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Big Sean Dedicates Video With A Social Message Award To His Grandmother At VMAs
Inspiring video, inspiring words.
Please help her find her mother!
RCMP are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 26-year-old Saskatchewan woman.
Dakota Tierney Jade Pratt was last seen leaving her home on the Gordon First Nation around 10 a.m. on July 21.
Pratt is described as First Nations, five-foot-seven and 175 pounds with black hair. She was last seen wearing black leggings and carrying a white purse.
While it’s believed Pratt was headed to Moose Jaw, she may have gone to Saskatoon or Prince Albert, RCMP said.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact Punnichy RCMP at 306-835-5200 or the nearest police service or detachment.
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Illinois Woman Who Drove To Texas For New Job Found Hanging/Dead In Jail Cell 3 Days Later
Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma mater of Prairie View A&M, she was pulled over for a routine traffic violation (failure to use her turn signal). Everything from that point forward screams racism and foul play, including her death in the Waller County jail Monday.
The Waller County Sheriff’s Office told the Chicago Tribune that Bland was arrested on Friday and charged with “assault on a public servant.”
A video capturing the incident shows differently!!
It shows several police officers standing over Bland while she is on the ground, arguing with them about why they’re being so rough.
At one point, she can be heard saying, “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?” She also thanks the man recording the incident for filming as she is led to a police cruiser.
Her friend, Malcolm Jackson, told ABC 7,
“After he (an officer) pulled her out of the car, forced her and tossed her to the ground, knee to the neck, and arrested her.”
What we see from a bystander video is her telling the officers she is in pain and cannot hear after her head was slammed on the ground by the male arresting officer.
We have now learned that Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith, who made the first public comments about Bland’s in-custody death, was suspended for documented cases of racism when he was chief of police in Hempstead, Texas, in 2007. After serving his suspension, more complaints of racism came in, and Smith was actually fired as chief of police in Hempstead
Family and Friends close to Sandra, including most of twitter, is at an uproar, believing there was no way she committed suicide, and saying that foul play was at work.
“I do suspect foul play,” another friend, Cheryl Nanton, told the news station. “I believe that we are all 100 percent in belief that she did not do harm to herself.”
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Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.
Just gonna say this is actually the first picture I’ve actually seen of wounded female veterans. Now that I think about it they are (in my eyes at least) hugely forgotten. Some female service members have been in combat and hit by IEDs outside the wire but it’s always the males you hear about and never the females. I think this picture is great and everyone should see it so please share it!
Do you know this girl? Have you ever heard of her? I hadn’t, until just today. Let me educate you. Her name is Teekah Lewis. She just turned 19 when us Americans were hooting and hollering over the lame ass, predictable fireworks. She’s been missing since January 23rd of 1999. I saw an episode of Nancy Grace Mysteries by chance (I’ve never watched her before), and I immediately searched Teekah on tumblr, assuming at least this website would know about her. I assumed wrong. This beautiful black, now woman, has two posts about her. Two. She is just as important of every little rosy cheeked white baby gone missing. So please, help find Teekah. Or at least know her fucking name.
Additional sources: http://www.defrostingcoldcases.com/case-month-teekah-lewis/ http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/859446/1 http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/07/ng.01.html
Hi I’d like to share a story and would extremely appreciate it, if you guys can REBLOG & SHARE.
Okay, so this is my cousin Hanad Abdullaziz. He’s a 21 year old Somalian male. On Tuesday June. 23rd, 2015 in Surrey, British Columbia (Canada) he was driving in his neighbourhood. When the police suddenly stopped him. Hanad was confused as to why he was being pulled over, so he asked the undercover officer’s. The officer’s immediately smashed his window and dragged him out of the vehicle. They viciously started beating him until he was almost unconscious.
Hanad was getting brutally beaten for about five minutes. He was screaming for his life, “STOP I’M A STUDENT, I DIDN’T DO NOTHING.” These six under cover officers were accusing Hanad of being involved in recent shootings that have been happening in city of Surrey,BC since January of 2015. Between Somalis and Punjabis over drug turf.
When they finally stopped beating Hanad, they announced that the reason they pulled him over was for not signalling. Hanad suffered from multiple bruisings, cuts and a broken arm. He has since been traumatized, and does not feel safe. His family has hired a lawyer and are hoping for justice.
The police have been targeting young black innocent males since January, 2015 in Surrey, BC. But this is the first time it has come to an unjust assault. I share this story with you guys today because we can’t keep quiet anymore. An innocent young BLACK male has yet again been battered by the police. We need to let the public know. These men with authority stay abusing their power. And this is becoming too common for minority’s. The family has reached out to multiple news reporters and are being ignored.
So PLEASE share and REBLOG because Black lives matter and police brutality needs to stop. #BlackLivesMatter #StopPoliceBrutality #JusticeforHanad
2 SECONDS TO REBLOG COULD SAVE A LIFE
New Yorker Tyeesha Mobley was at a gas station near her Bronx apartment with her two sons when she caught the older boy, aged nine, stealing $10 out of her purse. Thinking this was a good opportunity to teach him a lesson about honesty and consequences, she called the police, asking them to help her communicate the seriousness of stealing.
When the police arrived, however, Mobley’s Arrested Development-style lesson quickly escalated into a terrifying situation. Three of the four officers who arrived at the gas station apparently understood that this was a lighthearted call.
“They started asking Tyleke what did he take,” said Mobley. “He told them. And about three officers was joking around with him, telling him, ‘You can’t be stealing, you’ll wind up going in the police car.’”
