Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator

Contributing Creator to Eisner Winning, Puerto Rico Strong & Ricanstruction!
Creator of the 'A Reason to Smile!' series

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[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

Hello peeps! I'm a #selfpublished artist/author responsible for the graphic novel series #AReasontoSmile! More coming through #kickstarter soon! #LatinxsCreate #LatinoHeritageMonth

[Giggling Gannon @GigglingGanon]

Driver shows the power of remaining silent as cop blows a gasket as his intimidation tactics fall flat.

​The stop began over an alleged minor turn violation. But instead of simply checking credentials and writing a citation or warning, Officer Roberts immediately looked for a way to escalate the encounter.

Invoking Pennsylvania v. Mimms (the Supreme Court precedent that grants officers the authority to order a driver out of their vehicle during a lawful stop) the officer ordered the driver, Stephen, to step out.

​This is precisely where many people make a critical mistake by either resisting lawful orders or trying to talk their way out of suspicion. Stephen understood the legal assignment perfectly.

He stepped out of the vehicle, kept his hands visible, and walked to the rear of the car as ordered.

The moment Officer Roberts attempted to transition from traffic enforcement into an investigative interrogation, Stephen shut the door completely.

​Officer Roberts tried every standard roadside tactic in the book. He attempted casual rapport-building, asked probing questions about where Stephen was coming from, and to the point of asking for voluntary consent to search Stephen’s person for weapons. When that yielded nothing, he asked for consent to search the entire vehicle.

​Stephen never raised his voice. He never argued street law or became hostile. He simply delivered a calm, unshakeable boundary: "I'm not going to discuss anything," invoking his Fifth Amendment rights on the spot.
​Watch what happens when an officer has zero reasonable articulable suspicion of an independent crime and the citizen refuses to provide the evidence themselves.

Roberts was left wandering around the exterior of the vehicle, peering through tinted glass, and grasping at straws, even awkwardly asking Stephen if he worked at a local spot called the "Catfish Hole."

​Because Stephen refused to consent to searches, answer travel questions, or utter a single word that could be twisted into suspicion, the officer ran completely out of moves. With no probable cause and no voluntary admissions, the fishing trip ended in total defeat. Officer Roberts shut the car door, handed over his contact card, reminded him about turn signals, and sent him on his way.

​The Fifth Amendment isn't just an abstract legal principle; it is an active roadside shield. Anything you say can and will be used against you, but silence gives them nothing to work with.

Know your rights and do not be afraid to exercise them.

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@RyanOttley When you say it inspired you, can you share what you think will/want to/expect to change about what you currently do vs. what you traditionally do?

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@inkmonkeyhope This was amazong to watch and VERY educational. Thank you for sharing!

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@TonyLaneNV How about we just add a 20% charge to any bill at a waitressed restaurant, and end tipping altogether so the wait staff gets a fair wage every day? You dont want to pay that? Dont get waited on. Thats the difference between fast food and a sit down restaurant.

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@VintageSitcoms This is not something you wanna go viral for... lol

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@StazJohnson I personally like 3 and 4 the best.

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@jpalmiotti His Superman is the only one I rewatch since Christopher Reeves... and Suicide Squad was just too much fun. Hopefully what comes next will be interesting.

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@PopBase So that's where the five thousand dollars is gonna come from. Got it

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@emeyorX When did he get classified as an Omega mutant?

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@jpalmiotti @UPS This is terrible. They did this with some large kickstarters I had to ship, so now I put exorbitant amounts of insurance (you can get a lot of insurance for little cost) and havent had one lost package since. Hopefully they refund you what you spent in shipping at the very least.

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

Not one inch wasted...

[Danny Earls @dannyearls16]

Godzilla pencils all done!!!

This is for my new poster with the incredible folks at @BottleneckNYC it's 18x36 inches

I had so much fun on this. Monsters and cities - everything I love drawing!

