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Guess Chauvin finally decided to drop the "ghost" from ghostskin when he shaved his head.
I wonder who got him in the prison draft: Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, or Christian Identity.
#ChauvinSentencing #ChauvinTrial #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #BLM
I wonder who got him in the prison draft: Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, or Christian Identity.
#ChauvinSentencing #ChauvinTrial #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #BLM
Mask off #ChauvinSentencing 
Earlier today, before news about the verdict dropped, I read this piece about an amazing archeological find: the childhood cabin of Harriet Tubman. I thought about the Underground Railroad, how Tubman was by all accounts a hated lawbreaker in her day.
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Tubman never waivered in her commitment to standing up against the evil of human slavery.
She had little, but she knew how to read the wilderness, how to read the sky, the wind, the sun and the stars.
She had little, but she knew how to read the wilderness, how to read the sky, the wind, the sun and the stars.
She used what was given to her to speak truth to power, fighting white supremacy without writing a single op-ed, filing a case, or firing off a tweet.
One hundred fifty years and some hours later, another group of people spoke truth to power, fighting white supremacy as well.
One hundred fifty years and some hours later, another group of people spoke truth to power, fighting white supremacy as well.
“If he walks, that’s it. It’s over. This is Rodney King times a million. It’s hard for me to believe Chauvin isn’t a ghost skin who murdered George Floyd to deliberately burn the country down.”
- @LA_Kings_67, ex-skinhead/former Neo-Nazi on #DerekChauvinTrial #closingarguments
- @LA_Kings_67, ex-skinhead/former Neo-Nazi on #DerekChauvinTrial #closingarguments
If you’re following #closingarguments in the Chauvin trial — I recommend listening to the reactions of a former Neo-Nazi who once worked with Metzger on strategies of infiltrating police.
He’s doing a thread here:
He’s doing a thread here:
Thread to follow — on law enforcement, white supremacy, and how and why Neo-Nazis infiltrate policing (from someone who used to be on the other side):
#GeorgeFloydTrial #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #ChauvinTrail
#GeorgeFloydTrial #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #ChauvinTrail
#ChauvinTrial is anyone following this bizarre theory from the defense? Floyd might have died from carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling fumes from the car?! But the only reason he was down on the ground inhaling anything was because Chauvin HAD HIS KNEES ON HIM FOR 9+ mins
We’ve entered the throw-shit-against-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks phase of the #ChauvinTrial #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
some background on this “expert witness” washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04…
We’ve watched the emotional testimony in the #Chauvintrial with sadness & anger. We know it’s been hard to watch for many people. As important as justice is, it is difficult to relive events like these—especially w/the police shooting of #DuanteWright in MN this weekend.
In a recent interview, Dr. @CornelWest said of the Chauvin trial: “Black humanity is on trial; you can’t prove your humanity to somebody. It’s not a logical deduction. It’s a moral perception and a spiritual communion.”
White supremacy has worked so hard for so long to dehumanize Black people, Native Americans, Hispanic and Latinx communities, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and poor people of every color in order to justify our exclusion and violence against us.
Começa hoje o julgamento do policial que matou George Floyd em maio do ano passado. Sua família e seus advogados se ajoelharam e ficaram 8 minutos em silêncio em frente ao tribunal antes do início dos trabalhos
#GeorgeFloyd
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#GeorgeFloyd
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
Do adv. Ben Crump: "para todos que continuam dizendo que esse é um caso difícil, nós refutamos isso. Porque todos sabem que se George Floyd fosse um cidadão americano branco, e sofresse essa morte dolorosa, ninguém estaria dizendo que é um caso difícil"
The four ex-officers accused of killing #GeorgeFloyd have filed motions of dismissal and have a courtdate set for this morning at 9 am.
