Killed so far in 2016: 42
Last update: May 3rd 2017.
An incomplete list of unarmed Black people killed so far in the US in 2016:
Those I have done posts on have a bolded link.
format: date: name, age, town, state, cause of death.
- February 3rd 2016: Randy Nelson, 49, Athens, AL, Death in Custody.
- February 4th 2016: Antronie Scott, 36, San Antonio, TX, Gunshot.
- February 5th 2016: Wendell Celestine Jr, 37, Antioch, CA, Death in Custody.
- February 8th 2016: David Joseph, 17, Austin, TX, Gunshot.
- February 13th 2016: Calin Roquemore, 24, Beckville, TX, Gunshot.
- February 13th 2016: Dyzhawn Perkins, 19, Arvona, VA, Gushot.
- February 24th 2016: Christopher Davis, 21, East Troy, WI, Gunshot.
- March 12th 2016: Marco Loud, 20, ??, TX, Gunshot.
- March 12th 2016: Peter Gaines, 35, ??, TX, Gunshot.
- March 19th 2016: Torrey Robinson, 35, Port Richey, FL, Taser.
- April 4th 2016: Darius Robinson, 41, Anadarko, OK, Death in Custody.
- April 5th 2016: Kevin Hicks, 44, Indianapolis, IN, Gunshot.
- April 11th 2016: Mary Truxillo, 72, Marrero, LA, Struck by vehicle.
- April 23rd 2016: Demarcus Semer, 21, Fort Pierce, FL, Gunshot.
- April 23rd 2016: Willie Tillman, 33, Fayetteville, AR, Gunshot.
- April 24th 2016: Terrill Thomas, 38, Milwaukee, WI, Death in Custody.
- April 28th 2016: Ashtian Barnes, 25, Houston, TX, Gunshot.
- May 19th 2016: Jessica Williams, 29, San Francisco, CA, Gunshot.
- May 22nd 2016: Michael Wilson Jr, 27, Hallandale Beach, FL, Gunshot.
- May 22nd 2016: Vernell Bing Jr, 22, Jacksonville, FL, Gunshot.
- May 25th 2016: Doll Pierre-Louis, 24, Miami Gardens, FL, Gunshot.
- May 26th 2016: Devonte Gates, 21, East St Louis, IL, Gunshot.
- May 28th 2016: Ollie Brooks, 64, Tulsa, OK, Death in Custody.
- June 18th 2016: Antwun Shumpert, 37, Tupelo, MS, Gunshot.
- June 19th 2016: Clarence Howard, 25, Palm Bay, FL, Gunshot.
- June 23rd 2016: Deravis ‘Caine’ Rogers, 22, Atlanta, GA, Gunshot.
- July 4th 2016: Delrawn Small, 37, Brooklyn, NY, Gunshot.
- July 27th 2016: Dalvin Hollins, 19, Tempe, AZ, Gunshot.
- July 28th 2016: Donnell Thompson, 27, Compton, CA, Gunshot.
- July 28th 2016: Paul O’Neal, 18, Chicago, IL, Gunshot.
- July 29th 2016: Joyce Quaweay, 24, Philadelphia, PA, Death in custody.
- August 9th 2016: Fred Barlow, 61, Fairfield, CA, Death in custody.
- August 13th 2016: Kendrick Brown, 18, Monticello, AR, Taser.
- August 27th 2016: Alfred Toe, 34, Trenton, NJ, Gunshot.
- August 30th 2016: Levonia Riggins, 22, Tampa, FL, Gunshot.
- September 11th 2016: Terrence Sterling, 31, Washington, DC, Gunshot.
- September 16th 2016: Terence Crutcher, 40, Tulsa, OK, Gunshot.
- September 17th 2016: Tawon Boyd, 21, Middle River, MD, Death in custody.
- September 27th 2016: Alfred Olango, 30, El Cajon, CA, Gunshot.
- November 8th 2016: Ritchie Harbison, 62, Hendersonville, NC, Taser.
- November 23rd 2016: Kajuan Raye, 19, Chicago, IL, Gunshot.
- December 15th 2016: Marlon Lewis, 39, Badin, NC, Taser.
This list is super suspicious. As of the middle of April:
- All but one is from Texas. Really?
- All were killed by gunshot.
- The count is 79% lower than last year at this time, when Walter Scott, Freddie Gray and 26 other unarmed Blacks had already been killed. Sure, numbers go up and down from year to year, but by that much?
- Only 10% of Blacks killed by police were unarmed. That is also suspiciously low. The more common rate is 30% to 45%.
- The racial disparities are also markedly lower.
I will update this list throughout the year.
– Abagond, 2016, 2017.
Source: The Guardian.
See also:
- This same list in 2015, 2017
- Lynching statistics by race and year: 1882-1968
- The extremely incomplete list of unarmed Blacks killed by police – for those killed since 1964. It has maybe a tenth of all such cases – the tip of the iceberg.
- Those killed by the NYPD in 2013
Che Taylor was shot by Seattle cops in February, FYI
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It’s an election year and the media doesn’t have time to cover citizens shot dead by the police.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-shootings-2016_us_5713d98ae4b0018f9cba52d1
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The Guardian started documenting sometime after the murder of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. Before then, these killings and murders, called “justifiable homicides” by the grossly, grossly inaccurate Uniform Crime Report (UCR) maintained by the FBI, were being documented by groups like Operation Ghetto Storm (the Malcolm X Grassroots Project), Stolen Lives / October 22 Coalition, Fatal Encounters, Killed By Police, Innocent Down, The Treatment Advocacy Center, San Francisco’s Bay View National Black Newspaper, and the List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States page maintained by Wikipedia, among others. Before 2014, the FBI was reporting 300-400 “justifiable homicides” a year. Even with incomplete databases, these groups were able to confirm numbers in the 700s. In 2014, Killed by Police confirmed numbers over 1,000. Finally, in 2015, The Guardian confirmed numbers over 1,200. The real number is much higher because many of the killings and murders perpetrated by the federal branches of law enforcement (e.g. Bureau of Prisons, Border Patrol, etc.) are covered-up even better than the ones perpetrated by the local and state law enforcement. Most of the murders and killings perpetrated by law enforcement are committed with a firearm. The CDC reports on firearm-related homicides every year. The number is usually around 11,000. In 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported approximately 765,000 sworn local and state law enforcement personnel and 120,000 federal law enforcement personnel. The US population is over 300,000,000. You do the math.
