June 27, 2018 by V Leigh

Justice for #AntwonRose

Uninformed people would ask "If he did nothing wrong, why was he running?"

To that I say, have you seen what Police Officers do to African Americans in the USA? It doesn't matter to them that you're a child or an adult or even innocent. All they see is Black.

RIP #AntwonRose

— Jabari Walker (@oSOWiSEWALLABY) June 20, 2018

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Why is this video & story not going viral? An East Pittsburgh officer who was just sworn into duty this SAME DAY, shot & killed an unarmed 17 year old boy in the back while running. Why is he on paid leave for MURDER? We need answers & justice. So sad & disgusting. #AntwonRose💔 pic.twitter.com/LE0Xde1gy6

— Bean🌱💋 (@fireworks_xo) June 21, 2018

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BREAKING: We have confirmed that Officer Michael Rosfeld, who murdered #AntwonRose, was FIRED in January from the University of Pittsburgh Police Dept.

He was repeatedly violent and falsified reports.

He murdered #AntwonRose 3 hours after being sworn in at another department. pic.twitter.com/IyyFupoizN

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 23, 2018

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A group of youth organizers came together to shut down downtown Pittsburgh this morning for #AntwonRoseJr pic.twitter.com/Xc7Ev38lku

— Jasiri X (@jasiri_x) June 26, 2018

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The cop who fatally shot 17-year-old #AntwonRoseJr had been sworn in just 90 minutes before killing the teen https://t.co/PQQ9fG3TxB pic.twitter.com/UMAJwXnUty

— Blavity News (@Blavity) June 21, 2018

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Emotion filled the streets of East Pittsburgh as protestors rallied down Electric Ave. after 17-year-old #AntwonRoseJr was shot by an East Pittsburgh Police Officer Tuesday night during a traffic stop – @PittsburghPG @PittsburghPG https://t.co/LeJy4KqneU pic.twitter.com/eQA5Vs9wfX

— Jessie Wardarski (@JKayWardarski) June 21, 2018

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My heart was already heavy this week with the images of traumatized children at the border, then I heard the local story of the shooting of Antwon Rose. This is a story we have heard far too often in this country. #police #shooting #Pittsburgh #AntwonRoseJr pic.twitter.com/WDpOpCX3Fh

— Rob Rogers (@Rob_Rogers) June 22, 2018

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Protestors lay down in the middle of the Parkway Thursday, June 21, 2018 as they continue to rally for #AntwonRoseJr who was shot by East Pittsburgh Police on Tuesday night. @PGVisuals @PittsburghPG pic.twitter.com/apnWFxLANR

— Jessie Wardarski (@JKayWardarski) June 22, 2018

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Officer Michael Rosfeld charged with criminal homicide in the murder of Antwon Rose Jr https://t.co/aggYsTebc6 via @CBSNews

— Jasiri X (@jasiri_x) June 27, 2018

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Michael Rosfeld being charged in the murder of Antwon Rose Jr is only step one. But it’s a testament to everyone who organized, protested, spoke out, and signed the petition to make sure the DA did his damn job

— Jasiri X (@jasiri_x) June 27, 2018

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June 26, 2018 by V Leigh

Anti-Immigration and Refugee Policy #EndFamilyDetention

NEW exclusive from @georgejoseph94 and me — In the rush to incarcerate as many immigrants as possible, ICE is putting civil immigration detainees into general population units in federal prison, creating a wildly dangerous and cruel situation. https://t.co/2w6rfkmosY

— Max RN (@MaxRivlinNadler) June 21, 2018

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Tone and civility are heavily racialised.

A white men can talk about extermination and population control with a smile and be taken seriously.

POC can’t talk about basic justice without being considered angry. https://t.co/J7frTv0YB4

— David Lo Pun-ch Nazis (@helpmeskeletor) June 21, 2018

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is imposing sharp new limits on who can get asylum in the United States. In a decision announced today in a closely watched case, Sessions ruled that most asylum-seekers fleeing domestic violence or gang violence will not qualify.

— NPR (@NPR) June 11, 2018

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ICE raided an Ohio landscaping company, offered workers doughnuts, and then detain 114 of them. Some of the workers’ children were stranded at daycare. pic.twitter.com/lmWxnL5P1q

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 6, 2018

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Any immigration deal that guts the diversity visa program is anti-Black. Point, blank, period. Over 40% of diversity visa recipients have been African immigrants in the past few years. #ValueOurFamilies #BADlatte

— UndocuBlack Network (@UndocuBlack) June 13, 2018

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It is shockingly difficult for immigration attorneys to locate children separated from their parents at the border. Today I spoke to lawyers who represent more than 400 parents. They've located two children.

— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) June 22, 2018

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From the author who literally wrote the book on concentration camps https://t.co/Sh2kOxKnTZ

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) June 19, 2018

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Getty Images photographer John Moore tells the story behind his viral photo of a crying toddler at the border https://t.co/IS0jP72V4o pic.twitter.com/d7DRcFYIAN

— CNN (@CNN) June 18, 2018

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Doctors say irreparable harm is being done to children being separated from parents.

