#justice for tamir rice

[readyforevolution]

Today, we honor the memory of Tamir Rice on what would have been his 22nd birthday. His life was tragically cut short, but his spirit continues to inspire the fight for justice and equality. We remember Tamir with love and a commitment to making the world a safer, more just place for all children.

Happy Birthday, Tamir. Your legacy lives on in our hearts and in our actions.

[intersectionalpraxis]

Do not trust Shaun King -he is an exploitative and chronic scammer. If you have time to watch the original video, PLEASE do.

I'm also adding the free Palestine tag because he's been in these spaces, and I need people to know he will do ANYTHING to get his money. Stop giving him money. He is going on TOUR to talk about Gaza...

[emelinet]

say their name.

Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Rumain Brisbon. Tanisha Anderson. Bettie Jones. Jason Washington. Robert White. Botham Jean. Ronald Greene. Sterling Higgins. Cameron Lamb. Steven Taylor. George Floyd. Dion Johnson. Keenan Anderson. Keshawn Thomas. Jayland Walker. Christopher Kelley. Donnell Rochester. Jason Walker. Alvin Motley Jr. Ryan Leroux. Latoya Denise James. Winston Smith. Ma'khia Bryant. Jenoah Donald. A'donte Washington.

no justice, no peace.

[tropic-havens]

The gravesite of Joseph Kahahawai at Puea Cemetery in Kalihi. Kahahawai was one of five men falsely accused in 1931 of beating and raping Thalia Massie, a wealthy white woman married to a U.S. Navy lieutenant. Massie’s husband and mother, along with two other Navy men, abducted and murdered Kahahawai.

Shayna Lonoaea-Alexander (Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Filipino, Black, Chinese, and white) and Jen Jenkins (Black), both work in criminal justice reform and see this history as a point of solidarity between the Native Hawaiian and Black communities. “I will never forget learning about Joseph and diving deeper into what happened,” says Jenkins. “The mentality around the Massie Case [was that] Hawaiians are more likely to be criminals. That’s how it’s portrayed for Black people. George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and Trayvon Martin—these are just young boys and men who are being murdered. There are women and trans Black women who are being killed. It's almost like they're disposable or their lives don't matter, which is where we get Black Lives Matter from. [The parallels are] undeniable and they persist today in Hawaiʻi for Native Hawaiians. The truth is that we've been failed systemically and socially.”

[odinsblog]

A black man was also helping subdue Jordan Kneely. He viewed him as a threat to other people as well.

First of all, his name was Jordan Neely, not Kneely.

And the cowardly murderer who snuck up behind Jordan Neely and strangled him for 15 minutes is Daniel Penny.

Second, whenever a white person murders a Black person—from George Floyd to Tamir Rice to Trayvon Martin to Breonna Taylor—you can depend on white people trying to derail their murder by either invoking Black-on-Black crime, or victim blaming, or character assassination, or engage in endless equivocating about why the murder was maybe possibly somehow justified because of unspoken (but very well known!) racial stereotypes. This ask is an example of the last thing.

Look, anon, your “gotcha” isn’t nearly the argument you seem to think it is.

What is key in Jordan Neely’s murder is the race of the victim.

There are any number of studies that have repeatedly shown that when a murder victim is Black or non-white, the police, the general public and the so-called criminal justice system are less than concerned about meting out justice to the killer. If, however, the victim is white, then everything changes and justice suddenly becomes much much more important. For example: the state of Florida has had the death penalty forever, but it wasn’t until 2017 that Florida gave the death penalty to a white man for killing a Black man—2017, for the very first time.

Why do you think that is, anon?

I’ll give you a hint: it isn’t because that was the very first time a white man murdered a Black man in Florida.

It’s because it’s the race of the VICTIM that matters here in America.

Also, please understand something else here…

There are LGBTQ people who vote for openly homophobic Republicans.

There are Black people who vote for racist Republican candidates.

There are Black police officers who harass and murder unarmed and innocent Black people.

There are women who have had or plan on having an abortion who vote for anti abortion candidates.

There are immigrants and former refugees who who will vote for the same racist conservative candidates who vote against asylum seekers and any immigration reforms.

Absolutely NONE of this is a valid excuse for racism, misogyny, homophobia or xenophobia.

