He missed the school bus. So Brennan Walker, fourteen, walked the route from memory and got lost, and knocked on a door to ask for directions.
A woman screamed. Her husband came down the stairs with a sh0tgun.
Rochester Hills, Michigan. The morning of 12 April 2018. His phone was dead. He had never had to walk it before.
He knocked. Through the glass he tried to explain he had missed the bus and needed to know which way the school was.
The woman inside started shouting that he was trying to break in. Her husband, Jeffrey Zeigler, a retired firefighter, came downstairs with a sh0tgun.
Brennan ran. Zeigler came out onto the porch and fired at the back of a running fourteen-year-old. The shot missed. It is on the house's own doorbell camera, which is why we are not relying on anybody's memory.
Brennan kept running until he found someone to call his mother.
Zeigler was charged and convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and a firearm offence, and sentenced to four to ten years.
Brennan's mother, Lisa Wright, said afterwards that she had taught him what to do if he got lost. Go to a house. Knock on a door. Ask an adult.
Every parent teaches that. It is the single most basic instruction there is.
He did it exactly right, and a man fired a shotgun at him for it.
He was fourteen, and he was late for school.
This is why in our book we confront the painful history too many people never hear. We must never forget these injustices
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I don’t think people fully understand what’s happening. We’re not being priced out of luxury. We’re being priced out of normal. A house, car, Groceries, Childcare, Insurance,These weren’t extravagant expectations 20 years ago.
When ever I remember this day 20-10-2020 it's make me sad because I was among those people who was shot at #LekkiMassacre during the #EndSARS protest, today mark 6 year God safe my life #CODEPP National Grid Lekkitollgate Till Gate #FakeProductkills Happy 3 @STinubu@officialABAT
Till today, we still don’t know WHO GAVE THE ORDER!
No accountability. No justice. No answers.
Buhari, history will remember the young Nigerians who lost their lives that day.
For every young person who died at Lekki, we will not forget. 🇳🇬
#EndSARS#EndSARSMemorial
LEKKI MASSACRE:
6 years ago today - Oct 20, 2020.
We will never FORGET.
Unarmed protesters, waving Nigerian flags, singing the national anthem and the @HQNigerianArmy shot and ķìlłèď most of them at Lekki.
We remember them all. 🕯️
#EndSARS#LekkiMassacre
¿Como es posible que haya niñas y niños en #Gaza que reconozcan el sonido de un bombardeo antes que el de una canción de cuna?
Palestina pide que no la dejemos sola.
Sigue hablando de Palestina y apoya a UNRWA. 💙
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Pep GUARDIOLA 🇪🇸 livre un PUISSANT MESSAGE en soutien à la PALESTINE 🇵🇸 👇❤️🩹 :
🗣️ « Ce ne sont pas des morts, ce sont des personnes ASSASSINÉES. Ce ne sont pas des chiffres, ce sont des VIES qui avaient un nom, un visage, une famille, des rêves et des souvenirs.
Ce ne sont pas des dommages collatéraux, ce sont des ENFANTS.
Nous voyons des enfants à Gaza chercher leurs parents sous les décombres, demander de l’aide, souffrir de la faim, se retrouver seuls. Nous les voyons TOUT PERDRE avant même d’avoir pu grandir.
La solidarité avec la Palestine NE PEUT PAS PRENDRE DE PAUSE. Notre responsabilité non plus.
Aucun enfant ne devrait grandir en apprenant à SURVIVRE avant d’apprendre à VIVRE.
NOUS NE NOUS TAIRONS PAS. Le silence aujourd’hui est une manière de prendre parti. Nous ne pouvons pas détourner le regard.
La Palestine compte et la Palestine a besoin de justice et de paix. Continuez à parler de la Palestine. Continuez à défendre l’humanité face à l’indifférence. »
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This what former French Economy Minister Thierry Breton said that has already came through pass :
"It was Emmanuel Macron's stupidity that opened the eyes of Africans. One thing is certain if France loses its colonies our children and grandchildren will go to Africa in search of their livelihoods. Immigration will change direction. Macron needs to go or France will suffer. Europe need to unite to fight this new African vision Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and other countries will follow suit. If one of the puschists' heads falls, the others will abandon the vision. Africa has no history therefore, Africa cannot run the world.”
Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo cries as he has to bury another 7 Nigerian Christians murdered by Islamist Fulani militias.
International mainstream media wasn’t there for the funeral. Again…
It’s actually crazy how you grow up thinking home-cooked meals every day are just normal, then get older and realise how much time and effort it took your Mom to make that happen and how lucky you were to have that.
“He give him no choice.”
We said you’d never seen decisions like the Rice and Trossard ones again, and with each passing season, the integrity of the officials who made those sendings offs becomes more and more questionable.
Such a terrible look, especially on the back of such huge contract announcements recently.
How much did the BCG review even cost the club? Probably as much as the wages of these 60 positions combined.
It just stinks. We've just had a summer where the club was willing to rip up its financial model to sign Vinicius, yet a few months later so many every day staff are now left fearing for jobs, their families and mortgages.
Horrible.
Sylvanus Olympio was shot on January 13, 1963. He was two days away from pulling Togo out of the CFA franc, when the imperialists struck.
The story that gets told is simple. A group of Togolese soldiers, led by Sergeant Étienne Eyadéma, stormed the presidential residence in Lomé. Olympio fled, hid in a car outside the US embassy, and was found and shot at the gate. Eyadéma admitted it: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move. I shot him" .
That is the version that fits the official record. It is also incomplete.
Olympio was not killed over a military pay dispute, though that is the trigger the soldiers used. He was killed because he was about to sign Togo's withdrawal from the CFA franc zone and launch a national currency backed by the Deutsche Mark. He had already founded the Banque Centrale du Togo in 1962. The agreement was days from being signed .
France had reasons to want him gone. De Gaulle's Africa advisor, Jacques Foccart, said it plainly after Olympio's death: "Sylvanus Olympio was not one of our friends" . The French ambassador in Lomé knew the coup plotters personally. They were former French army soldiers. France opposed an independent investigation into the assassination .
After Olympio was killed, his brother-in-law Nicolas Grunitzky was installed as president. He immediately abandoned the national currency plan and signed cooperation agreements reaffirming Togo's use of the CFA franc. The currency Olympio died trying to leave is still in use today .
The scholarship is careful. Historians like Skinner and Glasman argue the coup was rooted in the discontent of ex-French soldiers Olympio refused to integrate into Togo's tiny army. The monetary story is "an underlying factor," not the single bullet . But the timing is hard to ignore. Olympio was killed while negotiating monetary independence. The negotiations ended with his death. Togo stayed in the franc zone.
His brother-in-law took power. The man who pulled the trigger, Eyadéma, ruled Togo for 38 years after overthrowing Grunitzky in 1967.
Olympio's chair at the founding of the OAU in May 1963 was left empty. It was meant to be a warning. It became a template .
🚨Darren England FAILED to overturn Luis Díaz’s WRONGLY DISALLOWED goal in Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Tottenham in 2023.
Just 48 hours earlier, Darren officiated a match in the UAE, reportedly EARNING £20,000.
Manchester City WON the league that season.
After the game, the Premier League admitted a “significant human ERROR” had occurred... Diaz’s goal should have stood.
This is what Nigerians across all levels don’t understand. We are not all going to get rich, the chance is even slighter in this climate. But we all deserve a decent life, and for that, we must have functioning systems & institutions.