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“San Francisco police on Thursday shot dead an apparently unarmed 27-year-old black woman sitting behind the wheel of a stolen car — leading hours later to the city police chief’s resignation.
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The spate of fatal police shootings, as well as a scandal involving racist text messages among officers, led to tension between minorities in the city and its police chief, Greg Suhr, said Mayor Ed Lee. ”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/san-francisco-police-fatally-shoot-woman-stolen-car-article-1.2643238
(More “protection” Black people are getting from white folks, right jefe?)
said jefe:
“Actually, this actually supports the idea that historically white people tend to protect blacks more.”
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Maybe he has a point Fan, since they are dead, they don’t have to be protected anymore.
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February 24th 2016: Christopher Davis, 21, East Troy, WI, Gunshot.
April 23rd 2016: Willie Tillman, 33, Fayetteville, AR, Gunshot.
April 28th 2016: Ashtian Barnes, 25, Houston, TX, Gunshot.
May 19th 2016: Jessica Williams, 29, San Francisco, CA, Gunshot.
May 22nd 2016: Michael Wilson Jr, 27, Hallandale Beach, FL, Gunshot.
May 22nd 2016: Vernell Bing Jr, 22, Jacksonville, FL, Gunshot.
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Hmmm, you would never know from the list of unarmed African Americans killed
lynchedby police that law enforcement personnel are being hampered in their bloodletting by the mythical “Ferguson Effect”.Chauncey DeVega of Indomitable describes the “Ferguson Effect” this way:
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/05/fox-news-hate-merchant-bill-oreilly.html#more
Contrary to the hype and hoopla about the “Ferguson Effect” in the media, it seem as if the police have actually ramped up their bloody rampage against the Black community.
Willie Tillman, Ashtian Barnes, Jessica Williams, Michael Wilson, Jr. and Vernell Bing, Jr. (among others) have joined the grim list of those Black community members cut down by a police force “hampered” by the “Ferguson Effect”.
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http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/06/01/breaking-florida-officer-responsible-killing-black-church-musician-arrested-charged-first-degree-murder/
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February 3rd 2016: Randy Nelson, 49, Athens, AL, Death in Custody.
February 5th 2016: Wendell Celestine Jr, 37, Antioch, CA, Death in Custody.
February 13th 2016: Dyzhawn Perkins, 19, Arvona, VA, Gushot.
March 19th 2016: Torrey Robinson, 35, Port Richey, FL, Taser.
April 4th 2016: Darius Robinson, 41, Anadarko, OK, Death in Custody.
April 23rd 2016: Demarcus Semer, 21, Fort Pierce, FL, Gunshot.
May 25th 2016: Doll Pierre-Louis, 24, Miami Gardens, FL, Gunshot.
May 28th 2016: Ollie Brooks, 64, Tulsa, OK, Death in Custody.
June 18th 2016: Antwun Shumpert, 37, Tupelo, MS, Gunshot.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/28/did-a-cop-kill-alabama-teen-michael-moore-with-his-hands-in-the-air.html
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Thanks for posting that Herneith
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We’ve got another one: Alton Sterling.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alton-sterling-video_us_577c78e7e4b09b4c43c18f1b?section=
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I just woke up this morning and I am seeing the name Alton Sterling another Black man dead.
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@ Glorp
Thanks. I will be doing a post on Alton Sterling.
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@Glorp
Thanks for sharing that link. While reading it, I saw this link about how BLM Toronto, Canada shut down a Pride Parade to protest “pink-washing” of the racist Toronto police by White gays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-lives-matter-toronto-
pride_us_577c15aee4b0a629c1ab0ab4
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The murder of Alton Sterling especially with the video is very reminiscent of Eric Garner’s murder the whole world sees the man being killed. Will they like Garner’s killers be let go and no justice be served?
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@ Glorp
That video of Alton Sterling’s murder was extremely disturbing and upsetting.
Thank you for bringing it to attention.
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@ Taotesan: I feel you. Glad I could help spread the word.
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@Mary.. What’s most sad is the mainstream media and police are using the same tired playbook of demonizing Alton while painting the “I feared for my life” defense. We’ve seen this too many times. Even with video, I fear no one is going to be held accountable. Jesse Williams just spoke on this. Something’s got to change!
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@ Glorp
I did a post on Sterling:
However, he does not go on this list because apparently he had a gun.
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Abagond,
I think your list is too confining if the victim has a gun in a state where it’s legal to carry openly – and was not brandishing or threatening the police (slave patrol). Having a weapon in one’s pocket (legally) shouldn’t be a criteria for being murdered.
You list, imo, ought to be more discerning.
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@Abagond
It was a great post–as always. Apparently 136 back people have been killed by police.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-people-killed-by-police-america_us_577da633e4b0c590f7e7fb17?zwlqsffo4u7lul3di
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@Fan, if it was in his pocket, then he was not carrying openly. Louisiana law lists that the gun has to be exposed.
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@ Brian
Thank you.
My point is that Black men/children/women are systemically gunned down/murdered in Amerika under the suspicion of being armed, regardless of whether it’s real or not.
Law or not, no one should be murdered because they have a gun in their pocket that they’re not trying to use or access.
White people are frequently allowed to engage in shootouts with police, and then get taken into custody, ALIVE. Black people aren’t so lucky. They are often just shot on sight… without much provocation because mainstream society (white people) deems that’s okay!
Black people are often considered dangerous, criminal and armed. They are feared and murdered with impunity. DEATH BY COP… modern day lynchings.
What’s different now than 300 years ago? Not much!
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Would this one count?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602083/Named-unarmed-black-woman-29-shot-dead-cops-stolen-vehicle-sparking-resignation-San-Francisco-police-chief.html
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@Glorp
Thanks for the link.
The Daily Mail is such an inflammatory rag. They really love sensationalizing everything!
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“This is the police murder of Alva Braziel late last night in Houston. Police claimed he was pointing a gun at them and that they had no choice but to shot him. At 0:29 you will see Alva put his hands up and begin to turn around for the police. They shoot him soon thereafter.
They shot him 10 times. He died instantly.”—-Shaun King
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http://nypost.com/2016/07/08/video-surfaces-of-nypd-cops-road-rage-shooting/
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/new-details-deadly-police-shooting-unarmed-black-m/nrx4M/
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/devaris-caine-rogers-shooting_us_578a31b7e4b03fc3ee511549
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@Herneith
That’s sick. The young man was literally executed for nothing but driving while black.
