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Kansas State Senator Proposes Law to Investigate Use of Force by Police...
Senator Oletha Faust Goudeau proposed changes in the way that Kansas handles issues of police-related shootings. Senator Goudeau hopes that her legislation, KS-SB-216, provides a framework that...
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She will be buried today. Rest in Peace, Sandra
Rest in Peace, dear Sandra.Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday at the suburban Chicago church that Sandra Bland attended for many of her 28 years, turning out in such numbers that even the overflow...
View ArticleI wrote to Sen. Ron Wyden. He actually wrote back.
That is pretty stunning to me. I know, its really nothing that special, just a typed letter with an electronic signature, might even be a form letter just that he sends out to all concerned...
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The Over-Policed Rights Act of California: Let's Save Some Lives
There was once a time in our history when law and order types used lynching as a tool to keep a segment of the population in line. Back then, those targeted weren’t taken to courts and given a chance...
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Politicians talk, but we must act (STDDs)
I have no faith that politicians will do much, if anything, to tackle police violence against the defenseless. Let’s face it, politicians — like prosecutors — have neither the inclination nor the...
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Toy Guns Were not Intended for Little Black Hands
Listen up, Black Mothers: This is of the utmost importance! It is full time you realize that toy guns were never meant for your children! The billion dollar toy gun industry may target you to get your...
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What Happened to Symone Marshall? #STDDs #BLM
A 22-year-old young woman had an accident on a major highway on April 26. She told her sister that she was run off the road by a truck driver (there’s some question as to whether this was racially...
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Dishonest District Attorneys stand in the way of justice
It has been documented time and again that it is District Attorneys and their offices that have stood in the way of justice for victims of police brutality.“Prosecutors work with police day in, day...
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No gun, no knife, but yet shot and killed in front of his wife and kids. #BLM...
This is just unacceptable, cruel and immoral on so many different levels. C’mon, now.The number of people killed by police now stands at 432. Fifteen people killed in the last 7 days. Among those...
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A Glimmer of Hope. Thank you, Sen. Murphy. #StDD
The National Rifle Association, the NRA, and its leader, Wayne Lapierre, control our Congress. Put another way, Republican members of our Congress are more loyal to the NRA than they are to the...
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Will you stop killing us already! Damn!! #BLM #StDD
In the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the universal outcry that followed, the amateur psychologists and sociologists are at it again. “We need to talk to each other,”...
View ArticleO, Dear God! Why?! Another gratuitous execution-style killing of Black man by...
Warning! Graphic! Trigger! Warning! Graphic! Trigger! Warning! Graphic! Trigger!Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man trying to eke out a living by selling CDs, was murdered in cold blood by Baton...
View ArticleLet's Cuss up a Blue Storm against Blue Violence. Join our Curse-a-thon! #BLM...
As I watched The Mothers of the Movement on the stage of the DNC, the word that came to mind was “pain.” So much pain. For my own personal reasons, I couldn’t watch much of their presentation. It was...
View Article"I am at the Screaming Place." Cuss-a-thon Tonight. #CussAThon #BLM #STDD...
Charles Blow, in response to the news that Freddie Gray’s killers will not be held accountable, used his column at the New York Times to share the anguish, the frustration, the inner turmoil that Black...
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Real men do not hit women! #BLM #StDD #CussAThon
“Real men do not hit women.” I have been hearing versions of that statement since childhood. Parents teach their boys from babyhood that it is not okay to hit girls. Should that statement be amended...
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Donald Trump to Black Folks, "I am the Law & Order Candidate!" #BLM #StDD
Donald Trump’s speech in Wisconsin was advertised as a policy paper on “how to make our communities safe again from crime and lawlessness.” I read the transcript of his presentation and there really...
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Focus on the Issues, MSM! Kaepernick Kneels! #StDD #BLM
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat and all hell broke loose. But somehow, the reason he gave for remaining in his seat at the playing of the National Anthem has been completely...