Hundreds are out in downtown #Minneapolis in front of the courthouse demanding the charges not be dismissed. pscp.tv/w/1BRJjYeYmnNGw
Hundreds are out in downtown #Minneapolis in front of the courthouse demanding the charges not be dismissed. pscp.tv/w/1BRJjYeYmnNGw
Anika Bowie, VP of @NAACPmpls, speaks against a change of venue for #GeorgeFloyd's killers.
"We are here today because we have a justice system that doesnt want to lay in the bed it created ... we know justice in Hennepin County needs to be taken care of Hennepin County"
"We are here today because we have a justice system that doesnt want to lay in the bed it created ... we know justice in Hennepin County needs to be taken care of Hennepin County"
Michelle Gross, President of @CUAPBMpls, speaking about "cop exceptionalism" and how she feels the cops who are accused of killing #GeorgeFloyd are being treated in exceptional ways.
Watch #LIVE pscp.tv/w/1BRJjYeYmnNGw
Watch #LIVE pscp.tv/w/1BRJjYeYmnNGw
A useful way to think about how protests work is a cascade model. Before a standing ovation, folks look around to see what others are doing. Signals from media + elites (people further up), neighbors (seated near you) & local norms all shape whether people stand up.
Protests help draw attention to an issue. Media may cover it, amplifying underlying concern in larger public. Individuals & groups watching from sidelines then weigh whether to support, ignore or oppose the cause. So, athletes can play a powerful role.
Research by @EricaChenoweth & Maria Stephan finds a key reason nonviolent protest tends to be more effective than violent resistance is potential local, national & international allies are more likely to align with a movement perceived as largely peaceful. amazon.com/Why-Civil-Resi…
Last night, as protesters were pushed by police up Stark away from the East Precinct station, they encountered a woman shouting insults from her porch. She was wearing a Nazi uniform, and had a Nazi flag in her window. Tonight they confronted her again, tagging 'Nazi Lives Here'
She came out again to shout at the protesters, saying "I never said I was a Nazi", they respond "You wore a swastika!"
The Nazi flag is now gone from her window, but the tag on her house remains.
(image from @garbagefilth 's video.)
The Nazi flag is now gone from her window, but the tag on her house remains.
(image from @garbagefilth 's video.)
Dressing like this or displaying the Nazi flag in Germany, the place where Nazism originated, is illegal and would result in her arrest.
In Portland, however, it is permitted.
In Portland, however, it is permitted.
None of this needed to happen.
We were all in agreement.
We were all united.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
The entire nation was one for a change.
Why?
Why did we ruin that?
We were all in agreement.
We were all united.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
The entire nation was one for a change.
Why?
Why did we ruin that?
I have a sadness in my heart.
Instead of embracing that moment and becoming the nation, the people, we want to be, we burned it to the ground.
Why?
Where is the justice in this?
Instead of embracing that moment and becoming the nation, the people, we want to be, we burned it to the ground.
Why?
Where is the justice in this?
They say Justice is Blind.
It appears to me that the people are blind.
I beg of you. All of you.
Please stop this nonsense.
I pray the strength of God guides you.
It appears to me that the people are blind.
I beg of you. All of you.
Please stop this nonsense.
I pray the strength of God guides you.
As predicted: This was either a hit or a School Play.
Chauvin was an enforcer at a nightclub know for drug trafficking. Floyd was either involved and expendable, or a liability to the operation.
Now the club and the precinct are burnt down. Evidence and all. #WeAreTheNewsNow
Chauvin was an enforcer at a nightclub know for drug trafficking. Floyd was either involved and expendable, or a liability to the operation.
Now the club and the precinct are burnt down. Evidence and all. #WeAreTheNewsNow
You know, the one w/ a history of drug trafficking as well as a suspected money laundering and intel hub? @GeorgWebb
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George Floyd was murdered. He was arrested on suspicion of passing funny money. 1/29/20 CBP intercepted fake bills from China, and again days after his death. He was placed in the vehicle, then removed before his murder. Was this a hit to cover for an OP?