One staff member at a detention center said he quit, hitting a breaking point, when two siblings, 6 & 8 years old, were banned from hugging each other. https://t.co/ALJqC702Mt

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 18, 2018

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The Chief of the United Nations Human Rights Commission says that what the United States is doing taking children from parents and detaining them is an “unconscionable” human rights abuse.

Says the practice must stop immediately.https://t.co/tePQoJshiN

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 18, 2018

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Jose doesn’t know where his 3-year-old son is being held. “I can’t sleep. I haven’t been able to eat,” he said. We provide immigrants detained in the Southeast with pro bono legal representation through our SIFI program — including Jose #EndFamilyDetention https://t.co/qwzlcAjPn4

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 25, 2018

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Why families flee Central America to the United States: https://t.co/pB8bCGoaD5 @ZamaHRW … and why it is inhumane to lock them up for doing so #EndFamilyDetention #HumanRightsForAll

— Robbin Kappelhof (@RobbinKap) June 26, 2018

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Trump must reverse his “zero tolerance” policy. As long as he mandates that parents are prosecuted, kids will be separated from their parents or imprisoned with them.

— TIRRC (@tnimmigrant) June 21, 2018

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Many of the families stuck in detention do not speak Spanish and we need Guatemalan Mayan interpreters. Please join me in donating to @BriciaLopez campaign. https://t.co/zmjTRgV9Sw

— Julissa Arce Raya (@julissaarce) June 22, 2018

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June 20, 2018 by V Leigh

What’s her name?

What’s her name? https://t.co/CrZ4Qnew5H

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 19, 2018

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June 18, 2018 by V Leigh

Happy Father’s Day! Here are ways to take action against families being separated at the border

This Father's Day, I hope that our President and his minions remember that children should be with their parents, not in detention centers https://t.co/pIhcR9ygI1

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) June 17, 2018

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TRUMP HAS 20 CHILDREN PER CAGE – YES CAGE – AT A BORDER PATROL FACILITY.

IN TEXAS WHERE IT IS 100 DEGREES.

AFTER HE RIPPED THEM AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS.

source @AP

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 17, 2018

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Happy Father’s Day! Here are ways to take action against families being separated at the border:https://t.co/VHScZ7Nx7n

— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) June 17, 2018

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AP describes what it’s like inside one of the cages detaining migrant children at the Texas border https://t.co/gPMChwdl9T pic.twitter.com/wpnHv35PGQ

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 17, 2018

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Texas now has a tent city for immigrant children separated from their families at the border pic.twitter.com/4oGE1XEopS

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 17, 2018

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Medical experts are cautioning that there are long-term health risks for migrant children who are separated from their parents, including "irreplaceable harm" to those children's lifelong development. https://t.co/0Mh2xsyKNN

— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 17, 2018

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Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror #SoJustTerror https://t.co/ykaA1nKD6b

— Rhonda Ragsdale (@profragsdale) June 17, 2018

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Here's what the "tent city" for separated immigrant children looks like. New @TwitterMoments: https://t.co/umPWcvlc8M

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) June 16, 2018

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Today, we met a man who ICE separated from his 5 yr old daughter. We offered to represent him for free but he couldn’t stand being detained and signed his own deportation. Instead of helping him fight for bond, he asked us to help make sure his 5 yr old would be deported with him

— Al Otro Lado (@AlOtroLado_Org) June 13, 2018

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Dear members of ICE: “just following orders” is what nazis said during the Nuremberg trials. It is YOU who are doing these things. YOU are ripping children from their parents & holding them in cages. History will see that YOU carried out these crimes against humanity. YOU.

— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) June 8, 2018

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According to US Border Patrol, 50 children each day are being separated from their parents. Call your member of Congress. Again and again.

— Judith Enck (@enckj) May 31, 2018

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"I'm not sure why they did it. They didn't let me say goodbye." — Trump's immigration agents ripped Olga's 4 children from her at the border. Now she is in detention and they are thousands of miles away, without her. #FamiliesBelongTogether https://t.co/W6CYrrond8

— We Belong Together (@WomenBelong) June 2, 2018

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I have nightmares of children crying for their mothers at night. We have to do better. This is NOT OKAY. Imagine these were your children and then DO SOMETHING. Call your members of Congress and demand they act. https://t.co/6Av6CxInHh

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) June 13, 2018

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I have nightmares of children crying for their mothers at night. We have to do better. This is NOT OKAY. Imagine these were your children and then DO SOMETHING. Call your members of Congress and demand they act. https://t.co/6Av6CxInHh

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) June 13, 2018

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June 6, 2018 by V Leigh

URGENT: These @MesaPD Officers need to be arrested & charged immediately.

URGENT: These @MesaPD Officers need to be arrested & charged immediately.

33 year old Robert Johnson was not just unarmed & non-violent, he never committed a crime. They literally gave him a ticket after knocking him out.

