Getting into a car is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JacobBlake
Passing a counterfeit bill is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#GeorgeFloyd
Sleeping in your home is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BreonnaTaylor
Watching your nephew play video games is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AtatianaJefferson
Arguing with your boyfriend is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AuraRosser
Holding a cell phone is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#StephonClark
Holding a cell phone is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AmadouDiallo
Eating ice cream on the couch is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BothamJean
Carrying a licensed gun is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#PhilandoCastile
Selling CDs is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AltonSterling
Selling loose cigarettes is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#EricGarner
Mental illness is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#MichelleCasseaux
Playing with a toy gun is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#TamirRice
Buying a BB gun is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JohnCrawford
Neither walking in the street nor petty theft are capital crimes.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#MichaelBrown
Carrying a jackknife is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#FreddieGray
Being mentally ill is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JanishaFonville
Riding a red scooter is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#MichaelLaney
Killed by the same cop as Janisha Fonville
Walking down the stairs is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AkaiGurley
Mental illness is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#TanishaAnderson
Driving away from the police is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#KendraJames
Being 20 cents short on bus fare is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JoseMejiaPoot
Mental illness is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AndreGladin
Cops claimed he had a knife, but it belonged to the cop
Being a suspect is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#QuaniceHayes
Walking backwards with your hands up is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AaronCampbell
Having a car that stands out in the neighborhood is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JamesJaharPerez
Hiding in a bush is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#EdwardAnthonyAnderson
Sitting in the back seat of a Honda is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#FrankieArzuaga
Running away from police is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#DreasjonReed
Laying on the floor per police instruction is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#EurieStamps
Walking away from police is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#TrayfordPellerin
Driving away from the police, even in a stolen car, is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#DeravisCaineRogers
A burned-out taillight is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner. This time the trooper has been indicted for murder
#BlackLivesMatter
#JulianEdwardRooseveltLewis
Being an Uber driver is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Or in this case, kill innocent people in a high speed chase
#BlackLivesMatter
#BismarkAsare
Walking while carrying a gun is not a capital crime. Particularly in an open-carry state.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#DavidEarlBrooksjr
Running away is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AnibalCarrasquillo
Lying on the floor per police instruction is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AnthonyRosario
Lying on the floor per police instruction is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#HiltonVega
Accidentally hitting a police car with a football is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AnthonyBaez
Failure to signal is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#SandraBland
Wearing a hoodie is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#TrayvonMartin
Being a suspect is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#GarlandCarter
A bicycle accident is not a capital crime. Speeding police struck his bike, they shot him when he tried to stand up.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AngelCastro
"Huddling around a dark SUV" & running is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#DariusWashington
Riding a scooter is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Police driving at high speed on city streets
#BlackLivesMatter
#MarioWinters
Sleeping in a friend's car is not a capital crime.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JamesGarcia
I have to stop. I just vomited reading of Sherly Colon pushed from 18-story building in handcuffs. I witnessed a suicide from a parking garage a third that high and had the blood and matter of a 14-yo Black girl on my shoes and slacks driven to suicide by anti-choice fake clinic
For more information, though there is
#BlackLivesMatter
stolenlives.org/index.html
There is also
#BlackLivesMatter
ebwiki.org
And from "The Culture of Make Believe" by Derrick Jensen
#BlackLivesMatter
And to come back to the beginning
Getting into a car is not a capital crime. Especially getting into a car with your three children in it.
The police cannot continue to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
#BlackLivesMatter
#JacobBlake
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