Houston Student Sent Home For Wearing #BlackLivesMatter Shirt With List of People Killed by Police http://t.co/42sawWpLw6
— Leah Binkovitz (@leahbink) September 10, 2015
Must-read: The devastating decision not to prosecute the brutal in-custody death of Natasha McKenna http://t.co/JLfqEUkKnU by @ShaunKing
— Catrin Cooper (@catrincooper) September 10, 2015
The mother of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt refused a $900,000 settlement, describing the offer as “hush money.”
Darrien Hunt, 22, was shot and killed by police officers in Saratoga Springs, Utah, last September. He was reported to be walking in a shopping mall wearing a Japanese anime costume and carrying a samurai sword.
Four of the six fatal bullets that hit Hunt were from behind.
#DarrienHunt #SayHisName
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Chajarí James Blake (1979- ), a retired American tennis star, was once ranked fourth in the world. He won second place in the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup. He was also named Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. It was after he heard Arthur Ashe himself speak in Harlem that he knew he wanted to be a tennis player. He dropped out of Harvard to become one.
Puerto Maldonado
On September 9th 2015, the New York police (NYPD) threw him to the ground and arrested him
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Imagine if Mr. Blake would have put up a fight to defend himself from this stranger.
The moment a man is tasered has been caught on camera in super slow motion by YouTube wizards The Slow Mo Guys.
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People in the U.S. are getting tasered to death.
HT @ShaunKing
#NatashaMcKenna died after being tasered 4 times by police with a hood over her head and her hands handcuffed behind her back.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/642068208091009024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn’t believe a black woman owned a BMW.
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2015 and the U.S. is still oppressing people
There are news reports of oppression in the U.S. every day, and not every incident is reported. I suspect that the majority of incidents are not reported.
Assault on Sikh American may be hate crime http://t.co/lUOSs6XyFt #msnbc #news pic.twitter.com/ieoWaMp0OD
— WorldNews_net (@worldnews_net) September 11, 2015
Where are the #AllLivesMatter crowd to take a stand on this? Do some lives matter more to the majority population? https://t.co/R04YzKZysd
— Nathaniel Williams (@N8dogg91) September 10, 2015
Mass deportation in 2yrs is literally police, ntl guard, military, raiding homes, show me your papers, scary stuff.
https://t.co/KhkyWtF21d
— Alida Garcia (@leedsgarcia) September 11, 2015
Before 9/11, there were 20-30 anti-Muslim hate crimes a year.
After 9/11, there were 500.
http://t.co/7KIMuHns3o pic.twitter.com/IVOIHj1qEt
— IdentitiesMic (@IDsMic) September 11, 2015
"I am not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman," Petra Laszlo said http://t.co/wqHA72pico | Getty pic.twitter.com/D05k9tJPKk
— POLITICO (@politico) September 11, 2015
Horrifying Video Shows Cops Tell K9 “Good Boy” as they Let Him Maul a Handcuffed Man http://t.co/DlF86E1DWq via @po_st
— Dr. Scott Bowman (@DrScottBowman) September 8, 2015
"The number of police officers shot and killed is down this year, and half killed are black" by @ShaunKing: http://t.co/kGKCORoU9D
— Son of Baldwin (@SonofBaldwin) September 8, 2015
Off-duty cop nearly kills woman in front of her child over a parking violation. #IntelGroup
http://t.co/hndOkAO3y5 pic.twitter.com/iVhZ0VBpym
— D (@Delo_Taylor) September 8, 2015
Mind you, when we say that American police killed 823 people this year, it doesn't include #NatashaMcKenna or ANYONE who died IN CUSTODY.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 10, 2015
#NatashaMcKenna died after being tasered 4 times by police with a hood over her head and her hands handcuffed behind her back.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 10, 2015
If you want to know WHAT happened to #NatashaMcKenna WITHOUT watching the awful video, read my latest piece here.
http://t.co/mtELi2Ucro
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 10, 2015
Based on the best available data, hate crimes are on the decline. #Goodnews https://t.co/sbt56zmyLM
— Randy Blazak, PhD. (@rblazak) September 9, 2015
A Hungarian camerawoman was fired after being caught on camera tripping refugees running from the police.
https://t.co/qpw6FaB9pS
— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 9, 2015
Boston brothers arrested 4 Trump-inspired attack on homeless Mexican man to remain in custody http://t.co/3miCXqWG02 pic.twitter.com/orGVqBng3p
— R Joseph (@rjoseph7777) September 4, 2015
Christians over gays, white men over minorities and women, Turks over Armenians and now Kurds, Nazis over Jews, Israel over Palestinians…
— M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) September 8, 2015
The world's biggest problem is dominant majorities who think they're victims + so "justifiably" oppress others, who justifiably push back…
— M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) September 8, 2015
@getgln @CNNPolitics To think there are places in our country where you can be hit by a stray bullet just for being in the wrong place/time.
— HabitualLineStepper (@AdrianNichols) September 8, 2015
In Bed With Prison Lobby, Hillary Clinton Unlikely to End War on Drugs http://t.co/tD8GVy7CFH via @marijuanapolitics.com
— Randy Blazak, PhD. (@rblazak) September 8, 2015
“By law, refugees cannot be sent back to countries where their lives would be in danger.”
https://t.co/GsXgG5Ic97
— Think Mexican (@ThinkMexican) September 6, 2015