At Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, police officer Ben Fields used force to remove a student from class. That was on Monday October 26th 2015. It was caught on video by three students with mobile phones and it spread like wildfire across the Internet. The videos show a Black girl sitting at…
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Everyone is asking, ‘Why didn’t anyone speak up with the cop attacked a student?’ Someone did, and she was arrested for it.
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The teacher who requested an officer either has a low IQ, or has malicious intent. How can a teacher not know that when an officer confronts a Black person it rarely goes well. That teacher needs to be shut down and out of a job. This has to stop. All the abuse, all the disrespect, all the terror – it all needs to stop – now.
Student Who Videotaped Incident Speaks Out https://t.co/DoMFKV7uw4
— Jacqueline Keeler (@jfkeeler) October 28, 2015
Officer Ben Fields is fired for assaulting a young girl (he should be) but Officer Pantaleo still got a job after killing #ericgarner. Smh.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 28, 2015
Across 84 districts in the South, black students made up 100% of students suspended https://t.co/kf1XK48ois pic.twitter.com/pO3uAa7VSK
— Mic (@micnews) October 27, 2015
Sometimes police have an amazing amount of restraint. Other times… #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh pic.twitter.com/ol5fkf97d6
— SNIPES! (@ChocnessMonsta) October 27, 2015
#AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh https://t.co/NCkTiEJTjg
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) October 27, 2015
RT @iMadeSmartCool: #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh illustrates the police brutality no civil society should tolerate. pic.twitter.com/MAIbzSffhx
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) October 27, 2015
Tuesday, the much-awaited dashcam footage was finally released and it shows that the officer was indeed not in danger as he murdered Hammond.
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Derek Cruice was a kind and loving young man who was murdered in cold blood by state agents because he allegedly sold a plant that is legal in five states.
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#DerekCruice
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Corey Jones (1984?-2015), a drummer and city housing inspector, was shot dead by a plainclothes police officer in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on October 18th 2015.
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Report: FBI to join probe of Corey Jones death https://t.co/OihRRvhg7y
— TIME.com (@TIME) October 23, 2015
#CoreyJones Was Standing on a Fla. Highway Waiting for a Tow Truck, So How Did He End Up Dead? – https://t.co/YM8ccY7vjc
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) October 24, 2015
.@POTUS explains why Black Lives Matter over a year after Michael Brown’s death — better late than never https://t.co/MrE0m3tbxZ –@ShaunKing
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) October 23, 2015
Have info abt ppl killed by police this yr? We want to hear from you
- RT @thecounted .. https://t.co/HdbC8zbLWc… pic.twitter.com/mv6nxW8OR7
— DcSlumdog (@DcSlumdog) October 24, 2015
Our statement on the response from the DNC:
https://t.co/hBQqrjYypz #RaiseTheDebate #BLMDebate
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) October 22, 2015
Officer Robert Olsen said: "I feared for my life bc he was football player type." Anthony is 5 foot 7 and 147 pounds.
— Bridget (@bridgie_xoxo) October 22, 2015
Law enforcement,Politicians,media,police unions,etc ALL work together to allow these state sanctioned murders of melanoid people #CoreyJones
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) October 21, 2015
Officer who murdered #CoreyJones failed to follow plain-clothes protocol; Jones was legally armed. https://t.co/1mqUZf1x2C
— Stop The Wars (@sickjew) October 20, 2015
When POLICE ARE KILLED, investigations/arrests/charges all take 48 hours or less.
Police kill #TamirRice and it's 7,896 hours AND COUNTING.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) October 16, 2015