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[GumNaam]

this is getting ridiculous!

 

[Dalit]

It is a racist country. Period.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Laquitta Willis Decatur Ga. store clerk killed by Victor Lee Tucker

Laquitta Willis Decatur Ga. store clerk killed over face mask policy by Victor Lee Tucker after being told to wear his face mask correctly.

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A 41-year-old Georgia woman has been identified as the cashier killed at a Decatur grocery store after having told a customer that they needed to adhere the grocery store’s face mask outlet, only to be fatally shot.

Laquitta Willis was working as a cashier at the Big Bear grocery store in Decatur where DeKalb County Police say 30 year old man, Victor Lee Tucker of Palmetto got into a dispute with the woman over the store’s mask policy.


Authorities say the Tucker, Jr who has a long crime history rap sheet, left the store without buying any of his items, only to soon return and shot her. An exchange of gunfire between an off duty deputy working security ensued where both deputy

Danny Jordan, 54, and the suspect suffered gunshot wounds.

The bulletproof vest he was wearing saved his life, Sheriff Melody Maddox said in a news conference Monday. Tucker who incurred gunshot wounds was taken to hospital and was expected to survive, with officials saying he faced charges of murder and two counts of aggravated assault according to 11Alive.

Despite best efforts to save her, Laquitta Willis died at Grady Memorial Hospital on Monday evening.

Pictured, Laquitta Willis Decatur Ga. store clerk shot dead by Victor Lee Tucker Palmetto Georgia man.‘She was a kind, loving, human being …’
The incident left the community dumbfounded and troubled.

‘Our hearts and prayers go out to the Willis family, the injured sheriff’s deputy and everyone impacted by yesterday’s senseless incident,’ the DeKalb County Police Department said in a statement.

The store owner told 11Alive that the man was wearing a mask, but that Willis simply asked him to pull it over his face.

The owner said Monday night that Willis was a kind, loving, human being, who simply asked a customer–the suspect–to pull up his face mask.


Employees described Willis as an integral figure in the store.

‘She was like management to me,’ former worker Dora Crawford told AJC, adding that she had worked alongside the late cashier for a year. ‘I looked up to her as management. She worked customer service, she trained cashiers and everything. She’s just a good person all around.’

Crawford said that coming across irate customers at the store was not unusual.

Pictured, Victor Lee Tucker Jr. Palmetto, Georgia man shoots Laquitta Willis Decatur Ga. store clerk dead over face mask policy. Images via previous arrests.‘Some people had attitude problems…’
‘We had to deal with a lot of different people coming in,’ she said. ‘Some people had attitude problems and stuff and they get smart with us, but we have to ignore that because we have to do our job.’

When conflicts arise in the supermarket, Crawford said, the employees depend on a security guard to come to their aid.

‘They’re here to protect us, and they’ve done a wonderful job at doing it,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what happened yesterday.’

Come Tuesday, the store on Candler Road was closed for business, but its doors were open for people coming to grieve and lament their loss.

Upon his release from hospital, Tucker will be booked into the DeKalb County Jail on counts of malice murder, aggravated assault on an officer and aggravated assault with intent to murder.

 

[RabzonKhan]

Justice served! Good day for America!


Judge sentences Derek Chauvin to over 22 years for murder of George Floyd


Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, more than one year after Floyd’s death sparked an international movement against police brutality.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, who presided over Chauvin’s murder trial, handed down a sentence of 270 months for charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death. Chauvin received a credit of 199 days served in prison. A jury convicted him of the charges on April 20. READ MORE

 

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Conservation Group Introduces Tree Equity Score to Highlight Environmental Racism - EcoWatch

Conservation organization American Forests launched its first calculations for what it calls a Tree Equity Score. It evaluates cities and towns based on who has access to tree cover, and it found that low income and minority communities in the U.S. are less likely to be shaded than wealthier...

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A new initiative is highlighting another branch of environmental racism (oh brother ) and classicism: equal access to trees.

Conservation organization American Forests launched its first calculations for what it calls a Tree Equity Score June 22. This score evaluates cities and towns based on who has access to tree cover, and it found that low income and minority communities in the U.S. are less likely to be shaded than wealthier, majority-white ones. As the climate crisis makes urban heat waves more dangerous than ever, this is a serious environmental injustice.

"This country is denying life and death infrastructure to people based on income and race," American Forests President and CEO Jad Daley said in a press release. "That's morally insupportable."

The Tree Equity Score evaluates neighborhoods on a scale of zero to 100, with 100 being total Tree Equity. The scores are based on the following:

1. Tree canopy
2. Population density
3. Income
4. Employment
5. Surface Temperature
6. Race
7. Age
8. Health

According to American Forests' findings, U.S. neighborhoods with a majority of people of color have 33 percent fewer trees than majority white neighborhoods, while neighborhoods that are 90 percent or more low income have 41 percent fewer trees than neighborhoods where only 10 percent or less of the residents live in poverty.

