“No mask mandates. My children will not come to school Monday with a mask on. I will bring every single gun, loaded & ready…I’ll see y’all on Monday.”
This woman should be arrested for threatening a school shooting.
UPDATE: Local law enforcement is aware of the school shooting threat but no arrests have been made because she’s “apologized for her statement.”
White privilege is openly threatening to shoot up a school and police forgive you because you’re really really sorry.🤦🏽♂️
UPDATE 2: Police have charged Amelia King with making a terroristic threat on school property. She’s been arrested and released on $5000 bond.
This is a good start to accountability. No one should be allowed to get away with such horrific calls to violence.
Virginia has Red Flag laws for a reason. A woman threatening to bring loaded guns to shoot up a school is not a law abiding gun owner & needs to be kept far away from firearms—Especially if she’s released on only $5000 bond.
All this rage over masks that protect kids from COVID.
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Voter suppression is:
•Forcing Black ppl to wait 2X as long as white ppl to vote
•Requiring a new ID even after an ID was confirmed at voter registration
•Banning IDs disproportionately used by Black voters
•Closing polling locations in Black neighborhoods #VotingRightsAct
Voter suppression is:
•Racial gerrymandering that disproportionately represents white voters over non-white voters
•Police target/charge Black people at higher rates, disenfranchising them
•Longer sentences for Black Americans,blocking them from more elections #VotingRightsAct
Voter suppression is:
•Prison gerrymandering, where Black incarcerated people are denied voting but counted for redistricting
•Requiring formerly incarcerated people to pay court fees before voting
•Requiring people to take off work & lose money just to vote #VotingRightsAct
On Nov 30, 1921, a mob of white supremacists in Ballinger, TX, seized Robert Murtore, a 15-year-old Black child, from the custody of law enforcement, tied him to a post, & lynched him with 50 gunshots in broad daylight.
Today is the 100 year anniversary of this atrocity
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A 9 year old white girl claimed a Black person had harassed her. Robert was accused and arrested, & the following day the mob demanded police hand him over. The sheriff quickly handed him over to be lynched.
None of the white supremacists were charged or arrested. Instead...
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A TX newspaper described the white supremacist mob as “orderly" & leaving “peacefully”—all this after violently taking the young boy’s life in a horrific lynching.
I think about Robert as I think about Ahmaud Arbery, and the similarities are frightening—even 100 years later
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Most of you have heard of Crystal Mason, the Black Texas woman sentenced to 5 years prison for inadvertently voting. Her vote never counted, but she was sentenced anyway.
Meanwhile white MAGA voters are getting off w/wrist slaps.
A thread on the systemic racism behind this:
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Donald Hartle, a white man, voted on behalf of his dead wife for Trump. He then lied to investigators, went on a propaganda GOP funded campaign to claim mass voter fraud, & finally got caught.
A quick thread for Virginia conservatives (and progressives) as we approach Election Day, and why you should vote for @TerryMcAuliffe for Governor.
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If you're one of the now 500,000+ Virginians who have life saving healthcare access due to expanded Medicaid, Democrats did that.
If you're one of 50,000 Virginians suffering from drug/alcohol addiction but now have affordable treatment due to Medicaid, Democrats did that.
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If you're one of 781,000 Virginians who need insulin to live, and are grateful that insulin is capped at $50 a month instead of $700 a month, Democrats did that.
The GOP could have done this at any time they were in power, but they didn't. Democrats did.
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