#george floyd protest

[animentality]

#twitter #us politics #france #france protests #george floyd protests

[josephdunlap17]

Erick Kristal - George Floyd This single tells us about a case of American police violence in which George Floyd, an African-American man, dies following his arrest. I can't breathe he repeated all the time, the way we fight, for our freedom We don’t need only love in this world We just need more respect Every single day we wake up We are afraid to be killed by police

https://erickkristal.com

#erick kristal george floyd #reggae #reggae benin #african reggae #new single george floyd arrest #george floyd protest #george floyd news #caso george floyd #george #bad police #floyd #death floyd

[wilwheaton]

The true history of Mount Rushmore is appalling. In a nation that is awash in the blood of innocent humans who were murdered by colonizers, that refuses to reckon with its white supremacist history, Mount Rushmore stands out as a glaring example of the cruelty and violence of America’s brutality.

“The Lakota considered the carving of the four presidents' faces on what was once Six Grandfathers, a defacement of their sacred site, especially as "those four people had a lot to do with destroying our people's land base," Douville said. Indeed, Washington waged war against Native American tribes, Jefferson was considered the architect of policies that would result in the removal of Native Americans from their lands, Lincoln ordered the execution of 38 Dakota Native American rebels, the largest mass execution in American history, and Roosevelt systematically removed Native Americans from their lands.”

“We found the monument had a dark history of ties to the KKK, an illegal war, and the violent suppression of the Native American Lakota (also known as Sioux) people. We looked at each claim in the meme, starting with the history of the region before Mount Rushmore was built, followed by an investigation into its creation and alleged KKK funding.“

If you don’t know the truth about this monument to hate and genocide, please look into it, and encourage others to do the same.

#george floyd protests #mount rushmore #american history #white supremecy #american genocide #native american

[wakandan-goddess]

Here we go again with the “I wish Americans protested like the French” shit again.

I don’t know if some of y’all have memory loss but we did protest “like the French” in 2020 (George Floyd Protests) and got shit on and called thugs by the public,the media and politicians. People were seriously injured by police and other random people who wanted to be violent. We were told that peoples property was worth more than justice for a wrongfully taken like. So don’t bring that shit over here. Y’all just like the idea and look of protest but let it inconvenience or the message calls you out then then it’s not the right way to protest.

Just say what you really mean with your chest.

#black lives matter #french protests #george floyd protests

[alwaysbewoke]

#white supremacy #racism #social justice #equality #end hate #anti-racism #racial equality #stop racism #no to hate #dismantle racism #DEI #diversity #equity #and inclusion #Republican lawmakers #anti-DEI bills #legislative push #George Floyd #protests #conservative media #constitutional concerns #Florida #Texas #Utah #bans #higher education #public offices #Board of Education #state-funded colleges #universities

[sophiaphile]

BLM protest street art on boarded up windows, Chicago, June 2020

#chicago #blm #black lives matter #street art #art #george floyd #say his name #so these were taken from a moving car #i never thought i'd be posting them anywhere #but i searched the tags and didn't see many posts with chicago blm protest art and wanted to share them #even if the images aren't the best #social justice #pics

[thoughtremixer]

3 Years, 3 Months, 6 Days and I finally got a speck of justice... hopefully.

For those of you who followed me throughout the years, on May 31, 2020, I was attacked by the NYPD unjustly for covering the George Floyd Protests. I was held in a holding cell along with other protesters and later released literally an hour before the crack of dawn, without being charged with a crime.

A brand-new electric bike destroyed by the FDNY (no fault of their own). My phone busted, along with any evidence. My chest is forever scarred. The memories of the NYPD forever in my mind, altering my already views on policing in general to the point of abolishing the current police system.

What followed years after was me in a case vs. the NYPD and NYC. Along with other victims of NYPD's brutal tactics, we stood firm in holding the NYPD accountable.

I decided to become one of the public faces of this case, by doing interviews (under my real name of course), recalling details while trying to hold back tears mixed with anger.

I spent years reading comments about how I was "a paid actor by the Democratic Party", a "plant" by Black Lives Matter, a "crisis actor" and an opportunist when the only opportunity I wanted was to cover the protest from the protesters side, sell my work to the media and go home and have a quiet birthday.

