#Eric Garner

[theconcealedweapon]

This would be impossible if it was "a few bad apples". This can only happen if many police officers all in one place are all bad and are all fully confident that every police officer who interacts with them is bad also.

The police are not a group of mostly good people with a few bad apples. They're slave catchers who only slightly changed how they operate, and only as much as they had to.

#police brutality #racism #eric garner

[mos-twin-mattress]

Thinkin ab you Trayvon.

You should be 29. You should have celebrated your birthday with family, you should be gettin hugged by your momma. Maybe you would have your own son or daughter by now...

What happened to you, should never happen to anyone. I wish they had held him accountable. I wish you were here... You were so young.

I cried when i heard what happened to you...

You were a bright light in this world, and I love you sib. I will continue to fight for us. I will never stop. We (Black people) are so deserving of love and care.

The things they do to keep us down, we wont buckle, not ever. I will fight for you, for Breonna, for Casey, for Mike, for George, for Eric, for Ma'Khia, for Sandra.

I HAVE to fight... I can't stop, I cant even slow down... I love being Black, I love how amazing Black people are, I love how resilient we are. But I HATE that we HAVE to be resilient...

#black is beautiful #black pride #black history month #trayvon martin #blacklivesmatter #black lives fucking matter #black lives matter #happy birthday Trayvon #I'm so tired... #ma'khia bryant #sandra bland #eric garner #casey goodson #george floyd #mike brown #breonna taylor

[angelstills]

Lemonade (2016)

#Lemonade Beyonce #2010s #2016 #Film #Trayvon Martin #Michael Brown Jr #Eric Garner #Lesley McSpadden Head #Beyonce #Gwen Carr

[billyloomiis]

8 SIMPLE RULES

S2.E21 - Mother’s Day

#8 simple rules #david spade #eric garner #this show is UNDERRATED #userbbelcher #tvgifs #( books ) #IM NEVER GOING TO GET OVER THIS

[serious2020]

An anthropologist, who studies the impact of police violence on black communities, examines the ways that police violence kills black women slowly through trauma, pain and loss.

#black lives matter #eric garner #erica garner #police brutality #police violence

[saddayfordemocracy]

Nicholas Galanin, “Neon American Anthem (red)” (2023),

(Installation at SITE SANTA FE activated by artist Nicholas Galanin and curator, Brandee Caoba.)

Nicholas Galanin: Interference Patterns presents a selection of the artist’s new and recent sculptures, installations, and videos celebrating Indigenous knowledge and continuum amid ongoing colonial occupation. Examining the complexities of contemporary Indigenous identity, Galanin unites traditional and contemporary practices to navigate “the politics of cultural representation.”

I use my work to explore adaptation, resilience, survival, dream, memory, cultural resurgence, and connection and disconnection to the Land. My process of creation is a constant pursuit of freedom and vision for the present and future.

Through his expansive creative approach spanning varied materials and processes, Galanin presses for an urgent change of heart, mind, and action, on a global scale. Central to the exhibition is the newly commissioned “Neon American Anthem (red)”, a participatory installation that invites audiences to “take a knee and scream until you can’t breathe” in response to legislated violence and oppression by the United States on those within and beyond its borders.

Embedding incisive observation and reflection into his oftentimes provocative art, Galanin’s work aims to redress the widespread misappropriation of Indigenous visual culture and the impact of colonialism, as well as collective amnesia. His works not only celebrate and build upon Indigenous references; they are also intended to spark an urgent criticality in its viewers. Interference Patterns at SITE Santa Fe  in New Mexico hopes to offer vital space for reflection on settler-colonial capitalism’s ongoing role in cultural erasure, forced assimilation, displacement, environmental violence, and the climate crisis.

To learn more, visit sitesantafe.org.

image courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York; SITE SANTA FE commission with the support of Peter Blum Gallery, New York, and Becky Gochman; photo by Carolina Franco.