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Scary for those in the vicinity and around the country.
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Cop shoots caretaker of autistic man playing in the street with toy truck
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article90905442.html
Thankfully he wasn’t killed but WTF. How was it even necessary to fire in that situation?
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Disgusting!
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/21/3800558/police-shoot-therapist-helping-autistic-patient/
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-bias
Scroll down to 15. Even Black cops must fear for their lives from white ones.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/man-shot-police-miami-charles-kinsey-1.3688753
Wow, even in a supine position of surrender, you might get shot. What particularly struck me was when asked by Kinsey why he was shot, the cop said he didn’t ‘know’ why.
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Has Fox News dug up the record of his 3rd cousin twice removed yet?
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Give them a few seconds.
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This pic piqued my interest and I thought I would share.
Ain’t that the truth!!
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From Herneith’s link:
And wer’e to believe this society isn’t teeming with racists. John Crawford and Tamir Rice also had police called on them and were made to seem dangerous. Whites do this shit deliberately to put black people’s lives in danger because they’re fully aware of how trigger happy the police are.
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^^^ This
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@ Herneith
Thank you.
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@abagond
You raise a good point that other large states besides Texas are obviously not reporting this year.
And there’s a growing list of unarmed victims who were classified not as “unarmed” but “unknown weapon”. For instance, Philando Castile who had a concealed, registered gun in his car but never attempted to use it, was technically unarmed when killed.
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I’m not sure where to place these but I consider them relevant. The shootings are not isolated incidents but the fruitage of an underlying culture.
2015:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Family-Outraged-After-North-Miami-Beach-Police-Use-Criminal-Photos-as-Shooting-Targets-288739131.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_MIBrand
2016:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/memphis-police-snapchat-emoji-suspended_us_57833cfbe4b0c590f7e9ee71
2013:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/04/15/target-practice-with-trayvon-martin/
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This lady wasn’t shot but she was brutalized. The video is sickening:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/07/21/footage-released-of-austin-officer-brutally-arresting-2nd-grade-teacher-then-tells-victim-he-understands-why-whites-fear-blacks/
This lady was a grade 2 teacher!
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@Herneith
Thank you for sharing that link.
A second cop at the scene, Spradlin, told the young, unarmed, 114 lb teacher that:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-police-officer-slams-woman-ground-video-article-1.2720928
What a game of manipulation. White people armed to the teeth, claiming to be “afraid” of unarmed Black people. If Black folk had superpowers and weaponized skin, they would certainly use them to protect themselves from assault and murder by White people.
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@Afrofem
Aspects of the group psychology of whites jump out so obviously when you start to examine their behavior. One of the things pointed out by Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary is the element of “cognitive dissonance”.
Here is a quick definition courtesy of Wikpedia:
Dr DeGruy Leary gave the example of the terrible mutilations carried out by J. Marion Simms on black women. He reconciled his beastly behavior by claiming that they couldn’t feel the same pain as other people.
Again, since white men raped black women, the notion that black women had an insatiable sexual apetite came about. This mental gymnastics absolved them of being rapists while allowing them to continue their behavior.
White society projects onto black people the justifications it needs to continue its brutality. It does this to assuage cognitive dissonance so it can continue to consider itself “good” and “civillized”. This tendency towards self-delusion functions cooperatively, in a sort of dsysfunctional way, with Marimba Ani’s notion of culturally normative hypocrisy and the “rhetorical ethic”. It takes rather extensive cultural scaffolding to be as genocidal and rapacious as whites have been while continuing to feel that everything is “fair and square”.
I think black people get it backwards sometimes in that we sometimes believe that if we can prove that the justifications are false then their behavior will change (aka respectibility politics). However, the justifications are simply the mental gymnastics needed to maintain their elevated self-image in the face of an **already decided** course of action that would necessarily taint it. The justifications for brutality have evolved through “saving the heathen” to “they’re subhuman” to “they’re essentially superhuman” but the underlying violent behavior has remained a constant over centuries.
So, yes, from our perpsective it’s absolutely nonsensical that the police are armed to the teeth yet they see even a black man lying on the ground with his hands in the air as a threat. But in the contradictory conception of the world that they’ve engineered, in order for their self-image and behavior to coexist, it is logical. Since the contradiction exists on an epistemological level, above the things they’ll ever question as untrue, they will not be consciously aware of it. The behavior justified by the flawed axioms is therefore “logical”. White officer: “That’s why a lot of the white people are afraid, and I don’t blame them”.
It’ll be very difficult to touch the … erm … conscience of a culture that’s essentially configured to be OK with your suffering even if it has to delude itself.
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@Origin
So true and so very well said (as usual)!
The scaffolding you refer to is rusty in places, some of the screws are loose and some of the metal is warped. It is being held together with bubblegum and bondo. Perhaps by midcentury it will collapse altogether. The world will breathe a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, we must endure….
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May 26th 2016: Devonte Gates, 21, East St Louis, IL, Gunshot.
June 19th 2016: Clarence Howard, 25, Palm Bay, FL, Gunshot.
June 23rd 2016: Deravis ‘Caine’ Rogers, 22, Atlanta, GA, Gunshot.
July 4th 2016: Delrawn Small, 37, Brooklyn, NY, Gunshot.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/26/jailers-handcuffed-pepper-sprayed-and-choked-inmate-to-death.html
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/25/jailer-chokes-inmate-to-death-on-video-but-still-hasn-t-been-charged.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/video-cops-shoot-teen-cal-and-scream-bitch-ass-motherfucker.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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Body cam footage shows Chicago cops’ fatal shooting of unarmed teen Paul O’Neal — one officer heard griping about ‘f—ing desk duty’ after incident
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-shows-chicago-cops-fatal-shooting-unarmed-teen-article-1.2739871
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@Fan: Griping about desk duty, but will still walk free and go home to his family at night. They were also high-fiving and making sure their body cameras didn’t capture it.
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A police Constable was sentenced for manslaughter in the killing of a 19-year-old mentally ill man.
https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/07/28/const-james-forcillo-sammy-yatim-shooting-sentence.html
The sentence was not long but the fact that he will be doing prison time (penitentiary), is a start. The shooting:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-warning-graphic-content-multi-angle-footage-captures-sammy-yatim-shooting/article26936122/
It’s too bad they don’t carry the body cameras, civilians recorded this on their phones.
