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"14-year-old Parkview High School Freshman, Caleb Christian was concerned about the number of incidents of police abuse in the news.  Still, he knew there were many good police officers in various communities, but had no way of figuring out which communities were highly rated and which were not.  

So, together with his two older sisters: Parkview High School senior Ima Christian, and Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology sophomore, Asha Christian, they founded a mobile app development company– Pinetart Inc., under which they created a mobile app called Five-O.

Five-O, allows citizens to enter the details of every interaction with a police officer.  It also allows them to rate that officer in terms of courtesy and professionalism and provides the ability to enter a short description of what transpired.  These details are captured for every county in the United States. Citizen race and age information data is also captured.

Additionally, Five-O allows citizens to store the details of each encounter with law enforcement; this provides convenient access to critical information needed for legal action or commendation.”

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Equality is asking that Police Departments purchase equivalent amounts of each target. Be careful what you wish for. Maybe instead of equality we should advocating Human Rights.

Proper police training could go a long way; why not add some arms and legs to these targets? Instead of rewarding kill shots (head and center-mass where all the vital organs reside) with the highest score “9,” maybe 9’s should be awarded to marksmen for hitting extremities (forearms or shins).

I just don’t buy the notion that a person with a GED, trained to shoot-to-kill, given the authority to execute at their discretion and generally ignorant of the culture they’re assigned to “protect and serve” will have a positive outcome.

#BlackLivesMatter (at Simple Solutions)

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Little black girl gone missing in the bay. This is from today! Please boost!

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Ugochukwu Okunji, known to friends and family as “UGO”, was reported missing by his parents after they were unable to make contact with him.

The last time anyone has had contact with Mr. Okunji was Friday October 24, 2014 at approximately 1800 hours (6:00pm) at Drew Hall.

Mr. Okunji is described as an African male of dark complexion, approximately 5’7” tall, slim build, approximately 140 lbs., close cut hair and a small amount of facial hair.

This is a joint investigation between Howard University DPS and the Metropolitan Police Department. If anyone has any information pertaining to the whereabouts or has come in contact with Mr. Okunji they should contact the HUDPS, at 202-806-1100 or the Metropolitan Police Department, 911.

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Black girls are magic. Let them be Black girls.

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"The hyper-sexualization of little girls and their bodies, as a mother, really bothers me. It plays into the sexualization of their bodies into their teenager years and adult life. It makes them grow up faster than they need to. Let them be little girls, have fun, be able to play in the playground and not worry about going on the monkey bars because someone’s going to see their underwear. Something like this constricts their movements, which affects the way they play." Jenny Reid, a volunteer firefighter with Langford Fire Rescue, says the costume is not only offensive to women in her field, it’s also damaging to the self-esteem of little girls.

"That costume is awful and it sends the wrong message," she says. "It reinforces that there are still jobs that are off-limits to women. It’s not a representation of the real job. Little girls can do whatever they want. They shouldn’t be restricted. Those types of costumes put so many limitations on them. They don’t build the self-esteem and confidence you need to be a firefighter or police officer." " [x]

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Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming that it is your job to please them visually. Once you realize that it isn’t your job to be visually pleasing to anyone, ever, it becomes very hard for anyone to make you feel bad about yourself.

Skeptifem (via grrrlstudies)

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I came across this comment on youtube and was wondering what your thoughts were about this.

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“When I started making those weird voices, a lot of people told me how whack it was,” she says, “‘What the fuck are you doing?’ they’d say. ‘Why do you sound like that? That doesn’t sound sexy to me.’ And then I started saying, Oh, that’s not sexy to you? Good. I’m going to do it more. Maybe I don’t want to be sexy for you today.”

Nicki Minaj (via hotsenator)

Because not everything a woman does is for you sexual pleasure. Tell em Onika!

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