I have to fund raised and get strangers to help me put my mental state back together in a quick manner so that I will be able to be of sound mind as I speak up for people.

Well, I'm happy to say that something came out of it.

My quote, if you don't want to read the article states:

Matthew King-Yarde, a protester involved in the suits, said all New Yorkers should support the agreement — whatever their political leanings.

“Regardless of your stance, none of us should have faced trauma, both physical and mental, for voicing concerns about law enforcement’s disregard for Black lives,”

King-Yarde said.

“The NYPD must undertake extensive work beyond what’s been done. Are they up for the challenge? One can only hope.”

(The reporter didn't do any research, just grabbed quotes from the lawyers website)

Sadly, one of the things I can't do is go into the exact details of how I feel about the settlement. I do have some strong opinions about it, but that's the problem with settlements. You can't really express them the way you want to.

However, I will in the near future talk about the impact of the settlement.

But at the very least... the very least... I can start to move on from this long and tiring court case.

#george floyd #protests #NYPD #black lives matter

[disgruntledexplainer]

remembering 2 years ago when the people on this site were praising the looting and destruction of small businesses in the name of causing social change.

where’s the change? all I see is permanently shuttered mom-and-pop shops that are never coming back. insurance DIDN’T cover it. and I see people suffering in the wake of the resulting food deserts.

MAYBE if this violence resulted in SOME social change like you guys claimed would happen this could have been an argument worth having. but it DIDN’T. NOTHING. HAPPENED.

all we have is ruined lives and livelihoods.

#george floyd #protests #riots #the insurance didn't cover it

[theprodigypenguin]

I bought a keffiyah a few weeks back, as I'm sure a lot of people did, and I wore it today because when I woke up it was absolutely pouring. It is so warm, so comfortable, probably better than any scarf or shawl I've ever owned before. Better quality for sure.

And now I can't stop thinking about how something made by kind Palestinian hands is keeping me warm and giving me incredible comfort and security while those same gentle hands are digging the corpses of family and friends out of rubble.

And I'm dizzy and sick to my stomach from anger and shame and love all at once.

I am so lucky, so privileged to be where I am, even if this country is my greatest shame. What an honor it is to have a voice I can use to speak up against injustice. My heart bleeds for Palestine and will continue to bleed until everyone is free from the river to the sea.

#free palestine #ceasefire #dont stop talking about palestine #the west bank #boycott works #boycott israel #i have never felt this much in my heart in my entire life #where i always knew the us was absolutely fucked and would do what i could #like protesting in a blm march during quarantine after george floyd was murdered #i dont think my anger has ever reached this level #ive gotten angry over injustice before yes #but never like this #and im not sure if i should be embarassed and ashamed or eternally grateful #probably all of the above

[voskhozhdeniye]

#Not just non-American lives. #I said on here in 2020 if Biden was elected most of those white people at the George Floyd protests would disappear. #Because politics is a game to be won for them. #Team Biden won so Championship parade and go home everybody. #Police killed a record number of people last year. #Covid is still killing and disabling people. #You criticize Biden and people automatically say think about what will happen to People of color and the disabled if Trump wins. #We don't have to. #If you were paying attention you'd know. #So four years later I'll say it again. #White liberals are afraid of Trump because he makes them feel like niggers in America. #It isn't fun when the laws you thought protected you suddenly don't anymore. That's a new feeling for them. #And they will swallow whatever horrible thing Biden does to avoid that feeling. #Because when you vote for the lesser evil you are still voting for evil. Evil they're willing to swallow. #And most of us are tired of our struggles only mattering when middle class white people start catching hell too. #The country is in collapse. #The marginalized folks see it #homelessness is skyrocketing. #And as someone on Twitter just said..the war always comes back home. #They think it matters who is in control when it falls apart. #T. S. Eliot said not with a bang but a whimper.

[thottybrucewayne]

Yall remember when Trump got elected and white people were pinning safety pins to they shirts to symbolize that poc were "safe" with them?

#thotty speaks #that and when the midst of the George Floyd protest when white people like...groveled on the ground and 'gave up they white privilege' #yall are so fulla shit all the time fvgbhnjfhg

[chaddavisphotography]

Street art on a building on the 3500 block of Chicago Ave in Minneapolis.

