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“The [gun control]movement is too white, said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League. “There’s no input from communities of color.”
But in recent months, gun control advocates have started looking for ways to better align their goals with those of Black Lives Matter and the criminal justice reform movement, which is politically ascendant as Republicans and Democrats alike look for ways to reduce swollen prison populations.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/gun-control-black-lives-matter-214939
But in recent months, gun control advocates have started looking for ways to better align their goals with those of Black Lives Matter and the criminal justice reform movement, which is politically ascendant as Republicans and Democrats alike look for ways to reduce swollen prison populations.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/gun-control-black-lives-matter-214939
Pastor says white churches "have to take up the work of racial justice"
Steve Wells, senior pastor at South Main Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, said during George Floyd's funeral that he would have "understood" if the family had said "we don't need to hear from any white people today."
He continued: "And I have to tell you, at my church it is easy to not talk about racism. At my church, it is easy to dismiss as politics the economics of hundreds of years of systemic racism but not talking and not acting is the path to destruction."
Addressing white churches, Wells said, "We are better than we used to be. But we are not as good as we ought to be. And that is not good enough. Which means you have to take up the work of racial justice."
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
Steve Wells, senior pastor at South Main Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, said during George Floyd's funeral that he would have "understood" if the family had said "we don't need to hear from any white people today."
He continued: "And I have to tell you, at my church it is easy to not talk about racism. At my church, it is easy to dismiss as politics the economics of hundreds of years of systemic racism but not talking and not acting is the path to destruction."
Addressing white churches, Wells said, "We are better than we used to be. But we are not as good as we ought to be. And that is not good enough. Which means you have to take up the work of racial justice."
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
Black Panthers don’t want open carry bans! Whoopsie!
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/gun-control-black-lives-matter-214939
Can they support gay rights aligning with the Islamic State?
"Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (Genet also had spokenabout women's liberation during his stay, according to Davis), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion. I say: 'Whatever your insecurities are' because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the women or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with. ... Remember, we have not established a revolutionary value system; we are only in the process of establishing it. I do not remember our ever constituting any value that said that a revolutionary must say offensive things towards homosexuals, or that a revolutionary should make sure that women do not speak out about their particular kind of oppression. ... And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppressed people in the society."
Do #palestinianlivesmatter alongside #blacklivesmatter?
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/gun-control-black-lives-matter-214939
Can they support gay rights aligning with the Islamic State?
"Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (Genet also had spokenabout women's liberation during his stay, according to Davis), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion. I say: 'Whatever your insecurities are' because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the women or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with. ... Remember, we have not established a revolutionary value system; we are only in the process of establishing it. I do not remember our ever constituting any value that said that a revolutionary must say offensive things towards homosexuals, or that a revolutionary should make sure that women do not speak out about their particular kind of oppression. ... And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppressed people in the society."
Do #palestinianlivesmatter alongside #blacklivesmatter?
Fantastic!
At least 11 cities and municipalities banning chokeholds in policing
At least 11 cities and municipalities in the United States are starting to ban or have banned the use of choke holds in policing, according to information gathered by CNN.
Those include:
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Sacramento
San Diego
Broward County (Florida)
Miami
Chicago
Washington, D.C.
Minneapolis
New York City
Houston.
States moving on chokehold bans: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed police in the state to stop training officers to use carotid holds, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has said he wants police across the state to restrict the use of chokeholds.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
At least 11 cities and municipalities banning chokeholds in policing
At least 11 cities and municipalities in the United States are starting to ban or have banned the use of choke holds in policing, according to information gathered by CNN.
Those include:
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Sacramento
San Diego
Broward County (Florida)
Miami
Chicago
Washington, D.C.
Minneapolis
New York City
Houston.
States moving on chokehold bans: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed police in the state to stop training officers to use carotid holds, and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) has said he wants police across the state to restrict the use of chokeholds.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
Keeps getting better!
The Harris County district attorney is dismissing nearly 800 criminal cases related to protest charges
Following a weeklong review, prosecutors in Texas' Harris County -- which is home to the city of Houston -- are dismissing 796 criminal cases related to protest charges, the district attorney's office said in a statement.