Courtesy: Hyperallergic

#human rights #art #humanity #equal rights #freedom #breath #neonlight #SITEsanta fe #anthem #america #nicholas galanin #brandee caoba #colonialism #indigenous #eric garner #police brutality #police violence #hyperallergic

[mannyblacque]

by Darrin Bell

#darrin bell #political cartoons #police reform #police state #fuck the police #defund the police #black lives matter #blm movement #tyre nichols #george floyd #eric garner #breonna taylor #say his name #say her name

[peligrosapop]

Eric García x Spain

Eric García x España

#eric garner #spain nt #selección española

[beastbent]

A Small Needful Fact, by Ross Gay (2015)

Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow, continue to do what such plants do, like house and feed small and necessary creatures, like being pleasant to touch and smell, like converting sunlight into food, like making it easier for us to breathe.

[Published in The Quarry, 2015]

#black poetry #poetry #carceral state #abolition #blackness #ross gay #eric garner #horticulture #plants

[furien]

Man muss nicht zwangsläufig glauben, dass der Polizist, der Eric Garner erwürgt hat, an dem Tag auszog, um einen Körper zu zerstören. Man muss nur begreifen, dass der Polizist die Ermächtigung des amerikanischen Staates hat und das Vermächtnis Amerikas trägt.

#police brutality #polizeibrutalität #eric garner #daniel p #amerika #carolin emcke #gegen den hass

[manwalksintobar]

The Tradition  // Jericho Brown

Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. We thought Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning Names in heat, in elements classical Philosophers said could change us. Star Gazer. Foxglove. Summer seemed to bloom against the will Of the sun, which news reports claimed flamed hotter On this planet than when our dead fathers Wiped sweat from their necks. Cosmos. Baby’s Breath. Men like me and my brothers filmed what we Planted for proof we existed before Too late, sped the video to see blossoms Brought in seconds, colors you expect in poems Where the world ends, everything cut down. John Crawford. Eric Garner. Mike Brown.

#poetry #Jericho Brown #tradition #American poetry #Black American poetry #gun violence #police violence #American racism #poems of protest #poems of rage #elegy #John Crawford #Eric Garner #Mike Brown #flowers #gardening

[xumelanatedmusic23]

“All we wanted was a chance to talk, ‘Stead we only got outlined with chalk” - D’Angelo and The Vanguard.

In Ross Gay’s poem, “A small needful fact”, about Eric Garner was sorrow but sweet. Gay talks about how Garner worked at a parks and rec horticultural department during his life. “perhaps, that with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow”. He put plants into the ground to grow and when he was taken from us he planted a seed in us. A seed that has never and will never stop fighting for black people. Described by his family members, Eric Garner was a very sweet and caring man. All he did was sell CD’s outside of a store and his life was taken from him, which goes back to the song I chose. All he wanted was a chance to talk and defend himself but he ended up being shot and killed and his body was outlined with chalk.

#arrington #police brutally #eric garner #Spotify

[sinceileftyoublog]

Patty Griffin & Parker Millsap Live Show Review: 1/27, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

Patty Griffin

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Patty Griffin’s songs are true folk songs, in the sense that their studio arrangements can be pared down to befit any number of instruments, and that their stories are ever-present. Performing Friday night at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Griffin told these stories, sometimes their context, too, other times letting the words do the talking. Accompanied by virtuosic guitarist David Pulkingham (whose flamenco licks on set opener “Mama’s Worried” recaptured the magic of hearing it for the first time) and percussionist Michael Longoria, Griffin rejected the pattern of touring off of an album release cycle and delivered a set of her most beloved back catalog highlights. Sure, a concert based off of songs from Tape, last year’s self-described “home recordings & rarities” collection, would have been a tad esoteric. But that Griffin chose to mostly play the heavy hitters from Children Running Through, Servant of Love, and 2019′s self-titled LP (perhaps her best) made Friday night’s set one for the ages.