The fourth cop, however, had different ideas. He began yelling: “You black b——es don’t know how to take care of your kids … why are you wasting our time, we aren’t here to raise your kid … why don’t you take your f—-ing kid and leave?”
When she tried to follow his order, Mobley says the fourth officer arrested her, refusing to give a reason. While she and her children cried for him to stop, one of the other officers attempted to intervene, saying, “We are not supposed to act like this.”
He replied, “Black b——es like that … this is how I treat them.”
After her arrest, Mobley was hospitalized for the bruises she’d sustained on her legs thanks to the fourth cop kicking her during the arrest. She successfully fought off child endangerment charges—a pretty interesting charge given that the “endangerment” in question seems to have been calling the police.
Mobley’s two children were placed in foster care for four months, where they reportedly received sub-par care. Now, having recovered her children—who have undoubtedly learned a very different lesson than the one she intended to teach—Mobley is suing the NYPD.
And, to paraphrase J. Walter Weatherman, that’s why you don’t call the police.
This is my homeless friend, Sean. My children and I have known him for several years and taken him food, clothes, and blankets. Sean is Special Needs. He can’tread or write and sounds like an 8 year old child when he talks. He recently told me that he is here because he got lost and can’t find his way home. He was on a Greyhound Bus to visit someone and got on the wrong bus at a rest stop. He’s been lost ever since. He thinks he’s from Springfield, Missouri. Someone has to be looking for him. He’s such a harmless, gentle soul. Please pray for him.
if anyone has seen this brother of our’s please message and let her know where you might have seen him https://www.facebook.com/trisha.hippselsharkawy
AMBER ALERT: Police have issued an Amber Alert for Bryeon Hunter, a 1-year-old boy taken from 6th and Main in Maywood.
The child was apparently taken by three male Hispanics.
The African-American boy is two feet tall and 30 pounds. He was wearing a two-tone, blue stripe long-sleeved shirt, jeans, and brown Nike boots.
MAYWOOD IS A SUBURB IN ILLINOIS. PLEASE REBLOG IN CASE YOU HAVE FOLLOWERS FROM OR AROUND THIS AREA.
"My name is Michael Hunter. I was diagnosed with leukemia in June 2013 & was told on June 11, 2014 that I only have a few months left to live if I can’t find a donor. Please help me with my biological family or a donor match! I was born in Columbus, OH 3/1/1985 at Doctor’s North Hospital and given the name Christopher Brown. Please share"
Michael is a friend, I’m asking that you all take the time to share this. He desperately needs a bone marrow donor and there is very limited number of African American donors. Without a donor Michael is going to die.
Michael was adopted and does not know his birth family. We know he has a half brother but have no information about him.
He does not specifically need an African American Donor but because of all of the things that factor into finding a match (blood type, dna tissue etc.) , someone of similar descent is more likely to be a closer match.
If anyone knows anything about Michael’s birth family or if you would like to see if you are a match, please privately message me. I can put you in touch with him and his caregivers directly!
We hope through spreading awareness we can either find his birth family whom he does not know or find a donor match. Michael lives in the Cincinnati, OH area. Please dont just like this or scroll past. Please share this! You could save his life!
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Image Credit: UniteWomen.Org
In 2005, 19-year old army private LaVena Johnson was the first woman to die in Iraq. The army ruled her death a suicide. Only after her family insisted on seeing photographs taken at the scene of her death did they realize she was found in her tent with a gunshot wound to the head, a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, acid burns on her genitals (there is speculation that this was done to cover up sexual assault), and a trail of blood leading away from her tent. The army ruled that her death was a SUICIDE. Her father, a doctor who has worked with military personnel for more than 20 years, believes his daughter was raped and murdered. A documentary, “LaVena Johnson The Silent Truth,” describing the family’s attempts to uncover the truth, was released in 2010. There is a website with updates, LaVena Johnson, and a petition asking Senator Claire McCaskill to investigate her death. As Cilla McCain, founder of Military Families for Justice asks, would this case by taken seriously if LaVena Johnson were not a black woman? Her parents have established a scholarship fund in their daughter’s name. Donations can be made to The LaVena L. Johnson College Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 117, Florissant, MO 63032
So I recently saw some hurtful things on my dash about men who basically said dark skinned women aren’t worth the ground they walk on. Their are fathers, and even mothers, who dislike the fact their own child is dark skin. This has to be stopped. But of course, stuck in this slavery and “white supremacy” mentality, no one likes to listen.
Tell that little dark skinned girl with coiled hair crying in the corner because her skin isn’t the color of sand and her hair doesn’t flow and curl like an ocean wave that her skin of pure mahogany and hair that reaches toward the heavens is loved and appreciated.
The last words said by Black youth murdered by policemen.
This is important ya’ll need to reblog it
There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
Bill Hicks (via billhicks)
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Have You Heard The Story of LaVena Johnson?
BY CPLPUN
LaVena Johnson was a soldier who enlisted in the Army in 2003. She was the first woman from Missouri to die in Iraq. What happened to this young black woman was appalling. She was found in her tent with a gunshot wound to the head, a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, acid burns on her genitals, and a trail of blood leading away from her tent. What’s even more appalling is the Department of Defense has officially ruled her death a suicide.
The autopsy report and photographs revealed that her death was inconsistent with a suicide, and looked consistent with a rape-murder, but as far as the U.S. Criminal Investigative Command for the Army is concerned the case remains closed. Her father became suspicious when he saw her body in the funeral home and decided to investigate. At first the Department of the Army refused to release information, but eventually it did under the Freedom of Information Act after Pat Tillman’s death.