to provide our children with bullet proof vests? This wouldn’t even help because police are shooting our children in the head. In the head America. The police are shooting our children in the head.