Welp, time to wait for SCOTUS opinions again.
I'll just say again that a country waiting for nine unelected, unaccountable people imbued with lifetime power to tell them what rights exist is a stupid way to run a republic.
True justice for George Floyd means renewing our conviction to create a world where police do not have the opportunity to use violence to target Black people.
Today's verdict is not accountability and not close to justice.
This is the manifestation of what the millions of people who have taken to the streets to protest police violence already know: Modern policing and our criminal legal system are rotten to the core.
Breonna Taylor was shot to death by police in her own home. She was shot 8 times. She did not deserve to die. Let’s amplify her name and her story and continue to take her death seriously. She is not a meme or a concept. She was a person and she should be alive.
we’re renaming streets, stepping down from cartoon roles, tearing down statues. and still not defunding, reforming, abolishing none of these other systems responsible for violence against black folk.
BREAKING: Together with the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and Michael Brown, we’re demanding the U.N. investigate police killings of Black people and violent attacks on protesters in the United States.
Soooo BLM got a week of attention and y’all over it now? Getting those cops charged was only one part to a significantly larger plan. Please don’t stop. Please don’t quit. Keep fighting, keep signing, keep donating