1/25
What has Protesting Accomplished?
--- by Christopher Reilley
👉🏾Within 10 days of sustained #protests:
#Minneapolis bans use of #chokeholds.
👉🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
What has Protesting Accomplished?
--- by Christopher Reilley
👉🏾Within 10 days of sustained #protests:
#Minneapolis bans use of #chokeholds.
👉🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
2/25
👉🏾#Dallas adopts a "#DutyToIntervene" rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
👉🏾#NewJersey’s attorney general said the state will update its #UseOfForce guidelines for the first time in two decades.
👉🏾#Dallas adopts a "#DutyToIntervene" rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
👉🏾#NewJersey’s attorney general said the state will update its #UseOfForce guidelines for the first time in two decades.
3/25
👉🏾In #Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a #PoliceReform work group.
👉🏾#LosAngeles City Council introduces motion to reduce #LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
👉🏾In #Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a #PoliceReform work group.
👉🏾#LosAngeles City Council introduces motion to reduce #LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
4/25
👉🏾MBTA in #Boston agrees to stop using public buses to transport police officers to protests.
👉🏾#PoliceBrutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., #Buffalo, #FortLauderdale).
👉🏾MBTA in #Boston agrees to stop using public buses to transport police officers to protests.
👉🏾#PoliceBrutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., #Buffalo, #FortLauderdale).
5/25
👉🏾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in cities in #Virginia, #Alabama, and other states.
👉🏾Street in front of the #WhiteHouse is renamed "#BlackLivesMatter Plaza.”
Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C.
👉🏾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in cities in #Virginia, #Alabama, and other states.
👉🏾Street in front of the #WhiteHouse is renamed "#BlackLivesMatter Plaza.”
Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C.
6/25
Then, there's all the other stuff that's hard to measure:
💓The really difficult public and private conversations that are happening about #RaceAndPrivilege.
💓The realizations some white people are coming to about racism and the role of policing in this country.
Then, there's all the other stuff that's hard to measure:
💓The really difficult public and private conversations that are happening about #RaceAndPrivilege.
💓The realizations some white people are coming to about racism and the role of policing in this country.
7/25
💓The self-reflection.
💓The internal battles exploding within organizations over issues that have been simmering or ignored for a long time. Some organizations will end as a result, others will be forever changed or replaced with something stronger and fairer.
💓The self-reflection.
💓The internal battles exploding within organizations over issues that have been simmering or ignored for a long time. Some organizations will end as a result, others will be forever changed or replaced with something stronger and fairer.
8/25
Globally:
🌎 #Protests against #RacialInequality sparked by the police killing of #GeorgeFloyd are taking place all over the world.
🌎 Rallies and memorials have been held in cities across #Europe, as well as in #Mexico, #Canada, #Brazil, #Australia, and #NewZealand.
Globally:
🌎 #Protests against #RacialInequality sparked by the police killing of #GeorgeFloyd are taking place all over the world.
🌎 Rallies and memorials have been held in cities across #Europe, as well as in #Mexico, #Canada, #Brazil, #Australia, and #NewZealand.
9/25
🌎 As the US contends with its second week of #protests, issues of #racism, #PoliceBrutality, and #oppression have been brought to light across the globe.
🌎 People all over the world understand that their own fights for #HumanRights rights, for equality and fairness, ...
🌎 As the US contends with its second week of #protests, issues of #racism, #PoliceBrutality, and #oppression have been brought to light across the globe.
🌎 People all over the world understand that their own fights for #HumanRights rights, for equality and fairness, ...
10/25
... will become so much more difficult to win if we are going to lose America as the place where 'I have a dream' is a real and universal political program," Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the US, told the New Yorker.
... will become so much more difficult to win if we are going to lose America as the place where 'I have a dream' is a real and universal political program," Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the US, told the New Yorker.
11/25
🌎 In France, protesters marched holding signs that said "#ICantBreathe" to signify both the words of Floyd, and the last words of #AdamaTraoré, a 24-year-old black man who was subdued by police officers and gasped the sentence before he died outside Paris in 2016.
🌎 In France, protesters marched holding signs that said "#ICantBreathe" to signify both the words of Floyd, and the last words of #AdamaTraoré, a 24-year-old black man who was subdued by police officers and gasped the sentence before he died outside Paris in 2016.
12/25
🌎 Cities across Europe have come together after the death of #GeorgeFloyd:
✊🏽 In #Amsterdam, an estimated 10,000 people filled the Dam square on Monday, holding signs and shouting popular chants like "#BlackLivesMatter," and "#NoJusticeNoPeace".
🌎 Cities across Europe have come together after the death of #GeorgeFloyd:
✊🏽 In #Amsterdam, an estimated 10,000 people filled the Dam square on Monday, holding signs and shouting popular chants like "#BlackLivesMatter," and "#NoJusticeNoPeace".
13/25
✊🏽 In Germany, people gathered in multiple locations throughout Berlin to demand justice for Floyd & fight against #PoliceBrutality.
✊🏾 A mural dedicated to Floyd was also spray-painted on a stretch of wall in Berlin that once divided the German capital during the Cold War.
✊🏽 In Germany, people gathered in multiple locations throughout Berlin to demand justice for Floyd & fight against #PoliceBrutality.
✊🏾 A mural dedicated to Floyd was also spray-painted on a stretch of wall in Berlin that once divided the German capital during the Cold War.
15/25
✊🏿In #Italy, protesters gathered and marched with signs that said #STOPKILLINGBLACKPEOPLE," #SayHisName," and #WeWillNotBeSilenced."
✊🏾 In #Spain, people gathered to march and hold up signs throughout #Barcelona and #Madrid.
✊🏿In #Italy, protesters gathered and marched with signs that said #STOPKILLINGBLACKPEOPLE," #SayHisName," and #WeWillNotBeSilenced."
