#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 7.1

#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 7.1

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.24

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.24

#CharlestonShooting #TakeDownTheFlag Tweets 6.23

#CharlestonShooting #TakeDownTheFlag Tweets 6.23

#Racism Tweets 6.22

#Racism Tweets 6.22

Florida police murder black computer engineer as he listens to music; attempted cover-up exposed

On July 31, 2013, Jermaine McBean, a 33-year-old computer engineer with no criminal record, paid $100 for a camouflage BB gun at his local pawn shop. As he walked to his home with his headphones on, listening to music, he was shot and killed by police in Oakland Park, Florida. Police claimed that he ignored their requests to put down his weapon and then aimed the gun, which was empty, at them in an aggressive manner.

Now, nearly two years later, it turns out the police told multiple lies in attempt to cover up their killing of McBean. Below we will expose each of the lies they told.

 

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#CharlestonShooting #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.19

#CharlestonShooting #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.19

SPLC statement on the #CharlestonShooting in South Carolina

By Richard Cohen, President
A white man who admires apartheid walks into a black church and kills nine people.  According to an eyewitness, he says that he has “to do it” because black people “rape our women” and are “taking over our country.”  It’s an obvious hate crime by someone who feels threatened by our country’s changing demographics and the increasing prominence of African Americans in public life.

 

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#CharlestonShooting  #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.18

#CharlestonShooting #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.18

#TamirRice #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.17

#TamirRice #BlackLivesMatter Tweets 6.17

#MassIncarceration #NewJimCrow Tweets 6.16

#MassIncarceration #NewJimCrow Tweets 6.16