We asked 10 people in Gaza to record moments of their day. What they sent us was inspiring and heartbreaking. The most mundane of tasks has become impossibly hard and the fear of being killed is constant and palpable.
Watch our latest #AJCloseUp episode, 'One Day in Gaza' ⤵️
the audacity of ukraine to abstain from calling for ceasefire? india who got independence from colonisers in 1947, the year before nakba, germany whose history is holocaust, japan who suffered from atomic bombs during WW2. countries with dark pasts letting it happen to others.
You don’t have to watch the video of #TyreNichols being beaten by police.
You don’t have to subject yourself to that trauma.
It should not require another video of a Black human being dehumanized for anyone to understand that police brutality is an urgent, devastating issue.
You know who also had a tumultuous upbringing? The queer and trans people that the shooter targeted, who instead used the trauma of their experiences to build a safe community for themselves
The whole damn system is guilty. The judge, the jury, the lawyers. And when we call for "justice" in a system that is already guilty of white supremacy, we give it more power. And until we confront that fact, more people will die, and their killers will continue to go free
The use of tear gas on the apartments in Brooklyn Center will have long lasting health impacts, mental and physical, on the primarily Black families and young children who live there. This is how disability is manufactured in Black communities through state violence.
Police, armed with weaponry & the power of the government, can be terrified and have an “oopsie” moment that kills someone, but civilians are required to remain clear-headed & calm at all times when confronted by the police. How does that make any sense?
AMAZING how police consistently make the most “mistakes” when the person they’re dealing with is Black yet they manage to apprehend white mass shooters without killing them time & time again.
If your response to the death of a 20 year-old Black man, who was pulled over by police for an air freshener violation, is “he should have complied,” you don’t understand the fear that Daunte was likely feeling in his encounter with police 10 miles from the Derek Chauvin trial.