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FBI investigates suspicious death of North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy

Lennon Lacy, 17, was found hanging from a swing set. Authorities called the death a suicide.

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“It’s just hard to accept that a black youth would hang himself given the history of ‘strange fruit.’ The facts don’t add up.”

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“Black and white get along great,” she said, wryly smiling. “We just don’t get invited to their houses or the other way around.”

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His family thinks he also wore his new gray Air Jordan sneakers — because the shoes seem to have disappeared.

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More than 4,700 lynchings occurred between the 1880s and 1968, mostly of black men, according to Tuskegee University in Alabama.

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The white sneakers remain unexplained. His mom insists that he didn’t own the particular model of blue belt found around his neck. Weeks later, she found her son’s blue canvas belt in her glove compartment. He didn’t own two blue belts, she said, so where did the other one come from?

 

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Source: www.washingtonpost.com

 

HT @WesleyLowery

 

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Unarmed #DontreHamilton shot 14 times by cop Christopher Manney

 

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — New information has been released in the case of Dontre Hamilton, the 31-year-old man shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer inside Red Arrow Park in Milwaukee in April. The attorney for Dontre Hamilton’s family on Monday, December 1st released Dontre Hamilton’s autopsy report, toxicology report and cause of death — documents from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office that are now public for the first time.

 

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Source: fox6now.com

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CNN calls dead refugee ‘illegal’

CNN has no heart.

This person who died while fleeing or (im)migrating, CNN calls him ‘illegal’.

  1. No human is illegal
  2. Is the action of fleeing as a refugee an illegal act? No.
  3. When Black or Latino people flee as refugees they are called ‘illegal‘
  4. When White people flee as refugees they are called pilgrims, settlers or immigrants.

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Photo from CNN 2014: The year in pictures

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High school student dragged to swimming pool by teacher speaks out

Garcia’s attorney says Peterson should not have put a hand on the girl. The video shows he even asks other students to help him: “somebody tickle her,” he is heard saying in the 95-second video.

“No means no and stop means stop. This isn’t a situation where she’s attacking a teacher and he’s defending himself. When a woman or a 14-year-old girl says no, it means no,” he said.

Source: latino.foxnews.com

 

If I find a teacher treating my child like that – there will be hell to pay.

 

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Andrew Hawkins

 

Andrew Hawkins (1986- ), an American football player, is a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns. Like other Black sports figures in the US in the past few weeks, he protested against police brutality. On Sunday December 14th 2014 he walked out onto the field wearing a shirt that said:
“Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford III”
Tamir Rice, age 12, was shot dead by police in November; John Crawford, age 28, in August. In both cases:

  1. White police officers rush up on a Black male with an airgun and shoot him down.
  2. The police investigate themselves.
  3. A grand jury makes a decision whether to put the police officers on trial.

In the Crawford case the grand jury has already said there will be no trial.

 

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

And remember, these air guns were NEVER pointed at the police.

 

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Infographics on Chicago Torture by Police