#godzilla

[Bonnie Boden @designergirla]

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Credit to: Jim Keller

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

As a father, this is tough to read... if my daughter asked (as she is prone to do because she asks for accountability and fairness) I'd lean heavy into the fact that we do things because we care and its the right thing to do, but the other adults in this story? Shame on them...

[Jack the story @Xinbato_oz]

Last Saturday, my nine-year-old son handed over $146 he’d raised for our neighbor’s medical bills.

A few minutes later, an organizer asked him to move out of the photograph.

It had started with a folding table on our lawn.

Our neighbor was having treatment and couldn’t work. My son asked whether selling lemonade would help.

I bought the ingredients. He made the sign.

For six weekends, he carried cups outside, counted change, and waved at passing cars. Some people bought a drink. Others put money in his plastic tub and told him to keep it.

One rainy afternoon, I suggested packing up.

He asked to wait another ten minutes because someone had promised to come back.

When the neighborhood committee heard about it, they offered to combine his money with donations from local businesses and arrange a presentation.

He counted everything twice before we went.

At the hall, a woman emptied his tub and added the money to the collection.

Then everyone gathered for a photograph with our neighbor.

My son stepped forward.

The organizer touched his shoulder and guided him sideways.

“Just the main sponsors for this one, sweetheart.”

He moved a little.

She asked him to move farther.

Two men stepped into the space he’d left.

He looked toward me, holding the empty tub against his stomach.

I was already walking over when he caught my sleeve.

“Dad, did she get the money?”

[STREET MEDIA TV @streetmediatv]

She Had Her Receipt. Her Purse Is Wide Open. An Employee Rang Her Items Up. They Already Knew She Did Not Steal But Their Egos Still Wanted To Illegally Detain Her

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

SO FUCKING RACIST! Not only did they call the police, but his team refunded his money and kicked them off the team.
🚨🚨🚨Yes, a 3-year-old soccer player named Nevada was removed from his youth league, and his family received a refund after police were called to the field.

What Happened
•The Incident: Nevada was playing in an i9 Sports youth soccer league in Winter Park, Florida. At 3 years old, he was playing in a division against children around 5 years old.
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•The Complaints: Opposing parents complained that Nevada was dominating possession, keeping the ball too long, and scoring multiple goals (reportedly scoring up to 10 in a game) because the older children could not take the ball away from him. Some parents accused the toddler of "trying to put on a show".
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•Police Involvement: The league issued a trespass notice against the family, and police officers arrived to escort Nevada and his parents away from the field in front of the other children and spectators.
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•The Aftermath: The family was removed from the program and received a full refund for their Fall 2026 registration, sharing footage of the incident on social media where it went viral

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

I wanna draw like Pepe Larraz when I grow up...

[PepeLarraz @PepeLarraz]

Inks for The Avengers #3 Cover.
Ink and inkwash on paper. I had a good time with this one.

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@ReddCinema All these men need to go under the jail... this is horrific

[Javier Cruz Winnik 🇵🇷 writer & illustrator @ThaLearningCurv]

@slave_2_liberty These police failed this city...

[Greg A Elysée - NYCC AA G-21 @GregAndElysee]

The lightning’s outta the bag… your boy’s bout to throw a birthday party for DC Comics’ first Black hero in DC POWER: BLACK LIGHTNING 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!

Special thanks to editor @Marquis_Draper for getting me on board! Yall be sure to PREORDER!! #blacklightning

[i Expose Racists @SeeRacists]

🚨 BREAKING: A Black couple showed up to tour an apartment in Queens... and the broker accidentally texted THEM instead of the owner: "Ugh. They are Black."

They'd just moved from Delaware for her new job. Now they're SUING Douglas Elliman, the agent AND the owners.

"It doesn't change the pain. It doesn't take away the pain you caused us that day."

Think about it. They were judged before they even had a chance.

They only found out because she texted the wrong person. Most people never do.