Author: Oppression Monitor

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When Force is Hardest to Justify, Victims of Police Violence Are Most Likely to be Black

 

A Pew study found that 63% of white and 20% of black people think that Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Darren Wilson is not about race.

Those people are wrong.

African Americans are, in fact, far more likely to be killed by police. Among young men, blacks are 21 times more likely to die at the hands of police than their white counterparts.

 

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Source: thesocietypages.org

 

This diagram is depicting a slow moving genocide against Black Americans, and this graph does not take into account the over-incarceration of Black Americans.

 

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In a Fit of Road Rage, Houston Cop Shoots Woman In The Head

Houston, Texas – Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6 has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after shooting a woman in the head during a fit of road rage. The officer was reportedly driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago, when he cut off a 20-year-old…

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

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Sand Creek Massacre

The Sand Creek Massacre (November 29th 1864) took place in Colorado, then a western territory of the US, now a state. US Army Colonel John Chivington had at least 105 women and children and 28 men …

Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

Connecting the dots between historic oppression, and murder to modern day oppression,  and murder.

 

What’s in common: Euro-Americans oppressing in the past and now. Euro-Americans not punished for murdering in the past and now.

 

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Obama announces funding for 50,000 police body cameras

President-Obama

In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body cameras, set aside by executive order. The money includes $75 million allocated specifically for the purchase 50,000 cameras for law enforcement officers across the country.

 

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Source: www.theverge.com

 

It’s about time. Now we need a law that the police must use the cameras, and a stiff penalty if they do not.

 

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Police Shoot Peaceful #Ferguson Demonstator in Her Eye Socket and Cause Her to Lose Eye

 

Dornnella Conner was inspired this week to travel to Ferguson, Missouri and join along in the ongoing protests there against police brutality in the wake of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.

 

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Source: ushypocrisy.com

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Video: Boy with air gun was shot 2 seconds after Cleveland police arrived

A Cleveland police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice about two seconds after the officer and a partner pulled up.

Source: www.cnn.com

 

Does the police car not have bullet proof glass and a PA system that can be used to say ‘DROP the GUN”???

 

The US preaches the right to bear arms, but the second a Black person has a gun, or a black wallet, or cell phone, or nothing in their hand, the Black person is shot dead.

 

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Hashtag BlackLivesMatter: “A riot is the language of the unheard”

 

Eyes from around the nation and world have been watching events in Ferguson, Missouri, for some time now.
The bifurcated nature of the responses is particularly problematic when it specifically comes to the inability of many people colorized (or racialized) as White, regardless of their otherwise everyday political leanings. Our nation, especially its institutions, have serious issues with all things related to racism/colorism, privilege, acknowledging history (and remember I define history as everything and anything from less than a microsecond ago), and seeing how this affects the future.

 

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Source: andrewpegoda.com