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Eric Garner’s children speak to Katie Couric in exclusive interview [VIDEO]

 

Comment by Glenn Robinson

 

Eric Garner’s children are asking the good cops to speak out about the abusive cops.

 

Source: news.yahoo.com

 

In addition to good cops speaking out about the abusive cops, I’m asking all White people – if you see a cop interacting with anyone, especially a Black or Latino person – PLEASE get your body over there and calm down any abusive situation you see.

 

A cop is more reluctant to hit, choke, or shoot a White person, so if the situation calls for it PUT YOUR BODY BETWEEN THE OFFICER AND THE BLACK, OR LATINO PERSON.

 

If you know history, and you watch the news, you know that unarmed Black and Latino men are being murdered by our police force.

 

To stop the violence White people MUST ACT.

 

WHITE SILENCE = COMPLIANCE with the Violence

 

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Justice for Eric Garner who was choked to death by NYPD

 

Justice for Eric Garner who was choked to death by NYPD officers on July 17th in Staten Island, NY. After breaking up a fight, Garner was approached by several officers that attempted to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes. When trying to take down Garner, officer Daniel Pantaleo placed an illegal choke hold on him which caused him to stop breathing and die several minutes later. The police officers nor the responding emergency service workers did anything to aid him while laying lifeless on the floor. The whole incident was caught on videotape which went viral and has ignited a call to end racial profiling and police brutality against people of color. The killing of Eric Garner has been shortly followed by the killing of unarmed John Crawford in Ohio, Ezell Ford in LA, and Michael Brown in Ferguson. After having witnessed the militarized police response to protesters in Ferguson, we all must figure out a way to take back control of our militarized police departments and hold officers accountable when they cross the line. This portrait is of young Eric in high school. He died at the age of 43. His last words where, “I can’t breathe…”

 

 

Source: oreeoriginol.tumblr.com

 

#JUSTICEforERICGARNER #BLACKLIVESMATTER #NOJUSTICENOPEACE #SHUTitDOWN

 

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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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Teaching About Ferguson – History of Burning

 

1921

 

A mob of deputized whites looted and burned to the ground a black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This included the destruction of 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and 150 businesses. By the time the terror ended, 300 African-Americans had been killed.

 

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Source: zinnedproject.org

 

HT Fanshen Cox @fanshen

 

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Study: Eviction Rates for Black Women on Par With Incarcerations for Black Men

 

MacArthur Foundation “How Housing Matters” (pdf) study reveals that while black men face alarmingly high incarceration rates, black women are disproportionately evicted from their homes.

According to the study, in any given year, approximately 16,000 adults and children are evicted in Milwaukee from approximately 6,000 housing units—that equates to 16 households evicted every day.

 

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Source: www.theroot.com

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The Anniversary of the George Zimmerman Trial

 

This coming Tuesday will be a year since several hundred potential jurors appeared for jury selection for the 2nd degree murder trial of George Zimmerman.  The process continued to actual selection and trial.  On July 13, 2013, 6 women acquitted Zimmerman for killing unarmed 17-year old Trayvon Martin.

 
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