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I will tell you something for nothing @Blklivesmatter @ukblm #BlackLivesMatter if you do not stop and open up your eyes we are going to see #BlackHistoryMonth #icantbreath @MLK50Memphis @OfficialMLK3 repeated all over again because of @MayorofLondon /@SadiqKhan @LibPeck Image
insult us all to that level or he would have #whitetwitter and it would have the @TwitterBlue next to it.

So #open your eyes, shut off what is a diversion so stop this right now.
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Under guise of "#humanrights", protesters scream "Allahu akbar" & "the Jews are our dogs" at anti-Israel rally. Apparently, "no one is free when others are oppressed" applies to all but Jews--"dogs" to be subjugated. But y'all #notantisemitic tho, right? 🙄 ImageImage
Here's the video, in case you can't see it in my previous tweet (possible if on desktop):

A pic at the rally. Protesters screamed "Jews are our dogs" while appropriating #BlackLivesMatter & #ICantBreath slogan to justify overt anti-Semitism. Will @OsopePatrisse @opalayo @aliciagarza condemn the use of #BLM mvmt to legitimize literal declarations of Jews' inferiority? Image
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Back at the Justice Center, Thursday 6/25. The fence has been replaced and there are about 250 people in the street/park. There is a vigil planned for 10:00. #Portlandprotest #blacklivesmatter     #PDXprotests #pdx #oregon #blm #acab #justicecenter #sacredfence #portland
Tonight there are more hatches in the drywall for the police to shoot munitions through from the other side. #Portlandprotest #blacklivesmatter     #PDXprotests #pdx #oregon #blm #acab #justicecenter #sacredfence #portland ImageImage
As the vigil kicks off there is a land acknowledgment due to everyone here being on stolen land. #Portlandprotest #blacklivesmatter     #PDXprotests #pdx #oregon #blm #acab #justicecenter #sacredfence #portland
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A few thoughts and collations over the last few days . . . .
#NotMyPM
A is for Africa
#NotMyPM
B is for Brexit
#NotMyPM
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#GeorgeFloyd was murdered and there are #BlackLivesMatter protests in all 50 states.
What has #TomKeanJr done besides make boilerplate "thoughts and prayers" statements?
Nothing. His silence is deafening. 1/5
2/5 Will #TomKeanJr condemn Trump-Barr's unlawful and violent attacks on protestors exercising their First Amendment rights?
NO!
#DCProtests #ICantBreath
3/5 Will #TomKeanJr stand with General George Mattis and condemn Trump's actions? 
NO!
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Adams County DA Dave Young needs to revisit the case of Elijah McClain. Aurora PD rushed this young man as he was walking home because they got a "suspicious" call. EM is heard saying, "I can't breathe" multiple times. An officer is heard accusing EM of trying to grab his gun....
EM then replies "I don't have a gun, I don't do that stuff" "why are you checking me" I'm pretty damn sure Elijah never reached for that officers weapon. This was a sweet young man pleading to officers "I was just going home, I'm an introvert, I'm different"

#ImDifferent
Here's body cam footage from Aurora PD:

youtube.com/watch?v=q5Ncye…

#ElijahMcClain #ImDifferent
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Today I messaged my sister who lives in Chile for help. As many of you are probably aware riots broke out all over the country in protest of the government in October of 2019. Now as riots break out all over here I wanted to share some of the tips she gave me --
1/?
-- from the time she participated in these riots herself.

1) Many people lost an eye due to rubber bullets, so she recommends that if you go out, that you wear goggles if you can to protect your eyes.
2/?
2) If at any point you see that they are about to shoot something listen to how the sound of the gun echoes, and stay low. When they shoot rubber bullets they have a louder sound and a bigger echo. In their riots, shotguns that can shoot gas were used and those echo less.
3/?
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Police Use of force should be guided by the principles of legality, necessity, proportion, precaution and non-discrimination. These are fundamental principles of international human rights law that should bind all states. But they are not the norms in the #USA. #ICantBreath
The use of lethal force in the US is heavily decentralised. There is no federal law. It is regulated at State and municipal level and does not meet international standards which require that lethal force be the exception and only when strictly necessary to protect life.
In the US police can use lethal force where it is ‘reasonable’ on the basis of the severity of the crime at issue, if there is an immediate threat to the safety of officers or others, if he/she is resisting arrest, if there is probable cause of serious physical harm.
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#GeorgeFloydProtests #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreath #BlackLivesMatters #NoLivesMatterUntilBlackLivesMatter
Feel free to use this image, I don't need credit. I want justice for George Floyd, I want justice for all black lives we lost and those we are still losing today. Image
This thread is a very thorough source on the history of race violence in america. Please take a moment to read:
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The great Ishavasya Upanishad text of Hinduism states:

Yastu sarvāṇi bhūtāni ātmanyevānupaśyati |
Sarvabhūteṣu cātmānaṁ tato na vijugupsate |

It means “the one who sees all beings in one’s own self, and one’s own self in all beings, does not despise anyone.” Image
In the spirit of this saying that calls for loving and caring about all beings like they are you, we at the South Asian Heritage Forum stand in unequivocal solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters, the #blacklivesmatter movement, and call for the swift prosecution . . .
of the police officers who murdered #GeorgeFloyd. We call on all South Asians to be unwavering allies to the African American community while they fight racial injustice and police brutality in the United States.

#SolidarityWithMinneapolis ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreath
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Se o assassinato de #GeorgeFloyd lembrou o de #EricGarner, a resposta da população lembra a resposta à absolvição dos policiais que espancaram #RodneyKing em 1992, em Los Angeles. Mineápolis em convulsão social #minneapolisriots
Delegacia de polícia em Mineápolis...
Manifestantes queimando a bandeira dos Estados Unidos #GeorgeFloyd #minneapolisriots

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SPECIAL ANALYSIS: Don’t pity this year’s graduates because of the #Covid_19 pandemic .
Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency.
By: John Whitehead
@Rutherford_Inst #icantbreathe
#WednesdayThoughts #coronavirus
mintpressnews.com/9-11-covid-19-…
George Orwell warned, “Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they rebelled, they cannot become conscious.” It is these conscious individuals who change the world for the better. Image
Minneapolis riot police deploy to disperse protesters gathered for George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020. Richard Tsong-Taatarii | Star Tribune via AP
#PoliceKillings #BlackLivesMatter #icantbreathe #ICantBreath #RIPGeorgeFloyd #racism #WednesdayWisdom Image
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