By Dolores Sosa Green
“I was a racist. I was taught all the racial stereotypes I heard from my Mexican-American parents and others where I grew up in Dallas.”
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Source: latinalista.com
Abuse of Power
#WalterScott
The officer tells #WalterScott to put his hands behind his back after shooting him 8 times in the back. America.
— deray mckesson (@deray) April 7, 2015
Oh My God!!! At 1:41 in this video the officer, not knowing he’s being filmed, plants a weapon on #WalterScott http://t.co/j48Y7niiIQ
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 7, 2015
Here it is. The video of #WalterScott being executed by Officer Michael Slager. http://t.co/j48Y7niiIQ cc @deray pic.twitter.com/YGv7b8hoaq
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 7, 2015
American Cops Just Killed More People in March than the UK Did in the Entire 20th Century
Just last month, in the 31 days of March, police in the United States killed more people than the UK did in the entire 20th century. Twice as many.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
Officer #MichaelBrelo Charged With Two Counts of Voluntary Manslaughter #TimothyRussell #MalissaWilliams
By Xena
“The incident, as determined by a federal investigation.involved 37 percent of the Cleveland Police Department, consisting of 62 police vehicles and more than a hundred officers. One however, now faces trial for two counts of voluntary manslaughter because he stood on the hood of an unarmed suspect’s car and fired 49 shots using his Glock 17.”
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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com
Disturbing Video Shows Cops Allowing K-9 to Maul Unconscious Man to Death
New video shows Vineland Police attempt to confiscate graphic footage of their brutal killing of 32-year-old Phillip White
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
The police are killing us.
Horrifying Video Shows Two Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Pregnant Woman
Despite the department providing crisis intervention training to deal with the mentally ill, neither of the officers who killed this pregnant mother of 3, had taken the course.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
The cops are killing us y’all.
It is legal to carry a knife – yet they still shot her dead giving her only 14 seconds to drop the knife.
Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory [VIDEO]
Let us not forget that over the last year more people of color [black people] have been killed by the police indiscriminately than at anytime in recent memory. Some compare it to “lawful lynchings” only through the use of a gun. More than six months after Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson, the youth-led protests in Ferguson continue to fuel a national movement against police brutality. #blacklivesmatter
“Part of the struggle for us in Ferguson is to break a four-hundred-year belief that black people are not human,” says St. Louis native and activist Rev. Osagyefo Sekou.
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two gunshots fired into #PedroRiosJr ‘s back, age 14, by cop #LatinosAreHuman
Truthout investigates the brief life and mysterious death of 14-year-old Pedro Rios Jr.
two gunshots, fired into his back by a police officer.
#PedroRiosJr
#LatinosAreHuman
#Not1More
#ShutitDown
#DisarmThePolice
Source: truth-out.org
Watch This Documentary To Understand The Institutionalized Racism In Ferguson
By Lauren Duca
“As the U.S. Department of Justice report on St. Louis County reveals, institutionalized racism has deep roots in Ferguson, Missouri — and its history begins long before the protests of August 2014.”
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
#BlackLivesMatter best tweets 4.1
Dear @VinelandPD :: The world knows your officers & K-9 murdered #PhillipWhite this morning. We demand answers. pic.twitter.com/tFtnoCTMLN
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 1, 2015
I will lamentably be adding #MeaganHockaday to http://t.co/sMvRQejQZF tomorrow. Tonight I say a prayer for her friends & family. Rest Sister
— NotoriousOMG (@LeslieMac) March 30, 2015
Erica Garner Will Not Stop Marching | #EricGarner #ICantBreathe | Follow @es_snipes | http://t.co/VkHIK6gT74 pic.twitter.com/DopqIjYhjo
— #OpICantBreathe (@OpICantBreathe) March 30, 2015
Common ties between Mass Incarceration & Mass Deportation 1) Both are originally based on race & racially divisive constructs
— RubenCastillaHerrera (@LatinoLdrSHIFT) March 30, 2015