Amnesty staff and board members stand in solidarity with the family of Yassin Moyo. Enough is enough. We call for an end to police brutality and extrajudicial executions. #PoliceBrutalityKE #BlackLivesMatter
For 8 minutes and 46 seconds; Amnesty staff, board and residents of Kiamaiko remembered the victims of police brutality. #JusticeForVaite #JusticeforYassin #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForSamuelMaina #PoliceBrutalityKenya #BlackLivesMattters
New: There's a list of "puzzling questions" about the murder of George Floyd going around conspiracy theory sites and Facebook. They're nonsensical, irrelevant, and designed only to muddy the waters of the case.
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Some versions of the "puzzling questions" lists have 14 questions, others have 20, others go on and on for well over 100. Most are either easily answered, or have no answer. Few have any relevance. But conspiracy theorists love lists of questions.
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"Just asking questions" about an incident is a trademark of conspiracy theorists who want you to think that what you're being told by the media is all a hoax. But most of these questions aren't sinister - they're just pedantic. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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THREAD: Here are some chants I'd love to see retired, and alternative chants you can do in their place.
#BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
#BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
RETIRE: "No justice, no peace! No racist police!"
INSTEAD: "No justice, no peace, DEFUND the police," or "No justice no peace, ABOLISH police."
INSTEAD: "No justice, no peace, DEFUND the police," or "No justice no peace, ABOLISH police."
The first chant doesn't get to the heart of the issues being protested, and doesn't make a demand. Individual racists aren't the problem, it's a structure that is inherently racist being called into question.
LONG THREAD PLEASE READ: confession time: I am a priveledged white middle class male. The first time my girlfriend showed me an article about George Floyd, I was appalled by the inhumanity and cruelty of the officer who murdered this black man pleading for his life, however...
I was initially numb to the meaning of this single act. As a member of Generation Z, my life has been full of tragedy and turmoil relating to police brutality and racism, all seeming to be in the background to my decent upbringing in a southern home. Hearing about such travesties
Was nothing new... I hated the violence and have developed morals based on these events but have never fully paid mind to them. It pains me to say that it has taken the entire world to wake me from my trance and shatter my rose tinted glasses crafted by my love of retro escapism.
I spent the last 2 years working in the @NYCMayorsOffice. Last night I was arrested by NYPD for violating @NYCMayor's curfew while participating in a peaceful protest, and then questioned by the FBI. Story about what happened and what I saw in the thread below.
I was part of a group of hundreds marching through Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill. We were chanting and cheering, with vocal support from apartment windows, brownstones, fire escapes, stoops and sidewalks.
We had a police tail, but they were keeping a distance, similar to what I've seen each night since the curfew was imposed. (nyer.cm/3i5peAa)
@JBickertonUK Clearly you dont understand the history of 400 years of racism in the United States. I suggest you watch the program by Henry Louis Gates Jr on reconstruction after the civil war. Then look at figures like Booker T Washington
@JBickertonUK Who put a focus on economic empowerment as a way of tackling institutionalised racism, because only eight years after the end of slavery in 1883 until the civil rights act, the Supreme Court ensured that African Americans across all U.S. states had less rights than they did
@JBickertonUK After slavery was abolished and were worse off economically.
This was due to allowing officially segregation which led for many years to apartheid across the USA in businesses, restaurants, shops, schools etc.
This was due to allowing officially segregation which led for many years to apartheid across the USA in businesses, restaurants, shops, schools etc.