What’s important to remember here are the wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr’s words:

“Every minority and every people has its share of opportunists, profiteers, freeloaders and escapists. The hammer blows of discrimination, poverty and segregation must warp and corrupt some. No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy. The real issue is whether in the great mass the dominant characteristics are decency, honor and courage.”

And lastly, but most importantly: SOMEONE YELLING AND HAVING A BREAKDOWN IN PUBLIC IS NOT “THREATENING” AND DOES NOT JUSTIFY MURDER. MAKING PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE IS NOT “THREATENING” AND DOES NOT JUSTIFY MURDER.

So in closing, 🖕🏿

[porterdavis]

When I first started writing this blog around 15 years ago one of my main topics was the astonishing yet massively under-reported frequency of Black men being killed by the police. At the time there was no real awareness of it outside of Black families and communities. There was no central reporting apparatus of any kind that I was aware of.

More than once I was accused of lying. It didn't bother me, I had no real agenda other than being incredulous that a:) it was happening and b:) nobody seemed to care. The drums began beating with the murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and of course...George Floyd.

As horrible as those killings were, they obscured another reality -- police were killing Black women on an even larger scale. The sexual abuse and disappearance of this vulnerable demographic went almost completely unreported. (The only worse situation I can think of is the disappearance of Indigenous women in the North).

This story above is a long, well-researched indictment of...all of us.

[wakandamama]

Now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, why ain't there 100 bands on Zimmerman's shit? Someone shoulda made him chalk lines day 1 of the acquittal.

Emmet Till, Latasha Harlins, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Ma'Khia Bryant, all the Black children's who names are loss in the Mass amount of them dead. From the babies tossed into swamps by slave master to poor Ralph Yarl who has to suffer for the rest of his life because some evil white bigot who was proably in post card picnic in his youth decided him being lost in his neighborhood was cause enough for a death sentence.

If they feel bold enough to kill innocent Black kids with no justice for the lives loss. Welp, we should be bold enough to correct that shit🤷🏾‍♀️ they obviously only speak violence and it's time we speak they language to get the fucking message across atp.

[connorthemaoist]

It’s been ten years since the Ferguson rebellion, and the police continue to kill Black and other oppressed people with impunity. A few killer cops have faced charges, trial, and prison time, but most of these murderers with a badge get away with their crimes. The police keep serving and protecting white supremacy and capitalism, and in that role, they are sanctioned to brutalize and kill.

Over 1,200 people were killed by police nationwide in 2023. The police respond to people in a mental health crisis with taser guns and bullets. In response to rising homelessness, homeless people are being criminalized, with police carrying out brutal raids on encampments. Squad cars creep through the hood, where the police harass Black, Latino, and proletarian youth, brutalizing them and throwing them into the prison pipeline. On reservations and in border towns, police murder Indigenous people at disturbing rates. And protestors have faced brutal repression from militarized police, including those opposing the construction of the Cop City police training facility in Atlanta, along with the college student encampments opposing the US-Israel genocidal war on Gaza.

Why haven’t waves of protests against police brutality changed this state of affairs? Because the protest movement has been derailed time after time by politicians promising reforms and grifters using the movement for their personal gain. Justice Department investigations, legislation, police review boards, and other reforms cannot end police brutality because it’s baked into the system that government on all levels serves. It’s a fundamental tool, alongside mass incarceration, to keep oppressed people controlled and subjugated. On top of this, grifters from the Black Lives Matter organization to Robin DiAngelo, Shaun King, and Ibram X Kendi have anointed themselves the spokespeople of the movement and collected hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, corporate sponsorships, and book deals while serving themselves rather than the masses of people subjected to police brutality. (Look up the interview of Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, in New York Magazine to see what we’re talking about.)

This Fall, Dare To Struggle is working to rebuild the movement against police brutality and the oppression of Black people on solid foundations. Join us for protests on October 22nd, the national day of protest against police brutality. The movement we’re seeking to build will put the families and loved ones of the victims of police murder on the forefront, reviving a powerful weapon against police brutality. We will work to mobilize the youth under the gun of police brutality to stand up and speak for themselves. We will unite all who can be united in this struggle, regardless of identity. And we will reject begging for reforms in favor of mass action, outside the official political channels, to exert the just demands of the masses. Grifters and lawyers looking to cash in on grief will be exposed and removed.

Join us on October 22nd to demand:

No more murders and brutality by the police! Send killer cops to prison!

