Im BLACK
My parents are BLACK
My grandparents are BLACK
My siblings are BLACK
My nephew is BLACK
My friends are BLACK
I will forever scream #BLACKLIVESMATTER because they fucking do! ✊🏽
Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help.
When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat.
They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car.
Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19.
She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired.
No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it.
The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too.
A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere.
Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost.
You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines?
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The hatred these people have for our innocent babies is horrific. This man name is Tyler Chambers and he stated that he would’ve killed this young baby girl just for knocking on his door. #TylerChambers
It’s really sick how yall go out of the way to hurt me when you see me winning. Yall going too far, Fake ass shit. Just know today was your last day playing with me and I mean it.