Cops: Couple lure man for thrill killing – CNN.com Video

A couple faces criminal homicide charges for allegedly luring a man to their car and killing him for the thrill of it.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

notice the media doesn’t say this is a trend? even though I have heard about this “killing for pleasure’ before.

 

would free mental health care stop or reduce these murders?

See on www.cnn.com

The ‘Knockout Game’ Is A Myth

Video from around the world has been edited together to make it appear as though there is a “new” game among African-American youth called “The Knockout Game.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to see the 19 minute video which has been edited down from a one hour and five minute video.

 

After reading The New Jim Crow, I can really connect the dots with what mass media does to demonize black people.

 

European-Americans make up 70% of the U.S., but how often does mass media make a demonizing news segment out of the behavior of a single European-American in the way that this story does.

 

When a European-American shoots up a school or theater, the media doesn’t say that it’s a new mass shooting game.

 

The U.S. seems to have a difficult time acknowledging that any individual can need mental health care. And we know that there can be numerous road blocks in accessing a psychologists. One needs insurance, time and transportation to even begin the process, and poverty makes all three of those hoops more difficult to get through.

 

@getgln

See on ronaldjacksonglobal.blogspot.com

Teen Thrown In Violent New York Prison For Years Without Ever Having Been Convicted

 

“Bronx resident Kalief Browder was walking home from a party when he was abruptly arrested by New York City police officers on May 14, 2010. A complete stranger said Browder had robbed him a few weeks earlier and, consequently, changed the 16-year-old’s life forever.

 

Browder was imprisoned for three years before the charges were dropped in June 2013, according to a WABC-TV Eyewitness News investigation.

 

At the time of the teen’s arrest, Browder’s family was unable to pay the $10,000 bail. He was placed in the infamously violent Rikers Island correctional facility, where he remained until earlier this year.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Kudos to this man for not taking the plea deal. The plea deal is bullsh*t that would have given him a permanent record making it nearly impossible for him to get a job at most companies for the rest of his life. #NewJimCrow 

 

And remember, this happened in the “Freedom Loving” United States. Freedom for who?

 

@getgln

See on www.huffingtonpost.com

Daily Kos: ‘The picture speaks a thousand words’ (Warning: graphic photo)

 

“A 14-year-old boy Pennsylvania boy and his 19-year-old cousin were caught shoplifting in a Tulleytown, Pennsylvania Walmart. His mother says he was influenced by the older cousin and made a bad decision, like a lot of teenagers are prone to do. But what happened next has his mother, Marissa Sergeant, questioning the police version of events:

 
See on www.dailykos.com