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Acting on a Bogus Tip, Cops Raid Innocent Family, Execute Grandfather as He Lay Face Down

East Dublin, GA — Acting on a bogus tip about methamphetamine from a car thief, the Laurens County Sheriff’s office obtained a search warrant for the home of devoted husband, loving father and grandfather, David Hooks.

An hour after the judge signed the warrant police raided Hooks’ house and took the life of this innocent grandfather.

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

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North Carolina Family Wants Feds to Investigate Black Teen’s Hanging Death – COLORLINES

 

A separate examination of Lacy by a pathologist hired by the family and the NAACP “found a number of inexplicable oversights,” according to IBT:

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Most notably, though, Roberts’ examination found that given Lacy’s height, weight and items at the scene where his body was found, it would have been virtually impossible for him to hang himself.

 

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Source: colorlines.com

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Tamir Rice’s Autopsy Brings Home Life and Death

 

Tamir Rice is the 12 year old who was shot and killed in Ohio by a cop who fired his gun in less than 2 seconds of arriving on scene.
A man had called 911 and told dispatch that a guy was in the park who might be a juvenile had a gun that might have been fake, but it was making him nervous.  Dispatch put out the call without saying it could be a juvenile and could be a toy gun.
Tamir did not die right away.  Reports have it that the EMT’s arrived about 4 minutes after Tamir was shot.  He was taken to the hospital where he died the next day.

 

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Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Tamir’s parents however, says that there is probable cause to file a charge and take the case to a jury.
Crump has also stated:
“If police officers are ill-equipped to deal with children playing on the playground with toy guns, then we might have to consider outlawing all toy guns because this scenario cannot happen again in America.”

 

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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

 

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#WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Medical Students Stage Nationwide Protests Against Police Brutality

 

Medical students from more than 70 schools on Wednesday protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives.
Hundreds of medical students wore white coats at “die-ins” and other protests on campuses to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue.
The medical students joined others who have demonstrated since grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York City declined to indict white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men. Some of the protests have involved students, including those in high schools, colleges and Ivy league schools.

 

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Source: goodblacknews.org

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The revolution will be live-tweeted: why #BlackLivesMatter is the new model for civil rights

 

The events of the past few months, now simply referred to as Ferguson, have touched off nationwide protests of a scale not seen in a half-century. From billboards to T-shirts, protest banners and news headlines – all emblazoned with the words #BlackLivesMatter – we are witnessing the makings of a social movement of the 21st century kind. The revolution that Gil Scot Heron famously said, “would not be televised”, is today, in fact, recorded and tweeted.

 

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Source: www.theguardian.com

 

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RIP Eric Garner….Artists respond “WE CANT BREATHE”

#WEEKOFOUTRAGE Artists respond to the Murder of Eric Garner. Grand Central Terminal. 12-9-14 NYC

Source: www.youtube.com

 

Remember, all the other officers ALLOWED the illegal choke hold to continue through 11 “I can’t breathe’ statements.

The officers who are hired to serve and protect us are either killing us or ALLOWING others to kill us.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#SHUTITDOWN

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Knox College lifts suspension for player’s Ferguson protest

 

Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, reversed its decision to suspend a women’s basketball player who protested the Ferguson decision right before  a regulation game in St. Louis, County Missouri over the weekend.
“I could not go into that gymnasium and pretend that everything was okay. I could not, in good conscience, I could not play that game,” said Ariyana Smith, a junior from New Lenox, Illinois.

 

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Source: wqad.com

 

These ‘team players’ are the WORST, clueless uneducated about solidarity and uneducated about human rights and uneducated about social justice, college students to not back their Black teammate during the largest Civil Rights protest period since the 1960’s Civil Rights marches.

 

And if her ‘team players’ are not uneducated then they are heartless as hell – I’m calling out both heartless and uneducated.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#HANDSUPDONTSHOOT

#SHUTITDOWN

 

Privileged people who don’t get it are making me sick to my stomach.

 

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Dec 9th, 2014: UNARMED Black man shot by white cop in Orange County, Florida

 

Law enforcement officials told reporters that Chaney had complied with the deputies’ commands, but that Bartee had “extensive furtive movements,” causing McCarthy to fear for his safety and open fire.
One witness questioned why shots had been fired, saying both of the alleged suspects had been complying with the commands.

 

 

“You could see right in the car. Both of them had their hands up and they still shot at the car,” Ernest Miles Jr., told WKMG, adding that he had to take cover in his second-floor apartment.

 

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Source: www.cbsnews.com

 

Is there any movement that a Black or Latino person can make that is not ‘furtive‘?

 

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#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#SHUTITDOWN

 

 

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Cop was Texting his Union Rep for Over 6 Minutes, As the Innocent Man he Just Shot Lay Dying

 

For six and a half minutes after NYPD rookie Peter Liang, shot a completely innocent man in the chest, he was texting his union representative, and NOT calling for help.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-shot-lay-dying-cop-texting-union-rep-6-minutes/#0SttGiJ8V2BchGDx.99

 

 

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

Cops who are supposed to serve and protect are killing us.

And then, they don’t even try to save our life when they mess up.

 

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

#ICANTBREATHE

#SHUTitDOWN