Sunday, May 03, 2015
How Many Like Baltimore's Freddie Gray Have Been Killed in Police Custody? | Mother Jones
"At least 4,813 people died while in custody of local and state law enforcement between 2003 and 2009, according to the latest available report, published in 2011. Sixty-one percent of those deaths were classified as homicides.
As I reported last August in Mother Jones, the BJS collects data on what it calls "arrest-related deaths" that occur either during or shortly after police officers "engage in an arrest or restraint process." The agency reports that 41.7 percent of those who were deemed to have been killed by police while in custody were white, 31.7 percent were black, and 20.3 percent were Hispanic. (Others died from intoxication, suicide, or by accidental, natural, or unknown causes.)"
Saturday, May 02, 2015
"This Is What Happens When You Call The Cops" This rap video is to often the truth. We must make change by electing Mayors, Prosecutors and Sheriffs whose allegiance is to ordinary people and live near the people they police. They must not be people controlled by big corporations or the entrenched power elite.
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@JooHyun_Kang: Mother of #EricGarner on why Cuomo must enact #SpecialProsecutor executive order now. #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/9YqIG4mwcJ
Chad L. Coleman Unleashes Rant on NYC Subway, Identifies Himself as The Walking Dead and The Wire Actor | E! Online.
This is how America makes many of us feel all to often. This is not the easiest place to live in for those whose ancestors built this country off the sweat of their labor and lives and we're never compensated. Settlers and later immigrants from Europe benefited but we did not
A Culture Of Racism: The Staten Island PD And The Tea Party Congressman
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Rep Grimm and NYPD Captain Peter DeBlasio
"I grew up in New York in a neighborhoodthat was largely Italian. New York, likeAnytown, USA, has its own version ofracism. It is not the kind you hear in thepost-Jim Crow South; it is more “ethnic.” Conversation amongst high school friendsincluded racial epithets in Italian, veryoffensive to African Americans, thrownaround casually. It almost seemed normalto hear the word “ moolignan,” Italian foreggplant (technically Mulignane; could becombination of Moolie and hooligan) or“spic” for a Hispanic person."
I grew up in this racist culture, experienced the racial epphitetsbon on a daily basis and suffered the violence that came along with this brutish behavior. I was the only Black kid in my class from the third to the 12th grades.
Nigeria Says It's Rescued Nearly 300 Women and Girls From Boko Haram | Mother Jones
"Two-hundred girls and 93 women have been rescued from a Boko Haram stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, the Nigerian Armed Forces said Tuesday. They could not immediately confirm if the girls rescued were among those captured in Chibok last year—TIME is reporting that, indeed, they are not—however, writing on Twitter, the NAF said only, "the freed persons are now being screened and profiled. We will bring you details later."
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than
Marilyn Mosby Is What Baltimore Needed
""No crime had been committed by Mr. Gray," she said. The officers "illegally arrested Mr. Gray."
Mosby was in her element at the press event. She repeatedly batted away questions about her personal feelings on the matter, saying it wasn't relevant. She also dismissed the idea that there is a conflict of interest in her conducting the investigation since her husband, Nick Mosby, is a Baltimore city councilman who has spoken out about the riots spurred by Gray's death.
"I uphold the law," she said flatly. "He makes the law."
The most racist places in America, according to Google - The Washington Post
"Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE."