#tamir ;; threads

[90363462]

Good riddance to him. I’ve unfollowed him since the BLM wave in 2020. He is a grifter. An opportunist and a hateful individual who encourages hatred. Plus I remember his actions regarding the way he used the murder of tamir rice for his own benefit. It’s been FQ him but of course since people who were warning about him included black women, nobody listened to them until this year. So fq him and everyone who doubted those who warned you all about him including me. Bye, him being banned is a Christmas miracle.

[oberynmartell]

List of Black Lives Matter and Racial Equality Petitions to sign:

infographic on why YOU SHOULD NOT DONATE TO CHANGE DOT ORG

one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded, and well researchd compilations of blm related resources (includes petitions, donation links, venmo accounts, names of people in need, etc) thats out there. please share this link everywhere and anywhere. 

a black lives matter carrd that includes petitions, donation links, blm movement information, links on how to donate to BLM without spending money, black owned businesses, etc. 

a black lives matter carrd that lists all the petitions that need to be signatures all in one place!

Justice for George Floyd

Justice for George Floyd 2

Justice for George Floyd 3

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 

Charge the Officers Responsible for George Floyd’s Murder 2

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery

Justice For Ahmuad Arbery 2

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Stand with Breonna

Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder

Justice For Tamir Rice

Justice For Tamir Rice 2

Justice For Joāo Pedro

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

Justice for Belly Mujinga.

Justice for Rashad Cunningham

Justice For Tony McDade

Justice for Dion Johnson

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley

Justice for Young Uwa

Justice for Elijah Nichols

Justice for Tete Gulley

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Michael Dean

Justice For Amari Boone

Justice for Darrius Stewart

Justice for Shukri Abdi

Justice for Ashton Dickson

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Justice for David McAtee

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Crystal Mason

Justice For Zinedine

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

Justice for Christopher Josey

Justice for Amiya Braxton

Justice For Emerald Black

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Cameron Green

Justice for Tamla Horsford

Justice for Collins Khosa

Justice for Sean Monterrosa

Free Siyanda

Reopen Sandra Bland’s Case 

Free Willie Simmons who has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

Get Washington State to Hold Police Officers Accountable for Police Brutality

Arrest Officer Jared Campbell for macing a child 

Demand Jail Time for Dylan Mota and Jacob Robles

Demand Jail Time for All Police who Murder Innocent People

Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

Petition for Nationwide Police De-Escalation Training

Petition for Nationwide Police Required Racial Bias Test

stop immigrants being poisoned by ICE

Ban the use of inhumane rubber bullets

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

End Police Brutality and Violence Against BIPOC in the USA

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Join Campaign Zero

Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer!

Reopen Kendrick Johnson's Case

Abolish Prison Labour in the USA

Require Dash and Body Cameras for the King County Sheriff's Office

Demand a retrial for Angel Bumpass wrongfully convicted 13 year old with a life sentence

Sign the Police Accountability Act into Law

Justice for Elijah Nichols 

Exonerate Eric Riddick

Justice For Luz Gonzalez!

Support a new law to be made in Trayvon Martin's name to stop from claiming self defense after aggravated murder

Justice for James Scurlock

Justice for Philando Castile

Issue a State executive order to hold police accountable for unlawful action

Don't let Julius Jones be executed by the state of Oklahoma

Help pass the Hands Up Act, which prohibits police officers from shooting unarmed citizens and carries a mandatory 15-year prison sentence if there isn’t a weapon found after someone has been shot by a police officer

A twitter thread linking to many, many Brazilian Petition that still need signatures

Justice for Jamarion Robinson

Justice for Elijah McClain

Fire Jared Campbell

Dismiss the charges on Marshae Jones and charge the one who shot her and her unborn baby

Justice for Anderson Arboleda [Petition only in Español] 

Drop Charges Against Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer

Justice for Julian Cole

Reopen Kenneka Jenkins Case

Justice for LeVena Johnson

Justice for Matthew Tucker

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet 

Justice for Christopher

Abolish Confederate Branding at Richland High School

Justice for Justin Howell

Justice for Brad Levi Ayala

Justice for Mike Ramos

Justice for Brad Levi Ayala

Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

Ban the use of rubber bullets for crowd control

Make Lynching a Federal Crime

Tell Congress you support making lynching a federal hate crime

Demand Capezio provide skin color inclusive dance clothing

Justice for Kylie Lindsey and Isabella Chinchilla

Justice for Maurice Gordon Jr.

Justice for Alaa

Justice for Robert Fuller

Justice for Elijah McClain

Justice for Elijah McClain 2

Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group

Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group 2

Demand The KKK be declared a terrorist group 3

Reopen the case of Sandra Bland

Reopen the case of Kenneka Jenkins 

Justice for Jonas Joseph

Justice for Tazne Van Wyk

Justice for Cláudia Ferreira

Justice for James Scurlock

Justice for David Dorn

Demand Justice for Darren Rainey

Justice for LeVena Johnson!

Justice for Maurice Gordon Jr.

Justice for Alton Sterling

Justice for Dana Fletcher 

Justice for Dominique Fells

Justice for Gregory Johnson, Jr.

Justice For Darrius Stewart

Arrest Jennifer Watson for Attempted Murder

Justice for Andile Mchunu

Justice for Christopher Josey

Grant Clemency to Crosley Green

Ban The Use of Tear Gas on Civilians

Justice For Tyler Lumar

Justice for Alaa

Ban The Confederate Flag From Public Schools

Remove 20ft Confederate "Stonewall" Jackson statue from Manassas National Battlefield Park

Justice for Tshego Pule

Justice for Tyler J Evans

Donation Links

A thread of Youtuve videos you can stream to donate to BLM

Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

OFFICIAL Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd's child)

Black Lives Matter

We Cant Breathe

43 Bail Funds to Support

Homeless Black Trans women fund

Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers

Minnesota Healing Justice Network

Women for Political Change

Spiral Collective

When We All Vote

National List of Bail and Mutual Aid Funds/Organizers/Black Owned Businesses

Venmo names of black trans people that need help

Latino Community on Lake Street

Black Immigrant Collective

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha

Atlanta Black Owned Business Relief

Al Maa'uun

Remembering Shana Isuroon 

Fundraising for destroyed black owned businesses

Joyce Preschool

Black Table Arts

Northside business support

Du Nord Riot Recovery Fund

Unicorn Riot

Donate to Destiny Harrison & her daughter Dream’s Legacy

Pimento Relief Fund

Southside Harm Reduction

West Broadway Business and Area Coalition

Division of Indian Work

TC Care Collective

Justice for Breonna Taylor

Justice for Jamee

Justice for David McAtee

Donate to Brandon Saenz who was shot in the left eye by a rubber bullet, and lost the eye, several teeth, and had facial fractures that required several surgeries

HOW TO DONATE INTERNATIONALLY/SITES THAT ACCEPT INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY 

HOW DONATE WITH NO MONEY

HOW TO DONATE WITH NO MONEY BY STREAMING THIS

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM BY SHARING LINKS

A list of black owned businesses we should be supporting! + a list of black owned businesses we should be supporting that accept international currency!

DO NOT DONATE TO SHAUN KING

DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE.ORG

Donation for Justice for Saraneka “Nemo” Martin — pregnant protester shot during protest

Donations for Mike Ramos

Donations for Elijah McClain

Donations for Elijah McClain 2

* this list is constantly updated (new links added at the bottom) so please keep checking back for new information on petitions and ways to donate!!

updated as of 11 october 2020 — please continue to send me the petitions and fundraisers that you come across so i can add them!!  

[crazysexycool101]

His bitch ass AND his musty mouth ass supporters are fucking vile trying to go after Samaria Rice (Tamir Rice's mother) on social media. They have THE FUCKING GALL to enter this woman's mentions/comments and HARASS her.

WHY?

Because she had the good sense to question the way he and his ilk are conducting themselves in his so-called "grassroots movement" and the way that he seems to profit off of Black pain, ESPECIALLY the way that they're treating HER SON'S memory.

This is part of an overall pattern of his to try and silence Black women activists and it's fucking absurd that he still has supporters and people who will defend him. Just read Hanna's informative thread, please. What she included is only A FRACTION of the fucked up shit that comes out about this man every six months at this point.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. WE NEED TO GET HIS ASS OUTTA HERE.

[protego-et-servio]

((Not created by me. Copy-pasted, in case it gets taken down from Google Docs. Not linking to keep original safe.))

#blacklivesmatter 

PLEASE SIGN PETITIONS, DONATE, CALL AND EMAIL TO DEMAND JUSTICE, AND SHARE

Reply to this tweet if I am missing anything

Re: the man who maced a young girl at the Seattle protest

Jared Campbell #8470

Office of police accountability: (206) 684-8797 opa@seattle.gov

Chief: Carmen Best

File an anonymous complaint

Re: the woman who drove over a pedestrian during a peaceful protest in Denver

Jennifer Watson

Owner of JP Watson Interiors

Denver sheriff: (720) 337-0194

Hate crime hotline: (720) 913-6458

Re: Trump supporters who ran over protesters

Jacob Robles (jacob_robles98) and Dylan Mota (@dylan_mota_)

8JUK695

Also in the car: Alyssa Mackovitch (@alyssa_mackovitch)

Re: cop responsible for telling others to turn off their body cameras

Tobias Raya

(310) 253-6318

tobias.raya@culvercity.org

*The White House has a history of giving vague, unhelpful responses or ignoring these petitions but I’d still suggest signing and making your voices as loud as possible. It can’t hurt to try.

@icatboy on Twitter: “you guys don’t sign those white house petitions sadly they don’t do shit, those were only effective under obama’s administration and mean nothing in 7rump’s term. they aren’t obligated to give us a statement after 100k signature sadly”

I still have them linked below in the petitions section for those who want to sign

WOMAN KIDNAPPED - LICENSE PLATE EEV701

Stop sharing videos of Black people being murdered. “Seeing all sides” doesn’t mean watching someone’s murder. Believe Black people. It’s gratuitous and exploitative. Imagine being his kin right now.

BLM carrd

BLM doc

If you live internationally and cannot sign petitions without an american postal code feel free to use any of these:

90015 - Los Angeles, California

10001 - New York City, New York

75001 - Dallas, Texas

More resources for international people

Petitions

*Do not donate to change.org

Text FLOYD to 55156 OR sign the petition here: Color of Change - #JusticeforFloyd: Demand the officers who killed George Floyd are charged with murder.

Color of Change - #JusticeforBre: Police officers who killed Breonna Taylor must be FIRED.

Color of Change - #JusticeforAhmaud

change.org - Justice for George Floyd

change.org - The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder after killing innocent black man

change.org - Justice for George Floyd

change.org - Justice for George Floyd

change.org - Justice for Breonna Taylor

change.org - Julius Jones is innocent. Don't let him be executed by the state of Oklahoma.

Justice for Julius (more info with how to help and where to send emails)

change.org - Prosecute the murderers who killed George Floyd

change.org - Justice for Belly Mujinga

change.org - Justice For Tony McDade

change.org - Hands Up Act

change.org - Justice For Joāo Pedro

change.org - Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery

change.org - Disbarment of George E. Barnhill

change.org - Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet

change.org - Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill

change.org - Free Anthony Wint

change.org - After The Smoke Clears... Arrest Juan DelaCruz for the MURDER of Pamela Turner RIGHT NOW

change.org - #freejeffersonelie

change.org - Exoneration of Albert Wilson

change.org - Justice for Sean

change.org - Reopen Kendrick Johnson's Case #J4Kendrick

change.org - Justice For Tamir Rice

change.org - Justice for Tamir Rice 2

change.org - Censorship of Police Brutality in France

change.org - Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

change.org - Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality

change.org - Criminal Charges for Travis & Greg McMichael in the murder of Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery

change.org - Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez

change.org - Make false 911 calls a criminal offense

‪change.org - RAISE THE DEGREE

change.org - Free Siyanda

change.org - Jennifer Jeffley

change.org - Fire Racist Criminal Michael J Reynolds from the NYPD

change.org - Justice for Darrius Stewart

change.org - Justice for Amiya Braxton

change.org - Justice for Dion Johnson

change.org - Justice for Emerald Black

change.org - Junk the Anti-Terrorism Bill and Uphold Human Rights

change.org - Skip to main content    Drop All Charges Against Incarcerated Trafficking Survivor Chrystul Kizer

change.org - Justice for Crystal Mason

change.org - Stop hit and run drivers who kill Innocent people from receiving bond in North Carolina

change.org - Justice for Tete

change.org - Justice for Sean Reed

text “JUSTICE” to 668366

moveon - #JusticeforBre: Police officers who killed Breonna Taylor must be FIRED

moveon - We want justice for 19 year old Darrius Stewart gunned down by a white police officer on last Fri...

Organize For - Take the Pledge: We Are the Movement for Black Lives

Text “ENOUGH” to 55156 - demand justice for Breonna Taylor

Text “JUSTICE” to 55156 - demand DA George Barnhill and Jackie Johnson are removed from office

We the People - Justice for George Floyd Make sure you confirm you signature by checking your email immediately after

We the People - Raise the Degree

We the People - Arrest the Other Three

People's Budget LA Tell your Council Member to reject Mayor Eric Garcetti's proposal to spend 54% of the general fund on the LAPD

reclaim the block - Tell MPLS City Council to Defund the Police

Donate

*Do not donate to any fundraisers hosted by Shaun King - he has an extensive history of collecting funds for pro-Black movements which have disappeared - deleted all petitions by The Action Pac because he is affiliated with them

*Need a Venmo to donate to Minneapolis activists? Donate via Venmo to the Femme Empowerment Project. Be sure to set your donation to "private." You can even specify how you want your donation to be used-- medic training, medic gear, or jail support.

Spreadsheet with places to donate to

gofundme.com - Official George Floyd Memorial Fund (this is the only legitimate gofundme to donate directly to George Floyd’s family)

gofundme - Justice for Kenneth Walker (for his legal representation supporting Breonna Taylor)

gofundme - I Run With Maud

gofundme - Help Coach Steve Parker Get Back in the Game

gofundme - Support Roy Stoddart’s Family

gofundme - Help a front line nurse and baby get proper care

gofundme - COVID19 testing, advocacy & education

gofundme - Jessica Mahone

gofundme - Comfort and Support for the Moncrease Family

gofundme - The Heart of a Chef

gofundme - Marcus Jackson Medical Funds

gofundme - COVID-19 Survivor, Ron's Road to Recovery

gofundme - Greene Family Fire Relief

gofundme - Justice for Regis

This is the only donation page approved by Regis’ mother: gofundme - Justice for Regis

gofundme - RIP Belly Mujinga

gofundme - Homeless Black Trans Women Fund

gofundme - Nadarrius Lundy (Nada) Memorial Fund

gofundme - Destiny Harrison's Legacy (organized by her mother)

Twitter thread full of gofundme’s (most of them were just listed but continue checking in case the thread has been updated)

@theysbianism on Twitter: please retweet! help my girlfriend, a Black trans woman, support her family and get her brother out of prison. the family collectively has been able to get $485 and only $200 more is needed. please boost and donate if you can!

Venmo: @celestialmadonna

Cashapp: $celestialmaddona

the action network - Demand justice for Tony McDade

Donate to Black Lives Matter

Donate to the Northstar Health Fund (medical supplies)

Sybrina Fulton's Campaign (Trayvon Martin’s mother is running for office in FL)

Donate to Reclaim the Block MPLS organization that invests in their community’s safety and fights against the police union

Donate to Black Visions Collective

Know Your Rights Camp their Legal Defense Initiative will pay for legal assistance for people protesting in MPLS + Kaepernick’s charity is funding the project

Oakland Anti Police Terror Project

South Minneapolis food shelves

MN Bail Fund and Relief List

Twitter thread of bail funds

Another twitter thread of bail funds

Pro bono representation of Houston protestors

Minnesota Freedom Fund (on-the-ground bail fund)

Louisville Bail Fund

Brooklyn Bail Fund

The Bronx Bail Fund

Atlanta Bail Fund (atl solidarity fund)

Atlanta Bail Fund (the action network)

LA Bail Fund

Columbus Bail Fund

Philadelphia Bail Fund (philly bail fund)

Philadelphia Bail Fund (philly bailout)

Detroit Bail Fund

Milwaukee Bail Fund

Charlotte Bail Fund: $WereStillHere OR venmo: ResistanceisBeautiful

Silicon Valley Bail Fund

Louisville Bail Fund

Chicago Bail Fund

National Revolving Bail Fund

Gas Mask Fund:

Venmo: @Isak-Douah

Cashapp: $Isakdouah

Paypal: isak.douah@gmail.com

Black owned businesses

Support small online Black owned businesses

Google doc of Black owned businesses

Twitter thread: "here’s a thread of black small businesses that were destroyed that you can donate to to help rebuild"

Donate to the following groups

http://aclu.org

http://joincampaignzero.org

http://nlg-npap.org  

http://blacklivesmatter.com

http://advancementproject.org

http://changethenypd.org

http://M4BL.org

http://themarshallproject.org

Support protesters

For their safety, do not post pictures or videos of their faces

How to properly treat someone who has been tear gassed

Tips for protesters

More tips

More tips

How to extinguish tear gas

How to treat a bullet wound

Disable tanks

Delete your digital footprint

Disable tanks

Twitter thread masterlist of safety tips for protesting

Protester safety tips

Support the woman pushed by the cop at Barclays $Dounyazayer

Thread of Homeland Security words being monitored on social media sites

Twitter thread: Know Your Rights

Location safety thread

Twitter thread: "how to identify an undercover cop"

If you are arrested for protesting in Minneapolis, call (612) 444-2654 and they will bail you out

Legal Rts Ctr: (612) 337-0030

If you are arrested in NYC call The National Lawyers Guild hotline with name and arrest location: (212) 679-6018

Legal Aid Society: (212) 577-3300

Atlanta jail support: (404) 689-1519

Louisville jail support: (502) 705- 0081

The Bail Project: 1 (833) 425-6827

National Lawyers Guild LA - Legal Defense Hotline: (310) 313-3700

Pro Bono Legal Representation doc

Drop Off Sites in MPLS (as of 5/29)

Epworth United Methodist Church, 3207 37th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406

MN Youth Collective Office, 2161 University Ave W. Suite 100

2161 University Ave is taking a pause on accepting donations - overflowing

CTUL- CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA - 3715 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407

The Coven (Downtown/North Loop MPLS) - 30 N 1st St, Minneapolis, MN 55401

Bethlehem Lutheran Church - 436 Roy St St. Paul, MN (NOTE POLICE PRESENCE OBSERVED)

Please donate and drop off First Aid, Physical Safety, Covid Precaution and Nourishment Supplies

Educate yourselves

Anti-racism resources

Learn about Black history and activism

Books by Black Activists

Books: how to be actively antiracist

Learn about unconscious bias

Twitter thread of mental health resources for Black people

Twitter thread on why protesters attacked Target in MN

Being Black and LGBTQ

Twitter thread of documentaries

Open Yale course - African American History: From Emancipation to the Present

ALEC Exposed

MPLS Protests

JACOB PEDERSON of the St. Paul PD is widely believed to have been the undercover cop vandalizing stores and starting fires during protests.

Report: What Does it Take to Embed a Racial Equity & Inclusion Lens?

Twitter thread of misinformation

Twitter thread: "how can i help from the uk?"

Contact Officials

GEORGE FLOYD is the name of the man who was murdered by DEREK CHAUVIN (badge 1087), TOU THAO (badge 7162), Thomas Lane, and J Alexander Kueng. If you truly care about getting justice, make phone calls to these numbers and express your anger. We cannot let another killer cop walk free.

UPDATE: As of May 29, Chauvin has been charged for third-degree murder. Continue pressuring officials for harsher charges because what he did was clearly not an accident. Also continue pushing for the other cops who were at the scene to be charged.

Contact Outline and Info

International Affairs Division

City Hall, Room 112

350 South 5th Street

Minneapolis, MN 55415

(612) 673-3074

Velma J. Korbel, Director

Department of Civil Rights

City Hall, Room 239

350 South 5th Street

Minneapolis, MN 55415

(612) 673-3012

Mayer Jacob Frey

https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/d189a2276e234cacb9f02db60dac0569

(612) 673-2100

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman

C-2000 Government Center

300 South Sixth Street

Minneapolis, MN 55487

https://www.hennepinattorney.org/about/contact

citizeninfo@hennepin.us

(612) 348-5550

MPLS FBI field office

(763) 569-8000

MPD 3rd Precinct

(612) 673-5703

MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension

(651) 793-7000

Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis

(612) 788-8444

Louisville Mayor (demand justice for Breonna Taylor)

(502) 753-1784

MN Precinct Inspector

sean.mcginty@minneapolisMN.gov

Commander of Training Unit

katie.blackwell@minneapolisMN.gov

police@minneapolismn.gov

minneapolis311@minneapolismn.gov

policereview@minneapolismn.gov

JUSTICE FOR REGIS CONTACTS

City Councillor Gord Perks - Parkdale - High Park

councillor_perks@toronto.ca

(416) 392-7919

MPP Bhutilla Karpoche - Parkdale - High Park

BKarpoche-CO@ndp.on.ca

(416) 763-5630

MP Arif Virani - Parkdale - High Park

Arif.Virani@parl.gc.ca

(416) 769-5072

Mayor of Toronto John Tory

mayor_tory@toronto.ca

(416) 397-2489

Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders

officeofthechief@torontopolice.on.ca

(416) 808-2222

Solicitor General - Minister Sylvia Jones

sylvia.jones@pc.ola.org

(416) 325-0408

(519) 941-7751

Attorney General of Ontario Doug Downey

doug.downey@pc.ola.org

(416) 326-2220

(705) 726-5538

Urge the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) for transparency and accountability in handling her case

1 (800) 787-8529 OR (416) 622-0748

https://www.siu.on.ca/en/contact.php

Address concerns to SIU Director Joseph Martino

Sample Email:

Hello [recipient],

I am writing to you in regards to the incident that occurred at 100 High Park Avenue on May 27th, 2020. A 29 year-old Black woman, Regis, has died after allegedly falling off her balcony, despite police being present.

As a concerned citizen, I am very upset and disturbed at the events that took place and the allegations that this caused on the part of the police. I am demanding justice and answers as to the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet.

A complete and transparent public and independent investigation needs to take place. Charges need to be brought to all the officers involved, as well as all information and evidence should be made available to the public.

Sincerely,

[your name]

JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR CONTACTS

Murdered by Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove

Louisville Metro PD

(502) 574-7111

Louisville Mayor Office

(502) 574-2003

JUSTICE FOR TONY MCDADE CONTACTS

Template

Tallahassee Police dept

ContactUs@talgov.com

Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey

mayor@talgov.com

Commissioner Jeremy Matlow https://www.talgov.com/Main/email.aspx?emailto=jeremy.matlow

Officer Kevin Bradshaw - Officer on Tony's case

(850) 556-1726

[noctomania]

ID: Screenshot of tweet from march 16 2021 with an attached statement. The tweet reads: OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM SAMARIA RICE, MOTHER OF TAMIR RICE AND LISA SIMPSON, MOTHER OF RICHARD RISHER. Myself, @DaShaunLH, and @likefannielou had a conference call with Samaria and Lisa, and below is their full statement regarding Tamika Mallory, Shaun King, Benjamin Crump etc"

The full text of the statement can be screen read here

End ID

Folks please, if you want to help someone help them directly. Grifters are profiteering off people's grief while those grieving are given nothing by these grifters & taken from every day. How much money has passed through Crump, King, or Mallory's hands that could have gone to pay the rest of Rice's funeral costs?

The rest of the thread can be found here where it summarizes the demands made by Samira et al & offers alternative sources to donate to that would actually help the mothers of the murdered.

Please don't let your guilt guide your actions. Your contribution is not meant to absolve you of your sins it is meant to help those in need. It's not meant to line the pockets of grifters it's meant to help level the scales using power of the people.

When you see the "advocates" on international television but the ones they claim to advocate on the behalf of are still in debt while the advocacy organization is raking it in? You should ask questions.

[petekaos]

on george floyd;

to preface this, i am not Black. i am a poc living outside of america but i am not a Black american and therefore my voice is not the one that matters. this is simply a fact post for y’all who are being silent or have missed this somehow. this post is centred around the current situation in america pertaining to the riots in minnesota as well as the murder of george floyd. 

george floyd was arrested and murdered by police officer derek chauvin on monday, the 25th of may in powderhorn, south of minneapolis. he did not resist arrest. derek chauvin kneeled on his neck for seven minutes, at least three of which he was handcuffed and pleading for his life. the other three officers did not make any move to stop chauvin. their names are tou thao, thomas lane, and j alexander kueng. as of now, all officers have been fired and chauvin has been arrested with third degree murder (29.05.2020), which deems the murder as “accidental.” floyd’s last words were “i can’t breathe.”

here is where you can donate to the minnesota freedom fund.

here is where you can donate directly to floyd’s family.

here is a petition you can sign that the white house must take into account if it reaches 100,000 signatures in 30 days. check your email afterwards to verify your signatures. i believe this only works for american citizens, however please correct me if i am wrong.

here is a comprehensive google doc of things you can do like donating, organising, calling people to demand justice, reading up on Black political theory, etc.

here is a google doc of international resources that include things like postal codes you can use to sign petitions or to call people.

text FLOYD to 55156 (if in the usa) or sign this petition to demand justice for floyd and to charge the police officers with murder.

here is a list of political books by Black writers to educate yourselves if you have the funds.

here is a huge google drive you can use to read up on Black history and activism.

here is a thread of mental health resources for Black people.

here is an EXTREMELY important thread on protesting safety if you are planning to protest. includes how to treat tear gas, what to do/not to do, how to treat fractures, important gear, etc.

if you are planning to protest, now is the time to remove all private information from social media. remove your name, your job, anything that could be traced back and linked to you. do not organise in twitter dms, these aren’t encrypted to my knowledge. wear masks, cover your face. if you are white or white-passing, use your body as a shield from the police to cover for Black people. do not give out press statements. wear all black to distort your image, do not wear anything with which people can identify you with. cellular data stays OFF. everything beats uber or anywhere where you have to give your name out. cover your skin as much as possible because tear gas burns and the particles will stay in your clothes and hair for days. gloves and caps are always recommended.

and remember, Black lives always matter, not just after a tragedy. do not forget this. because this is the way the world works, the majority of non-Black people will forget and move on. but do not forget this, do not forget george floyd, do not forget trayvon martin, do not forget tamir rice, do not forget breonna taylor, do not forget ahmaud arbery, do not forget their names, nor the movement, nor the fact that Black people die every day just for wanting to live. silence is being complicit.

keep yourself educated. support and uplift Black voices. stay safe out there.

[soulcluster-moved]

@sorrowwaited​ / rosella “It’s been a long time since I smelled beautiful.” rosella to zelda in tamir and being dramatique

“Is that so?” Zelda turned toward her friend, studying her thoughtfully for a moment before she stepped closer. Gentle fingers threaded Rosella’s long, blonde hair behind her ear, leaving space for Zelda to lean in, breath fanning gently across Rosella’s skin, and breathe in deep through her nose. She pulled away with a gentle smile. “I would say...” she carefully tucked another stray strand of Rosella’s flaxen hair, “you smell as beautiful as ever, Rosella. As lovely as your namesake.”

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[vincentvangodot]

Adapted from a twitter thread, my thoughts for Good Friday this year.

I'll never forget a conversation I saw on twitter years ago, between a theologian trying to explain that the scandal of the Cross is that Christ was crucified in exactly the manner of 'common criminals' and a layperson determined to 'esteem it higher' than earthly things. What Christ accomplished on the Cross is indeed above all else, and no one was claiming that other executions had the same eternal effect. But consider that He shared the hill with criminals whom He likened to Himself and welcomed into Heaven.

[The rest of this post will discuss capital punishment and state violence and killer cops, in case you reasonably wish not to see such things.]

Consider that crucifixion was equivalent to hanging or the firing squad or lethal injection. Consider, given its public nature, that it was equivalent to cops killing people in the street without due process. Consider that the Lord chose the death He would die.

"Whatsoever you do to the least of these, you do unto Me", He said, and proved it by coming in the form of 'the least of these', sharing His life and table with 'the least of these', dying as and among 'the least of these'. By refusing to connect the Cross to other crosses, the Crucifixion to other crucifixions, we become incapable of seeing Christ in modern victims of state violence. When the Romans killed Him, it wasn't for being G-d (they didn't think He was), but for being a problem.

(When we pretend anyone but the Roman state was responsible for His death we become complicit in millennia of Christian antisemitism and we need to stop that also.)

If you can't see Christ in Michael Brown, or George Floyd, or Tamir Rice, then in my opinion, you've missed His message entirely and should maybe start over. Remember that He was a criminal despite being without sin and you'll begin to get the picture. It's beyond me how anyone can see Him speaking to His mother from the Cross and act like He was the only one in that position. Like no one else has a family and a life they deserve to live, even if they're deemed criminals.

The Cross is more than a cross, for sure. But in appearance, form, and earthly consequence, it was identical, and that was the point. The ones who hewed the wood didn't know it would be a Cross, because He wasn't differentiated - he died as a common criminal. His own disciples didn't know He would rise, and most didn't believe Mary when she told them she'd seen Him, even though He'd explicitly told them He would return. And you want me to believe His death looked, to human eyes, different from the thieves next to him?

As with most of my posts and threads like this, I don't have a set ending. I'm not a priest or even a homilist, just extremely opinionated. It just feels blasphemous to be a Christian without working to end state violence, without seeing Christ in the victims.

[takkurt]

ÇADIR KUMAŞI TANIMLAMALARI (TENT FABRIC SPECIFICATIONS)

Bir çadır almaya karar verdiniz ve etiketinde aşağıdaki ibareye denk geldiniz: 20D * 330T Ripstop Nylon 1200mm PU/SI Buradaki teknik terimlerin anlamını kısaca anlatmaya çalışayım. Aslında daha önceki yazılarımda bağımsız olarak bazılarından bahsetmiştim. Bu bir toparlama yazısı olacak.

Denye (Denier) ipi oluşturan her bir fiberin ağırlığı ile ilgili bir terimdir. Fiberin 9000 metresinin ağırlığı Denye’yi belirlemektedir. Bu örnekte 20D yani 20 gram. 1 Denye aslında 9000 metre ipek lifinin ağırlığıdır. Bir zamanlar kıyaslama bu doğal lif üstünden yapılmıştır. Microfiber dendiğinde de 1 Denye’nin altındaki lifler kastedilmektedir. Bir karşılaştırma için daha fazla örnek vermek gerekirse insan saçı ortalama 20 Denye’dir. Aynı tür ve kalite fiber için yüksek Denye kullanılmış bir kumaş daha kalın ve daha güçlü bir kumaşa karşılık gelmektedir.

T (Thread) dokuma yoğunluğu anlamına gelmektedir. Çadır kumaşı (tente ya da iç) dokunurken enine ve boyuna kullanılan ipliklerin, inch kare alan başına düşen toplam sayısıdır. Aynı malzemede yüksek bir T değeri daha sık bir dokumaya işaret eder. Aynı malzemeyi karşılaştırırken Denye ve Thread daha anlamlı oluyor, yüksek denye daha güçlü ve ağır, yüksek Thread ise daha sık, pürüzsüz ve mukavemetli anlamına gelebilir. Bu değerler malzemenin diğer özellikleri ile beraber değerlendirildiğinde daha fazla anlam taşır.

Ripstop, çadır ve açık hava sporlarında kullanılan kumaşlardaki özel bir dokuma tekniğidir. Yırtılmaya karşı bir direnç ve yırtığın ilerlememesi için bir bariyer oluşturmak üzere, dokunan kumaşta belli mesafelerde enine ve boyuna atılan daha mukavemetli iplerle oluşturulan dokumadır. Kare görünümü en belirgin özelliğidir. Mukavemeti artırmak için genelde Ripstop kumaşlarda naylon veya polyester ipliklerin kullanımı daha yaygındır. Pamuklu bir kumaşta pekala Ripstop dokuma tekniğiyle naylonla güçlendirilebilir. Çadır kumaşlarında genelde düz dokuma (plain weaving) tekniği kullanılmaktadır. Ripstop bu tür dokumanın özel bir türürdür.

Nylon (PA-polyamid) çadır kumaşının malzemesini simgeler. Çadır kumaşı polyester (PES), kanvas ya da polikoton da olabilir. Günümüz çadırlarında polyester ve naylon kullanımı daha yaygındır. Genelde kanvas (pamuk) ve polikoton kullanılan kumaşlarda Denye ve Thread’den ziyade metrekare ağırlığı (örn:520 g/sqm) verilmektedir.

1200 mm ile belirtilen kumaşın su geçirmezlik ölçüsüdür. Kumaşın hangi su sütununda (mm olarak) su geçireceğini belirten bu ölçü genel olarak dış tente için min 1000-1500mm, çadır tabanı içinse 3000 mm civarında olmalıdır. Çadır tabanında yatan kişinin ağırlığından dolayı ekstra basınç oluşmaktadır.

Bu tür tanımlamalarda belirtilen diğer bir özellikte kaplama (coating) çeşitleridir. Polyester ya da naylon çıplak halleriyle su geçirmez değildirler, bu yüzden su geçirmezlik için kaplanırlar. Poliüretan (PU) ya da Silikon (SI) kaplamalar en yaygın kullanılanlardır. PU kaplamalar ile su geçirmezlikte 10000 mm su basıncına kadar su geçirmezlik sağlanabiliyor. PU kaplamaların mor ötesi (UV) dayanımı zayıf bu yüzden çadır tabanında ya da dış tentenin iç yüzeyinde kullanılıyor. Silikon kaplamaların aksine üstüne bir şey yapıştırılabiliyor, su geçirmezlik ya da tamir bandı gibi. PU kaplamalar su sever (hidrofilik) özellikte ancak su çekmesi çok yavaş bir işlemdir. Bu kumaşa nefes alır özellik kazandırmakta ancak hidrolize yani parçalanmaya müsait bir hale getirmektedir. Çadırınızı nemli olarak bıraktığınızda oluşan yapışkanlık ve koku bundan olabilir. PU kaplamalar nispeten ağır ve uygulandıkları kumaşın yırtılma direncini zayıflatmaktadır. PU kaplamanın tercih edilmesinin sebebi daha yüksek su geçirmezlik basıncına ulaşmaları, daha ucuz olmaları, uygulamasının kolay olması ve yangın geciktirici kimyasallarla karıştırılabilmeleridir. Amerika'da bazı eyaletlerde geçerli olan CPAI-48 test protokolu bu sayede sağlanabiliyor.

