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I will reach out to some folks privately on this too but if I have any friends within the Biden campaign here would you please consider contacting me?
Apparently Biden is coming to Kenosha to meet with religious leaders here and I would like to offer some names.
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Apparently Biden is coming to Kenosha to meet with religious leaders here and I would like to offer some names.
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The thing is the mayor here tends to surround himself with center-right mainline church leaders whose perspectives should not be the only ones heard.
There is a well of deeply progressive clergy here who are on the frontlines of this fight and Joe needs to meet these folks.
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There is a well of deeply progressive clergy here who are on the frontlines of this fight and Joe needs to meet these folks.
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I know many of them, including the ministers of my own church.
First United Methodist Church of Kenosha is literally the oldest church in the city. Our sanctuary is huge and beautiful and I know would be made available to the campaign if needed.
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First United Methodist Church of Kenosha is literally the oldest church in the city. Our sanctuary is huge and beautiful and I know would be made available to the campaign if needed.
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Protesters marched to the site of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting, where the girlfriend of one of last night’s victims spoke #Kenosha #KyleRittenhouse #KenoshaShooting
“He took down an armed gunman” Hannah Gittings, girlfriend of Anthony Huber - one of the victims of the Tuesday night Kenosha shootings - speaks out at the site of the shooting. #KenoshaShooting #Kenosha #KenoshaShooter
“He just died for the cause. It was a white man last night” Speaking out about the shootings at the Kenosha protests on Tuesday #Kenosha #KenoshaShooting #KenoshaProtests
There's video of #KenoshaShooter as well as video of militia members explaining to each other that the police planned to push protesters at the militia members so they (the #Militia ) could take care of the protesters. 1/13
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Then, later that night, the #kenoshapolicedepartment tossed bottles of water to those militia members and thanked them for their help while simultaneously telling protesters they had to leave the area because they were "civilians."
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Then the militia members staged themselves 3 blocks south of 60th street and the police kettled protesters to 60th street. It was then that this militia member shot one of the protesters in the head with an AR-15.
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@SlightlyOffens 0:00: Single shot heard. Unclear if this hit anyone
0:04: 4 tap burst at man with no shirt who rushes a gun holder. Unclear if gunman who fired shot at 0:00
0:07: 3 more shots. Unclear if any victims or if same shooter as 0:04
0:09: Shooter from 0:04 emerges (green shirt)
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0:04: 4 tap burst at man with no shirt who rushes a gun holder. Unclear if gunman who fired shot at 0:00
0:07: 3 more shots. Unclear if any victims or if same shooter as 0:04
0:09: Shooter from 0:04 emerges (green shirt)
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@SlightlyOffens 0:10: Man in black shirt appears to motion to gunman that he is not a threat with passive hand motion goes on to tend to man shot.
0:15: shooter from 0:04 now standing over man who he shot in the head
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0:15: shooter from 0:04 now standing over man who he shot in the head
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@SlightlyOffens 0:20: Gunman now has phone out, he will go on to place a phone call. Worth noting this is ~15 seconds after the 4 shots at 0:04
0:25: Man in black shirt rendering first response frantically removes shirt, likely to tend to the victim's wounds
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0:25: Man in black shirt rendering first response frantically removes shirt, likely to tend to the victim's wounds
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"It didn’t matter that no #drugs were found—nothing but a hydroponic #tomato #garden and loose tea leaves. The search and #SWAT raid were reasonable, according to the courts."
by John Whitehead
bit.ly/3htyLKR #gardeningtips #WarOnDrugs #DrugWar #TuesdayThoughts
by John Whitehead
bit.ly/3htyLKR #gardeningtips #WarOnDrugs #DrugWar #TuesdayThoughts
Civil discontent leads to civil unrest, which leads to #protests and #counterprotests, and instead of restoring order, local #police stand down. Tensions rise, violence escalates, and federal armies move in.
by John Whitehead
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by John Whitehead
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The real purpose of qualified immunity is to rig the system.
by John Whitehead
mintpressnews.com/system-is-rigg… #PoliceBrutality #jakeblake #TuesdayThoughts #KenoshaUprising #KenoshaProtests #JacobBlake
by John Whitehead
mintpressnews.com/system-is-rigg… #PoliceBrutality #jakeblake #TuesdayThoughts #KenoshaUprising #KenoshaProtests #JacobBlake
Blake’s three young children were in the car at the time #police shot seven rounds into it. 'They saw a cop shoot their father. They will be traumatized forever.
by @AlanRMacLeod
bit.ly/31oIQmz #JakeBlake #KenoshaUprising #kenoshariots #KenoshaProtests #PoliceReformNow
by @AlanRMacLeod
bit.ly/31oIQmz #JakeBlake #KenoshaUprising #kenoshariots #KenoshaProtests #PoliceReformNow