This is a serious problem, because trees are an important natural solution to the "urban heat island effect," in which an urban environment can increase temperatures by five to seven degrees Fahrenheit during the day and as much as 22 degrees Fahrenheit at night. This effect already harms the health of vulnerable people, especially children and the elderly, and disproportionately impacts poor and minority communities. And the climate crisis is already making it worse.

Trees, however, can counteract this problem. The 100 feet surrounding a tree can be around three degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the rest of the city, The Guardian pointed out. Trees have other health benefits as well, since they remove particulate matter and can therefore reduce air pollution, another problem that disproportionately impacts low income and non-white communities.

To reach its conclusions, American Forests looked at data from 3,810 municipalities, including 150,000 neighborhoods and 486 cities with populations of 50,000 or more. They also proposed solutions at both the national and local levels.

Nationally, the organization recommended the planting of 522 million trees. This would have the added benefits of:

1. Creating 3.8 million jobs.
2. Removing 9.3 million tons of carbon a year from the atmosphere.
3. Mitigating 56,613 tons of particle pollution a year.

Locally, the organization pinpointed the cities of 500,000 or more most likely to benefit from more tree cover. The top 20 include major urban areas like Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon and San Diego.

Part of the broader solution means changing how trees are perceived in the urban environment, American Forests' vice president for urban forests Ian Leahy told The San Diego Union-Tribune.

"One of the narrative battles we fight is trying to get trees perceived as fundamental infrastructure, like sewer lines or roads," he said. "There is a direct relationship with neighborhoods that were redlines, and those with low tree canopy cover today."

 

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5 Police Officers Involved in Tyre Nichols Beating Death Charged with Murder

The 5 police officers involved in the beating death of Tyre Nichols have each been charged with second-degree murder ... as the public awaits the release of video from the fatal beating.

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5 COPS CHARGED WITH 2ND-DEGREE MURDER... After Fatal Beating​

all booked into the Shelby County Jail in Memphis Thursday on a variety of charges -- including second-degree murder, official misconduct, official oppression and aggravated kidnapping.

Tyre Nichols

 

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5 Police Officers Involved in Tyre Nichols Beating Death Charged with Murder

The 5 police officers involved in the beating death of Tyre Nichols have each been charged with second-degree murder ... as the public awaits the release of video from the fatal beating.

www.tmz.com

5 COPS CHARGED WITH 2ND-DEGREE MURDER... After Fatal Beating​

all booked into the Shelby County Jail in Memphis Thursday on a variety of charges -- including second-degree murder, official misconduct, official oppression and aggravated kidnapping.

Tyre Nichols

Oh this is just classic...what do you suppose blacklivesmatter would say...let's check it out.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/black-lives-matter-global-network-foundation-statement-on-the-murder-of-tyre-nichols/

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols​

January 27, 2023

D’Zhane Parker, a Board member for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation released the following statement regarding the video footage released of the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis Police Department:

“Tyre should be alive today. He mattered to everyone except those upholding state-sanctioned violence and a dangerous cycle of white supremacy. Tyre was overwhelmingly loved by his community, family, and friends. He’s described as a Mama’s boy who looked forward to his Mama’s homemade chicken with sesame seeds. He loved skating since he was 6, and used photography as a creative outlet. Experiencing sunsets was a major part of what he adored about experiencing life.

Today, our community is grieving another beautiful Black life stolen by state-sanctioned violence. There continues to be a consistent failure of our current public safety model to protect Black lives and communities. We are tired of traffic stops becoming death sentences. We deserve a system that prioritizes holistic, health-centered, community-driven approaches that will help advance true public safety. We continue to be devastated by the current system that prioritizes punishment, harm, and criminalization.

Five police officers brutally beat Tyre to death. Although the media has spent a great amount of time drawing attention to the fact that the police officers are Black, as if that is important, let us be clear: ALL police represent the interest of capitalism and impel state-sanctioned violence. Anyone who works within a system that perpetuates state-sanctioned violence is complicit in upholding white supremacy. Assimilation into a system that is anti-Black is one of the most dangerous weapons stemming from white supremacy.

This moment affirms what we’ve known all along: Reform doesn’t work. Incremental progress is too slow. Diversifying a police department will not work. No police department, no matter how diverse, can ever overcome the reality that it is a direct descendant of slave patrols. Police will never keep our communities safe. Our call to defund the police includes ending traffic stops for minor traffic violations and removing police from traffic interactions.

We are in solidarity with Tyre’s family as they seek accountability and uplift their demand that the city of Memphis disband the “special” crime unit that murdered their loved one. Black Lives Matter will continue to push for an abolitionist approach to public safety that moves us swiftly towards community-driven approaches that work.”

About Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation​

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) creates avenues to center Black life by decolonizing philanthropy. Rooted in the belief that the arts are essential for our liberation, BLMGNF was collectively built by Black people for Black people. We inject simplicity into how we contribute dollars without depleting resources from the organizations we assist. BLMGNF is accountable to Black people and each other, and it is a radical foundation that serves all of us. BLMGNF is a hub for Black liberation.

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"moves us swiftly towards community-driven approaches that work."


Where are these places that "work"??

 

[RabzonKhan]

Oh this is just classic...what do you suppose blacklivesmatter would say...let's check it out.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/black-lives-matter-global-network-foundation-statement-on-the-murder-of-tyre-nichols/

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols​

January 27, 2023

D’Zhane Parker, a Board member for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation released the following statement regarding the video footage released of the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis Police Department:

“Tyre should be alive today. He mattered to everyone except those upholding state-sanctioned violence and a dangerous cycle of white supremacy. Tyre was overwhelmingly loved by his community, family, and friends. He’s described as a Mama’s boy who looked forward to his Mama’s homemade chicken with sesame seeds. He loved skating since he was 6, and used photography as a creative outlet. Experiencing sunsets was a major part of what he adored about experiencing life.

Today, our community is grieving another beautiful Black life stolen by state-sanctioned violence. There continues to be a consistent failure of our current public safety model to protect Black lives and communities. We are tired of traffic stops becoming death sentences. We deserve a system that prioritizes holistic, health-centered, community-driven approaches that will help advance true public safety. We continue to be devastated by the current system that prioritizes punishment, harm, and criminalization.

Five police officers brutally beat Tyre to death. Although the media has spent a great amount of time drawing attention to the fact that the police officers are Black, as if that is important, let us be clear: ALL police represent the interest of capitalism and impel state-sanctioned violence. Anyone who works within a system that perpetuates state-sanctioned violence is complicit in upholding white supremacy. Assimilation into a system that is anti-Black is one of the most dangerous weapons stemming from white supremacy.

This moment affirms what we’ve known all along: Reform doesn’t work. Incremental progress is too slow. Diversifying a police department will not work. No police department, no matter how diverse, can ever overcome the reality that it is a direct descendant of slave patrols. Police will never keep our communities safe. Our call to defund the police includes ending traffic stops for minor traffic violations and removing police from traffic interactions.

We are in solidarity with Tyre’s family as they seek accountability and uplift their demand that the city of Memphis disband the “special” crime unit that murdered their loved one. Black Lives Matter will continue to push for an abolitionist approach to public safety that moves us swiftly towards community-driven approaches that work.”

About Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation​

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) creates avenues to center Black life by decolonizing philanthropy. Rooted in the belief that the arts are essential for our liberation, BLMGNF was collectively built by Black people for Black people. We inject simplicity into how we contribute dollars without depleting resources from the organizations we assist. BLMGNF is accountable to Black people and each other, and it is a radical foundation that serves all of us. BLMGNF is a hub for Black liberation.

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"moves us swiftly towards community-driven approaches that work."


Where are these places that "work"??

What a bunch of idiots.

 

[Ich]

Come on! This is why the "great West" hindered/sanctioned grain transports from Russia to Africa ... cause black lives matter...

 

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if ever there was a race predisposed to criminality, it is these africans..

sad, because if they give up crime, they are also known to achieve great heights in the world of athletics and sports

becoming scientists and doing intellectual stuff is beyond them, but that's ok ... they more than make up in track and field medals, marathons, rap music and etc

 

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if ever there was a race predisposed to criminality, it is these africans..

sad, because if they give up crime, they are also known to achieve great heights in the world of athletics and sports

becoming scientists and doing intellectual stuff is beyond them, but that's ok ... they more than make up in track and field medals, marathons, rap music and etc

There are plenty of black scientists..the problem is people are not taking education seriously and don't realize you aren't going to live an easy life without a nice job/trade.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia

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[FuturePAF]

Will this criminal versus Indian store workers get a racial angle when it’s covered on the news? The camera man was asking the thief to pass him a swisher cigar and telling the clerks to just claim it on their insurance. Instead the thief got an @ss whoppin.

Let’s see what the lawsuit from this looks like.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1686758311205740544

 

[Gomig-21]

Will this criminal versus Indian store workers get a racial angle when it’s covered on the news? The camera man was asking the thief to pass him a swisher cigar and telling the clerks to just claim it on their insurance. Instead the thief got an @ss whoppin.

Let’s see what the lawsuit from this looks like.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1686758311205740544

I couldn't even listen to the clown talking lol! Little did he know giving instructions hahaha. Dingleberry. That was definitely a can of woopass!

 

[FuturePAF]

I couldn't even listen to the clown talking lol! Little did he know giving instructions hahaha. Dingleberry. That was definitely a can of woopass!

Some thieves have gotten so brazen that they literally think they can roll up and someone won’t snap on them. Good on the clerks for doing what had to be done with the right amount of physical violence necessary. This beating will ruin this punk @ss’s rep on the streets if this doesn’t go to court.