Silikon (SI/si) su sevmeyen (hidrofobik) bir malzeme. Silikon ile kaplanan kumaş su geçirmez, UV dayanımı daha yüksek, yırtılma dayanımı daha güçlü ve dayanıklı bir malzeme oluyor. Son yıllarda her iki tarafı da (SI/si) kaplanmış silnylon diye adlandırılan nylon kumaşlar piyasada sıkça görülmekte. Özellikle dış tente için iyi bir seçenek oluşturuyor. Silikon kaplanmış kumaşlar herhangi bir yapıştırıcı bant ya da film kabul etmezler. Bu nedenle de tamiri ve dikişlerde su geçirmezliği özen gerektirir. Silikon kaplama uzun bir işlem ve PU’ya göre daha pahalı ancak daha hafiftir. Her ikisinin artılarından faydalanan iç tarafı PU, dış tarafı silikon (PU/si) kaplama kumaşlar kullanmış çadırlara da rastlayabilirsiniz. Bunların olmadığı kumaşlarda DWR (Durable Water Repellent) uygulaması da görülmektedir. Genelde DWR’lar Floropolimer tabanlıdır. Çevreci olmadıkları gibi fazla uzun ömürlü de değillerdir.

Taylan Akkurt

[andimthedad]

Black Lives Matter: They Are Us

“The white policeman, standing on a Harlem street corner, finds himself at the very center of the revolution now occurring in the world. He is not prepared for it — naturally, nobody is — and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him. Even if he is gifted with the merest mustard grain of imagination, something must seep in. He cannot avoid observing that some of the children, in spite of their color, remind him of children he has known and loved, perhaps even of his own children. He knows that he certainly does not want his children living this way. He can retreat from his uneasiness in only one direction: into a callousness which very shortly becomes second nature. He becomes more callous, the population becomes more hostile, the situation grows more tense, and the police force is increased. One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. Before the dust has settled or the blood congealed, editorials, speeches, and civil-rights commissions are loud in the land, demanding to know what happened. What happened is that Negroes want to be treated like men.”

James Baldwin wrote that 60 years ago, and it seems little has changed. American systems of all kinds — banking, real estate, education, politics, and of course law enforcement — continue to engage in a complex array of racism, some with genteel violence and some more brutal, each industry carrying forward genes of prejudice implanted by earlier generations. The threads of this racism are tightly and countlessly woven into every corner of our social fabric. If you haven’t felt them, it only means you have been shielded by them instead of crushed. “Negroes want to be treated like men” because then as now: black lives matter, too.

As a white Christian, I am troubled by the responses of many of my spiritual siblings. Jesus could not have been more clear in the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and especially the prodigal son: when one of us is in trouble, and others are safe, we must focus on the concerns of the one until they are restored. Recall the prodigal son’s older brother, grumbling “all sons matter!” to his father, who responds that sometimes we need to focus on one son. And recall Cain, another older brother, with his famously callous retort to God, “Am I supposed to be responsible for my brother?” — to which God replies, “Yes, and his blood is crying out to me from the ground where you killed him!”

White Christians, including me, have acted too often like these Biblical brothers toward our black siblings. We may not have personally drawn blood, but at the very least, we have ignored or justified the police and systems that do. You and I would not want to be treated the way our black citizens are, and thus we have blasphemously violated Christ’s greatest command. In the end, we will answer to God for how we (and our police) treat other people. Our systems shed their blood, and its cries are heard in heaven.

And, as a white father, I am haunted by Baldwin’s note about children. Yes, think of our children. As parents, are we going to retreat from our uneasiness about racism “into a callousness which very shortly becomes second nature”? Judging from internet conversations, it feels like many of us are already there. Do we really want to raise our kids with the knowledge that we could have changed things, but didn’t? Kids are watching, and whether we engage in humble kindness or proud callousness, it will become part of our legacy.

Even if you and I merely inherited the sins of our forefathers — and none of us is that innocent — we own those sins now. Nobody inherits money and then claims it is not theirs to spend. So it is with systemic racism, and white privilege. Somehow we are happy to bank on its benefits while still claiming it isn’t our responsibility.

Elsewhere, I’ve heard that George Floyd’s murder is a wake-up call. If so, we have been willfully deaf to all the prior calls: Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Atatiana Jefferson, Yvette Smith, Alton Sterling, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Tyre King, John Crawford III, Manuel Ellis, and too many human etceteras to count. Read their names out loud; each is an alarm. Unfortunately, the house may burn down around us before we admit the fire alarm has been ringing for generations.

For those who still doubt the existence of systemic racism or police brutality, it is time to study.

John Oliver’s episode on Police Accountability is a good intro.

Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein assembled Anti-Racism Resources for White People: a long list of articles, books, videos, and movies to provide history and perspective.

To make that list easier to digest, and harder to avoid the excuses of time, Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace created Justice in June, which arranges the same anti-racism material into daily itineraries of 10-, 25-, and 45-minute units.

For parents and teachers, the Center for Racial Justice in Education has Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids, and Katrina Michie put together Your Kids Aren’t Too Young To Talk About Race.

And if you still somehow think white men are underprivileged, I tackled that with a truckload of data in Dear Fathers of White Boys: What Color is the Future?.

While learning, set aside your current beliefs, keep an open mind, and think about yourself with honesty and humility. And remember: if we get to learn about racism by reading and listening and watching, instead of experiencing it regularly in our own lives, that means we are privileged.

Once educated, act. Don’t just be not racist; be anti-racist in your conversations and activity, online and offline. Participate in local protests. Write to government officials. Donate and otherwise support justice movements; this spreadsheet from Black Lives Matters and this list from The Strategist give a lot of options.

Most importantly, change yourself. In the spirit of honesty: I still find racism in myself. I am truly sorry for that. I am better than I was, but I am not yet who I should be. As one protest sign said, “I’m sorry I’m late. I had a lot to learn.” But white racism will not end until whites fix it. Will Baldwin’s description of racism still ring true in another 60 years? If so, that will be our fault.

Baldwin closed with characteristic insight:

“It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.”

Do we see the victims? Do we see their faces? They are a reflection of us. In truth, they are us.

. . .

This post also appears on Medium, where you can read other articles from And I’m The Dad about racism, sexism, politics, and more:

The Godless Lie of White Supremacy: from Moses to Charlottesville

In Crime, Politics, and Food, the Questions Determine the Answers

DEAR STUPID YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE ENTITLED GENERATION: A Word of Advice

Hating Cops: It’s Not a ‘New’ Thing and It’s Not a ‘Black’ Thing

Jesus for President? Looking for Christ in the Political Christians

Lust and Guilt, Female Disciples, the Symbol of God as a Woman — What the Jesus F. Christ?