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Apparently, you can get shot by the police in your front yard:
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Mentally challenged as well:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-shooting-20160809-snap-story.html
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The cop that didn’t shoot.
“We’ve documented countless cases where cops kept their jobs and got a paid vacation after killing unarmed people, killing people after responding to the wrong house, killing people and then lying about it . . . , but what about an ex-marine cop being fired after NOT killing someone armed with an unloaded gun pointed at the ground?…”
https://i0.wp.com/countercurrentnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cop-unloaded.jpg?w=720&quality=80&strip=info
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/09/west-virginia-cop-fired-for-not/
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13-year-old boy killed:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tyree-king-killing-police-shooting-bb-gun-weapon-columbus-ohio-a7309196.html
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Smh…please tell me it was not because they thought he was a grown man.
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The cops claim he pulled out what later turned out to be a bb gun. This version doesn’t sound right. This incident reads eerily like the Tamir Rice case where ‘someone’ phones the police and reports some ‘crime’. The fact that they released the other ‘suspect’ is suspicious as well if indeed they were allegedly committing a crime? I have a sneaking suspicion theses kids were just playing.
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“. , but what about an ex-marine cop being fired after NOT killing someone armed with an unloaded gun pointed at the ground?…”
There is no longer any doubt that the de facto law of the police state NATIONWIDE is to outright MURDER any Black person who may possess the threat of a gun (whether a toy, unloaded, real or imagined) or look for another job.
This is the reality we’re faced with!
Kill, take a paid administrative vacation, self-investigate, doctor police reports in favor of police, get away with murder. Resume career. Look forward to a peachy retirement.
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@Fan …
the exception that proves the rule
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When a cop pulls their gun, they have, presumably, resorted to the last measures available to them. They must be in imminent danger of loss of life or serious bodily harm. The use of force has to be commensurate with the threat at hand. Even when subduing a suspect, the force used to do this must be reasonable and not excessive. Hence, if the cop pulls his gun, it is to kill, not maim or cripple someone. In other words, one has to rely on human reaction rather than theoretical or legal definitions. In short, you are fkced given ‘human error’ and white supremacy.
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@Herneith
Word. That’s why I was extremely irked when a cop pulled his gun on me three years ago. I guess just being in my neighborhood put him in imminent danger.
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Well. I guess I did have a weapon in my hands. A rake. And work gloves. I guess it was mighty suspicious of me to be carrying a rake in my own back yard.
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“if the cop pulls his gun, it is to kill, not maim or cripple someone. In other words, one has to rely on human reaction rather than theoretical or legal definitions. In short, you are fkced given ‘human error’ and white supremacy.”
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While I somewhat agree with your observation, I still have nagging news report memories of some cops being much more lenient and forgiving toward white suspects, even those who have wounded and/or killed cops.
Even Dylan Roof was treated to burgers by the cops AFTER he murdered nine unarmed BLACK church people in cold blood!
WTH message does that convey to the rest of us??
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Well, I must have witnessed a new protocol: Approach citizens with gun drawn. The drawn gun as first resort.
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@Hereneith
I will be glad when they decided to arrest and charge these “random” callers who claim a crime is in action.
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Have you guys heard about the 13 years old kid shot death>? This is so sad
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It’s a protocol from a war zone. Which is exactly what I saw when I looked into that officer’s eyes. To him it was a war zone and I was the enemy. What did they call them in Viet Nam? The gook? To him I was a gook.
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@Rabab
A link was just posted. It really knocks you back knowing another kid has died at the hands of pigs.
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@ Sharinalr..
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/tyree-king-killing-police-shoot-dead-13-year-old-boy-in-ohio/ar-BBwbFv3?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=UP97DHP
Read some of the comment from the white people on this article.. The rationalisation of the killing of 13 years old child has already began
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Ohio and toy guns again. First John Crawford, then Tamir Rice, now another little boy. RIP Tyree King.
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@Rabab
I knew it wouldn’t be long. They must have a stock pile of bs to throw out in the death of a black kid.
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Added:
July 27th 2016: Dalvin Hollins, 19, Tempe, AZ, Gunshot.
July 28th 2016: Donnell Thompson, 27, Compton, CA, Gunshot.
July 28th 2016: Paul O’Neal, 18, Chicago, IL, Gunshot.
August 9th 2016: Fred Barlow, 61, Fairfield, CA, Death in custody.
August 27th 2016: Alfred Toe, 34, Trenton, NJ, Gunshot.
August 30th 2016: Levonia Riggins, 22, Tampa, FL, Gunshot.
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The total is now 31. A year ago it was 61, nearly double. Seems fishy to me.
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I feel so angry.. I feel like I am beginning to hate white people. The white people that are now rationalising the killing of this child are white British people. It appears that no matter where white people are, there behaviour to black pain is the same ” mock and celebration” of the black pain
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@Rabab
Thanks for posting that link.
This passage really jumped out at me:
After murdering a child, the police are “traumatised”. What of the child’s family and community?
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WTH message does that convey to the rest of us??
It means we are at the mercy of white supremacists and their cohorts! You will probably get a lead sandwich rather than a hamburger!
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Apologies for spelling Tyre King’s name wrong in my earlier comment. May he rest in peace, and may his family have justice.
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911 responds to reports of a stranded motorist, discovers the stranded motorist is black and therefore likely armed to the teeth and up to no good, so they murder him before things get out of hand.
https://mic.com/articles/154555/video-of-terence-crutcher-s-police-shooting-may-be-the-worst-we-ve-seen-yet#.ZpT5uNBr1
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@michaeljonbarker: I was trying so hard not to read about the man in Tulsa but it was on several social media sites. After reading about the young kid in Ohio my anxiety started to get the best of me and i had to shut my mobile device off. Reading about these killings is taxing on my emotional and mental health.
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Added:
April 24th 2016: Terrill Thomas, 38, Milwaukee, WI, Death in Custody.
September 16th 2016: Terence Crutcher, 40, Tulsa, OK, Gunshot.
Will be doing a post on Terence Crutcher.
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@ michaeljonbarker
Thanks.
