Interesting choice of words from the brown journalist ....
should say "he has been ARRESTED for the MURDER....."
Cop Kneels On Black Man's Neck As He Screams, "I Can't Breathe!" Murderer and Inmate Derek Chauven Was Shanked
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should say "he has been ARRESTED for the MURDER....."
Interesting choice of words from the brown journalist ....
yes.
Why aint he say ARRESTED?
I understand he don't wanna say killed or murdered
POSSIBLY because it could be slander or libel.
I would have to see how other established news outlets phrased it before I go in.
What's going on ???
Real shit right here!
She not the only one..quite a few other White celebs saying the same thing
Look at this bitch trying to do damage control.
when he is OUT of office I BETTER see people shunning this man
and more and more?
Biden sounds right saying any Black person who votes for Trump aint Black
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yup...
i think his ass Republikkkan ...
i had to google him ...he played ball at Northwestern so u know he was fuckin white ho`s n all his friends were white ...
lol...jokin ...not sure ....... but he comes off ass tht type negro tho ...
Look at this bitch trying to do damage control.
CAC was supposed to have a press conference at 2pm... and the Bitch is scared to come out....
His handlers must be scared shitless and afraid of what crazy shit he going to say...
Now go and get the other three before they try and leave the country
I have seen alot of companies before they fire you, isolate you first to break the bonds between you and coworkers. After a month or two, they will terminate you from the job. Especially police who are very tight knit group, this tactic was probably used to stall out the arrest.
The government will use this tactic before they assassinate you, transfer you to a job in another state far from your family like they did Gary Webb. Then a murder-suicide takes place.
The government will use this tactic before they assassinate you, transfer you to a job in another state far from your family like they did Gary Webb. Then a murder-suicide takes place.
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A young girl who watched George Floyd suffocate finds her place in the protest movement
Protesters leave signs and tributes as years of frustration at racial disparities in policing come to the surface
Jackie Renzetti in Minneapolis
Fri 29 May 2020 09.26 EDTLast modified on Fri 29 May 2020 12.49 EDT
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Zenzele Isoke supplied sign-making materials at the protest and helped Judeah Reynolds, nine, with her sign in Minneapolis on Thursday. Photograph: Jackie Renzetti/The Guardian
Nine-year-old Judeah Reynolds watched George Floyd suffocate under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee.
Days later, she sat on the sidewalk just yards away from where he drew his final, agonized breaths. With pink, red and blue markers, she quietly colored in the block letters of her placard. It read: “It can be better.”
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Diva Reynolds, Judeah’s mother, said she and her family had been visiting Minneapolis from nearby Columbus on Monday. Her daughter had been walking with a relative and came across the violence unfolding outside a grocery store in a southern neighbourhood of the city.
Cellphone video footage of the incident has now been watched by tens of millions of people worldwide, and helped to ignite mass protests in the city and across the US.
“He can’t breathe. That’s wrong,” Judeah had said at the time, according to her mother, her voice joining those of several other witnesses who pleaded with the white police officer as he knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost eight minutes, despite Floyd’s cries that he could not breathe.
“You’ve got 10 people on your side telling you to let off this man’s neck and you didn’t show no mercy,” Reynolds told the Guardian, referring to the officer, who has been identified as Derek Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the force. “You didn’t show no mercy for life. You didn’t show no mercy as a human being and you damn showed no mercy as a person that worked for the city.”
Reynolds and her daughter were two of about 150 people who gathered on Thursday afternoon to listen to the veteran civil rights activist the Rev Al Sharpton and Gwen Carr, whose son Eric Garner died after he was subjected to a police chokehold in New York City in 2014. Like 46-year-old Floyd, he had also pleaded “I can’t breathe.”
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People continue to leave remembrances at the site of George Floyd’s arrest. Photograph: Jackie Renzetti/The Guardian
“The reason you see the anger in Minneapolis is that this is not the first time,” Sharpton said. “I wanted to come and let you know that we are with you until we get justice.”
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Jamar Clark was 24 years old when he was shot dead by Minneapolis police in November 2015. Weeks of protests, including an encampment at a Minneapolis police station in freezing temperatures, followed but the officers involved were not charged. Less than a year later, 32-year-old Philando Castile was pulled over and shot dead by a St Anthony police officer, sparking nationwide protests. The officer involved was cleared by a jury in 2017.