Help Her, or Help Myself To Her?

Her Consent is Not a Given: Raising Kids With the Right Attitudes

[intothemidnightcity]

As you may have noticed, Midnight City was postponed last week, as it did not feel right to continue with business as usual while emotions surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests are still raw. While Midnight City is once again continuing this week, I thought it important to issue the following statement of accountability.

Some detective-based media often goes hand-in-hand with cop shows, which have a long history of propaganda – glorifying the police, or displaying them as quirky everymen. The police force does not protect and serve. It has been shown time and time again that the police abuse the power granted to them, and in particular abuse Black people with this power. There are alternatives to the police in real life, and I encourage you to read resources on prison abolition, which I will name below.

Into the Midnight City ostensibly advertises itself as about “magical private detectives”. However, I would like to state that at no point are police ever involved in the narrative or displayed as just, and justice to villains/antagonists never involves jail. This statement is not activism. This statement is not the be-all and end-all of this matter. But it will allow you to hold me, a white artist, accountable for my own views, regardless, due to fiction’s role in shaping real world thought.

Thank you for reading. Remember the black lives that were lost to the hands of police violence – George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, and tragically many others, many whose names we don’t know – humans who shouldn’t have had to die for Black voices to be heard. Solidarity forever. Black Lives Matter.

Please take a moment to look through the following resources to play your part in the current ongoing fight of prison abolition and against systematic anti-Black racism. ___

This Carrd that compiles links to information resources, donation funds for protestors, donation funds for mutual aid organisations, and more - https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

A google drive of flyers suggesting alternatives to police in specific situations: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1HUpCPvOwUJElxtUP4mCysAY9GyZrSmUk

Those flyers are also retweetable as a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/kolbybrianne/status/1268151812969959426?s=20

“Are Prisons Obsolete?” – by Angela Y. Davis https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf

Critical Resistance, a long-time abolitionist, transformative justice/mutual aid org - criticalresistance.org

Drawing A Dialogue, a scholarly podcast about comics, education, and social issues, has episodes dedicated to discussions of transformative justice which are a good jumping point. As these podcasters are white, they encourage listeners to read through the cited works in their show notes, which include black scholars’ resources on the topics.

DaD Episode 16: Incarceration, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, + Resistance https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/11/2/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-16

DaD Episode 23: Restorative/Transformative Justice https://comicarted.com/blog/2019/8/2/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-23

DaD Episode 31: Abolish the Police https://comicarted.com/blog/2019/8/2/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-23

Teaching Tolerance: teaching resources on racism and police violence - https://www.tolerance.org/moment/racism-and-police-violence

Incite! Community Accountability Working Document - https://incite-national.org/community-accountability-working-document/

“A World Without Police” – freely distributable ebook by aworldwithoutpolice.org http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/AWorldWithoutPolice_Color.pdf

Anti-racism resources for White people, made by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein, 2020 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcptUUjc%2A1EeEM-KPWUlc4c-SLmiRHw

[in-rory-land]

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

https://twitter.com/kiesdaya/status/1265782360252887040?s=19 here are petitions you can sign.

THEY HAD NAMES.

GEORGE FLOYD. BREONNA TAYLOR. AHMAUD ARBERY. TAMIR RICE. TRAYVON MARTIN. OSCAR GRANT. ERIC GARNER. PHILANDO CASTILE. SAMUEL DUBOSE. SANDRA BLAND. WALTER SCOTT. TERRENCE CRUTCHER.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

“I watched the entire video of the Tamir Rice shooting, and he didn’t do anything wrong!” - speakinvain, 2018

Apparently walking around with a realistic pellet gun and pointing it at people to make them think it was a real gun and a real threat isn’t “wrong”. Or did she not watch that video? Probably not, it’s much shorter than 20 minutes.

Incidentally, OP of that thread blocked me because I was driving a truck through her Narrative. It’s funny how I’ve never seem a single Rice supporter explain exactly how the cops were supposed to know the “toy” gun was fake, much less how the caller did.

[kaiamar]

White terrorism may be made more obvious again by Trump’s cult base but it’s always been here and the violence is far more extensive than we like to believe. I didn’t know about the murders of black congressmen after the Civil War. The whole thread is worth reading.

Trump whines that the legal consequences for his crimes are equivalent to a lynching. What self-entitled bullshit. These are still the real victims: Botham Jean, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice. Just the latest victims of a long campaign by white terrorists.

[thejusticethatissocial]

[ID - a thread of tweets by Kristin Rawls‏ @kristinrawls posted on Jan. 17 2019 that say: 

Ahem, WHITE PEOPLE: Please stop supporting Shaun King, RTing Shaun King, giving money to Shaun King and participating in targeted harassment on behalf of Shaun King. He doxxed and threatened a young queer Black college student this week. #ISupportClarissa

He has also been sending cease and desist letters to Black activists and writers who have criticized his work. Black women in particular have been warning about him for years, and you should have listened.

I see that it's almost entirely Black people who are talking about this AGAIN, so it seems like the rest of you are STILL ignoring this.

He sent his 1.1 million followers to harass a *college student.* This is an abuse of relative power and an attempt at intimidation.

He went after @Blackamazon too, and... That just cannot happen. I was there when Hugo and White Feminism came for Sydette, and this is personal to me at this point.

STOP supporting this abusive asshole. And have some shame about all the Black women you've been ignoring who've just been trying to keep other people from being burned the same way.

To be clear, he is threatening Black people with defamation lawsuits over critical tweets they've written. It's unclear whether he has really retained the prominent lawyers he claims to have retained, but either way, this is bullying and intimidation. end ID] 

Also, it’s been confirmed that the lawyers King claims to have hired don’t represent him in any capacity. One of those attorneys is Ben Crump, who you may remember was Tamir Rice’s family lawyer. He is lying and claiming prominent civil rights attorneys are backing his efforts at harassing these women. 

Stop supporting him.