Quawan Charles is a Black teenager who was found deceased several days after being reported missing by his family and now their speaking up with details regarding law enforcements blatant failure to take his “disappearance” seriously. Loved ones stated that the police did not issue any amber alerts after Charles was reported missing and expressed the anger and hurt people are feeling about the teens gruesome death and the alleged lackadaisical approach the “protect and serve” publicly funded police took to prevent it.
Ahmed Arbery’s killer and participants had their racist text messages read in court proving the hate and prejudice they felt towards Black people which was pretty evident to many by the grisly murder of the innocent jogger.
On Friday morning the father son duo (Gregory and Travis McMichael) who chased down and executed Arbery both had their bonds denied in a Georgia courtroom. The judge Timothy Walmsley, stated that the “footage shows the McMichael’s pose a threat to the community. Don’t you solemnly agree? Do you think they will face the death penalty post conviction?
On Tuesday (November 10) the surviving family of Vincent Truitt the 17 year old teenager who was fatally shot by an Atlanta area police officer in July and their attorney Gerald A. Griggs described what they viewed from a police body cam and dash cam video from his last living moments after being gunned down.
Source: Family Photo
The teens father and attorney along with other members of the family watched the footage and said Truitt exited a car he wasn’t driving at the end of a chase and after attempting to run three steps he was shot two twice from behind in his back.
“After Vincent was shot, Vincent drops to the ground, you can hear him speaking to the officer, he pointedly asked the officer, “Why did you shoot me?” The families attorney detailed during a press conference as reported by “11 Alive.” “The officer at that point says “Because you have a gun. Griggs also revealed that the videos showed clearly that a gun was “not pointed” towards the officer at any time and that Truitt never in fact faced the officer at any point though the Georgia Bureau of Investigations has chosen to dispute those claims but are allegedly examining all facts and details. Do you think it will ever occur to police that black men are running from them because they are afraid and continuing to kill them validates that notion?
Milwaukee Bucks’ player Sterling Brown has found himself on the right side of justice as the city of Milwaukee has agreed to a three quarter of a million dollar payout to the athlete.
Source: AP
The city has come to an agreement to end the legal battle which stemmed from a January 26, 2018 incident in which officers allegedly “targeted” and “tased” Brown outside of a Walgreens store because he was black. Do you think the city’s deficit will encourage the police department to become color blind or is it to little to late?
Rapper and entrepreneur Kiari Cephus better known by his professional name Offset didn’t allow being momentarily detained by Beverly Hills PD for waving an imaginary gun to dampen his election spirits and decided to rise beyond it all to feed Georgia voters on yesterday. Offset volunteered with several businesses including Big Daves Food Truck and The Lincoln Project to ensure that if local Gwinnette County voters in Georgia had 99 problems on election day being hungry wouldn’t be one of them. Do you think this act of kindness will be heavily broadcasted across mainstream as his detainment did?
As reported by “The Washington Post” at least four states voted to legalize drugs on Nov. 3. In an effort to “change drug laws” and over policing the states of Arizona, New Jersey, Montana and South Dakota all decriminalized marijuana while Oregon gave a ballot nod for psychedelic mushroom, cocaine and heroin use as well. Oregon also includes “The District of Columbia” and has expressed their desire to “drastically narrow drug arrests? Does this action positively affect the pharmaceutical industry by creating more addicts than inmates? Was this move to benefit disenfranchised demographics? Will these measures medically monetize what many times are legitimate emotional, family or social concerns of individuals who are oppressed due to systematic disparities and thus forth statistically more likely to use substances. Will labeling drug users as “sick” send them from the jail house to the psych ward?
Retailers across the country are scurrying to board up their businesses as the U.S. braces for civil unrest due to the presidential election. Stores owners from New York, Chicago, Arizona
to Washington DC. are anxiously shutting down and closing up in order to protect their establishments post election. Black Americans are systematically without the resources of their white business owner counterparts and are very concerned about under policing/protecting of black properties both residentially and commercially on Nov. 3. Will you be sheltering in place on election day?
The ultimate battle for the nations most coveted political position has ensued and will be presumably determined on Nov. 3. Black Americans have flooded early voting polls and according to experts may determine the election via the electoral college. Democrats have been informed that while “African American” voters have previously been viewed as a “monolith” to the Democratic party their victory walk may be rerouted if unable to reach in the last hour it’s loyal base. Many top states have seen soaring population gains such a Texas, Florida and Virginia thus forth heavily swaying the electorate in such demographics according to “The Brookings Institution”. Are you fired up and ready to go?
According to “Buzz Feed News” not even the “children” were spared as North Carolina police decided to interrupt a group of black voters who were “marching” to the polling station. The march ( I AM CHANGE) had been previously organized in an effort to ramp up last minute early voter participation. Graham Police were reported to have allegedly relinquished pepper spray on a crowd of more than “200 demonstrators” including young children while attempting to terminate the rally. The police Department released a statement claiming the “chemical irritant was sprayed on the ground and never directly at the crowd”. Can airborne chemicals be contained to a certain area when released? Would they have sprayed painful toxins in the air with their children present? Who should be held accountable?
The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond a first of Black owned banks in U.S. Source: National Park Service. Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
LeBron James has again refused the directive to “shut up and dribble” and has added the production of “Dreamland”: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street to his impactful catalog. The film is set to detail how the “Greenwood District” in Tulsa, Oklahoma transformed into a black wealth capital and the subsequent intentional destruction thereof.