End the criminalization of Black, Latino, and Indigenous youth!

End the criminalization of homelessness and mental illness!

No more militarized police repression of protest!

Rally / Protest Locations:

Los Angeles: City Hall 4:30 pm

(200 N Spring Street, Los Angeles)

New York City: TBA

More to be added!

DareToStruggle.org

[houseofpurplestars]

From 2021:

Last month, journalist Ernest Owens reported that King and his Real Justice PAC were named in a 312-page lawsuit in which it was alleged that defendants had “funneled significant funds donated by unwitting citizens of Philadelphia to line the pockets of defendant Shaun King, his Real Justice PAC, and the [Larry Krasner] campaign.”

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Who was Emmet Till?

I wanted to post this because Carolyn Bryant Donham just died, and people will be seeing Emmett's name in the news. While I hope most people know his story, I know not everyone does. I remember in college the professor mentioning his story as a topic people could write an essay on, and two other students, both at least 10 years older than I, not knowing who he was.

Emmett was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago. In 1955, he was visiting relatives in Mississippi. He and some friends were in a grocery store.

The owner's wife, a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, alleged that he grabbed her by the waist and propositioned her. Some people say he merely wolf-whistled at her. And other say absolutely nothing happened.

Four days later, Carolyn's husband, Roy Bryant, and his brother, John Milam, drove to Emmett's relatives house and kidnapped him. They beat and mutilated him before shooting him and throwing Emmett's body in the river.

When his relatives notified his mother Emmett was missing, Bryant and Milam were questioned by police and admitted to the kidnapping...but said they had let Emmett go.

When Emmett's body was found days later, the men were put on trial for murder. Decades later, an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant would be found, but it was never served. The all-white male jury deliberated only a little over hour, and they admitted it only took that long because they stopped for a drink at one point. They voted to aquit both men of murder. A separate jury later voted to aquit them of kidnapping.

Jurors would later admit they believed the men to be guilty, but did not think they should be punished.

After the trial, Roy Bryant and John Milam sold their confession for $4k to a newspaper. That was a huge amount of money back then.

There was never any justice done for Emmett. They lived the rest of their lives without serving a day in jail for his murder.

In 2008, Carolyn Bryant allegedly told a writer that she had lied on the stand about what had happened. This was not caught on tape, and she later denied it happened....but I mean...multiple witnesses have said either that nothing happened or that all Emmett did was whistle. I'm inclined to believe she was a lying cunt who made it all up.

Now, Carolyn Bryant is dead, may she burn in hell.

But it's important that no one ever forget Emmett Till. You see, it's not just that he was murdered, suffering what no child should ever need to go through. But these things are still happening today.

James Craig Anderson. Trayvon Martin. Tamir Rice. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Elijah Mcclain.

And recently, Ralph Yarl could have very easily died.

We've come along way. Some of the murderers get convicted now. But what happened to Emmett Till could all too easily happen again.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

more deconstruction of "normal" as an obfuscating curtain around supremacy & its concomitant oppression more more!! (an interview by george yancy with subini annamma abt DisCrit, the intersection of disability studies & critical race theory)

some excerpts:

"These scholars were naming the ways ableism animated who we center as the “normal,” and how we draw boundaries around that conception of normal, and punish those outside those walls. In schools, we seek out youth we position as “abnormal” and try to cure, segregate or funnel them out of public spaces."

"Those intellectual ancestors, both those who have passed on and those still with us, created a space for DisCrit to recognize that racism and ableism are interdependent, that they depend on and inform each other. That is, if racism is the ideology for situating specific people in subordinated locations, then ableism is how that goal is achieved — by situating the learning, thinking, and behaviors of Black and Brown people as “less than” and “inferior.” Racism and ableism are mutually constitutive because they need each other to survive; whiteness needed to “other” Black and Brown people, and did so through ableism. Both CRT and DS scholars and public intellectuals left space for us to do this work; to seriously consider how racism and ableism inform one another and are normalized, not aberrant in society. DisCrit uses specific tenets to build on this conceptual foundation to name how, in a system of white supremacy, anti-Blackness and settler colonialism, whiteness defines the normal and desired individual; and positions all Black and Brown folks as abnormal."