#BLM #Black Lives Matter #George Floyd #Graffiti #Jakeenos #Justice #Minneapolis #Minneapolis Police #Minnesota #Pizza #Police Brutality #Protest #Riot #Say His Name #South Minneapolis #Street Art

[queersatanic]

Clear through lines between the summer 2020 uprisings and COINTELPRO in Little Rock, Ark.

There's a lot here that's worth taking stock of from the way that racial justice protesters are treated in contrast to Jan. 6 white supremacist insurrectionists, or how they are treated in contrast to fascist thugs in their own areas, or how Black protesters are treated in contrast to white and other people of color.

Also critical is how the modern surveillance state works, and how digital OpSec is critically important. They will use the weakest link to take down a whole network.

The heavy surveillance of the protesters ultimately caught up with Jeffrey—thanks in part to a T-shirt. One of her closest friends, Mujera Benjamin Lung’aho, was also at the July protest at the Capitol. The two first met in high school, where they played soccer together, and reconnected years later as the racial justice uprising in Ferguson, Mo., reverberated across the country. They eventually grew close enough that Jeffrey spoke at Lung’aho’s father’s funeral. At the Capitol clash, Lung’aho had worn a distinctive shirt. According to a warrant later filed to search his phone, a detective claimed to have recognized Lung’aho’s shirt and other specific features from surveillance video taken a few days earlier during a vandalism spree at a local Confederate cemetery, where several people were caught on camera destroying monuments. Officers showed up at Lung’aho’s residence and arrested him after a foot chase. “Under the current climate, I just was compelled to flee,” Lung’aho recalled in a conversation with us. When the police searched his phone, they found encrypted group chats and social media messages that they claim tied him to high-profile demonstrations in Little Rock throughout 2020. This turned out to be a key moment for law enforcement—and a big payoff after months of tracking Black activists.

COINTELPRO never stopped, and people acting for racial justice in the South are routinely targeted and crushed for their resistance, often in silence.

Please share this story with your networks, especially in and around Arkansas.

These are the people still being targeted by the state and awaiting sentencing.

Brittany Dawn Jeffrey

Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho

Renea Goddard

Loba Espinosa-Villegas

Emily Nowlin

#COINTELPRO #Little Rock #George Floyd Protests #Arkansas #brittany dawn jeffrey #Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho #Renea Goddard #Loba Espinosa-Villegas #Emily Nowlin #FreeDawnJeffrey

[crackdaddycaine]

About the Leftöver Crack song “Shooticide” & its inspiration by Stza Crack

When I was 12, my step-father killed himself & the news was broken to me by an NYPD officer that was just inside of the apartment door when I got home from school. I was shocked, saddened & surprised. It felt like an ambush & they had no business being in our home. It was not a crime scene & was it the officers place to tell me this news when my mom was already there?

Growing up a block from Bellevue hospital, I saw police corruption, brutality & the victims of their violence up close all of the time & although I was “taught” that the police were there only to help us, as I grew, I soon learned to only loathe & fear them.

In 2014, with the public's access to video camera's on their smart-phones & with the advent & simplification of social media posting, holding police accountable for murdering people seemed to almost become a reality when news coverage momentarily shifted from the police departments “official” stories to the documented stories of civilian eye-witnesses. The evident & widespread abuse of police power & their flagrant lack of respect for human life started to trend until it was part of mainstream media & and unavoidable national conversation.

Then, all of a sudden, the "fad" waned, the media moved on to something else & nothing changed at all. Mandatory body cameras were either not worn or routinely shut off &/or "broken" at critical moments during confrontations with often unarmed black individuals many of whom were not even suspects in any crime.