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Post on Terence Crutcher:
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@Abagond
Please consider adding Terrance Sterling to the list. He should be considered unarmed because the police account (lie) of him purposely crashing his bike into the police cruiser contradicts eye witness accounts that the cruiser jumped in front of him to block his path. Plus he was murdered after he was stopped by the police, not while he was still in motion.
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I just noticed that a number of unarmed black people have been killed for having problems with their car or getting into an accident and seeking help. I can think of Reneisha McBride, Jonathan Ferrell and Terrence Crutcher.
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This is the wash, rinse and repeat cycle of life for people in black bodies in America and until something is done to stop it the list will continue to grow. May all the souls of the departed rest in peace.
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If I heard correctly, an African American gentleman, a civil rights activist, by the name of Kevin Alexander Gray, on Al Jazeera puts the number of people killed/murdered/ executed/lynched by police close to 700! and not 33.
White America seems to continue living in their ‘perfected’ society.
Not much seems to have changed since the lynching of Emmet Till and the open police brutality of Rodney King. I had read that not one person was prosecuted for the crime of lynching Black people and only a paltry half-apology issued recently.
What words does one have for African Americans? I am at a loss.
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“What words does one have for African Americans? I am at a loss.”
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I don’t know either. Maybe the words are, STOP BEING AFRAID TO DIE. Nonetheless, I think that Black/African Amerikans think they are vastly outnumbered and scared of dying. Scared that what happened to Martin, Malcolm, Fred and many others may or will happen to them – personally.
Fact is it’s happening anyway, and has always been happening since we arrived.
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“I don’t know either. Maybe the words are, STOP BEING AFRAID TO DIE. Nonetheless, I think that Black/African Amerikans think they are vastly outnumbered and scared of dying. Scared that what happened to Martin, Malcolm, Fred and many others may or will happen to them – personally.
Fact is it’s happening anyway, and has always been happening since we arrived.”
@ Fan…
One thing to be sure, is that Black Americans inspire people all over the world. And the Black consciousness movement of Fred, Stokely , et al have inspired people in Africa! And again # BlackLivesMatter.
Look, you can’t have people like Malcolm X, Steve Biko, Fred Hampton living. They were simply too dangerous. They had to die. They knew the truth. I don’t believe Malcolm X was killed by the NOI.
The other ‘very dangerous’ ones are/were locked up in solitary confinement. and their names are being erased from our consciousness.
Each and every African American is living testament of endurance and courage, whether they fail or not in their private lives. Living monuments of survival and strength.
I have always tried to understand what it must be like to an African American being outnumbered. We have a different challenge here in that 35/40 000 white families own most of the country’s wealth (off-topic) in a country of 53 milion people.
What I was trying to convey, on a personal level, with many challenges, I/we feel tremendous sorrow for African Americans who are still subjected to systematic police brutality amongst other institutional racist violence.
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(http://afgj.org/politicalprisonersusa)
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@Taotesan
Amerika has the greatest debt (in lives taken, maimed) on the planet!
The Universe will see to it that this retribution is paid in full.
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http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/09/el-cajon-police-shooting/
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@ sharina
Thanks!
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Added:
September 11th 2016: Terrence Sterling, 31, Washington, DC, Gunshot.
September 17th 2016: Tawon Boyd, 21, Middle River, MD, Death in custody.
September 27th 2016: Alfred Olango, 30, El Cajon, CA, Gunshot.
Will be doing a post on Alfred Olango.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/
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http://blavity.com/carnell-snell-shooting-death-lapd?utm_content=buffer03cab&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Another person shot:
http://nypost.com/2016/10/18/cops-shoot-bat-wielding-woman-in-the-bronx/?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition
This woman was schizophrenic, could they not have subdued her another way?
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Did you do a post on Ronnie Shumpert?
https://thinkprogress.org/what-everyone-should-know-about-ronnie-shumpert-killed-by-police-in-unfathomably-brutal-fashion-8df1168eda45?gi=70eac4ea2815
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/rogue-d-a-shielded-killer-cop.html?via=newsletter&source=Politics
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Despite the huge surge in hate incidents in the US, no unarmed Black person has been killed by police since September 27th. Hmm….
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Wait for it.
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Black and Native Americans are being killed by police at pretty much the same rate they were last year (so much for the Ferguson Effect), BUT the number of UNARMED cases have dropped by about half. As we know from the Walter Scott case, where the police did not know there were being recorded, some do plant weapons on unarmed victims.
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Probably because they are under more scrutiny by the populace(cell phones) and to a certain degree the press. I have to wonder, nope I am not going to go there!
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@ Abagond
The aggressiveness of White racists grows when they feel that their control of less valued races has decreased (real or apparently).
The election of a non-White President (Obama) has the effect to make some fringes of the White population and/or agents of the state, i.e, police officers, more alienated than before (do this country really belongs to us or to Blacks?) and therefore an increase in aggressiveness towards Black civilians.
Now, than normalcy is going to be restored (a White President again… as it should be!) those fringes become calm again. A sense of returning to the proved and old-fashioned control of Blacks and others is felt.
A probable good thing that a Trump’s Presidency will bring is reduction of fatalities in close encounters between Black folks and the Police.
But nobody knows for sure because others factors should be included in a more complete analysis of why such fatalities occur.
Anyway, let us wait and see.
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munubantu,
I think it will depend to a large extent on Trump’s approach once he enters office. If he uses his office as a bully pulpit to stir up a WASP’s nest (ooh, did I just do that? 😉 ), stuff can stay at least as bad as it is now, and would probably get worse.
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August 13th 2016: Kendrick Brown, 18, Monticello, AR, Taser.
November 8th 2016: Ritchie Harbison, 62, Hendersonville, NC, Taser.
November 23rd 2016: Kajuan Raye, 19, Chicago, IL, Gunshot.
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@ Abagond
Is not time to move to the counter of unlawful killings of American Black citizens in 2017?
The new year is already 20 days old…
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It was Sandra Bland and Jacqueline Craig and her daughters whom immediately came to mind when I was informed this week that I was invited to compete in the World Bench Press Championships in Killeen Texas in April.
The trepidation and fear immediately rose to my throat.
Fort Worth where Ms Craig resides and Waller County where Sandra was tortured and murdered whilst in custody, are about 2 hours drive from Killeen.
Whilst I have partial sponsorship, I simply cannot afford the other half of expenses,
Both counties, are bastions of white nationalism with heavy support for Trump.