"I know you’ve engaged in a discussion with the brilliant T.L. Lewis, and they have described how mass incarceration is a disability justice issue. So I’ll focus on how mass incarceration is a racial and disability justice issue because it targets disabled Black and Brown youth specifically. In other words, age does not protect disabled Black and Brown children because they are not imagined as innocent (what Black women and other women of color scholars, such as Jamilia Blake and Thalia González, have named as adultification) and they are also imagined as hyper-strong and aggressive. Instead, disabled Black and Brown kids are targeted and punished because of their disabilities. Moreover, Black and Brown youth are disabled by prison conditions, which cause trauma. Family separation through incarceration — whether in the name of rehabilitation, child welfare or mental health care — are all forms of punishment for perceived deviance. The abuse and neglect in these systems is well documented. We lock up what we are afraid of — if justice is what love looks like in public, then mass incarceration is hate institutionalized. And in the worst cases, our babies die in these hate-filled cages, babies like Cedric “C.J.” Lofton, Loyce Tucker, Cornelius Frederick, Gynnya McMillen, Elord Revolte, Andre Sheffield, Robert Wright, and more unnamed babies. Or they die while being rounded up to be put in these cages like Ma’Khia Bryant, Tamir Rice, Iremamber Skyap, Adam Toledo, and [others]. Mass incarceration is a racial and disability justice issue for Black and Brown disabled youth because it targets and creates disability, all while trying to eradicate their power and resistance."

"Moreover, disabled Black and Brown girls are experiencing higher rates of these negative outcomes than their nondisabled peers. When these disabled Black and Brown girls are abused by the system and their stories become public, their disabilities are often erased. We imagine them as what scholar Michele Goodwin discusses as “too intersectional,” when their disability or queerness is viewed as something to disassociate them from, trying to cleave their identities into something closer to the norm. Yet, this misses the fact that these Black and Brown girls are being punished because of their disabilities, and that disability labels and laws are not protecting them. We must recognize that Black and Brown disabled girls are not broken, our systems are broken. Carceral geographies threaten Black and Brown disabled girls. We must respond by loving Black and Brown girls in their full humanity."

I want to end with what you envision as hope. Like W.E.B. Du Bois, I am not hopeless, but I am unhopeful regarding the racist attitudes, racist practices, racist habits, racist ideologies and racist structures within the U.S. This includes how racism toxically lives intramurally or extramurally, and this includes how racism functions through ableism — or conversely, how ableism functions through racism. This is another way of saying that racism exists within every nook and cranny of U.S. society. I can’t begin to express how angry I feel as I write about racism and other forms of injustice. This anger is not misplaced, and it has its place. You’ve worked as an educator in both youth prisons and public schools. You’ve been able to observe directly how forms of discipline negatively impact girls of color, how they suffer under panoptic surveillance and pathologizing discourses. I can only imagine that they have internalized such racist and pathologizing forms of captivity. How do you find hope in what you do without being seduced by a neoliberal sense of hope that fails or refuses to think critically about systems of racism and pathology? Does anger help?

"For Black and Brown people, our anger is the antithesis of white supremacy and ableism that centralizes docility and compliance masquerading as kindness and civility. I draw from Audre Lorde who wrote about the uses of anger and Brittney Cooper who writes about eloquent rage. Lorde describes the power of our anger when it is focused with precision on the systems that harm us. So, I try to focus my anger on dismantling those systems, like the abolition of youth prisons, and all prisons. I draw from Mariame Kaba who reminds us to practice hope regularly; I practice hope by being in relationship with disabled Black and Brown youth, many of whom are being pushed out of public schools, and/or are currently or formerly incarcerated. I work to support our community as we labor in violent systems. We can create a world that is less violent, more humane, and even joyful. I believe in abolition, so my anger and hope are rooted in the ways I show up, I experiment and fail, and keep showing up to be in community with Black and Brown disabled youth. And those Black and Brown disabled youth are constantly pushing me to be more radical, to develop a clearer abolitionist imaginary. That is hope.

