I don’t know when this happened or where, but how it happened shows the reason why thousands of a people around world are protesting police brutality against black people.
The video shows a black man sitting in his car where he recorded the interaction with the police. He is then forced out of his car and can be heard telling the cop to get off his neck.
The video was uploaded, so it’s my assumption that he survived his interaction with the police officers.
Yes, this happened at a Black Lives Matter demonstration, and I think this picture and the unidentified woman is sending a powerful message.
On its face, this picture will cause many to shake their head in disbelief disappointment. Some will even accuse the woman of using Black Lives Matter to promote her hidden agenda. But I see none of that. I see a woman showing the world that in her most vulnerable state, she is more than willing to stand up against an army of thugs in riot gear and rubber bullets.
She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas as federal agents fired pepper balls at angry protesters in the early Saturday darkness.
A woman wearing nothing but a black face mask and a stocking cap strode toward a dozen heavily armed agents attired in camouflage fatigues, lined up across a downtown Portland street. The agents, dispatched by the Trump administration over vociferous objections of state and city officials, are part of a force that has fired projectiles at and detained activists protesting nightly since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police May 25.
Numerous photos and videos posted on Twitter show the unidentified woman as she halted in the middle of the street at about 1:45 a.m. She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates.
The agents, in gas masks and helmets, continued firing pepper balls in a staccato “pop, pop, pop” heard on video, aiming low at the asphalt, where puffs of smoke mingled with clouds of gas. At one point, a fellow protester, clothed, carrying a homemade shield, darted in front of the woman, angling to protect her.
But the woman sidestepped him. He jumped out of the way, perhaps realizing that he made them both a target.
Before it was over, she struck ballet poses and reclined on the street. She also sat on the asphalt in a yoga-like position, facing officers, before they left.
If their president can be a racist in the Whitehouse, why can’t they be racist in Pennsylvania? This particular racist was so angry that ‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters want to live freely in the land of the free and the home of the brave, that she just couldn’t suppress her racism.
Totally unnecessary. They had his ID. All they had to do was run his info and they would have seen that he wasn’t the man they were looking for. But instead, he was manhandled and slammed to the ground where he cried in excruciating pain, stating that his ribs were broken. One of the officers acknowledged, “he is broken.”
Who would have thought that wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt in New York is an invitation for racists to approach you to within inches to show their ugliness? But that is exactly what happened to a Yale Ph.D. student.
A black student filmed a middle-aged white woman who launched into a vile racist tirade on a Manhattan street — repeatedly using the N-word and calling her an “ape.”
Yale PhD student Kathryn Graves, 27, was walking in Midtown in her Black Lives Matter T-shirt when the woman began shouting at her, prompting her to turn down the music in her headphones.
“Obama’s f—ing d–k right next to his ape f—ing wife,” the unidentified woman rants at Graves, according to the footage posted to Instagram Sunday.
After making monkey-like noises at the Brown University grad, the woman — clutching a case of Natural Ice beer — appears to come just inches away from her as she repeatedly calls her a “n—er ape.”
“What’s the matter, you n—er ape, you got time to f—ing do your hair?” the woman continues to rant.
“What’s the matter, you got time to do your f—ing pink a– f—ing hair, you n—er Obama f—ing ape,” she says, before turning to finally cross Third Avenue.
There was a time when the President of the United States worked in favor of the American people. It was accepted that the general welfare of the American people would be a top priority for the occupant of the Oval Office and any deviation was absolutely inconceivable. It wasn’t too long ago when a president’s outfit caused an uproar because his suit was tan and that somehow was interpreted as being disrespectful to the office.
But today, a president just announced on Twitter that any protesters in Oklahoma for his Saturday rally, will not be tolerated. He stated that these Americans will be treated “much differently” than they were in “New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis.”
And if you think Republicans will be outraged by this threat like they were when Obama wore a tan suit, then you’d be dead wrong.
The President just took to twitter and announced;
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
“This skin turns people off,” said Winfred Rembert, the celebrated African American artist based in New Haven.
“I don’t know why. Out of all the skins in the world when it comes to black skin, people are turned off, and they’ll do things to black skin that they wouldn’t do to any other skin.
“Why is that? Why is it so easy to pull the trigger on a black man? Why is it so easy to tase a black man when he hasn’t done a damn thing? Why is it so easy to do that? Why is it so easy to slap his face and knock him to the ground and mistreat him just because his skin is black? Not just in the streets. I mean in corporate America. It’s the same thing.”
I’m not sure why he felt the need to protest, as if anyone is saying that all lives do not matter. It is a common misconception for some when they see the Black Lives Matter signs.
AGIAN, no one is saying that all lives do not matter, but when black people are disproportionately killed at the hands of those supposedly protecting us, then the obvious conclusion is to wonder if these people believe that all lives do matter, and if they consider black lives a part of that slogan.
A worker at the store tried to explain the sign to the man, later identified as Abraham Knofler.
“I don’t understand why this is so offensive to you, to see something saying that ‘Black Lives Matter,'” the store’s employee tried to explain to Knofler. “It’s not saying that all lives don’t matter, it’s just saying that Black lives matter because they haven’t mattered in this country ever.”
In any event, Abraham “Avrumy” Knofler woke up this morning and apparently decided that protesting against the Black Lives Matter sign in the window of a Brooklyn coffee-shop was a good way to spend his morning. Some didn’t agree with his decision.
This goes without saying, but a quick scan of Abraham’s social media sites show that he is an avid Trump supporter, but I think we already knew that.
A 19-year-old Florida protester was found dead over the weekend — after vanishing the same day she tweeted about being sexually assaulted, police said Monday, NY Post reports.
The body of Oluwatoyin Salau, who took part in Black Lives Matter protests in Tallahassee, was discovered late Saturday as officers investigated a missing person case, Tallahassee police said.
A second woman, Victoria Sims, 75, who had also been reported missing, was found dead nearby.
Aaron Glee Jr., 49, has been arrested in connection with the slayings, but police did not elaborate on any alleged relationship between him and the women.
“There is no further information to release at this time,” Tallahassee police said in a statement.
Atlanta Police Chief Ericka Shields voluntarily stepped down from the city’s department Saturday afternoon following the deadly police shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks Friday night outside of a local Wendy’s drive-thru, The Hill Reports.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Shields’ withdrawal from the department during a press conference Saturday, while also calling for the “immediate termination” of the officer who shot Brooks.
“Chief Ericka Shields has been a solid member of APD for over two decades and has a deep and abiding love for the people of Atlanta,” Bottoms said.
There are those who will bend themselves into a pretzel in an effort to defend what Donald Trump said about chokeholds. But no matter how you try, the words “chokeholds sounds so innocent and perfect” should never be used in the same sentence when you consider the fact that the method is responsible for the death of numerous Americans.
But we are talking about Donald Trump, a man who clearly lacks empathy and quite frankly, common sense. At a time when Americans of all demographics are united against racism and police brutality, Donald Trump is determined to stay on the wrong side of history.
Trump on police chokeholds: "I think the concept of chokeholds sounds so innocent and so perfect." pic.twitter.com/3NbyFwX26R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2020
When the world watched the murder of George Floyd on their television a few weeks ago, Americans and the rest of the world took to the streets to protest what they saw. But not all were upset with the killing, some people were fine with it and these people, as it turns out, just happens to be Trump supporters.
During a recent protest, some white men in New Jersey chose to celebrate Floyd’s killing by re-enacting the horrific event. According to local news, one of the men – a FedEx employee – was fired for his part in the re-enactment. The other, a State worker, is currently suspended.
