Amber | Nasty Woman™

This account is basically just me RT'ing important things. Not even a little sorry. She/her #BlackLivesMatter #ShePersisted #StillWithHer #TakeAKnee #RESIST

[Amber | Nasty Woman™ @AccioTV]

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that "A" is not for ally. Please remember that when you're trying to be one. @glaad

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

Many people will turn George Floyd into a martyr today. We must fight to remember that he did not *give* his life for justice, for our movement, for an uprising. He wanted to live. He fought to live.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

All health care should be free. Vaccines. Insulin. Cancer treatment. Maternity care. Dental. Mental health. All of it.

[Matthew Cooke @thematthewcooke]

💪🏽❤️

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Are we doing this right?

[Faith @Faithnco1016]

If race doesn’t matter, take it off of job, credit card and rental applications.

[Chambraigne Socialist @bombsfall]

The idea that a working vaccine is anyone's exclusive intellectual property is so utterly anti-life in the name of capitalism that my brain keeps searching for some other good reason for anyone to defend it than direct profit or fanatical devotion to the market.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.

And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change.

[Erik Bottcher @ebottcher]

Whoa.

[Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip]

So much attention has been paid to Derek Chauvin’s lack of humanity toward George Floyd, but I can’t stop thinking about the powerful humanity of all the bystanders who tried to intervene to save his life. This verdict would not have been possible without them.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

This fabricated police story might have become the official account of George Floyd’s death if concerned citizens had not intervened and recorded the police.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Remember: none of Chauvin’s colleagues turned him in. He murdered a man in broad daylight and we are here today because a brave Black girl named Darnella Frazier kept taping despite threats from the cops on the scene.

[April @ReignOfApril]

GUILTY of 2nd degree murder while committing a felony

3rd degree murder - GUILTY

2nd degree manslaughter - GUILTY

This is not justice. This is accountability. Prayers for George Floyd’s family. #DerekChauvinTrial

[Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche]

Thinking of Darnella Frazier who filmed the death of George Floyd at 17 and quite literally changed the world. She testified there are nights she stays up “apologizing & apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more.” But, she did so, so much to get to this murder conviction.

[Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz]

Amazing that national guard can be deployed to police communities of color in advance of a jury verdict but not to protect the Capitol in advance of an insurrection for which there was advance notice.

[Natasha Rothwell @natasharothwell]

Chauvin is the part of the iceberg above the water. Whether or not he falls doesn’t change the fact the system that buoyed him must be dismantled.

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

i cannot emphasize enough that convictions are not justice for George Floyd. We will never know because justice requires the participation of the people impacted by it. The dead cannot participate. There is relief, punishment, but not “justice”

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Your 4/20 reminder that people of color made up 94% of marijuana-related arrests by the NYPD in 2020.