Hope is recognizing how our fights are all connected and cultivating solidarity. The attacks on trans that are so prevalent right now are built on ableism, misogynoir and white supremacy. Therefore, we must be in solidarity with our queer and trans siblings. One study found that 20 percent of youth in detention centers identified as queer and trans: 13 percent of boys and 40 percent of girls. Eighty-five percent of these incarcerated queer and trans girls are girls of color. Trans and queer youth of color often stay longer in family policing systems (known as child welfare) and juvenile incarceration systems, increasing the likelihood of negative impacts of both systems. Queer and trans Black and Brown youth deserve our solidarity and our protection. These same systems are harming Black and Brown disabled kids; our struggles are connected, and liberation means fighting together. Solidarity, the kind where we recognize our common fights and allow our differences in oppressions and experiences to inform our resistance, is what gives me hope.

Also exciting is the work of my contemporary colleagues and earlier career scholars, public intellectuals and activists who are also thinking critically about race and disability while not stopping there, like Jamelia Morgan, Mildred Boveda, Hailey Love, Maggie Beneke, Jenn Phuong, Tami Handy, Adai Teferra, Ericka Weathers, Sami Schalk, Jina B. Kim, Therí Pickens, Liat Ben-Moshe, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Keah Brown, Akiea Gross, D’Arcee Charington Neal, plus a whole host of students who are doing it better than us. They are thinking with less binaries and more interconnected systems. They are more radical and hopeful. And those of us who are developing a sharper analysis because we are listening to them, filling in gaps of our work we missed the first time around. I wanted a theory that centralized the lives of Black and Brown disabled youth, and DisCrit is what grew. DisCrit isn’t the best theory, it’s the one we created when we needed something better. We have always said we want to see it expanded and pushed until its borders break open and something better is born. That’s the beautiful thing about theory, it must continually evolve. As long as we are listening to Audre Lorde and focusing our rage with precision, our theory will evolve to meet us in the moment."

[reasoningdaily]

The Hill: Congressional Black Caucus invites families impacted by police violence to State of the Union

RowVaughn Wells cries as she and her husband Rodney Wells attend the funeral service for her son Tyre Nichols at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tenn., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. Nichols died following a brutal beating by Memphis police after a traffic stop. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP, Pool)

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have invited families that have lost loved ones at the hands of police to be their guests at President Biden’s State of the Union on Tuesday.

The parents and siblings of George Floyd, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Ronald Greene and others will join members of the caucus, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), on Capitol Hill Tuesday night.

RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols, will attend the speech as guests of Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), who is chairman of the CBC. They will sit in first lady Jill Biden’s box during the speech, according to theGrio.

theGrio also reported that Horsford will hold a closed-door roundtable with CBC members and the families so elected leaders can “hear directly from those constituents who…have been impacted by policing in America.”

The caucus met with Biden last week to discuss the need for police reform after harrowing video footage showed Nichols beaten by five police officers in Memphis.

“My hope is this dark memory [of Nichols’s death] spurs some action that we’ve all been fighting for,” Biden told the CBC members.

“We got to stay at it, as long as it takes,” he added.

Caucus members and Democrats in both chambers have called for police reform since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2020.

Their legislation, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, has stalled in Congress. In addition to banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants, the bill would end qualified immunity and prohibit racial and religious profiling by law enforcement officers.

But Republicans argue the bill goes too far, and though Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is expected to reintroduce the bill with an added “Tyre Nichols Duty to Intervene” amendment after the State of the Union address, it’s unlikely to move forward in a GOP-controlled House.

“The death of Tyre Nichols is yet another example of why we need action,” Horsford told Biden in the meeting last week. “You’ve already led on the action we’ve been able to take on executive order. We need your help on legislative action to…make public safety the priority.”

[riarevenge]

i can’t believe tory lanezs dad had the audacity to say this is the worst miscarriage of justice in the history of the world. he stands in the same country where cases like that of breonna taylor, trayvon martin, eric garner, tamir rice, philando castile, emmett till and many more exist. like. wow.

[marta-bee]

The news out of Iran has me thinking about civil disobedience.

See, there’s a school of thought that by accepting the benefits of there being a system of law, you have to accept the law’s judgment. That doesn’t mean you have to obey it blindly, but if you disobey and get caught, you’re obligated to accept the penalty, pay the fine or go to jail or whatever. Ideally you do this in a way that sparks moral outrage against whatever unfair law you’ve had to break so people fight to change it. But by disobeying the law and then refusing to accept punishment (the argument goes) you’re making way for anarchy.

Philosophy 101 students, think Plato’s “Crito.” And think MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and MLK generally much more than Malcolm X; though that’s a real oversimplification and I’m far from an expert on them beyond the passages white people like to quote.