With the botched “no-knock” raid that left Breonna Taylor murdered that March in Kentucky to the surfacing of footage of Sandra Bland’s arrest in Texas years earlier that led most people to the conclusion that she was murdered by the same police that had her detained illegally in a jail cell, by the time that George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, the people witnessing his mistreatment knew what to do & their film proved what most of us already knew, that the police were cruel & sadistic, but, as filming police violations became the norm & police started going on public trials for murder, the disturbing trend became more & more evident: the police were not only poorly trained & often racially motivated, but, time & time again, they explained that they were "scared". Now, this could seem like a "strategy" to get a police officer out of a murder charge, but, in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting & in light of the evacuations of their own precincts during national anti-police protests in major cities like Minneapolis & Seattle, even leaving behind guns, ammo & prisoners without food or water, a veritable checklist of state-irresponsibility, it became painfully obvious that police were very rarely "heroic" & almost always cowards.

Shooticide is about how the police in America have undermined their own authority by "outing" themselves as terrified of just about everything & that the farce of the slogan "to protect & serve" only applies to themselves & that 9 times out of 10, when they have their guns drawn, they are all pissing themselves in panic & afraid of their own shadows. Emptying their clips & their bladders simultaneously.

That's why "Defunding" the police is such an ill conceived idea (besides the fact that one vowel changed turns that slogan into “Defend the Police”, coincidence? Nobody’s that stupid, not even the cops), when these officers are so badly trained, less money means even less training. We believe that fundamentally, in its wide-spread corruption & systemic racism, policing needs to be abolished & people need to figure out a way to elect folks from their own communities to actually keep "the peace" instead of sowing chaos & fear through corruption & violence. The war on drugs needs to be suspended & condemned. And the judicial system needs to be reimagined & not as the even less equitable, zero tolerance of the cancel culture that is an essentially fascist style of moral policing that relies entirely on one person’s own testimony while ignoring any & all forensic evidence & the testimony of the only other witness present. Corruption & injustice collide with social media & the back lash of moral outrage & misinformation that used to set the dissenting & bigoted right apart from logical thinkers, but is now reserved for leftist activists in a political ruse to destroy us & our goals.

These are the themes in the song lyrics of “Shooticide”.

#Leftöver Crack #Choking Victim #Star Fucking Hipsters #shooticide #anarchopunk #anarchism #cancel culture #fuck cancel culture #police #police corruption #police brutality #state funded murder #state endorsed murder #police racism #racist police #no-knock raid #george floyd #breonna taylor #anti police #anti police protest #Abandon the precincts

[pumpacti0n]

Renegade Cut - Why Riots Happen

Crucial notes here:

"The label of violence is something enforced by the state."

This is because a state is an area in which a monopoly of violence has been claimed by an occupying force. The implications are clear: who gets labeled a criminal or terrorist mostly depends on who is doing the labeling -- in this case the corporate-owned media, the police, the courts, as well as the citizens who are complicit with the state's definitions.

"The aggrieved party in a riot may have been incited by a particular incident, but their long-standing grievances include the maintenance of their poverty."

This is an incredibly important point! The media in particular has a nasty habit of presenting riots as these isolated incidents entirely separated from a history of oppression and social context. This allows the consumers of this content to ignore all of the actual causes of these events and assign total blame to the rioting individuals and not the systems that keep them impoverished and marginalized. This is an incredibly old trick that still works wonders today. It's like if a school bully decided the only important part of a story was the bit where you punched them in the jaw, conveniently leaving out the part where they threw mud in your eyes...every day...for 500 years.

"Riots occur when all other attempts at reaching a peaceful solution have failed."

This point connects to the last. We should never forget that there have been attempts to avoid direct conflict -- and they often do not work for a myriad of reasons. Red tape, lack of funds and accessibility, sabotage from reactionary groups, and so on. The history of oppression necessarily informs the tactics and goals of the people who are oppressed. If it were as simple as choosing the nonviolent option, provided it that it actually addresses these concerns in an expedient way, we wouldn't have riots at all. It's because of the failure of the social order to provide adequate peaceful solutions that address these concerns, that rioting becomes the means that are chosen. We'd only land on other conclusions if we don't take this history into account.

#youtube #renegade cut #riots #looting #social justice #video essay #protest #rioting #george floyd #blm #black lives matter #why riots happen

[streetartguy]

#grafitti #street art #graffittiart #street photography #graffiti #graphic art #aesthetic #counterculture #seattle #blm #george floyd #breonna taylor #justice for breonna #ahmaud arbery #cat #poster art #protest