And never mentioned the assault.

This video busted them pic.twitter.com/RlmcQN6t8y

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 6, 2018

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A Dallas cop shot Kelvion Walker, an unarmed black man. Walker and a witness said that he had his hands up when the cop shot him. The bullet is still lodged in his body. The cop pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge and got 18 months of probation. https://t.co/xkhN7eNTne

— The Appeal (@theappeal) June 5, 2018

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On 4/5/18 Jimmy Walker fired 24 rounds into a car of unarmed people killing #DianteYarber & injuring Marina Tafoya. (The car was stopped for looking suspicious)

In 2008 Walker was indicted on hate crime charges & fired.@michaelramos #IndictJimmyWalker https://t.co/0zYAKNX3nd pic.twitter.com/c1LyiP0C3E

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 5, 2018

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This officer was fired. He should be charged with a crime.@shaunking @soledadobrien @carolynedgar https://t.co/EFED4M2Knn

— ROCHELLE RILEY ✈️ 🌎 (@rochelleriley) June 3, 2018

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Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr., an unarmed 30-year-old Black man, was killed by a white deputy. A jury for the wrongful-death lawsuit were asked, what was the pain & suffering of his children worth? They awarded $1 for funeral expenses & $1 for each child’s losshttps://t.co/eKiN3KZCfJ

— Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) May 31, 2018

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June 1, 2018 by V Leigh

Trump is very comfortable creating a culture war in America.

Trump is very comfortable creating a culture war in America.

Telling black NFL players to leave the country. Calling undocumented immigrants “animals.” Banning Muslims from the US. Attacking Chicago for gun violence.

He knows that fear + division feeds his base of white voters.

— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) May 24, 2018

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A man who was recorded verbally attacking a woman in April on a Long Island train has been charged with menacing as a hate crime and second-degree aggravated harassment. https://t.co/BiSKPc2aR2 via @NYDailyNews

— Documenting Hate (@DocumentHate) May 24, 2018

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#HateCrimes against #Muslims and #Latinxs occurred shortly after Trump tweeted disparagingly about Muslims and Latinxs.

And they were physically concentrated where Twitter usage is highest.

That's what a new @warwickuni study found. https://t.co/s2vGMbq0tF

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 20, 2018

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Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot all called their opponents "parasites" or "vermin" or "animals." Dehumanization is what you do to unwanted social groups before killing them https://t.co/5nMMSZzeP9

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) May 17, 2018

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Lost in all this debate over whether Trump called ALL immigrants “animals” or JUST those with criminal records or alleged to be gangmembers is this: **It doesn’t matter.** Either way he has successfully normalized the dehumanization of people with criminal justice involvement. https://t.co/q49nG1YMAk

— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) May 20, 2018

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When has Trump called bigots, that attack Muslims, Mexicans or other visible minorities “animals”? Never.

It’s an explicit racist slur.

— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) May 18, 2018

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Who this this bigot in Midtown Manhattan? What's his name?

Please share this.

Here he is harassing & insulting two women for speaking Spanish…TO EACH OTHER in the middle of Manhattan.

Trump has empowered ugly white people like this to say whatever they feel like saying. pic.twitter.com/WbHlet6H7c

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) May 16, 2018

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He's lost his office and may lose his license to practice. BINGO! https://t.co/83v06lx5HR

— Tina M. Deraco (@TinaMDeraco) May 18, 2018

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New occurrence, ongoing pattern: Our partner @UniNoticias has reported on this type of incident happening around the country. https://t.co/9IHzQpYqkg https://t.co/h37O5WQqbq

— Documenting Hate (@DocumentHate) May 16, 2018

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"Pronouncing whole categories of people as subhuman numbs a nation’s moral sense and, in extreme but, unfortunately, too many cases, becomes a rationale for collective cruelty." https://t.co/pLmYrmBFln

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 23, 2018

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Make no mistake – #ClaudiaGómez is a victim of the racist language coming from the @WhiteHouse

“[Trump’s] description of migrants as ‘animals and rapists and murderers’ trickles down to agents on the border.” – Karina Alvarezhttps://t.co/ljlFu19Ot4 #JusticiaParaClaudia pic.twitter.com/GwnSMKSHj0

— Think Mexican (@ThinkMexican) May 30, 2018

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Racism: White people oppose programs such as food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing because they believe welfare programs benefit people of color, according to a new study from @UCBerkeley & @Stanford. https://t.co/UIxlUT1Hxo

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 31, 2018

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The federal law doesn't require state, city, regional folks to require hate crime numbers, explains @ACInvestigates; 88% of jurisdictions in the US sent zero or didn't participate at all, @proflevin adds. #DocumentingHate

— Ashley Alvarado (@AshleyAlvarado) May 31, 2018

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If you have an experience with hate that you'd like to share with @KPCC and @ProPublica, you can do so here https://t.co/GLV8XGerNb #documentinghate

— Ashley Alvarado (@AshleyAlvarado) May 31, 2018

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Month: June 2018

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