In July 2017, a Minneapolis police officer, Mohamed Noor, shot Justine Damond after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault outside her house. Noor, who is Somali American, was ultimately convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison in June 2019. The dynamic of how an officer of color was charged after shooting and killing a white woman – following two incidents where white officers were not charged after killing two black men – drew yet more scrutiny over deep disparities in the criminal justice system.
Chauvin, who pinned Floyd to the ground, and three other officers who stood by, were fired on Tuesday. Though it marked a break from a pattern of lagging responses from the police department, it came after police originally issued a statement saying Floyd had died after a “medical incident”, sparking widespread criticism that it had tried to downplay what had happened until footage went viral.
“People are getting just really tired, really tired and fed up. It’s just constantly been happening,” said Aisha Breland, 40, at the gathering for Floyd. “It could have been my brother. It could have been my son, it could have been anybody.”
A step towards justice for Floyd would be to immediately charge the four officers, Sharpton said. But at a press conference later on Thursday, the Hennepin county attorney Mike Freeman said while the “video is graphic and horrific and terrible”, there is “other evidence that does not support a criminal charge” and he “will not rush” on a decision.
After Sharpton’s remarks, community members – including the Minneapolis city council vice-president, Andrea Jenkins, who represents the area – passed the mic for at least two hours to speak their minds.
Jenkins had earlier urged state and local officials to declare racism a public health emergency.
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Artists began work on a mural honoring George Floyd and others who have died in police custody at 7am on Thursday. Organizer Xena Goldman said. ‘I think that everyone can act in their own way, and this is how I know how to act,’ she said. Photograph: Jackie Renzetti/The Guardian
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“To those who say bringing up racism is racist in and of itself, I say to you, if you don’t call cancer what it is, you can never cure that disease,” she said. “And so in an effort to try and cure this disease, I am stating exactly what everyone else has witnessed, and that is racism.”
Sharpton and many of the other speakers at the gathering emphasized the need to focus on tackling systemic racism and how it led to Floyd’s death, rather than on the riots in the city, which have seen a police precinct stormed, multiple buildings set alight and businesses looted, making international headlines.
“Someone said to me, are you going to address the violence?” Sharpton said. “The violence I’m addressing is how a man could hold a man down with a knee on his neck for nine minutes. That’s when the violence started.”
Mark Graves, who has worked with youth in south Minneapolis for 30 years, called for an end to the looting, and for efforts to be refocused on the issues at hand.
“What really worries me is we’re forgetting why we’re here,” said Graves. “The problem is bigger than a riot. The problem is bigger than the one African American male who was murdered. This has been going on and on and on and on and on. The problem is bigger. And part of the problem is, we haven’t we haven’t figured out any answers.”
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Protesters leave signs and tributes as years of frustration at racial disparities in policing come to the surface
Jackie Renzetti in Minneapolis
Fri 29 May 2020 09.26 EDTLast modified on Fri 29 May 2020 12.49 EDT
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Zenzele Isoke supplied sign-making materials at the protest and helped Judeah Reynolds, nine, with her sign in Minneapolis on Thursday. Photograph: Jackie Renzetti/The Guardian
Nine-year-old Judeah Reynolds watched George Floyd suffocate under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee.
Days later, she sat on the sidewalk just yards away from where he drew his final, agonized breaths. With pink, red and blue markers, she quietly colored in the block letters of her placard. It read: “It can be better.”
George Floyd killing: police officer charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter – live
Read more
Diva Reynolds, Judeah’s mother, said she and her family had been visiting Minneapolis from nearby Columbus on Monday. Her daughter had been walking with a relative and came across the violence unfolding outside a grocery store in a southern neighbourhood of the city.
Cellphone video footage of the incident has now been watched by tens of millions of people worldwide, and helped to ignite mass protests in the city and across the US.
“He can’t breathe. That’s wrong,” Judeah had said at the time, according to her mother, her voice joining those of several other witnesses who pleaded with the white police officer as he knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost eight minutes, despite Floyd’s cries that he could not breathe.
“You’ve got 10 people on your side telling you to let off this man’s neck and you didn’t show no mercy,” Reynolds told the Guardian, referring to the officer, who has been identified as Derek Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the force. “You didn’t show no mercy for life. You didn’t show no mercy as a human being and you damn showed no mercy as a person that worked for the city.”
