When Will The Sanctity of Black Lives Matter?
“You see them saying that there’s no profiling, but there is,” she insisted. “We’re being hunted every day. It’s a silent war against African-American people as a whole.”
“I believe because everyone is getting acquitted it’s like open season,” Valerie Castile concluded. “If you don’t hold people accountable for what they do then they feel like they can just do anything.” Philando Castile’s Momhttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/were-be ... americans/Chicago releases bodycam footage of cops cuffing unarmed teen and 'leaving him to die' after shooting him in the back and firing at his stolen car - but video of the killing is suspiciously missing
WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE. Paul O'Neal, 18, was shot in the back on July 28 during a stolen vehicle investigation on Chicago's South Side as he ran away from the responding officers. Videos from the scene show that O'Neal was placed in handcuffs after he was shot and 'left to die', his family said Friday after watching the footage, describing what happened as 'an execution' and 'cold-blooded murder'. 'It is one of the most horrific things I have seen,' Michael Oppenheimer, the family's lawyer, said at a press conference after watching the video.
"...The officer with the body camera is then seen finding a group of three officers behind a house standing around O'Neal, who is lying face down and bleeding from a back wound.
The officer with the camera then puts his knee on O'Neal and handcuffs him, calling him a 'bitch-ass motherf-----'. O'Neal appears to be alive as he is handcuffed.
The officer then walks away. The footage does not show any of the cops surrounding O'Neal attempting to render aid."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ement.html“How dare you stand next to me in the same uniform and murder somebody,” says Nakia Jones, who works in the Warrensville Heights, Ohio, police department. “Take the uniform off – you have no business being a police officer.”
The video of Sterling’s death “tore me up”, Jones says in the clip, “because I got to see what you all see”, a reference to broad criticisms of police brutality and violence that have been a major part of a national dialogue since Mike Brown was killed in Ferguson in the summer of 2014. “It bothers me … when they put [police officers] into this negative category because I’m sitting here saying ‘I’m not that type of police officer.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... akia-jonesD.L. Hughley Breaks Down When Speaking Out About Black People Getting Killed By Police
"We love our children...they're brutalized. It's too much. It's too much," the comedian said.
http://www.theroot.com/blog/the-grapevi ... by-police/Here are 8 white people who pointed guns at police officers — and didn’t get killed
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/here-ar ... et-killed/“Race, policing and the multiple ways in which state-sanctioned violence impacts our communities has become an issue that is front and center,” and BLM’s main success has been in achieving a “cultural shift that is moving through this country,” one that is “necessary for real policy change to happen.” - Alice Garza
She’s right. We are able to talk about race and racism more freely today than before, and combined with our unprecedented peer-to-peer communications technology, Black Lives Matter has provided a broad framework for Americans to debate and discuss the myriad ways in which society has failed black Americans—more so, perhaps, than any other community.
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza Reflects on the Movement’s First Three Years
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bla ... s_20160707
From the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act forward, public-safety officers have been empowered to harass black bodies in the defense of private capital and the pursuit of public revenue. As a result, no generation of black Americans has been spared the macabre tradition of drilling into its children tips for avoiding death at the hands of the state—not during slavery, not during the era of black codes that followed war, not during Jim Crow, not during the indiscriminate war on drugs, and not in the current era of cops functioning as tax collectors on the poor in decimated municipalities.
https://www.thenation.com/article/why-a ... -are-dead/Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... 68/490568/'It's Not Us vs. Them'
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... hem/490493Man Who Posted Video of Police Killing Alton Sterling Says He Was Arrested a Day Later on Bogus Charges
http://www.alternet.org/man-who-posted- ... us-chargesAs Protests Erupt Nationwide, New Video of Off-Duty NYPD Cop Killing Delrawn Small Sparks Outrage
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3677 ... ks-outrageNeoliberalism, like all utopian ideologies, requires the banishment of empathy. The inability to feel empathy is the portal to an evil often carried out in the name of progress. A world without empathy rejects as an absurdity the call to love your neighbor as yourself. It elevates the cult of the self. It divides the world into winners and losers. It celebrates power and wealth. Those who are discarded by the corporate state, especially poor people of color, are viewed as life unworthy of life. They are denied the dignity of work and financial autonomy. They are denied an education and proper medical care, meaning many die from preventable illnesses. They are criminalized. They are trapped from birth to death in squalid police states. And they are blamed for their own misery.
Disenfranchised white workers, also the victims of deindustrialization and neoliberalism, flock to Donald Trump rallies stunted by this lack of empathy. The hatred of the other offers them a sense of psychological protection. For, if they saw themselves in those they demonized, if they could express empathy, they would have to accept that what is being done to poor people of color can, and perhaps will, be done to them. This truth is too hard to accept. It is easier to blame the victims.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/le ... r_20160710In Remembrance - July 13, 2016: Sandra Bland Died One Year Ago Today
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/arti ... il-deaths/EXCLUSIVE: 'I was spread-eagle, made to put my hands on the hood of the cruiser.' The black SURGEON who worked to save cops shot in Dallas sniper attack tells of his terrifying personal experiences with police
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... n-U-S.html"...This July, at least four Americans were arrested for social media postings expressing support for violence against law enforcement personnel. But police officers and their supporters have yet to face consequences for their comments at the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community, where they wish violence on private citizens with regular frequency. Like the cops who are afforded impunity when they kill unarmed citizens,
Blue Lives Matter commenters have spouted violent extremism with minimal scrutiny and maximum intensity."
"...“Truth is that it is not a Black Lives Matter movement it is a war on police and white people,” David Gonzales Fumero interjected. He added that BLM was “nothing more than a local terrorist organization committing hate crimes.” Fumero’s post earned 400 likes from fellow Blue Lives Matter community members."
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-projec ... hate-groupAfter Those Wars the U.S. Has Been Involved in, Violence Has Come Home to Roost in America
Welcome to the “home front,” folks.
http://www.alternet.org/world/how-extra ... washington"Black men fear the police like Americans fear terrorists, like slaves feared whips."http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture ... rist-video'I Am That I Am' lives in you and in all beings.
All of life is holy.