I do not want to go ( amongst other reasons), even though I am told what a wonderful opportunity I am passing up.
I still think of Sandra Bland.
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@ munubantu
I will start up when the Guardian does.
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I live in Chicago. Every Monday they report the shootings over the weekend. It’s usually around 4 killed and 12 wounded, with much more in the warmer weather. Each week the number goes up and eventually into the hundreds of wounded. But you never hear the phrase “Black Lives Matter”. There are no marches, nothing. What you listed at the top is a 2 month period in Chicago where 90% of the shootings are black on black. Your list is national, so imagine how many unarmed black men standing on a street are killed by armed black men riding in cars in the entire USA? The number would be 10 times your list EVERY WEEK. But you don’t write about that? I’ve always wondered why? It’s almost as if Black Lives only Matter when a white man shoots one.
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@ JimboPedigo
“It’s almost as if Black Lives only Matter when a white man shoots one.”
Those Black shooters are subject to arrest, prosecution and imprisonment.
White police (paid by the public) are given a two week (or longer) paid vacation and rarely face any punishment for killing Black people.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
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Why is more focus put on one police shooting than 1,000 black men dying at the hand of their brothers? My other question is why are black men in black neighborhoods allowed by their community to sell drugs openly on street corners where they are so bold as to shout out to cars passing by? You would never see that in a white neighborhood. So my point is black people do not solve their own problems and are too focused on white people. Why doesn’t the people on their block do something about it like a white neighborhood would? One woman at the top of the comments commented about how blacks tribeswomen are portrayed topless in (white)National Geographic. How misogynistic is rap music. How does it portray women. What do women mostly do on their videos. What does rap music value more than anything else according to the lyrics and video – money. But nobody says anything. Hence, this double standard year after year and what do you get – Trump. White people form opinions on what they hear and see like anyone else. It builds underlying racism that is the same as people not liking something because they don’t like how it looks, smells, tastes. It’s called an opinion. We are smart enough to know that not all black people are bad. But the numbers say be careful. That’s all we are – careful and a little bit skeptical. Because it’s earned. Look at anything mostly black like neighborhoods and countries. Usually the best right? Living among themselves peacefully and prosperous. Or do I have that backwards. In black neighborhoods there are no Starbucks. The corner stores have bullet proof glass. You put your money in the glass and the guy behind the counter spins it and places your Swisher Sweet in the glass and spins it back. And there is no basis for that? The people in the black neighborhoods of Chicago are the most kind, generous and gentle people on Earth but for some reason they want to put up bulletproof glass. For no reason at all. Nothing at all opinions based on their experiences. The Arabs who run the stores(also brown skin) must hate people with brown skin for no reason I guess.
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@ JimboPedigo
That was a pretty good comment but you need to work more on your condescension.
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Black people are the most thin-skinned, overly sensitive people on Earth because the truth hurts them.
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@JimboPedigo
You said: “White people form opinions on what they hear and see like anyone else. It builds underlying racism that is the same as people not liking something because they don’t like how it looks, smells, tastes. It’s called an opinion.”
Those “opinions” are based on incomplete information. That information is incomplete because White people really don’t care about their Black countrymen and women. They don’t care enough to get complete information. They are content to look at manufactured stereotypes on television and cluck about how “bad” Black people are without thinking about causes and consequences.
You presented a litany of social ills about Black people and Black neighborhoods in Chicago. You listed symptoms. Let’s talk about root causes——-some historical, some current.
JimboPedigo did you care when Black people were the first to lose good paying manufacturing jobs with benefits in the 1980s?
Did you care when drugs poured into once stable Black communities creating a public health crisis that was sensationalized as a “crime wave”? You may have forgotten about the Crack Epidemic—–Black people have not. We still live with the results to this day.
Did you care when Black people lost millions of dollars of family wealth in the financial crash of 2007-2008? Those mortgage swindles targeted Black communities and left devastation in their wake. Hardworking Black people lost their homes by the hundreds of thousands.
Did you care when Black people were pushed out of minimum wage jobs by immigrants? Chicago’s employers found a group easier to exploit than Black people. People with no legal protections who had no recourse when faced with wage theft or sub-minimum wages. Why hire Black people who can sue you for mistreatment when a more compliant group is available?
Did you care when “broken windows” policing in Chicago acted as an intake valve into the Prison-Industrial system? Thousands of Black men and women separated from their families, whisked away to prisons in Central and Southern Illinois for “offenses” that people in White neighborhoods don’t think twice about like consuming weed or traffic tickets.
Did you care when public housing units were destroyed by the thousands. As ill-conceived and managed the public housing was in Chicago, it still provided (sub-standard) homes to Black people who are now housing insecure (meaning they pay up to 50 percent of their incomes for housing) or homeless.
Did you care when scores of neighborhood schools in predominantly Black Chicago neighborhoods were closed over the past five years? Closing a school has the same effect on a community as tearing a lung out of a person. In addition to losing a vital part of the community, vulnerable children were forced to cross rival gang territories, subjecting them to needless violence.
The working class Black people of Chicago (or Baltimore, Philly or Cleveland, etc.) are not White. They don’t live in White neighborhoods. They have not had the protections of White privilege that White Chicagoans have enjoyed for decades. They have dealt with one crisis after another and those crises have taken their toll on Black Chicago communities. The violence you decry in Black Chicago neighborhoods has its roots in the institutionalized violence heaped on Black Chicagoans over the past forty years up to the present day.
African American poet, Langston Hughes describes what occurs when a group of people are pushed to the breaking point in his poem, “Harlem (What Happens To A Dream Deferred?”):
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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@ JimboPedigo
Black folk are “thin-skinned” alright——precisely in the spots where we are repeatedly kicked and punched day after day.
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@ JimboPedigo
“My other question is why are black men in black neighborhoods allowed by their community to sell drugs openly on street corners where they are so bold as to shout out to cars passing by? You would never see that in a white neighborhood. So my point is black people do not solve their own problems and are too focused on white people. Why doesn’t the people on their block do something about it like a white neighborhood would?
This is such bullsh*t. Drive downstate to any of the small towns that have been devastated by meth and opiods. You will find white people mired in addiction and criminal behavior, and their white neighbors helpless to do anything that stems the wave of destruction.
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@ JimboPedigo
To gain some needed perspective, you can also examine the history of another wave of gang violence and murder in Chicago that centered around an illegal intoxicant: alcohol. Chicago of the Prohibition Era was characterized by white-on-white violence quite similar what you describe, complete with drive-by shootings.