Griffin and David Pulkingham

A song like “250,000 Miles” encapsulated what Griffin and her band did best. Introducing it as being inspired by a story of immigrants moving from Nepal to Dubai to build skyscrapers, Griffin’s framing and performance shone universal themes of homesickness and alienation atop shaky, dual percussion to match the song’s nerves. The PJ Harvey-esque blues stomp of “Flaming Red”, Griffin on acoustic, Pulkingham on blistering electric, Longoria on thumping snares, mirrored the physical strength of the circumstances under which the song was written, Griffin training for a marathon, wanting to get in shape after snatching a record deal. She deftly balanced humor and terror on “Coins”, one of the “weirder” songs she left off of setlists when opening for The Chicks last summer. Inspired by her experience waiting on creepy, cheap Harvard Business School bros at a Pizzeria Uno, the song was funny until it wasn’t; the descriptions of a “young man with all the answers” leaning into the side of himself “hungry for power” foreshadowed the dire consequences of toxic masculinity we witness every day.

Almost eerie in its prescience was “The Wheel”, particularly in its references to Eric Garner. “Here’s a song about a man / About a man I never met / Here’s a song about a man / About a man I can’t forget,” sung Griffin. “Can’t” carried dual meaning: she’s unable to forget the tragedy of his murder, and she’s also not allowing herself to forget his story because similar ones keep happening. A few hours prior to the start of the show, the body cam footage of Tyre Nichols’ murder at the hands of the Memphis police was released. That Griffin performed “The Wheel” on Friday was, in all likelihood, coincidental, but it nonetheless reminded the crowd of the power of music to make us remember.

Parker MIllsap

Opening for Griffin was Parker Millsap in a solo acoustic set, which allowed him to continue his transformation from boisterous, clean-cut pop rocker to bearded, beanie-laden singer-songwriter. It wasn’t just his look: Millsap performed mostly new songs from an album coming out later this year, and even the older songs he did sing, like “Your Water” and “It Was You”, transformed into languid blues ditties. “Front Porchin’”, Millsap’s “Keep on Chooglin’”, was an undeterred ode to weed haze and chillin’ out, while “Before the Curtain Closes” allowed him to show off his always impressive vocal chops, increasingly sounding like a mix of Roy Orbison, Jeff Buckley, and Hamilton Leithauser. At one point during his set, Millsap joked, “I should apologize for tuning so much, but if there’s any place to put on a capo and tune, it’s here.” Judging by the new songs, he’ll be tuning a lot more in the near future.

#live music #patty griffin #parker millsap #old town school of folk music #david pulkingham #tape #michael longoria #children running through #servant of love #pj harvey #the chicks #harvard business school #pizzeria uno #eric garner #tyre nichols #roy orbison #jeff buckley #hamilton leithauser

[serious2020]

Welcome to the predator state: Where Scorpions on the corner might kill you - Alternet.org

Michael Gould-Wartofsky: “No Hunting Like the Hunting of Man”Yes, the Memphis police department did come up with a reasonable explanation for the name. It was short for the Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods unit, which just happened, acronymically speaking, to be SCORPION… — Read on www.alternet.org/welcome-to-the-predator-state/

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#African/Black experience #Afrikan #Amadou Diallo #Atlanta PD #Breonna Taylor #CIA #corruption #Eric Garner #FBI #ICE #lynching #militarized police #murder #NYPD #police brutality #police terrorism #protest #racial profiling #racism #Scorpion Unit #Sean Bell #sexism #SFPD #stop and frisk #terrorism #Tyre Nichols #violence #war #War on Afrikans

[reportwire]

Mamie Till depiction seen as tribute to Black female leaders

Mamie Till depiction seen as tribute to Black female leaders

NEW YORK (AP) — Gwen Carr sat up straight in her seat as she heard lines of dialogue delivered by the actor portraying Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movement. “As I watched that film, I became Mamie Till,” Carr said last month at a private advance screening of “ Till,” the Orion Pictures…

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#arts and entertainment #Business #Crime #emmett till #Entertainment #Eric Garner #Mississippi #movies #New York #New York City #Race and ethnicity #Racial injustice

[africanamericanreports]

A Staten Island street has been named for Eric Garner, who died after an NYPD officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest.

#eric garner #eric garner way #staten island #african american