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[MASTER STUDENT🤲🏾 @MUSICANDBUILDS]

THE MOTHER OF CYRUS BELTON
SPEAKS ON HER 14 YEAR OLD SON
BEING HUNTED AND SHOT LIKE A DOG IN THE STREET AND THE KILLER GETTING OFF FREELY

SHE ALSO SPEAKS ON THE RACIST ON SOCIAL MEDIA ATTACKING HER

SENDING LOVE AND LIGHT
AND PRAYERS TO THIS BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND HER FAMILY🙏🏾💙🥺

[BlackSword @Blacksword011]

If a white guy can murder a mentally ill homeless Black man for screaming on a train, Karmelo Anthony can go free after defending himself against a bully who assaulted him multiple times.

[The Black Tucker Carlson Jr 🇺🇸 @B1TuckerCarlson]

Rest in power Cyrus

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

Tensions were high today in Columbia, SC at protests over the Rick Chow verdict?‼️🤔

[Mary J Poppins @JoellasWorld]

Asians are allowed to kill Black people and stop Black people from being admitted to schools but “stop Asian hate.” Lmao

[CBS News @CBSNews]

The North Carolina police officer accused of beating Cherrie Moore turned himself in Monday to face a charge in an excessive force investigation after a doorbell camera captured him repeatedly punching her during an arrest, authorities said.

Former Shelby police officer Karson Hyder, 22, has been fired and is charged with one count of assault inflicting serious injury. He was released on a $10,000 secured bond Monday, The Associated Press reported, and it wasn't immediately clear if he has an attorney representing him.

Moore's attorney, Ben Crump, wants more serious charges brought against Hyder, @Jerickaduncan reports.

[🧚🏾‍♀️🦋 @maj07_]

I’m more upset at the jury than anything, Cyrus was being chased by two grown men. You acquit Rick Chow because he “saw” a gun while chasing someone WITH a gun. Would they have found Cyrus not guilty as well if Rick was the one who died?

[Arthur Watkins Jr. 🇺🇸 @arthurwatkins]

For those that keep saying in the comments he aimed the gun, this is the testimony that he did not aim the gun.

[Maria Licciardi @yumyumeg]

AN ASIAN MAN SHOT A BLACK BOY IN THE BACK FOR THINKING HE STOLE $1 WORTH OF WATER AND JUST GOT FOUND NOT GUILTY.

[JC @lovexistwithin]

This has my insides boiling!! Sick!!! Sick!!! Sick!!!

They couldn’t wait to chase him!!

They were running before even leaving the store! #RickChow

[Meg Gonyo @MegGonyo]

Todd Rutherford announces that Cyrus’s family will still be pursuing a civil lawsuit

“There is no answer but to sue him right now”

[Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) @shannonsharpeee]

Video from this morning shows the gas station that Rick chow owned filled with police

[LRHN cash @LRHN_Cash]

Rick Chow store broken into after he was found not guilty for shooting & killing a 14 year old boy.

[Meghann Cuniff @meghanncuniff]

A lawyer for the family of Cyrus Carmack-Belton told reporters after a jury acquitted Rick Chow of murder Monday night that the question of why the 14-year-old had a gun "was answered when he was shot dead in the streets 130 yards from a store where he did absolutely nothing wrong."

"The question was answered when this jury found him not guilty today. The question was answered because a child, a 14-year-old child, shot dead in Richland County, got no justice. When the family got no justice," said attorney Todd Rutherford, standing beside Cyrus' father, Troy Belton, in a video from WACH-TV news station in Columbia, South Carolina.

Rutherford paused as people shouted near him.

"The anger is palpable tonight. You can feel it. You can touch it, because people saw a child that looked like their own. That did nothing wrong. A child that all the witnesses described had fear in his eyes when he left the store. And then he started to run as two grown men chased him down over a football field and shot him dead. This should not happen," Rutherford said.

"This makes us feel as if our children don't matter, and they do. This makes us feel like Cyrus's life did not matter, and it did," Rutherford said.

He urged people not to turn their anger "into anything else but words."

"To go online to talk about it, to discuss it, but not to act like what people in their evil minds think that we are. We are certainly better than that. Cyrus was better than that. His family is better than that," Rutherford said.

He said they have "no choice" but to accept the verdict, "but we don't agree."

"There is no way that a child who did nothing wrong, who was shot in his back, how that jury can justify that verdict. I've been practicing law for almost 30 years. I've never seen anything like this. I don't understand it. I'm at a loss to explain it to his father, Troy, standing beside me. I'm at a loss to explain it to his mother, who couldn't take it and had to leave. I'm at a loss to explain it to his family, because I, too, don't understand it," Rutherford said.

Chow’s son, Andy Chow, testified his father shot Cyrus after Cyrus pointed a gun at him. Prosecutors say the boy had a loaded 9 mm gun but never displayed it before he was shot. Andy chased Cyrus after the boy walked out of the store after being falsely accused of shoplifting bottled water, and Rick Chow's lawyer said he ran after his son to see if he was OK.

[Robert Littal BSO @BSO]

Chow who had a history of shooting at customers. Chased down a 14 year old who hadn’t stolen anything. Shot him in the back. Then had his son lie about having a gun pointed at him. It worked because black people’s lives aren’t worth even a $1 water bottle in this country. So if you are one of those people who like to say well all lives matter just know you are lying to yourself and you know it.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Trump administration in talks to fund US drone companies, per WSJ

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Israeli officials are now privately urging the Trump administration to completely abandon Iran negotiations, assassinate Iran's lead negotiator Ghalibaf, and immediately restart strikes targeting Iran's oil and energy infrastructure to trigger "regime change" in Tehran, while not caring about the massive impact of the expected Iranian retaliation on Gulf energy infrastructure, per a classified US intelligence assessment.

Trump has already privately been backing away from the deal since Sunday under "extreme internal pressure from Israel and its US domestic allies," urging him not to accept Iran's terms, per sources close to his negotiation team.

Based on this, an Iranian official is saying Iran has absolute "zero trust" in Trump and the US word in any agreement, adding it "cannot regard Trump's decision as definitively finalized until the financial markets close at the end of this week," with the concern Trump will formally end the deal and restart strikes at the last moment.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The proposed US-Iran peace deal includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, per NYT.

The program is being called an international "investment fund," which the US would facilitate in the final deal.

This comes as Iran demands "reparations" to end the war.

[CULTURALLY INAPPROPRIATE VILLAIN 😎 @in_da_grass]

From my LINEAGE to yours,
Happy #Juneteenth❤️🤍💙 Black America!!