Several action-oriented lists are circulating right now but all emphasize two points: White people and NB-POC need to (1) dismantle Anti-Blackness and (2) relieve Black people from the burden of educating us about HOW (not if) we reinforce systems of oppression. Some links below:
→ Anti-Racism Allyship Staterkit by @tatumdorrell, @MattHerndon94, Jourdan Dorrell docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…
→ donation list by @reclaimtheblock docs.google.com/document/d/1yL…
→ Anti-Racism Resources for White people by @sarahsophief, @dj_diabeatic bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESO…
→ donation list by @reclaimtheblock docs.google.com/document/d/1yL…
→ Anti-Racism Resources for White people by @sarahsophief, @dj_diabeatic bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESO…
→ Uprooting Whiteness syllabus by @williamrfrey docs.google.com/document/d/1F8…
→ Black History Month Library by @_CharlesPreston
drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
→ Black History Month Library by @_CharlesPreston
drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
עכשיו בשכונת ה-Mission בסן פרנסיסקו. נחילי אדם בתנועה למקום מכל הסביבה, המון המון צעירים, בקבוקי מים ומסכות מחולקים חינם, מסוקים משטרתיים חגים מעל
כמות הצעירים מרשימה. נאומים נישאו רחוק אבל אי אפשר היה להבין. שלטים שמכריזים בעיקר #BlackLivesMatter ולא מעט Defund the police, גם say his name וכן #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd . מתחילים להתפזר, יש עוצר עוד שעתיים וקצת
My collection of police excessive force, and right wing violence and instigation of riots, fires and property damage #PoliceViolence #ExcessiveForce #minneapolisriots #ThreePercent #boogaloobois #AntiFascist #FakeAntifa #protest #TrumpIncitesViolence
#PoliceViolence https://t.co/136mMw4Qpz
I’ve been thinking about power in systems. In medicine. In police forces. Government. Why there haven’t been mass defections. Why do we stay when the system harms? 1/
The System is made of people. We comprise It. Without us, it ceases to be. Strikes me as a kind of delusion that we don’t denounce and leave even when The System blatantly exploits and harms. 2/
The harm, the moral distress, it touches everyone. We see it daily. And I wonder if we don’t abandon these systems because we ourselves on the deepest level seek to gain power from within. We’ve been conditioned to believe that is the goal. 3/
La manifestation d'hier contre les #ViolencesPolicieres et pour la #JusticePourAdama était inédite. De mémoire de militante, j'ai rarement vu un rassemblement de ce type, plus de 20000 personnes, calmes, déterminées. C'est l'information la plus importante à retenir.
#LeLiveBFMTV
#LeLiveBFMTV
Même si les médias préfèrent s'intéresser de manière disproportionnée aux quelques feux de poubelles et dégradations, la très grande majorité des gens étaient là pour porter un message : dénoncer l'injustice des #ViolencesPolicieres, demander la #JusticePourAdama.
#LeLiveBFMTV
#LeLiveBFMTV
La stratégie policière de dispersion d'une manifestation pacifique en lançant des gaz lacrymogènes a certainement contribué à échauffer les esprits. Aujourd'hui, elle permet de faire diversion, comme avec Trump, pour ne pas répondre aux revendications légitimes.
#LeLiveBFMTV
#LeLiveBFMTV
We'll be in @chicagosmayor's neighborhood (2200 N Kedzie) bright and early tomorrow to demand #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, #CPACNow, & #MassReleaseNow!
We're also putting together a social media toolkit so you can join us from wherever you are. See you in the morning!
#GoodMorningLori
We're also putting together a social media toolkit so you can join us from wherever you are. See you in the morning!
#GoodMorningLori
En Español
We saw @chicagosmayor's lil statement last night and we are not impressed. Lightfoot has ignored Chicagoans for over a year and she cannot ignore us any longer.
Check this document for sample posts: bit.ly/GoodMorningLori
#GoodMorningLori
#CPACNow
Check this document for sample posts: bit.ly/GoodMorningLori
#GoodMorningLori
#CPACNow
They want us to riot, they want us to loot, & vandalize! We are being manipulated! Continue to fight for justice but don't fall for the trap! Stop the violence! If you see them trying to incite, EXPOSE THEM! Retweet this! Share this! Tag this! #BlackOutTuesday #ItsASetUp
They are trying to vilify our cause!
They think we will fall for their game... WE WILL NOT!!!
