Silence the Violence and Shun the Guns

Silence the Violence and Shun the Guns is an industry leading Nor. Amer. N.G.O. to reduce all at-risk youth gangs & illegal gun violence. @STVASTGC #gunviolence

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We just discovered that since last year, our engagement on Twitter is higher than even the top news media organizations that are on Twitter.
#CNN #FoxNews #msnbc #NYTimes #NBC #ABC #CBS

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We just discovered that since last year, our engagement on Twitter is higher than even the top news media organizations that are on Twitter.
#CNN #FoxNews #msnbc #NYTimes #NBC #ABC #CBS

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Honour them all or none at all. After all these years, they still excludes and ignores non white war veterans. Watch closely on T.V. this morning to see who they always interview. And who benefits from $20 million in annual poppy sales?

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Honour them all or none at all. After all these years, they still excludes and ignores non white war veterans. Watch closely on T.V. this morning to see who they always interview. And who benefits from $20 million in annual poppy sales?

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BREAKING NEWS: A new national poll finds that a whopping 57% of Americans think that the investigations into Donald Trump’s crimes MUST continue. Nobody is above the law. RETWEET AND LIKE IF YOU’RE A PART OF THAT 57% OR AGREE! #DonaldTrump #USPolitics #UnitedStates #POTUS45

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On Thursday, November 5, 2026, Robinson’s family and law enforcement confirmed that a portion of her jawbone and several teeth were discovered last week. She went on a first date and never returned. The family is still looking for her head.

#JusticeForSade #SadeRobinson #SadesVoice #SayHerName #NeverForget #MMIW #Milwaukee #JusticeForSadeRobinson

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Is this one of numerous examples of a corrupt system against Black people, especially when they retaliate or defend themselves from a threat or not?

Jamarian Byrd and Travis Roberts were hanging out in their Baker County neighborhood when a group of white males rolled up with a shotgun and a rifle. Devin Powers Jr. allegedly fired into the crowd where kids were playing outside, so Byrd and Roberts grabbed their own weapons and shot back. Powers died, and now the two Black men are facing first degree premeditated m*rder charges while a judge shut down their Stand Your Ground defense. The judge said they had every right to fire back until Powers started retreating, but he was still holding his shotgun when he got hit.

#gunviolence #racism #usa #bakercounty #nojusticenopeace

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JUSTICE FOR TASIA FORTUNE 🕊️

A 29-year-old mother of four, Tasia Fortune, was found hanging from a tree behind an apparently vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 3, 2026.

Her death has devastated her family and raised serious questions about the circumstances surrounding her final moments.

📌 LATEST UPDATE: As of September 28, three men had been arrested and charged with murder in connection with her death. The charges are allegations, and the legal process is ongoing.

Four children have lost their mother. 💔🕊️

May Tasia Fortune be remembered, and may her family receive answers and justice.

🙏🏽 Keep her loved ones in your prayers.

#TasiaFortune
#JusticeForTasia
#JacksonMississippi
#Sayhername
#BLM

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There is no data that supports that we do but it keeps happening and they say we do it tp ourselves. It's the same story they say about missing and murdered indigenous people.

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Like and retweet if you agree. #racism #hate #hatecrimes

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Rasheem Carter, a 25-year-old Black man whose dismembered remains were found in a wooded area in Taylorsville, Mississippi, on November 2, 2022, nearly a month after he went missing. 

He was found dead after telling his mother he was being chased by a group of white supremacists while yelling slurs.

Following the discovery of his body, which included a severed head and vertebrae found in separate locations, the Smith County Sheriff’s Office initially stated there was “no reason to believe foul play was involved,”. 

#RasheemCarter #SayHisName #HuntedWhileBeingBlack #JusticeForRasheem #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceReform #JusticeForRasheemCarter #EndPoliceBrutality #RacialJustice #Racism #PoliceBrutalityAwareness #PoliceBrutality #NoJusticeNoPeaceProsecuteThePolice

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A 6-year-old girl was fatally shot Wednesday while her mother was away making funeral arrangements for her teenage son who was also killed by gun violence.

https://t.co/exOZEuqPI3

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Answer yes or no and why?

Should parents who give their kid a gun that’s then used in a school shooting should to go to prison for life?

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In Ontario, it is crime prevention week. Join us for grassroots collective action now.

#ontario #police #crime #arrests

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A Dallas County jury sentenced James Michael Patrick, a white man, to 72 years in prison in January 2025 for the brutal murder of his wife, Jenean Chapman, a Black woman and former personal assistant to @SarahFerguson, the Duchess of York. Chapman was found dead in her Dallas apartment in October 2023, with her face and body left so severely injured that her family described her as unrecognizable.

