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Holding these items can lead to the death of an unarmed black man in America: Skittles. Wallet. Pill box. Cell phone. Toy. Nothing...
Amadou Diallo— Unarmed, shot 41 times after cops mistook his wallet for a gun.
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Sean Bell—Unarmed, cops fired 50 bullets at Bell and three of his friends hours before his wedding. nydailynews.com/new-york/queen…
Oscar Grant—Unarmed, shot New Year’s Day at a train station in Oakland. nydailynews.com/news/world/bar…
Eric Garner—Unarmed, died after being placed in an illegal chokehold. nydailynews.com/new-york/state…
John Crawford—Unarmed, shot by cops while holding a fake gun. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Michael Brown— Unarmed, shot 6 times by police in Ferguson, Missouri. nydailynews.com/news/crime/man…
Ezell Ford—Unarmed and mentally ill, shot three times by LAPD. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Laquan McDonald— Shot 16 times while holding a knife and moving away from police. nydailynews.com/news/crime/vid…
Tamir Rice—Unarmed, shot while holding a toy gun. nydailynews.com/news/crime/off…
Rumain Brisbon—Unarmed, shot by a cop who mistook a pill bottle for a handgun. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Jerame C. Reid— Unarmed, shot while exiting his vehicle with his hands raised at shoulder height. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Akai Gurley—Unarmed, shot by a cop who claimed his gun accidentally discharged nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-…
Eric Harris—Unarmed, killed by a cop who fired his gun after mistaking it for his taser nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Walter Scott— Unarmed, shot while fleeing a cop nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Christian Taylor— Unarmed, shot during an alleged burglary nydailynews.com/news/crime/una…
Philando Castille— Shot by a cop who claimed his "audacity to smoke marijuana" in front of a child made him fear for his life. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Samuel DuBose— Unarmed, Shot while fleeing a traffic stop. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Terrence Crutcher— Unarmed, shot as he walked with his hands in the air returning to his car nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Alton B. Sterling— Shot while selling CDs outside of a convenience store. nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Paul O’Neal— Unarmed, shot by cops during a foot chase nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Jordan Edwards—Unarmed, shot leaving a house party in Dallas suburbs nydailynews.com/news/national/…
It has been six years since Trayvon Martin was gunned down by a neighborhood watch captain after going to the convenience store for Skittles and iced tea and black men are still being killed with impunity in America. When will this end? nydailynews.com/news/national/…
Stephon Clark—Unarmed, shot six times in the back and two times in the side while holding a cell phone nydn.us/2IjHixT
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On this day 50 years ago, an unarmed black man was shot to death by a white man.

If it happened today, you would probably scroll past his name on one of your social media platforms, and it would look like this:

#MartinLutherKingJr.

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When you look at the 50th anniversary of King's assassination from that perspective, it makes it pretty clear that African-Americans are still dealing with the same exact issues that we faced half a century ago.

#MLK50 nydn.us/2JiOdsk
Throughout this day, you will see people who have no idea what King actually stood for, or would have hated him if he was still alive right now, do what they love to do annually on his national holiday: misrepresent his message.

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A small story:

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You already understand he's 50.

This put me in mind of my romantic life, which is odd because it was mostly extremely dull.
I would have a friend. We would realize we were attracted to each other. We would date happily for a period of time, then make each other miserable for half again that length of time.
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Amadou Diallo was shot at 41 times and hit 19 by police. All he had was his wallet.
Stephon Clarke was shot at 20 times & hit 8 by police. All he had was a cell phone.
I understand why #SterlingBrown didn’t want to move his hands, b/c he feared for his life.
As black men, we know that any movement we might make could mean an immediate death sentence for us.
There’s no reason why this parking violation required this level of police involvement. These officers saw a black man with too nice of a car & suspected something else was up.
Some officers want to look at black men and think we automatically “fit the description” of a criminal. Some assume the worst about us b/c of what we wear. Why can’t we be looked upon as fitting the description of a successful business man or successful pro basketball player
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Translation: The new anthem policy was approved by White team owners who literally think they own the Black athletes on their teams.
Be careful what you wish for, @NFL. The game CANNOT be played without the players and you’ll learn it the hard way when they #TakeAKnee on your whole football season.
The irony and unmitigated gall of White conservatives lamenting how “disrespectful” kneeling during the anthem is to America when they voted for a fucking TRAITOR and still wholeheartedly support every corrupt, anti-American, treasonous thing he’s doing. GTFOH.
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Op-Ed Columnist @NickKristof writes: "It appears that an innocent man was framed by sheriff’s deputies and is on death row in part because of dishonest cops, sensational media coverage and flawed political leaders." nyti.ms/2L8Xap6
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From a retired Chief of Police, who contacted me after reading my book:

"I am so disillusioned with officers today and agency leaders even more.These repeated shootings by white officers of unarmed or guilty of relatively minor violations are akin to modern day lynchings."
Modern day lynchings.
Think about that, and the way people of color need to lead their daily lives in our country because of the color of their skin. So NOT okay!
In addition to the Starbucks racism of the Starbucks incident, last weeks alone: a man shot in his backyard while on his cell phone, and a 14 year-old shot for asking directions to school. And so many others NOT reported!
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AMERICA, WE ARE AT THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE.

Yesterday, as Trump was ranting about “shithole countries,” I was in a county courthouse in Georgia looking at a death certificate for a black man who died in 1930. I watched the courthouse employees’ faces... 1/
closely as they read the cause of death “Unlawful act.” Their confused looks confirmed what I suspected; they had never seen such a vague description listed as a cause of death. They clearly did not know about the incident that occurred there 88 years before, even though it 2/
had been the focus of national news for weeks back in 1930. “It was a lynching” I explained, pointing to the word scribbled in parenthesis on the document. I had them pull another death certificate; this one for a white 16 year-old girl who had died one day prior to the man. 3/
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