Reynolds and her daughter were two of about 150 people who gathered on Thursday afternoon to listen to the veteran civil rights activist the Rev Al Sharpton and Gwen Carr, whose son Eric Garner died after he was subjected to a police chokehold in New York City in 2014. Like 46-year-old Floyd, he had also pleaded “I can’t breathe.”
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People continue to leave remembrances at the site of George Floyd’s arrest. Photograph: Jackie Renzetti/The Guardian
“The reason you see the anger in Minneapolis is that this is not the first time,” Sharpton said. “I wanted to come and let you know that we are with you until we get justice.”
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Jamar Clark was 24 years old when he was shot dead by Minneapolis police in November 2015. Weeks of protests, including an encampment at a Minneapolis police station in freezing temperatures, followed but the officers involved were not charged. Less than a year later, 32-year-old Philando Castile was pulled over and shot dead by a St Anthony police officer, sparking nationwide protests. The officer involved was cleared by a jury in 2017.
In July 2017, a Minneapolis police officer, Mohamed Noor, shot Justine Damond after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault outside her house. Noor, who is Somali American, was ultimately convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison in June 2019. The dynamic of how an officer of color was charged after shooting and killing a white woman – following two incidents where white officers were not charged after killing two black men – drew yet more scrutiny over deep disparities in the criminal justice system.
Chauvin, who pinned Floyd to the ground, and three other officers who stood by, were fired on Tuesday. Though it marked a break from a pattern of lagging responses from the police department, it came after police originally issued a statement saying Floyd had died after a “medical incident”, sparking widespread criticism that it had tried to downplay what had happened until footage went viral.
“People are getting just really tired, really tired and fed up. It’s just constantly been happening,” said Aisha Breland, 40, at the gathering for Floyd. “It could have been my brother. It could have been my son, it could have been anybody.”
A step towards justice for Floyd would be to immediately charge the four officers, Sharpton said. But at a press conference later on Thursday, the Hennepin county attorney Mike Freeman said while the “video is graphic and horrific and terrible”, there is “other evidence that does not support a criminal charge” and he “will not rush” on a decision.
After Sharpton’s remarks, community members – including the Minneapolis city council vice-president, Andrea Jenkins, who represents the area – passed the mic for at least two hours to speak their minds.
Jenkins had earlier urged state and local officials to declare racism a public health emergency.
FacebookTwitterPinterest
Artists began work on a mural honoring George Floyd and others who have died in police custody at 7am on Thursday. Organizer Xena Goldman said. ‘I think that everyone can act in their own way, and this is how I know how to act,’ she said. Photograph: Jackie Renzetti/The Guardian
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“To those who say bringing up racism is racist in and of itself, I say to you, if you don’t call cancer what it is, you can never cure that disease,” she said. “And so in an effort to try and cure this disease, I am stating exactly what everyone else has witnessed, and that is racism.”
Sharpton and many of the other speakers at the gathering emphasized the need to focus on tackling systemic racism and how it led to Floyd’s death, rather than on the riots in the city, which have seen a police precinct stormed, multiple buildings set alight and businesses looted, making international headlines.
“Someone said to me, are you going to address the violence?” Sharpton said. “The violence I’m addressing is how a man could hold a man down with a knee on his neck for nine minutes. That’s when the violence started.”
Mark Graves, who has worked with youth in south Minneapolis for 30 years, called for an end to the looting, and for efforts to be refocused on the issues at hand.
“What really worries me is we’re forgetting why we’re here,” said Graves. “The problem is bigger than a riot. The problem is bigger than the one African American male who was murdered. This has been going on and on and on and on and on. The problem is bigger. And part of the problem is, we haven’t we haven’t figured out any answers.”
A young girl who watched George Floyd suffocate finds her place in the protest movement
Protesters leave signs and tributes as years of frustration at racial disparities in policing come to the surface
George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism
Protesters set the Minneapolis Police 3rd precinct ablaze on May 28, 2020.
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BY EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR.