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Unlike you did with my questions, I will respond to each and every point you made. Overall you did exactly as I said – you blame white people for what black people do.
Causes and Consequences. When I sit alone on a subway train at night with some rowdy, loud young black people I’m scared and don’t have time to consider what ‘made them’ into the people who harass and possibly rob me. It’s happened.
Jobs. Do you feel sorry for the guy who scored higher on a fireman’s exam but didn’t get the jog because the black guy was given a lower standard. There are many programs like Affirmative Action that do just that. There are no programs anywhere in this country that target demographic white people for any kind of aid whatsoever, yet there are many programs that are funded to specifically help the black community.
Drugs. Are you serious? White people did this to you. Are they still doing this? Yet somehow an entire 40 years of nation wide drug abuse is sponsored by white people but nobody has ever had any proof. Supposing it were true. Do you suppose they targeted black people because they knew that they were too weak to overcome it even after 40 years? Are white people to blame for heroin as well? Marijuana? Wow, white people sure know how to keep a secret.
Not really sure what ‘Broken Windows Policing’ is. But let me ask you. We all know there are many more black people in prison than white people. Therefore black people commit more crimes. Unless you really think that there are thousands of black people in prison innocent of a crime actually perpetrated by a White, Hispanic or Asian person. Again, a tremendously well kept secret if true.
I used to use regularly in the crack houses of Cabrini Green, notoriously dangerous, drug infested Low income Projects with 100% black tenants. They started tearing them down while I was moving from crack house to crack house as the buildings were brought down one by one. I know for a fact that every one of those residents were moved into much better unsegregated communities, because it became evident if black people are combined together without other races things will go horribly wrong. How’s Africa doing? And if white people are exploiting them, why can they? Are they weak?
Schools. Are you telling me they closed schools in black communities and left the children without schooling options. Kinder gardeners wandering the streets with no schools to go to. I don’t think the public would allow that. Schools are being closed in nice white neighborhoods as well. This huge school on the corner across the street was closed. A very nice white neighborhood. It was a grade school so, I guess those poor kids education ended in the 4th grade – shame.
The housing plunge targeted black people because again, if you offer them a house on credit and won’t do the math to figure out that in a few years they won’t be able to afford it. Or they won’t read the fine print or even understand it. If you have a people who are born to be swindled, exploited and worse, it’s evolution my friend. Blame God.
As for your poem, it explains perfectly how white peoples opinions of blacks deteriorate as they get older. It explodes until white people are so fed up they elect an idiot like Donald Trump as president.
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You are absolutely right, plenty of white drug addicts. I’m one myself. The difference isn’t the individuals. It’s the community. One allows open drug markets and the other doesn’t. In white neighborhoods the drugs are obtained as discreetly as possible. Police would never allow open defiance of drug use in a white neighborhood or rural community.
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Chicago has several stop the violence peograms and quite a few marches monthly if I remember correctly. I will post more when I have time.
https://www.google.com/search?q=stop+the+violence+programs+in+chicago&oq=stop+the+violence+peograms&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.7562j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
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@ JimboPedigo
Why did the shootings in Chicago become a thing (at least in the national media) only AFTER the rise of Black Lives Matter – even though the shootings used to be way worse? Does that mean it is a disingenuous argument?
Why do White people so blindly support the police, especially when it comes to gunning down Black people? Why the pushback? You are one of the pushbackers, so you can tell us first-hand: What gives? Does the US Constitution apply only to White people and Deserving Negroes? That seems to be what you are saying, in so many words.
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@ JimboPedigo
Black Lives Matter is not protesting interracial violence. They are protesting for the right not to be gunned down summarily by the police. That seems to be a bridge too far for many White people. Why is that?
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@ JimboPedigo
If you can draw conclusions about Black people based on rap videos, can I draw conclusions about White people based on their mostly voting for Trump? Are most White people okay with misogyny, racism, Islamophobia and lying like it was nothing? Do they too value money more than anything, like their Dear Leader?
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@ JimboPedigo
If you can make sweeping statements about Black people based on a Black community hit by crack, can I make sweeping statements about White people based on a White community hit by meth and opioids?
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@ JimboPedigo
Please tell us more, oh great niggerologist.
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@ JimboPedigo
This is not true. There has been plenty of pushback against rap lyrics, at least among Blacks, especially by churches.
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“One allows open drug markets and the other doesn’t. In white neighborhoods the drugs are obtained as discreetly as possible. Police would never allow open defiance of drug use in a white neighborhood or rural community.”
You haven’t been down there. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I do — I was born and raised in Little Egypt. There is open use, although it may not look like what you consider open use because no one’s going to try to sell on the corner of two rural roads that have maybe 1 car come by every hour. But the drug use and the drug trade is far more open, defiant, and violent than it was 30 years ago, and everyone knows who’s doing what. Cops turn a blind eye because they are scared, incompetent, corrupt, or addicts themselves.
I’m sure you are very knowledgable about how the drug scene works in Chicago, but you know nothing about how it works in rural communities and are obviously basing your remarks on a mix of your own city experience and stereotypes about Mayberry USA.
“Causes and Consequences. When I sit alone on a subway train at night with some rowdy, loud young black people I’m scared and don’t have time to consider what ‘made them’ into the people who harass and possibly rob me. It’s happened.”
What, you think black people are never scared of whites? I’m pretty sure you know the reputation of East St. Louis. A couple years ago, a black lady from East St. Louis agreed to give a talk about her mssion work at my home church in one of those small white farming towns. She came accompanied by her two grandsons, and she later explained to the group of little old white church ladies how relieved she was they’d been so nice to her and that she’d asked her grandsons along for protection because she had been afraid to come alone due to the racism of the region. She was afraid of being beaten or killed by racist white people — and this is a woman who is not afraid to confront face-to-face the toughest gang members and drug dealers in East St. Louis.
“You are absolutely right, plenty of white drug addicts. I’m one myself.”
In that case, why do you think you have any right to lecture black people about black pathologies?
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“There are no programs anywhere in this country that target demographic white people for any kind of aid whatsoever”
Not true. There are numerous programs that target the poor whites of Appalachia, for example. In higher education, a number of colleges throughout the nation have scholarships and feeder programs for poor rural whites.