View ArticleFinally, One White Athlete to the Rescue #BLM #CussAThon
Racism is a white people problem and it is the majority community who will solve police brutality...when they are ready.Colin Kaepernick’s brave stand against police brutality and the predictable...
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In What Universe is it Okay to Kill Kids?
Willie Geist reading the news on MSNBC :Officials in Columbia, Ohio, are investigating the deadly police shooting of a 13-year-old boy on Wednesday night. According to the police department, officers...
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Better policing is the answer - not more police #BLM
Donald Trump’s response to the problem of police brutality against black and brown people is, unsurprisingly, more police. "The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police,...
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Still so much work to do #BLM #StDDs
Rev. Barber gave a powerful speech to a Bible study at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. He outlined the winning strategy for the way forward. It's worth a read. We must build...
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Cops kill young black engineer. #JusticeforZelalem #BLM #StDD
Since the beginning of the year, police have killed 343 people. That’s 343 people in 110 days. Among the 37 people killed so far this month is 28-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, Zelalem Eshetu Ewnetu. I...
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Watch as two grown men explain why they pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old...
It’s been two and a half years since Officers Loehmann and Garmback pulled a drive by on a 12-year-old boy playing with a plastic toy gun in a park in Ohio. How could they have done this? Why would...
View ArticleIt Starts! Stevie Wonder Takes "a Knee for America"!
The Mustard Loudmouth may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew this time around. As I hear it, big things are planned for tomorrow. In the meantime, Stevie Wonder has decided to show the way....
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And the Beat Goes on: Sixty-two people killed in 18 days #StDD #BLM
We are 19 days into the new year. Only 19 days into this new year and already members of our police force have killed 62 people nationwide. Yes, you read that right:Nineteen days into the new year and...
View ArticleNo justice for 15-yr-old killed and left in the street for 6 hours....
President Obama addressing the nation after the deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando had this to say:“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up...
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Updates on Dorothy, Charleena, & Korryn - Black Women Lives Matter! #BLM
Dorothy Danner was well aware of the dangers she faced as a black woman suffering from mental illness. In an almost prophetic piece, she wrote about her fears and the unpreparedness of the cops to deal...
View ArticleWhy did the Elgin police kill Decynthia Clements? #BLM
Wow, what a week! Tillerson fired via Twitter by the Coward-in-Chief; Democrats flipped a +20 “safe” Republican gerrymandered seat; children take the fight to the terrorist organization known as the...
View Article"You guys are murderers!" A Grandmother's Anguish #BLM #JusticeForStephon
Quite a few of the reports I have seen about the unconscionable murder of Stephon “Zoe” Clark, simply refers to him as “unarmed black man.” Nothing new, really; there have been hundreds of...
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Of race, mental illness, gentrification, and murderous cops. Justice for...
It does feel as if we are on a “ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven, ” doesn’t it? The crazy is all-pervasive, unrelenting, unpredictable, and...
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Calling the police on black people without cause is an act of aggression....
In sheer numbers, cops kill more white people every year than any other demographic. That's a well-documented fact. Granted, people of color are killed at a far greater rate, with far less provocation,...
View ArticleStill Fighting for Justice for Jayson #BLM #StDD
The family of Jayson Negron is in pain and the city of Bridgeport is doing its darnedest to add to their suffering. Their peculiar anguish began last May when their beloved baby boy was brutally gunned...
View Article"I am confused and afraid..." Justice for unarmed 17-yr-old Antwon shot 3...
What happened to 17-year-old Antwon Rose is not unrelated to what has been happening on our southern border. Historians will write about — and anthropologists will study — this age of toxic...
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Lawrence O'Donnell's emotional tribute to Antwon Rose. #JusticeForAntwon
When it comes to covering the issue of police brutality, there’s nobody on TV who comes even remotely close to Lawrence O’Donnell. I first became aware of the qualitative difference in Mr. O’Donnell’s...
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Say goodbye to the man who defended Mike Brown's murderer! McCulloch out!...