I’ve always thought it’s not perfect, there are big limitations on this argument, but generally I thought it was at least in the right ballpark. Because as horrible as the criminal justice system is, I think the worst parts are where cops work outside the rule of law (shooting a suspect rather than arresting and trying him), and even then I’d rather have a bad justice system than what would rush into the vacuum left by one, a whole universe of George Zimmermans and Kyle Rittenhouses.

Keep in mind I’m a white woman who was only arrested once as part of a protest, and released almost immediately. My experience with the criminal justice system is not that of a lot of people, and I probably have loads of blind-spots here. But that’s always been my thought.

What’s happening in Iran is so awful because it was started by something so thoroughly outside the rule of law. Law & order does more than just define crimes and penalties, it also defines how those who are accused or actually did something will be treated. When Trump wished cops would be a little less careful about banging arrested peoples’ heads on the doorframes of their cop cars when they arrested people, that’s not the rule of law. Nor is the beating that happened on Edmund Pettus Bridge, or what happened to George Floyd, or Tamir Rice, or Breonna Taylor, or way too many others. And when a young Iranian woman in her twenties is arrested by a police force famous for their brutality, and hours later they’re saying she died from a heart attack when she has no prior health conditions and was, what, in her 20s? That’s definitely not the rule of law.That’s just brute force and state-sponsored terrorism.

Even if I’m a bit naive about civil disobedience and how the criminal justice system actually works, I’m not blind to the fact that this is something else entirely. It’s wholly repugnant. And it’s a big part of why I fight so hard for good laws applied fairly: because we need a way  to tell even the police and the powerful, just because you have the power to hurt people this way doesn’t make it acceptable.

I guess that’s the point I’m circling around. “Civil disobedience” doesn’t apply to situations like this because there’s no good law & order system they’ve all been benefiting from. There’s just might makes right, and it’s violent, it’s bloody, and it’s fucking wrong.

Also, I know it’s been said elsewhere, but I’m truly in awe of all the women and people generally standing up to Iran’s policies. And protesting Putin’s new conscription policy in Russia. And fighting against the referendum in Ukraine where they’re being forced to say their territories should be part of Russia, at gunpoint. There’s so much bravery in the world right now. I can only manage a fraction of that from my safe-ish corner of the world, but still, I’m in awe.

[queensuggar]

As sensitively as I can say this: One of my concerns regarding the Tyre Nichols situation is this response from the police department distancing themselves from the offenders. In a vacuum its great that legal action moved so swiftly. I believe, at least on some level, this idea that they acted immediately because the crime was heinous enough that they had no way to spin it. But I'm also aware that framing is so important. The same could be said of virtually all police killings if empathy for the victim was centered in those discussions, but they weren't, even when those killed committed no crimes or were sympathetic figures (Tamir Rice comes to mind). ((Note the freudian slips where they accidentally refer to Tyre as a suspect.))

So why do I dislike it here?

A. Five officers were arrested and others are being investigated and potentially charged. Good. But that doesn't change the fact that the Police department is still responsible for , hiring, training and equipping these people, and letting them loose on the populace. MULTIPLE people have come forward in the aftermath of Tyre's murder to say that this unit in particular was known to be dangerous, but nothing was done. Now they have no choice, but they're framing it as though they're the heroes for doing something when in a just world, Tyre would've never been killed in the first place. They had already failed before this killing even happened, and its disingenous of them to expect praise for failing to do their duty.

B. There's the unavoidable question of if the officers' race played a part in this. Mind you, a cop is a cop. They are protectors of property and the status quo regardless of their color, and often "elevating" someone to the status of police officer disconnects them from their community. So I'm not shocked that this happened at all. If anything I'm annoyed that this is muddying the waters in this conversation. However! While the race of the cops doesn't have much bearing on them being "good" cops or not, their "copness" also doesn't protect them from racism. So am I saying these cops did nothing wrong or are victims? No! Not at all. Unless it literally came out that the whole premise of their arrest and the situation was a lie, they belong *under* the jail. But it does mean its possible that the only reason we're getting this "swift justice" is because they don't have white supremacy to defend them. Which calls to question again the Police Department. How many instances like this may have happened with no or minimal consequences becuase the perpetrator(s) was white? Will this continue to be the strategy when this inevitably happens again or will this be difficult to reproduce because Police Union will fight to the death on their behalf as long as the defendant is white?