MAY 29, 2020 12:00 PM EDT
Glaude, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, is the author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul and the forthcoming Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
George Floyd was murdered, and it was captured on camera. Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee pinned against Floyd’s neck for close to eight minutes. We heard a haunting repetition of the words “I can’t breathe.” Floyd cried out for his deceased mother and called out for his children as he desperately clung to life. Chauvin sat there, smug, hand in his pocket, with little regard for the man dying underneath the pressure of his knee. All of this over someone allegedly trying to use a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at a local deli.
Floyd’s death has sparked outrage and protests. As people demanded the arrest of the officers involved, many wore masks and tried to observe, as best as they could, social distancing. COVID-19 hasn’t stopped killing people, and Minnesota is barreling towards its peak. The state will hit 1,000 dead within days. As a country we have surpassed 100,000 dead, 40 million unemployed, and African-Americans across the country have been disproportionately hit. The virus plunders lives and the police continue to kill.
Dressed in riot gear with gas masks and carrying weapons, police in Minneapolis confronted people in the streets. The protests turned violent. Some looted Target and, along with an AutoZone and other buildings, set it on fire. They attacked and burned the Third Police Precinct. Parts of Minneapolis are still on fire, and President Trump tweets about shooting looters. I was struck by the early images from the streets: a Muslim woman wearing a black hijab and a mask, with brilliantly white sneakers, kicked a tear gas canister back at the police. In another a black woman wearing her mask ran frantically between parked cars as policemen with automatic weapons prepared to shoot rubber bullets. She didn’t take off her mask.
How does one live in such a time? What happens in your bones, on your insides, when you’re ravaged by disease and hatred? For those African-Americans who have lost loved ones and their jobs, who find themselves in long lines at food banks, who have to deal with the ongoing stress of a virus that can strike at any moment, how do you manage the trauma of loss and the terror of seeing another Black person killed by the police?
Even if you turn your head away, the images and the sounds continue to haunt. We play them over and over again. It’s part of a ritual practice, a way the nation manages its racist sins. People declare their outrage. They, mostly white people, wonder how could this happen in today’s America? They cry out for justice. Or, as in the past, the likes of Fox News decry it all as the victimizing screeds of people who refuse to take personal responsibility. They defend the police. They condemn the violence. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. And nothing changes.
I watched the Floyd video and completely lost it. The stress of the times combined with the cruelty of the act and Floyd’s desperate plea broke me. I found myself, which I rarely do, burying my head into my hands. Weeping. I thought about all the Black people who may watch the video in the middle of this pandemic and about the white people who would see it and ask the all-too-familiar questions about how do we change.
We are caught in a double bind. We need the video footage to convince white America that what is happening to us is real. But that same footage then becomes the stuff of spectacle. People’s appetite for black suffering, to borrow a formulation from Susan Sontag, “is as keen as the desire for ones that show bodies naked.” In either case, we are left dealing with what white people think and confronting the undeniable fact that black people are still being killed by police at alarming, horrifying numbers. To be honest, these days, I can give less than a damn what white people think.
George Floyd’s death, along with Breonna Taylor’s and Ahmaud Arbery’s, bring into full view the terror and trauma that shadow Black people experiences in this country. Covid-19 has not changed that. It has only intensified matters. In fact, terror, trauma, and coronavirus are knotted together like thick briar bush with thorns.
One wonders how we will survive it all. That will depend, in part, on white America’s willingness to leave the shibboleths of American racism behind—to give up this insidious belief that because they are white they ought to be valued more than others. But we cannot wait on them. We, those of us who will dare to actually learn from our history, must figure out how to be together differently in a New America.
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Protesters set the Minneapolis Police 3rd precinct ablaze on May 28, 2020.
Zach Boyden-Holmes—The Register/USA TODAY Network/Sipa
IDEAS
BY EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR.
MAY 29, 2020 12:00 PM EDT
Glaude, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, is the author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul and the forthcoming Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
George Floyd was murdered, and it was captured on camera. Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee pinned against Floyd’s neck for close to eight minutes. We heard a haunting repetition of the words “I can’t breathe.” Floyd cried out for his deceased mother and called out for his children as he desperately clung to life. Chauvin sat there, smug, hand in his pocket, with little regard for the man dying underneath the pressure of his knee. All of this over someone allegedly trying to use a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at a local deli.