The review divided cases "between those people who sought to do harm others and property vs. those arrested for simple civil disobedience." Nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, mostly obstructing a highway and trespassing, were dismissed, according to the statement.
Of the 654 individuals charged, only 51 adults and one juvenile now face active cases.
District Attorney Kim Ogg called the results of the review "astounding."
“The job of the prosecutor is to seek individualized justice in every case,” Ogg said. “While probable cause existed for the arrests of those people who refused to disperse after being ordered to do so by police, our young prosecutors worked hard to identify the few offenders who came to inflict harm on others and intentional damage to property.”
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
The Harris County district attorney is dismissing nearly 800 criminal cases related to protest charges
Following a weeklong review, prosecutors in Texas' Harris County -- which is home to the city of Houston -- are dismissing 796 criminal cases related to protest charges, the district attorney's office said in a statement.
The review divided cases "between those people who sought to do harm others and property vs. those arrested for simple civil disobedience." Nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, mostly obstructing a highway and trespassing, were dismissed, according to the statement.
Of the 654 individuals charged, only 51 adults and one juvenile now face active cases.
District Attorney Kim Ogg called the results of the review "astounding."
“The job of the prosecutor is to seek individualized justice in every case,” Ogg said. “While probable cause existed for the arrests of those people who refused to disperse after being ordered to do so by police, our young prosecutors worked hard to identify the few offenders who came to inflict harm on others and intentional damage to property.”
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
The above image shows the London ANTIFA flag displayed during an operation in Syria conducted with the Marxist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
As recently as May 2019 senior figures of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has called for support for the PKK. At a meeting in North London, Michelle Gildernew, Sinn Fein MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, compared Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the terrorist group, with IRA poster boy Bobby Sands. The links are there for all to see.
Despite the protests being illegal under current restrictions, all the state was able to do was to issue flaccid "warnings".
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor of the Metropolitan Police confirmed to the BBC that the protests were "unlawful", but the best he could do was to suggest that demonstrators observe "social distancing". The crowd, described by the police as "angry and intent on violence", completely ignored this, as they completely ignored everything he and his officers said.
At the end of a day in which rocks, bottles, flares and bicycles were hurled at them, fourteen police officers were injured, added the the ten hurt earlier in the week, one seriously having suffered a broken collar bone, broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Just seventeen arrests were made.
Let us not pretend that this outrageous violence had anything to do with the illegal killing by a police officer of a man some 4000 miles away.
https://eutoday.net/news/security-defence/2020/the-day-britains-police-knelt
As recently as May 2019 senior figures of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has called for support for the PKK. At a meeting in North London, Michelle Gildernew, Sinn Fein MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, compared Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the terrorist group, with IRA poster boy Bobby Sands. The links are there for all to see.
Despite the protests being illegal under current restrictions, all the state was able to do was to issue flaccid "warnings".
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor of the Metropolitan Police confirmed to the BBC that the protests were "unlawful", but the best he could do was to suggest that demonstrators observe "social distancing". The crowd, described by the police as "angry and intent on violence", completely ignored this, as they completely ignored everything he and his officers said.
At the end of a day in which rocks, bottles, flares and bicycles were hurled at them, fourteen police officers were injured, added the the ten hurt earlier in the week, one seriously having suffered a broken collar bone, broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Just seventeen arrests were made.
Let us not pretend that this outrageous violence had anything to do with the illegal killing by a police officer of a man some 4000 miles away.
https://eutoday.net/news/security-defence/2020/the-day-britains-police-knelt
Woman shoved by NYPD speaks to CNN
Dounya Zayer, a woman who was shoved to the ground and concussed by police while protesting police brutality in New York City, spoke to CNN's Chris Cuomo about her experience.
Video captured by Zayer and bystanders show an officer pushing her to the ground.
Officer Vincent D'Andraia, 28, turned himself in at a police precinct in Brooklyn Tuesday morning. He faces charges of assault, criminal mischief, harassment and menacing, Brooklyn district attorney Erik Gonzalez said in a statement.