#JusticeForJenean #JeneanChapman #SayHerName #NeverForget #MMIW #Dallas #JusticeForJeneanChapman

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November is national Domestic Violence Awareness month in Canada. Join us for grassroots collective action now.See https://t.co/oenjBAYEE7 and on the homepage on the navigation bar, select female violence

#canada #domesticviolenceawareness #violence

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6-year-old Caylee Taylor was killed yesterday, July 6, 2026, in Montgomery, Alabama.🥲 She was struck by gunfire in a drive-by shooting while she slept in her bed.💔

Everyone drop Purple Hearts in honor.💜💜💜

#caylee #cayleetaylor #sayhername #blacklivesmatter #blm #gunviolence

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An unsung hero.

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐭 𝐁𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 | While running back into the Las Vegas shooting to save strangers — his courage made him a symbol of heroism.

October 1, 2017. Route 91 Harvest Festival. Las Vegas. Fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay.

Jonathan Smith, then about 30, a copy-machine repairman from Orange County, was there with family for his brother’s birthday.

He did not only run. Accounts from that week say he pushed people down, pulled them behind cars and barriers, and kept going back. Reporters put the number he helped near 30.

When he stood to move two girls who were still exposed, a round hit the left side of his neck. Another hit his arm. Collarbone cracked. Rib cracked. Lung bruised.

An off-duty San Diego officer, Tom McGrath, packed the wound and would not leave him. Smith later said that man saved his life. Surgeons left the fragment in. Too close to nerves. He still walks with it.

The hospital photo — towel on the shoulder, bandage on the neck, phone in his hands — is the picture that went around the world. Smith told reporters he did not need a cape.

He said anybody should have done it. He and McGrath met again on camera days later. That reunion is real.

The caption that says Smith went back the next morning to ID the dead is not something this desk found in the 2017 hospital interviews. Treat that line as unverified.

He was not the only person who ran toward people that night. He is one whose face the country actually saw. The shooting remains the deadliest modern mass killing in this country.

Fifty-eight died on the grounds that night; the official toll later counted more. Smith lived with metal near the spine and said the pain did not make him special.

This post is 2017. Not a new Las Vegas attack. A Black man who moved toward the lawn when the sound started, and a photograph that still has to carry his name so the night does not swallow it. #nationalists🇨🇩 #johnathansmith #sayhisname #hero #lasvegas

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Before the investigations were complete, before all the evidence was in, before due process had run its course, white America somehow took the sides of…

The white cop who murdered George Floyd.
The white cop who murdered Botham Jean.
The white cop who murdered Atatiana Jefferson.
The white cops who killed Breonna Taylor.
The white man who killed Jordan Neely.
The white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery.
The white cop who murdered Laquan McDonald.
Susan Smith, who murdered her own children and blamed it on a Black man.
Charles Stuart, who murdered his wife and blamed it on a Black man.
The white friends of Nolan Wells.

Again and again, whiteness gets the presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, the sympathetic explanation, and the rush to defend.

But Black people asking questions, demanding answers, and refusing to accept a convenient narrative before the facts are known, are…“MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE.”

The caucasity is breathtaking.

You don’t get to make race matter when defending whiteness and then demand that Black people pretend race doesn’t exist when we demand accountability.

#saytheirnames
#blm
#blacklivesmatter
#georgefloyd
#bothamjean
#atatianajefferson
#breonnataylor
#jordanneely
#ahmaudarbery
#laquanmcdonald
#nolanwells

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Lena Baker was the only woman ever executed by the state of Georgia.

In 1944, Lena Baker, a Black woman from rural Georgia, killed Ernest Knight, a white man. Baker said he had held her captive in his gristmill, repeatedly sexually assaulted her, and threatened her with a pistol when she tried to escape.

During the struggle, she shot him.

She was arrested, tried before an all-white, all-male jury, and convicted of murder. The trial lasted just one day, and after only a brief deliberation, the jury sentenced her to death.

On March 5, 1945, Lena Baker was executed in Georgia's electric chair. She was 44 years old.

Six decades later, in 2005, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted her a posthumous pardon. The board did not declare her innocent, but concluded that the state had failed to fully consider the circumstances surrounding the case and that clemency should have been granted.

Today, Lena Baker's case is remembered as one of the most controversial examples of racial and gender injustice in the American legal system.

History should be remembered not forgotten.

#neverforget #nojusticenopeace