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Barbara Dawson

Barbara Dawson (1958-2015), a Black American woman, died soon after police forcibly removed her from Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown, a small town in the Florida Panhandle. This was four days before Christmas,

 

At 10.30pm on the night of December 20th 2015, she was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. She had stomach pains.

 

Before dawn the next morning, the hospital discharged her. It said her condition was stable. She said she was still in pain and had trouble breathing.

 

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“Not only are the policing killing us, but they are exercising state power to terrorize black communities.”
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“Not only are the policing killing us, but they are exercising state power to terrorize black communities.”

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Chic-fil-A Backs the Blue – The Angriest Black Man In America

A Chic-fil-A in Texes recently showed its public support of the so-called police lives matter campaign that counters the Black Lives Matter movement. The Chic-fil-A ordered t-shirts for its employees that reads “Back the Blue” and “Go Blue or Go Home.”… #backtheblue #blackbloggers #blackculture

 

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If they forced me to wear that shirt, I would quit.

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“If you are silent against oppression, you have become a silent devil.”

Police killed at least 336 black people in 2015
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Police killed at least 336 black people in 2015

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Govt Pays Millions in Reparations to 57 Victims of Worst Cop in History – Who Still Receives a Pension

Chicago, IL — Responsible for torturing more than 200 people to obtain false confessions, former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge has cost the city and Cook County over $100 million in legal fees and settlements. On Monday, the city of Chicago paid out $5.5 million in reparations to 57 of Burge’s victims, while the corrupt former police commander continues to receive his $4,000 monthly pension from the city.

 

Between 1972 and 1991, Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his men tortured hundreds of people to extract forced confessions from them. Up to 200 torture victims have accused Burge of using cattle prods on their genitals, plastic bags to cause suffocation, phone books to strike their heads, burning them on radiators, and forcing guns into their mouths during interrogations. Suspended from the department in 1991, Burge was fired two years later after the Police Department Review Board ruled that he had tortured hundreds of people.
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