Zayer was in the street when the officer "told her to move," prosecutors said.
"As she asked why, the defendant allegedly smacked her cell phone out of her hand, and violently shoved her to the ground, according the investigation," prosecutors said. "She can be seen rolling on the street and into a curb. Meanwhile, the defendant and fellow officers can be seen to continue walking."
Zayer told Cuomo she "didn't know a concussion felt this awful."
"I haven't been able to hold down food I've been very nauseous. My head hurts and my back. But I'm alive and I'm grateful," Zayer told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
Why she was recording it all: Zayer said she started filming the demonstrations when she "could see that things were getting out of hand" and others were getting hurt.
"I knew that the recording was important, it's always important to record what's going on when these things are going on. I didn't think I would end up recording what happened to me in the process."
Will she protest again: When asked if she'd go out and protest when she healed, Zayer responded emotionally that she wants to, but part of her is afraid.
"I kind of ashamed to say I'm a little afraid now," she said, fighting back tears.
"It gets me very angry that they successfully made me quiet, that they successfully made me afraid to protests. I should not be afraid to protest," she said. "I'm too afraid to leave my house. I'm too afraid to drive, cause I'm afraid I'm going to get pulled over and they're going recognize me."
"Going to a protest? I want to so bad, but I don't know how I'm going to get to that point."
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
Dounya Zayer, a woman who was shoved to the ground and concussed by police while protesting police brutality in New York City, spoke to CNN's Chris Cuomo about her experience.
Video captured by Zayer and bystanders show an officer pushing her to the ground.
Officer Vincent D'Andraia, 28, turned himself in at a police precinct in Brooklyn Tuesday morning. He faces charges of assault, criminal mischief, harassment and menacing, Brooklyn district attorney Erik Gonzalez said in a statement.
Zayer was in the street when the officer "told her to move," prosecutors said.
"As she asked why, the defendant allegedly smacked her cell phone out of her hand, and violently shoved her to the ground, according the investigation," prosecutors said. "She can be seen rolling on the street and into a curb. Meanwhile, the defendant and fellow officers can be seen to continue walking."
Zayer told Cuomo she "didn't know a concussion felt this awful."
"I haven't been able to hold down food I've been very nauseous. My head hurts and my back. But I'm alive and I'm grateful," Zayer told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
Why she was recording it all: Zayer said she started filming the demonstrations when she "could see that things were getting out of hand" and others were getting hurt.
"I knew that the recording was important, it's always important to record what's going on when these things are going on. I didn't think I would end up recording what happened to me in the process."
Will she protest again: When asked if she'd go out and protest when she healed, Zayer responded emotionally that she wants to, but part of her is afraid.
"I kind of ashamed to say I'm a little afraid now," she said, fighting back tears.
"It gets me very angry that they successfully made me quiet, that they successfully made me afraid to protests. I should not be afraid to protest," she said. "I'm too afraid to leave my house. I'm too afraid to drive, cause I'm afraid I'm going to get pulled over and they're going recognize me."
"Going to a protest? I want to so bad, but I don't know how I'm going to get to that point."
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
Ahavati said:Keeps getting better!
The Harris County district attorney is dismissing nearly 800 criminal cases related to protest charges
David Dorn was killed by a man who should have been in jail for the same crime (armed robbery) that Floyd was. Yes, the killer of the cop shared a common, violent history.
Who’s justice; who’s Karma is that?
The Harris County district attorney is dismissing nearly 800 criminal cases related to protest charges
David Dorn was killed by a man who should have been in jail for the same crime (armed robbery) that Floyd was. Yes, the killer of the cop shared a common, violent history.
Who’s justice; who’s Karma is that?
Spike Lee says he believes real change can come from this movement
Filmmaker Spike Lee said he believes that the current racial injustice protests in the United States and around the world have the possibility to bring about real change.
Lee said he feels like this moment is similar to 1967, when he was 10 years old, when the antiwar, women's liberation and black power movements were in full swing.
