I guess it’s just super weird to me that to some people, a few instances of violence during a protest is enough to delegitimize an entire movement, but piles of evidence showing sustained corruption and racism and literally hundreds of civilian deaths per year at the hands of the police is still not enough to delegitimize the police.
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Wiz Khalifa Violently Arrested For Legally Riding Hovercraft At LAX
Rapper Wiz Khalifa was slammed to the ground by 7 grown police men and arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday after he refused to get off his hoverboard.
“Haven’t been slammed and cuffed in a while. That was fun,” he tweeted, along with a photo and video of the incident.
He also posted a video to Instagram in which over three officers can be seen holding him to the ground. The officers repeatedly tell Khalifa, whose legal name is Cameron Thomaz, to “stop resisting” as he responds, “I’m not resisting.”
Police say he was resisting arrest but the Video shows differently. Several news stations have tried to reach the airport for comments but have so far been ignored.
#StayWoke
This is some fucking dystopian shit.
Getting arrested for something legal.
npr:
R&B singer Janelle Monáe released a blistering 6 ½-minute protest song on Friday called “Hell You Talmbout.” The song’s premise is simple, and that simplicity is the source of its power. The lyrics are the chanted names of black Americans killed by police and vigilantes, followed by the phrase “say his name” or “say her name.” The chorus is an anthemic, gospel-leaning repetition of the song’s title. Monáe is joined on the track by a drum line and the members of her Wondaland Arts Society collective: Jidenna, Roman GianArthur, Deep Cotton, St. Beauty and George 2.0. All of the vocals are raw, several to the point of breaking. None of the names are sung.
Janelle Monáe Releases Visceral Protest Song, ‘Hell You Talmbout’
Photo credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images
Go listen. It is more than worth it.
Every single Australian person who is outraged at the police (and entire societal) brutality against black people in the US that’s currently in the headlines needs to put the same amount of energy into learning about the VERY SAME brutality that’s used here in Australia to oppress Indigenous Australians.
Every single Australian, whether in Australia or overseas, born in Australia or born overseas, needs to put the onus on themselves to EDUCATE, INFORM and TALK ABOUT the institutional violence black Australians face.
White Australia has:
Warning. These links may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased.
- committed genocide against black Australians "comparable to" Nazi Germany
- legally enslaved black Australians
- legally classified Indigenous Australians as animals (Flora and Fauna Act)
- committed mass genocide of Indigenous Australians over 200 years
- denied Indigenous men and women the right to vote for over half a century AFTER white women were granted the right to vote
- actively passed legislation designed to eliminate Indigenous Australians from Australia altogether
- Refused Indigenous people treatment from the Royal Flying Doctor Service in preference of less in need white people (‘Ray Martin: The Great Divide’, SBS)
- Tested nuclear weapons upon the Anangu lands of Maralinga in South Australia
- Minimised and attempted to erase the scientific achievements and discoveries of Aboriginal people (creativespirits.info > Education)
- separated Indigenous children from their families and communities nationwide (page 29) from colonisation to present
- stolen lands from Indigenous Australians from colonisation to present
- allowed a white policeman to murder an Indigenous man (name in link) from the Palm Island community in Northern Queensland in 2004 in custody, resulting in his liver being cleaved in half across his spine from physical abuse
- caused Aboriginal deaths in custody to rise sharply over the past 5 years, including causing Indigenous deaths in custody to quadruple from the 1970s to the 2010s
- minimised and attempted to erase the historical importance of Aboriginal Australians, including that Indigenous Australians may be the earliest humans on the planet
- caused an Aboriginal woman to die in mandatory rehab (name of deceased not present in link)
- caused deaths in custody that NO policeman has EVER been held guilty for
- and so much more that I could stay up all night linking to
Resources
Timeline of Aboriginal history in Australia:
Timeline of racism in Australia
CreativeSpirits.info – a site dedicated to spreading information and awareness about issues relating to Indigenous Australians (n.b. owner is white)
KooriWeb.org – created by Dr. Gary Foley (b 1950) Born in Grafton, northern NSW, of Gumbainggir descent.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Be outraged at Ferguson. Be outraged about Tamir Rice. Be outraged at ALL the black deaths due to police brutality and institutionalised racism in the USA.
But ALSO be OUTRAGED at the same treatment shown to Indigenous Australians here in this country.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
mtv:
this past weekend was the one year anniversary of mike brown’s death. this quote was taken from a post solange made on Instagram during the national protests that followed (pictured).
UPDATE: AUG 11, 2015. 10:45 PM LOCAL TIME. THE ST. LOUIS POLICE DEPARTMENT ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT THEY DID NOT HOLD I-70 PROTESTERS IN JAIL, DESPITE HOLDING THEM FOR OVER 22 HOURS FOR PROCESSING. PROTESTER COLOCHA_RACHEL REPORTS OFFICERS ABUSED AND MISTREATED DETAINEES, AND ILLEGALLY DETAINED MANY REPORTERS AND LAWFUL OBSERVERS.
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Mike Browns Friend Shot By Police On One Year Anniversary Of Death.
The person shot in Ferguson by a police officer after a day of commemorating the first anniversary of Michael Brown’s death has been identified by his father as 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr., of St. Louis, who was “real close” to Brown, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
After shooting him they handcuffed him and stood over his body, continuing to aim their guns while a witness recording the incident screamed and begged for them to get him medical attention. The man recording was then arrested for “disobeying police” and staying in the area. Thankfully the ambulance was called and he was rushed to the hospital, put into surgery, and is currently in unstable and critical condition.
The story is that apparently Harris had been tracked throughout the protest in an unmarked vehicle and in plainclothes (meaning not wearing their uniform but simply dressed as normal citizens) as police believed he was “armed.” Officers allege the suspect approached the detectives who were sitting in a van and opened fire with a 9mm gun that had been stolen last year.
They also believed him to be the suspect of the first shooting that occurred earlier that night. The incident reportedly involved two groups of people on the west side of West Florissant Avenue. It happened just before police shot Harris Jr.
Belmar added that 40 and 50 shots were fired in an exchange between the two groups, and the incident he described as “remarkable” lasted around 45 seconds. “They were criminals. They weren’t protesters,” Belmar said of those involved in the shootings. He did not say if there were any casualties from the shooting on West Florissant Avenue. Protesters and members of the media who had gathered in the street took cover or fled when the firing started, The Associated Press reported.
The media and Police are both calling harris the “shooting suspect” but have no evidence to back it up. It’s all simply speculation at this point. Witnesses, including his girlfriend, are saying Harris never shot at police, he was just one of the bystanders trying to flee when the shots first rang out.
Pictures and Videos from that night also show that the original shooter was wearing completely different clothes than Harris and in the video, you can see the unmarked police car drive right past the shooter.
The cops involved in shooting are on paid leave while there’s an investigation.
Source / Source / Video / Video / Video
#StayWoke
UPDATE
although he’s still in the hospital under critical condition, the police have charged him with assault.
ASSAULT?!?!? YOOOOO I CAAAAAAAAANT. DEAR GOD I CAAAAAANT.
This need to just fucking stop.