✊🏾 In #Spain, people gathered to march and hold up signs throughout #Barcelona and #Madrid.
16/25
✊🏾 In #Athens, #Greece, protesters took to the streets to collectively hold up a sign that read "#ICantBreathe."
✊🏾 In #Brussels, protesters were seen sitting in a peaceful demonstration in front of an opera house in the center of the city.
✊🏾 In #Athens, #Greece, protesters took to the streets to collectively hold up a sign that read "#ICantBreathe."
✊🏾 In #Brussels, protesters were seen sitting in a peaceful demonstration in front of an opera house in the center of the city.
17/25
✊🏾In #Denmark, protesters were heard chanting #NoJusticeNoPeace!" throughout the streets of #Copenhagen, while others gathered outside the US embassy.
✊🏾 In #Canada, protesters were also grieving for #RegisKorchinskiPaquet, a 29-year-old black woman who died on ...
✊🏾In #Denmark, protesters were heard chanting #NoJusticeNoPeace!" throughout the streets of #Copenhagen, while others gathered outside the US embassy.
✊🏾 In #Canada, protesters were also grieving for #RegisKorchinskiPaquet, a 29-year-old black woman who died on ...
18/25
... Wednesday after falling from her balcony during a police investigation at her building.
✊🏾 And in #NewZealand, roughly 2,000 people marched to the US embassy in #Auckland, chanting and carrying signs demanding justice.
... Wednesday after falling from her balcony during a police investigation at her building.
✊🏾 And in #NewZealand, roughly 2,000 people marched to the US embassy in #Auckland, chanting and carrying signs demanding justice.
19/25
💐 Memorials have been built for #Floyd around the world, too. In #MexicoCity, portraits of him were hung outside the US embassy with roses, candles, and signs.
💐 In #Poland, candles and flowers were laid out next to photos of Floyd outside the US consulate.
💐 Memorials have been built for #Floyd around the world, too. In #MexicoCity, portraits of him were hung outside the US embassy with roses, candles, and signs.
💐 In #Poland, candles and flowers were laid out next to photos of Floyd outside the US consulate.
20/25
💐 And in #Syria, two artists created a mural depicting Floyd in the northwestern town of #Binnish, "on a wall destroyed by military planes."
THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT, AN AWAKENING...MANY OF YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED FOR WHO YOU REALLY ARE. #readthatagain
💐 And in #Syria, two artists created a mural depicting Floyd in the northwestern town of #Binnish, "on a wall destroyed by military planes."
THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT, AN AWAKENING...MANY OF YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED FOR WHO YOU REALLY ARE. #readthatagain
21/25
Don't wake up tomorrow on the wrong side of this issue. Its not too late to SAY,
"maybe I need to look at this from a different perspective.
Maybe I don't know what its like to be #BlackInAmerica...
Maybe, just maybe, I have been taught wrong."
Don't wake up tomorrow on the wrong side of this issue. Its not too late to SAY,
"maybe I need to look at this from a different perspective.
Maybe I don't know what its like to be #BlackInAmerica...
Maybe, just maybe, I have been taught wrong."
22/25
There is still so much work to be done. It's been a really dark, raw week. This could still end badly. But all we can do is keep doing the work.
#KeepProtesting.
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO START A #RaceWar; WE ARE PROTESTING TO END IT,
PEACEFULLY.
How beautiful is that?
There is still so much work to be done. It's been a really dark, raw week. This could still end badly. But all we can do is keep doing the work.
#KeepProtesting.
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO START A #RaceWar; WE ARE PROTESTING TO END IT,
PEACEFULLY.
How beautiful is that?
23/25
ALL LIVES CANNOT MATTER UNTIL YOU INCLUDE BLACK LIVES.
YOU CANNOT SAY '#AllLivesMatter MATTER' WHEN YOU DO NOTHING TO STOP #SYSTEMICRACISM & #PoliceBrutality.
YOU CANNOT SAY '#AllLivesMatter' WHEN BLACK PEOPLE ARE DYING AND ALL YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT IS THE #LOOTING.
ALL LIVES CANNOT MATTER UNTIL YOU INCLUDE BLACK LIVES.
YOU CANNOT SAY '#AllLivesMatter MATTER' WHEN YOU DO NOTHING TO STOP #SYSTEMICRACISM & #PoliceBrutality.
YOU CANNOT SAY '#AllLivesMatter' WHEN BLACK PEOPLE ARE DYING AND ALL YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT IS THE #LOOTING.
24/25
YOU CANNOT SAY '#AllLivesMatter' WHEN YOU ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE CAGED, VETERANS TO GO #HOMELESS, AND POOR FAMILIES TO GO HUNGRY & LOSE THEIR #HEALTHINSURANCE.
DO ALL LIVES MATTER? YES. ...
YOU CANNOT SAY '#AllLivesMatter' WHEN YOU ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE CAGED, VETERANS TO GO #HOMELESS, AND POOR FAMILIES TO GO HUNGRY & LOSE THEIR #HEALTHINSURANCE.
DO ALL LIVES MATTER? YES. ...
25/25
... BUT RIGHT NOW, ONLY BLACK LIVES ARE BEING TARGETED, JAILED, AND KILLED EN MASSE- SO THAT'S WHO WE'RE FOCUSING ON.
🖤🖤🖤@BLACKLIVESMATTER🖤🖤🖤
IF YOU CAN'T SEE THIS, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
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... BUT RIGHT NOW, ONLY BLACK LIVES ARE BEING TARGETED, JAILED, AND KILLED EN MASSE- SO THAT'S WHO WE'RE FOCUSING ON.
🖤🖤🖤@BLACKLIVESMATTER🖤🖤🖤
IF YOU CAN'T SEE THIS, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
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