I'm just watching this unfold and already grieving for the next person because none of this shit is even gonna change anything.

[cyarskj1899]

Twitter Goes ‘Jerry Sprunger’ After Tory Lanez Is Found Guilty In Megan Thee Stallion Shooting

Xaviera BryantDecember 24, 2022

Twitter is running amok in Momma Dee‘s palace after Tory Lanez was found guilty of all charges on Friday in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting.

The jury of seven women and five men deliberated since Thursday before convicting the 30-year-old Canadian rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Jurors also agreed that there were aggravating factors in the attack, meaning Lanez could face up to 22 years in prison and deportation when he is sentenced.

The “Say It” rapper was very confident going into the trial and even took to Twitter to remind people that no weapon formed against him shall prosper.

See the original tweet below.

I’m going to leave this here one more time …and watch how it ages … NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER … AND EVERY TONGUE THAT RISES AGAINST ME IN JUDGEMENT SHALL BE CONDEMNED u sit and watch now …. And don’t ever question the GOD I serve again. This is my last tweet.

It appears Tory Lanez may have been the weapon formed against himself.

His father, Sonstar Peterson, was livid about the verdict and he let everyone know as he left the courthouse.

In an exclusive clip, Tory Lanez’s father had an emotional reaction to his son’s conviction leaving the courtroom. pic.twitter.com/nfWpq8PYd6— TheShadeRoom (@TheShadeRoom) December 24, 2022

In an exclusive clip, Tory Lanez’s father had an emotional reaction to his son’s conviction leaving the courtroom. pic.twitter.com/nfWpq8PYd6— TheShadeRoom (@TheShadeRoom) December 24, 2022

Tory Lanez father Sonstar Peterson says “Roc Nation will crumble” pic.twitter.com/QC7XeSQOBf— Blanco Tarantino TV, LLC (@BlancoTarantino) December 24, 2022

Tory Lanez has been trending for days leading up to the verdict and now that he has been convicted, Twitter, which has been a battleground between his fans and fans of Megan Thee Stallion, is now filled with reactions (and jokes) to the outcome of this polarizing case.

Read a few of the reactions below.

Megan Thee Stallion deserves more than the “justice” served in Tory Lanez’s case. She deserves a culture and media landscape that doesn’t demonize Black women’s lives, safety, and voices. We all need to understand that psychosocial wounds are just as harmful as physical wounds.— Raquel Willis (she/her) (@RaquelWillis_) December 24, 2022

“What are y’all going to do when Tory Lanez is found innocent” pic.twitter.com/GVqnk0dBYG— 🕺🏾🪩 (@shOoObz) December 24, 2022

tory lanez taking his mugshot pic.twitter.com/ltA5dbqySj— toss a coin to your witcher (@itsayosigns) December 23, 2022

tory lanez falling from the top bunk in his cell pic.twitter.com/MqgWHoCEgr— dij (@DijahSB) December 24, 2022

When you won the prison talent show last year, but then you hear Tory Lanez is coming pic.twitter.com/hiw0tfFAwR— IG: @Ludachris_ (@LudaChris_) December 23, 2022

Too many ppl ridiculed Megan. They attempted to justify their bullying with “the truth will come out in court!”. Well the truth is out. Based on testimony and evidence, Tory Lanez has been found guilty. Will ppl be as loud with their apologies as they were with their belittling?

— TONI TONE (@t0nit0ne) December 23, 2022

In a country where Medgar Evers, Emmitt Till, Breonna Taylor, & Tamir Rice exist, Tory Lanez dad said this verdict was the worst miscarriage of Justice in the history of the whole world.

Gotta love the audacity I guess.

— Johnta Austin (@johntalsr) December 24, 2022

“Why y’all celebrating a Black man going to jail?” Let’s talk about it.. #torylaneztrial #ToryLanez pic.twitter.com/C5WhJ4f7Kz

— Conscious Lee (@TheConsciousLee) December 24, 2022

Megan Thee Stallion and her lawyer

celebrating the Tory Lanez guilty

verdict.

pic.twitter.com/3tblKgKaSd

— Freddie B 🌸 (@freddie_soul) December 24, 2022

Anyways — I hope Tory Lanez goes to jail and Meg goes on vacation, deletes Twitter off her phone and never sees the disgusting shit y’all are tweeting about her

— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) December 23, 2022

The only helpful thing to come out of Tory Lanez trial is that it revealed all the misogynist men and the dimwitted women who uplift them—so we know exactly who to stay very far away from.

— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) December 23, 2022

Tory Lanez in jail where he fucking belongs, I am so happy for Meg. She is owed every apology. pic.twitter.com/LHiHgDKZMl

— 🌸 (@krisienner) December 24, 2022

Tory Lanez when he finna get deported pic.twitter.com/nSWNKxh2F2

— Kevín (@KevOnStage) December 24, 2022

Akademiks when Tory Lanez's verdict dropped and he couldn't immediately slander Meg pic.twitter.com/l3oIcGLFpF

— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) December 24, 2022

The prosecutor would have ROCKED. HIS. SHIT. In the last 2 years alone, Tory Lanez

– assaulted August Alsina on VIDEO

– assaulted a L&HH star

– was accused of harming both that child he was parading around and its mother.

He also has previous gun convictions https://t.co/JvpDUv87uo

— Gabrielle Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) December 24, 2022

If Megan was a dirty bitch like me, I’d sample Tory Lanez daddy screaming to the media on my next song.

— my name is… (@clapmytweets) December 23, 2022

Tory Lanez found GUILTY on all charges in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. pic.twitter.com/IAgIRmei8S

— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) December 23, 2022

Now that Tory Lanez has been found guilty on all charges, the people who went from not trusting the justice system to relying on it for “more facts” are back to blaming the justice system for a “wrongful conviction.” The moral gymnastics people go through to discredit Black women

— Ivie Ani (@ivieani) December 24, 2022

Can Kelsey get prosecuted for perjury? Because she also needs to be held accountable for being that wicked. Knowing the truth all along & still lying on the stand.

— Jordan Sumbu (@JordanSumbu) December 23, 2022

i want at that bitch kelsey next! pic.twitter.com/t5VAn96fYz

— KC⭐️ (@keescrawford) December 24, 2022

THREE people identified tory as the shooter. THREE. he sent texts apologizing profusely the next day. kelsey text at the scene of the crime “TORY SHOT MEG”. he tried to spread the lie she wasn’t even shot. he LIED. even a god damn monkey with glaucoma could see he’s guilty

— 5hahem aka Dr. Durag (@shaTIRED) December 23, 2022

Don’t forget that Megan Thee Stallion was shot, went through unimaginable pain and fear that night, may have have bullet fragments in her feet for the rest of her life and STILL people chose to harass and villainize her. PROTECT victims. BELIEVE victims.

— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) December 23, 2022

Daystar’s daddy name being Sonstar just ruined my day.

— 7-4 (@35mmPapi) December 24, 2022

Half the people who work for Roc Nation can’t even get into the Roc Nation brunch but sure they have control over LA superior court. pic.twitter.com/teNcrd1eJ9

— Nina Parker (@theninaparker) December 24, 2022

Dear Tory Lanez father…

What Roc Nation & Jay-Z got to do with your son shooting a woman?

— Legacy Building… (@DCisChillin) December 23, 2022

Jay Z, Beyoncé, Blue Ivy and the Twins at dinner hearing Tory Dad say “Roc Nation will crumble” pic.twitter.com/MpbyhJS52G

— 💎 | Fan Account (@BadBitchCarta) December 24, 2022

So many people owe @theestallion a complete apology. Just so much reckless misinformation and ✌🏾reporting✌🏾. So many of y’all stood with an abuser only to prove once again that Black women never are granted the grace, and protection that we deserve.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) December 23, 2022

I just want us to remember as a community that Megan Thee Stallion had every intention of protecting Tory. She was gonna keep it all quiet until HE decided to plant stories with urban blogs trying to paint her as a liar before she even said anything about that night.

He did this

No one to blame but himself

The clown always comes back to bite

He destroyed himself

Ego and pride killed his career and freedom

It’s embarrassing how abusers will take advantage of your trust, your kindness, your love.

That why it’s hard to trust people after you are betrayed

If it was me I’d never want to protect anyone again

The physical wounds may heal but the emotional and psychological damage can not be easily fixed

That’s how good people turn into villains

Tory Lanez has been taken into custody where he will remain until his sentencing hearing on January 27, 2023.

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