Yesss!!!!! Yessss!!!!! Yessss!!!!!St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch is out! You may remember that McCulloch was the prosecutor who mounted a spirited defense on behalf of the Ferguson cop who...
View ArticleWe should know his name too. Justice for Armando Frank #BLM
You know of Eric Garner but have you heard of Armando Frank? You should, as the two cases are eerily similar. This was the report that the Avoyelles Parish Police Department released about Mr. Frank’s...
View ArticleShaun Jeffery Christy needed help, not bullets. JusticeforShaun
“ Shoot me! Shoot me!” They did.Thirty-seven-year-old Shaun Jeffery Christy was having a psychotic episode. Things were rapidly spinning out of control for him and he was desperately crying out for...
View ArticleIn nine months, police kill 120 people armed only with knives. Inexcusable.
Of the 723 people killed by police year-to-date, 120 of them were said to be armed with knives. The latest victim to fall for the crime of having a knife in the presence of the police was 54-year-old...
View ArticleKaepernick, Tamir, Laquan and the Poem that binds #BLM #StDD
If there’s anything or anyone I hate more than I do a racist, it’s got to be a black man who allows himself to be used as a weapon against his community. Seeing uncle Jim Brown, his wife, and Kanye...
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Jameek begged cops for a drink of water, they refused...48 hours later he was...
Jameek Lowery was in trouble and he knew it. He had already called 911...twice; he had been to the hospital where somewhere in the process between arriving and examination he either left or was kicked...
View ArticleSix Vallejo cops opened fire on a sleeping rapper #BLM #JusticeForWillieBo
I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the worker who called 911 to report a man asleep in his car on Taco Bell’s property. As I understand it, the worker reported that the man was slumped over the...
View ArticleState Senator Stephanie Flowers: She's Woman, Hear Her Roar!...
You will want to see this. xArkansas State Senator Stephanie Flowers is a NATIONAL HERO. ðºð¸#EndGunViolencepic.twitter.com/pf3Eq1Sucqâ Ryan Knight ð³ï¸ÂâÂÂðÂÂÂ...
View ArticleCorey Jones' killer convicted and faces life in prison. #BLM
The murder of 31-year-old Corey Jones by plainclothes-wearing Nouman Raja shattered a bunch of popular theories that people just love to throw at us when we discuss race, racism, and police brutality....
View ArticleParents' heartbreak: Cops they called to help their son, killed him...
There can be no greater pain than that of a parent losing a child. None. Professors Sylvester and Iyun Osagie not only have to contend with the untimely death of their son, but they are also forced to...
View ArticleBlack children are our future...too. Stop brutalizing them! #BLM
I believe that children are our futureTeach them well and let them lead the wayShow them all the beauty they possess insideGive them a sense of pride, to make it easierBlack student brutalized in...
View ArticleThe murder of another defenseless black woman. JusticeForPamela #BLM
Forty-five-year-old Pamela Turner had few options left. She had professed her innocence; she had tried to assert her rights; she had begged for mercy; as best she could she had tried to ward off the...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg is about to discover that Black People have long memories #BLM
Billionaire Michael Rubens Bloomberg was not on the Democratic Debate stage last Wednesday evening and for that, I’m so grateful. I didn’t have to get a new TV. And so as to save myself the trouble and...
View ArticleRituals and Traditions: Making New Ones
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.AristotleI am watching the rituals of the police departments across the nation. They beat peaceful protestors with batons,...
View ArticleLet's Make Some Just Laws ~ Support the Dream Defenders Proposed Bills
Really, we didn’t need the images of how cops responded to trump's army of white insurrectionists to convince us that we need police reform. For decades now marginalized folks have been yelling from...
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Black Kos, Week In Review: Ari Melber's (MSNBC) powerful video on police...
Commentary by Black Kos Editor JoanMarIn 2021, the G-7 countries of Canada, Germany, France, Japan, the UK, and Italy with a combined population of approximately 437M people, had a total of 78 police...
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