COMMUNITY Social Justice Thread: R.I.P. George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor & now Tyre Nichols

[TheNightKing]

its way too late gotta delete like pages of bullshit

Please expound cause I’m confused, sincerely.

 

[Playmaker88]

Please expound cause I’m confused, sincerely.

thought this was the election thread

 

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Bucks' Sterling Brown agrees to $750K settlement with city of Milwaukee

Bucks guard Sterling Brown has reached a $750,000 settlement agreement in his civil rights lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee, nearly three years after his arrest.

www.espn.com

 

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The west was built on racism. It's time we faced that

 

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Police chief resigns over online posts advocating violence vs. 'Marxist Democrats'

 

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Investigators find no evidence that Black man shot at police

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police investigating a shooting in which deputies killed a 21-year-old Black man near Vancouver, Washington during a drug investigation said Tuesday they found no evidence that the man fired at deputies.

apnews.com

 

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New York City to try sending crisis workers on mental health calls rather than police

New York City is launching a pilot program in February where mental health and crisis workers will be sent to emergency mental health calls instead of police officers."For the first time in our city's history, health responders will be the default responders for a person in crisis, making sure...

news.yahoo.com

 

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Grand Jury Declines to Charge Officer Who Killed 21-Year-Old Dreasjon Reed

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer Dejoure Mercer fatally shot the 21-year-old in May after a high-speed chase caught on Facebook Live. Mercer was not charged in the death.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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White supremacist leader Tom Metzger dies in Hemet at age 82

A judge ordered him and his son to pay $12.5 million in 1990 for inciting his followers to commit violence following the fatal beating of an Ethiopian man by white supremacists two years earlier.

www.ocregister.com

 

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L.A. medical examiner launches rare independent review of deputy shooting of Andres Guardado

The L.A. County medical examiner has launched an inquest into the shooting death of 18-year-old Andres Guardado in Gardena by L.A. County sheriff's deputies. The investigation is the first of its kind...

news.yahoo.com

 

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Gun Dealer Sparks Backlash After Inviting People to Protest BLM Art Display

Mike Grant wrote a now-deleted post on Facebook that included a picture of a 17-year-old Black student who helped organize the event in Dublin, California.

www.newsweek.com

 

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Some 911 calls to be handled by mental health professionals in new NY pilot program

Change is happening in New York City. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday a new program that will deploy mental health experts when responding to 911 mental health crises instead of police. Th...

news.yahoo.com

 

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Cleveland Safety Director suspends police supervisor for detaining Tamir Rice’s sister following police shooting, reversing police chief

Cleveland police Sgt. Janelle Rutherford was suspended for two days without pay for improperly supervising the scene where Tamir Rice's 14-year-old sister was detained by police following the deadly police shooting of her brother. The decision by Cleveland Safety Director Karrie Howard reversed...

www.cleveland.com

 

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White supremacists killed an Ethiopian man. His son ‘pursued the dream of his father’

SAN DIEGO — The California lawyer who for years made sure white supremacist Tom Metzger made payments on a judgment for his role in the killing of an Ethiopian man studying in the U.S. took no money for himself from the case…

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

 

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