"What gives me hope is a young generation of my white brothers and sisters out in the streets. Not just in United States of America, all over the world. They're protesting in South Korea, Spain, tearing down slave owner statues in England," he said. "This is for real."
However, the Academy Award-winner said it's crucial that people go out and vote. Lee, perhaps the best-known fan of the New York Knicks, used a sports metaphor to explain the situation:
"We cannot let this moment slide by. We have to mobilize, we've got to register to vote and we have to vote. We have to come out and vote. You know I'm a sports fan, and I've seen too many sporting events where one team is way up, they think they're going to win, and they give up, and the other team takes advantage of it, and wins at the buzzer. We don't want no buzzer beaters on November 13th.
We need police: When asked about the growing calls around the United States to defund the police, Lee said "I know people will get mad at me, but we need police. We need police. But we need a just police system."
Lee also called out police unions for the lengths they go to to protect fellow officers, even if they are guilty of wrongdoing.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
Filmmaker Spike Lee said he believes that the current racial injustice protests in the United States and around the world have the possibility to bring about real change.
Lee said he feels like this moment is similar to 1967, when he was 10 years old, when the antiwar, women's liberation and black power movements were in full swing.
"What gives me hope is a young generation of my white brothers and sisters out in the streets. Not just in United States of America, all over the world. They're protesting in South Korea, Spain, tearing down slave owner statues in England," he said. "This is for real."
However, the Academy Award-winner said it's crucial that people go out and vote. Lee, perhaps the best-known fan of the New York Knicks, used a sports metaphor to explain the situation:
"We cannot let this moment slide by. We have to mobilize, we've got to register to vote and we have to vote. We have to come out and vote. You know I'm a sports fan, and I've seen too many sporting events where one team is way up, they think they're going to win, and they give up, and the other team takes advantage of it, and wins at the buzzer. We don't want no buzzer beaters on November 13th.
We need police: When asked about the growing calls around the United States to defund the police, Lee said "I know people will get mad at me, but we need police. We need police. But we need a just police system."
Lee also called out police unions for the lengths they go to to protect fellow officers, even if they are guilty of wrongdoing.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html
hmmmmm. . .
The Washington, D.C. Council just passed an emergency police reform bill
The Washington, D.C. Council, the legislature for the United States capitol, unanimously passed an emergency bill to reform policing in the city.
The measure bans police from using chemicals such as tear gas and pepper spray on protestors, as well as “less-lethal projectiles” like rubber bullets and stun grenades. It also makes it unlawful for police to restrain someone by the neck, as in a chokehold.
The bill also prevents the Metropolitan Police Department from hiring law enforcement officers who were fired from a policing job in another jurisdiction, or resigned ahead of pending disciplinary action or termination.
Tuesday’s vote enacts the changes for 90 days, the Washington Post reported, which can be extended to 225 days with a second vote. The council must hold public hearings and vote again in order to make the measu
res permanent.
Councilmember David Grosso wanted an additional amendment capping the city’s police force at 3,500 members. However, Grosso’s fellow members voted that down. The District currently has 3,863 sworn officers.
I really hope they aren't blowing smoke up this movement's ass. . .that would be a mistake.
The Washington, D.C. Council just passed an emergency police reform bill
The Washington, D.C. Council, the legislature for the United States capitol, unanimously passed an emergency bill to reform policing in the city.
The measure bans police from using chemicals such as tear gas and pepper spray on protestors, as well as “less-lethal projectiles” like rubber bullets and stun grenades. It also makes it unlawful for police to restrain someone by the neck, as in a chokehold.
The bill also prevents the Metropolitan Police Department from hiring law enforcement officers who were fired from a policing job in another jurisdiction, or resigned ahead of pending disciplinary action or termination.
Tuesday’s vote enacts the changes for 90 days, the Washington Post reported, which can be extended to 225 days with a second vote. The council must hold public hearings and vote again in order to make the measu
res permanent. Councilmember David Grosso wanted an additional amendment capping the city’s police force at 3,500 members. However, Grosso’s fellow members voted that down. The District currently has 3,863 sworn officers.
I really hope they aren't blowing smoke up this movement's ass. . .that would be a mistake.
