trapqueenkoopa:

sage-hendricks:

icantbelieveteja:

nevaehtyler:

This is Leshia Evans. She’s a 28-year-old nurse assistant and mother to a 5-year-old son. She was attending her first protest in Baton Rouge. She was arrested and held for 24 hours. 

so graceful

I saw these tweets earlier, some veteran turned activist tweeted “Baton Rouge cops look ridiculous, I never wore this much armor on the front lines”

And that struck me almost as hard as these photos, used to give the tweet context. What was she going to do to them? Start beating them with a sandal? Why do we, as white people, allow peaceful protesters to be treated as more threatening than armed fascists just for being black?

Tired of this shit man. White supremacy must die. I hope she’s doing well.

Look at them. Now look at her.

This is how scared white supremacy is of black people.

For no good fucking reason. All we want is Freedom.

deux-zero-deux:

bimuslimheaux:

it hurts me that we can raise 600k for alton sterling’s family and 170k for philando castile’s family but not 20k for essence bowman’s family.

I haven’t even heard of Essence Bowman until now. I went to look up who she was and the amount of articles on her are low. LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. pop up before a simple article on her.

I came across a GoFundMe page for her and she barely received $2k

This page on EBWiki was one of the few articles with any info on Essence Bowman.

micdotcom:

Singer John Legend has lent his voice to the chorus of outrage that’s cropped up in the wake of two high-profile police killings of black Americans this week. His tweets echo a similar sentiment shared by Larry Wilmore on The Nightly Show.

Turkey uses tear gas to break up gay pride gathering

cp-yahoopartner:

ISTANBUL – Police in Istanbul have used tear gas and have detained activists who gathered to mark gay pride week after authorities banned their rally in the city. At least 19 activists have been detained.

Police on Sunday rounded up several activists who assembled on a main pedestrian street to issue a statement in honour of gay rights and to denounce the ban. Police later fired tear gas and rubber pellets to disperse activists gathering in side streets. Two European Parliament legislators were also briefly detained.

Istanbul’s governor banned both last week’s Trans Pride March and Sunday’s broader LGBT pride parade, citing security concerns.

Last week, police also used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrators who gathered for the transgender parade in defiance of the ban.

More articles on what happened here and here.

June 3 12:50 pm

justice4mikebrown:

• Dozens of Ferguson protestors were charged under a bad law. Now they could be arrested again.
• No charges for 2 STL officers involved in killing of Mansur Ball-Bey
• MO ACLU files suit against SLMPD after they refuse to release public records again
• Stephanie Karr, Ferguson prosecutor determined to convict activists, finally resigns
• Several aldermen call for STL Police Chief Sam Dotson to resign
• The real “Ferguson Effect”: US police officers who kill rarely get punished, but they might get rich

micdotcom:

An HIV-positive Michigan woman took police to court and won 

Three years after being ticketed for not disclosing to an officer that she has HIV, Shalandra Jones just won her court case against the police. During the traffic stop Jones was under no legal obligation to reveal her HIV status to a law enforcement official. Jones will now walk away with a large settlement payout.

May 23 11:30 am

justice4mikebrown:

• FBI confirms 2015 was one of the safest years ever for cops
• Louisiana will pass “Blue Lives Matter” bill classifying police attacks as hate crimes
• Officer Edward Nero found not guilty of all charges for his role in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray
• Dante Servin quits, set to collect pension 4 years after killing Rekia Boyd

Quote from second article that sums up my initial reaction: ‘Police who carry lethal weapons & have practically unchecked power need more protection?’

micdotcom:

micdotcom:

Beyoncé’s dancers call for justice for Mario Woods at the Super Bowl

During Sunday’s event, Beyoncé’s backup dancers held a sign which read “Justice for Mario Woods,” a 26-year-old African-American who was fatally shot by police in San Francisco on Dec. 2, 2015. Woods’ killing has sparked outrage in the Bay Area, especially after footage of the extreme brutality surfaced.

Update: This is Ronnisha Johnson and Rheema Calloway, they’re organizers with Black Lives Matter and SF group the Last 3 Percent, and they’re the ones who helped get Mario Woods’ name into the hands of Beyonce’s dancers.

Calloway and Johnson scored tickets to the Super Bowl’s halftime performance. They would be in the building and on the field, near some pretty powerful people — and so they devised a plan.