They allowed a police chief to make this ruling outside of a court of law, the investigation was carried out by an “officer-involved shooting protocol team”
The sword was bought from a gift shop and did not have a sharp edge, yet in the report they claim he swung it at them and they were afraid of getting sliced
The two cops who shot him are both reinstated: Schauerhamer and Judson
The questioning of the cops was delayed and they’ve now altered their story (that Hunt lunged at them and that is why he ultimately died)
The shot that killed him, though, was the shot in the back that he received while fleeing. He was shot a total of 6 times.
We are allowing police departments all over the country to get away with murder. They are held unaccountable for their murder. This is genocide. People are justifying this just like they justify Brown’s murder. Question everything. Don’t believe a word these genocidal police departments say all over the country. They are held above the law. This will keep happening if precedent is not set.
Say whatever the fuck you want about the business in Ferguson, but I think we can all agree that this man has him some rhinoceros sized balls. Hat’s off to you, brother.
Friendly reminder, Michael Brown wasn’t shot for theft, he was shot for JAY WALKING.
The theft came up afterwards when the police department tried to cover themselves, even though the owner of the store told everyone that Michael Brown had NOTHING to do with any theft.
Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.
Just because not everyone might have read about them before or might not google them (which you should), just to pick a specific example, Kenneth Chamberlain was an elderly man who had the police come to his home after his Life Alert bracelet erroneously went off. He kept telling the police to leave and that he didn’t need help (and they refused to), and even called the Life Alert operator to tell them to call the police off. They eventually broke in and shot him dead.
The police obscured the fact that it was a medical alert response in their reports and the Life Alert system recorded everything that happened - including one of the cops calling him n****r through the door.
Mr. Chamberlain was a retired former-Marine, a father, and a 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections
The cops weren’t charged. The Police department said they’d “review the department’s policies and procedures and recommend any improvements” (ie do nothing).
No one is safe. They try to make these men and woman look like thugs, make children look like adults instead of the babies they are that deserved to be protected, but no one is safe. You can be an elderly black veteran who had medical alert call (ie a situation where the police are supposed to help YOU) and they’ll still be calling you n****r through the door and shoot you dead.
I know I have some people on my follower list that are still learning about this stuff or on the fence, but for anyone that can’t see the reality of the world we live in, it’s time to open your eyes.
When you say please act peacefully and dignified, all I can hear is, please keep it down while we kill you and die a little more quietly will you, please and thank you.
There is a military force on the doorstep of Ferguson right now, and one day when it finally comes to your doorstep you’ll wonder why no one is coming to your defense and you’ll remember that you let them die.
Don’t take my word for it. Look for yourself. Read for yourself. Go ahead.
One day when I have a child with my fiance, my child will be black and I’ll be damned if you gun down my fucking child.
and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored
i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art
“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”
And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues - often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process - because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.
Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.
(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way - because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)
Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.
“Why are you so suspicious of men even when they say nice things to you? What he said was gentlemanly, you should give him a chance!”
I had a similar message once on a dating site, someone messaged me but I didn’t reply cause I was taking a nap and then like a few minutes later he lost his shit and I was like woah ok, someone is fucking mental.
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Got bored and drew Anubis.