DALLAS (AP) — A police officer in the small Texas town where Sandra Bland was pulled over and jailed says the county’s top prosecutors threatened to end his career if he came forward with what he says is evidence of wrongdoing, an accusation the prosecutors deny. Among the things Prairie View officer Michael Kelley said…
via Officer Says Prosecutors Silenced Him In Sandra Bland Case — Black America Web
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of police officers in San Diego. (all times local): 4:15 San Diego’s police chief says the second of two police officers shot is expected to survive. Chief Shelley Zimmerman says in a Twitter post Friday morning that she had just left the hospital where the officer…
via Two Officers Shot Overnight In San Diego — Black America Web
Since the #RodneyKing beating, the violence and anger toward each other has progressively risen from beating Black men in the street by Police Officers to shooting an unarmed man who was laying on the ground with his arms clearly in the air. Young Black men have been shot in the head, the back and legs. Young Black women have mysteriously been killed while in #lockup!
My father used to say to me, “Wendy, you know people will not continue to go hungry or starve, they will find a way to eat.” I suspect if he were alive he would say, “Wendy, you know people will not continue to watch their loved ones get shot in the head, leg or their backs because the police “thought” they had a weapon and then have the murder justified after they run the deceased’s name through the database and find out they HAD prior legal issues.” I’m sure he would follow up with posing the the question, “What would I do if my daughter were caught in the line of fire?” Conversely, as a mother, I might want instant retaliation, but as an African American woman I neither want to go to jail or live with the memory of the senseless killing of my daughter. I can say senseless at this moment for 2 reasons, my daughter has never been arrested nor will she be as long as she follows the guidelines I prepared for her. Although you know, a thought comes to mind, how many other children were fed the “right and wrong” speech and are no longer with us?
For this scenario I must defer to what I have learned from my relationship with the Lord. He loves me, my daughter and my family and friends. Accordingly, I trust Him, to wake me in the morning, to watch over my family during the day and evening. Should a member of my family find themselves in line of fire, surely at first I would question, why Lord! Moreover, I have come to understand that there is a presence among us that has a role to fulfill and that he must petition the Lord before he can act. You know some folk don’t know that, don’t understand it and as a result refuse to believe that all things work together for the good. In my final analysis, if my daughter we to find herself in the line of fire, I must and will trust that the Lord will reveal to me, as soon as I’m ready to not only hear it but accept it, why He as allowed such a tragedy occur in my life and hers.
Please watch the clip and answer the question posed by the little boy, if you can’t then you may understand why #BlackLivesMatter.
References:
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy bypassed a federal security checkpoint at Bradley International Airport last Nov. 27 while carrying a backpack belonging to his son, Samuel Malloy, through a private corridor to the departure gate area as he and first lady Cathy Malloy saw their son off for a flight, a Courant investigation of the episode has found.
Source: Malloy Bypassed Airport Security Checkpoint With Son’s Backpack
Each year, the Southern Poverty Law Center, of which I am the president, compiles and publishes a census of domestic hate groups. Our list, which is cited extensively by journalists, academics and government officials alike, provides an important barometer—not the only one, of course—to help us understand the state of hate and extremism in America.…
via Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group — TIME
…was he just another Black man gunned down? It is incomprehensibly unbelievable, the police shot him after they had subdued him, why; If he was armed he did not have the weapon drawn – considering he was on the ground after be electrocuted. This is the one incident that has this writer struggling to find solace. Has police training been evicted from the precincts, have the propensity for fear caused police to act violently. The number of killings is rising, is it because we are in the “Last Days” and Satan is gaining momentum? Has the Lord given up on our young men. Do you have any thoughts in during these turbulent times.
My condolences to the Sterling family, I am so ashamed of behavior of those who pledged to protect and serve…
Nakia Jones speaks out for those that wear “Blue”
MsConcerned
Contagious definition, capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object
Racism definition, a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement
Communicable diseases are caused by pathogens passed from one human to another. Pathogens are viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal. If that be true, then I suspect racism is a communicable disease. Let’s take a look as some other communicable diseases:
I read a post a few minutes ago, subject matter: President Obama chose to go to his daughter’s graduation instead of going to Muhammad Ali’s funeral. Someone replied, “Why would anyone care?” Another poster replied, “…because he’s black…” You have got to be kidding me! Racism has become contagious when an issue between two different races defaults to “because they are _____________.”
#RacismisContagious, #racism
MsConcerned
I know, asthecticly its wrong, but at zero dark thirty the thought presented itself.
Here goes, if its worth 40 Billion as noted in the video, why is the estate getting $750 million.
Begs to ask who really killed Michael Jackson?