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You are absolutely right, plenty of white drug addicts. I’m one myself. The difference isn’t the individuals. It’s the community. One allows open drug markets and the other doesn’t. In white neighborhoods the drugs are obtained as discreetly as possible. Police would never allow open defiance of drug use in a white neighborhood or rural community.
Were you intoxicated when you wrote that?
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@JimboPedigo
You and so many European Americans live in such a profound state of ignorance!
People with more time on their hands than I would have to patiently explain to you American history, the facts of of slavery, colonialism and racist systems. Yet, you live with such a closed mind that I doubt their words would ever touch your head or your heart.
I think you really don’t want to understand how things really work in this country or how the greed of the Global North (US, Canada, Europe and Asia) purposely keeps Africans from developing their countries to suit their own needs——or simply live in peace.
You are content to exist in your White Cocoon of false superiority that makes the dregs of White society feel that their lives have meaning and purpose because they are not Black. It is amazing that the “Whiteness” plan cooked up in 1676 by the Virginia Legislature still has such power.
And people like you say the past does not matter…your comments are proof to the contrary.
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@ Afrofem
“….that makes the dregs of White society feel that their lives have meaning and purpose because they are not Black.”
More than that, even. The dregs of white society like JimboPedigo — a self-admitted drug addict and habitual frequenter of crack houses — feel so superior that they believe they have the high moral standing to come to African American blogs and lecture upstanding, law-abiding, sober, productive U.S. citizens like Abagond and yourself.
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@Solitaire
That sense of “high moral standing” will shatter when the oligarchs start treating low and moderate income White people with the same open contempt they have shown Black people for ages.
Some lessons have to be learned through bitter experience.
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@ Afrofem
It can’t happen soon enough. My people need to wake up, stop voting against their own interests, and join hands with the other victims of the oligarchy.
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the broken window school of thought is once one window is broken on the block… more are sure to follow, wow
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a self-admitted drug addict and habitual frequenter of crack house
A crackhead to boot? Go figure! Maybe he wrote this at the crackhouse.
That sense of “high moral standing” will shatter when the oligarchs start treating low and moderate income White people with the same open contempt they have shown Black people for ages.
Twill be ugly indeed! They will fold like cheap suits at half price!
Some lessons have to be learned through bitter experience.
Nah, they will not correlate the two. You have to have empathy and some cursory knowledge of others, they don’t.
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@Herneith
LOL! So true!
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http://countercurrentnews.com/2017/03/police-killings-on-the-rise-under-donald-trump/
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You should check out my blog(JimboPedigo dot com). I just did a post recently on the first year of Jet magazine. I’m preparing more years/posts by collecting photos and interesting stuff from the magazine. The next post will have an actual ad for skin lightener. Understandable self-esteem issues in 1952. They did a blurb about a real story where a man beat his wife with a whole Thanksgiving turkey. At the end they added a joke about better ways to tenderize meat! Some really unbelievable stuff that would be considered politically incorrect for sure. Google books has all the original issues free to view up to 2005 I think. Quite the historical trip. I’m trying to capture some of the zeitgeist from that era in my posts but basically I’m just focusing on the beautiful black women because that is what my site really is about. But because I do vintage I come across a lot of interesting stuff. Even 50’s Playboy. The ads are the craziest. And the jokes and cartoons.
You seem like a pretty cool dude. I actually think we would get along fine if we met. Just one thing – I’ve been sober for a long time. I was talking about my past. Sometimes I think that the African Americans I got to know and shaped my opinions were not exactly the cream of the crop as far as black people go, if you know what I mean. Mostly drug addicts, dealers, hustlers and general low-lifes, like I was at the time. I like to think I’ve changed but maybe not enough on the inside. I’m always looking for new ideas for posts, so if you think of something good let me know. Peace.
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It’s always been my fantasy to date a white supremacist crack head(recovered or not), who fetishizes Black women! Seriously creepy, actually all joking aside.
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gee. sorry dont have time to read preceding comments. not my discussion. just dropped in to drop off that bit of info.
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@ JimboPedigo
“I was talking about my past. Sometimes I think that the African Americans I got to know and shaped my opinions were not exactly the cream of the crop as far as black people go, if you know what I mean. Mostly drug addicts, dealers, hustlers and general low-lifes, like I was at the time.”
So now that you’re clean, you don’t know any black people?
Why is that?
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So JimboPedigo came to this space to ridicule black people. He needs to crawl back to crack house he came from.
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@JimboPedigo
I am working on a post kind of like that about 1949.
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It’s possible that the drop in police shootings is tied to the protests that occurred after some high profile shootings.
“In a nationwide survey conducted in 2016 by the Pew Research Center, 72% of the law enforcement officers questioned said their colleagues were less likely to stop and question suspicious people “as a result of high-profile incidents involving blacks and the police.”
https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-police-slowdown-20170401-story,amp.html
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I would hazard a guess and say that seeing police officers charged, whether they get off or not, would act as a deterrent. People filming everything nowadays would also act as a deterrent.
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April 11th 2016: Mary Truxillo, 72, Marrero, LA, Struck by vehicle.
July 29th 2016: Joyce Quaweay, 24, Philadelphia, PA, Death in custody.
December 15th 2016: Marlon Lewis, 39, Badin, NC, Taser.
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The Guardian had already started their 2016 list by this point last year. It seems they have lost interest. I will try to find another source and start the 2017 list.
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Just heard an interview of African American Studies professor and organizer of Black Lives Matter, Dr. Melina Abdullah. In the Project Censored segment, Dr. Abdullah talked about how the corporate media imposed a blackout of police shootings of Black people in 2017 and the protests that follow the shootings.
Dr. Abdullah also talks briefly about the numbers of missing Black and Latinx girls and women in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, CA, Oakland, CA and other cities. (25:50 to 27:55) Abagond covered that story here:
The entire interview starts at 4:12 and ends at 29:20.
http://projectcensored.org/orange-new-black-black-lives-matter-project-censored-student-researchers/
Note: the better audio player on the site is found here:
http://projectcensored.org/radio/
Click on: Orange Is The New Black, Black Lives Matter, and Project Censored Student Researchers.
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The 2017 list is up:
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Same sh*t, different day. {SMDH} — https://mic.com/articles/177386/betty-shelby-is-not-guilty-of-manslaughter-in-shooting-of-terence-crutcher-jury-finds#.f2srmmsBt
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