Floyd’s death has sparked outrage and protests. As people demanded the arrest of the officers involved, many wore masks and tried to observe, as best as they could, social distancing. COVID-19 hasn’t stopped killing people, and Minnesota is barreling towards its peak. The state will hit 1,000 dead within days. As a country we have surpassed 100,000 dead, 40 million unemployed, and African-Americans across the country have been disproportionately hit. The virus plunders lives and the police continue to kill.
Dressed in riot gear with gas masks and carrying weapons, police in Minneapolis confronted people in the streets. The protests turned violent. Some looted Target and, along with an AutoZone and other buildings, set it on fire. They attacked and burned the Third Police Precinct. Parts of Minneapolis are still on fire, and President Trump tweets about shooting looters. I was struck by the early images from the streets: a Muslim woman wearing a black hijab and a mask, with brilliantly white sneakers, kicked a tear gas canister back at the police. In another a black woman wearing her mask ran frantically between parked cars as policemen with automatic weapons prepared to shoot rubber bullets. She didn’t take off her mask.
How does one live in such a time? What happens in your bones, on your insides, when you’re ravaged by disease and hatred? For those African-Americans who have lost loved ones and their jobs, who find themselves in long lines at food banks, who have to deal with the ongoing stress of a virus that can strike at any moment, how do you manage the trauma of loss and the terror of seeing another Black person killed by the police?
Even if you turn your head away, the images and the sounds continue to haunt. We play them over and over again. It’s part of a ritual practice, a way the nation manages its racist sins. People declare their outrage. They, mostly white people, wonder how could this happen in today’s America? They cry out for justice. Or, as in the past, the likes of Fox News decry it all as the victimizing screeds of people who refuse to take personal responsibility. They defend the police. They condemn the violence. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. And nothing changes.
I watched the Floyd video and completely lost it. The stress of the times combined with the cruelty of the act and Floyd’s desperate plea broke me. I found myself, which I rarely do, burying my head into my hands. Weeping. I thought about all the Black people who may watch the video in the middle of this pandemic and about the white people who would see it and ask the all-too-familiar questions about how do we change.
We are caught in a double bind. We need the video footage to convince white America that what is happening to us is real. But that same footage then becomes the stuff of spectacle. People’s appetite for black suffering, to borrow a formulation from Susan Sontag, “is as keen as the desire for ones that show bodies naked.” In either case, we are left dealing with what white people think and confronting the undeniable fact that black people are still being killed by police at alarming, horrifying numbers. To be honest, these days, I can give less than a damn what white people think.
George Floyd’s death, along with Breonna Taylor’s and Ahmaud Arbery’s, bring into full view the terror and trauma that shadow Black people experiences in this country. Covid-19 has not changed that. It has only intensified matters. In fact, terror, trauma, and coronavirus are knotted together like thick briar bush with thorns.
One wonders how we will survive it all. That will depend, in part, on white America’s willingness to leave the shibboleths of American racism behind—to give up this insidious belief that because they are white they ought to be valued more than others. But we cannot wait on them. We, those of us who will dare to actually learn from our history, must figure out how to be together differently in a New America.
George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism
Watching the video of George Floyd's death made Eddie Glaude Jr. weep. He writes about the urgent need for a new America.
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America cities are burning and King Joffrey talking about Hong Kong and China...
And terminating US relations with the World Health Organization... during a national health crisis
Wow... what a scary coward ass bitch CAC... he didn't even address Minnesota...
And terminating US relations with the World Health Organization... during a national health crisis
Wow... what a scary coward ass bitch CAC... he didn't even address Minnesota...
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Yup
Letters to the Editor: How to stop racism and deaths like George Floyd's? White people need to integrate
When will police departments start pshychologically profiling officers to prevent racist monsters from killing black people?
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RIGHT LIKE WHITE PEOPLE'S HOMES WHILE THE CRACKER MOTHERFUCKERS ARE STILL IN THEIR FUCKING BEDS!!!!! TELL THEM DEVIL MOTHERFUCKERS NAPALM STICKS TO KIDS!!!!!
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Look at this bitch trying to do damage control.
He needs to let things go. And realize that he may indeed mean well but smart enough to have someone read over his tweets before sending them.
Many people can recognize that they may be too blunt in their writings but have smarts to say “Hey look this over for me to see if this will come across wrongly,
But he is to arrogant and thinks everyone is beneath him to seek advice