BLMOKC

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[BLMOKC @blmokc]

Please visit https://t.co/FPj69j6QyG to contribute to our bail fund for nonviolent protesters facing terrorism charges from DA David Prater. #BlackLivesMatter #blmokc

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

A GoFundMe has been organized for the children who now will grow up without a mother.

https://t.co/WW0vIDLjFb

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

August 19, 1958, OKC's sit-in movement began. Civil Rights activist and OKC NAACP Youth Council advisor Clara Luper led a group of students into Katz Drug Store and they politely asked to be served. Their non-violent protests helped to end segregation in public places across Ok.

[Jabee @mynameisJabee]

Deep Deuce then/Deep Deuce now

[Monroe Nichols @Monichols]

It’s not enslavement, you’d know that if you weren’t in the business of outlawing teaching about enslavement. Your entire campaign has been a great stain on public education in this state. Attacking teachers & school districts on the heels of a pandemic is as shameful as it gets.

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

Justice in this world is just so distant… especially for black women…

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

This who y’all voting for?

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

*turns off debate

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

@nia_blackwell Do you mind if we share this on our other pages?

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

We lose good people in this state because of the tan people in this state. This level of gate is unreal!

[Nia, MHR @nbc1908]

It’s unreal how unsafe I feel in Oklahoma…

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

That’s it… that’s the tweet

[Fastr @fastr7]

@djbryang @Smulated_thauts @belllahijabi No one says “I don’t see color” but white people

[Andrea Benjamin, Ph.D. @ProfBenjamin]

A dean asked me if I was Black or Latina (said he didn’t know), but asked based on my work. I paused and said I’m Black. He was like I knew it! Then proceeds to tell me how his GF is Black and my age and he thinks the Black men around town are jealous of him. 😳😳😳

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

Not trolls on our page responding to things from 2020… it’s 9am… fast food places still serving breakfast right now

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

@RonnieWakefiel6 😂😂😂

[BLMOKC @blmokc]

Please visit https://t.co/FPj69j6QyG to contribute to our bail fund for nonviolent protesters facing terrorism charges from DA David Prater. #BlackLivesMatter #blmokc

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Over the coming weeks and months, we will hear more about the backgrounds and details on each of the 25 men and their cases. We will oppose each of their executions. And we will remember that this system of state-sponsored killing is fundamentally broken in such a myriad of ways.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

And without fail, every single one of the 25 men facing execution experienced severe physical and emotional abuse during their childhoods. At least half of them are known or believed to have been sexually abused as well.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Several of the 25 men facing execution have meritorious legal claims but there are no procedural mechanisms available for them to pursue relief. They very well may be executed even though courts have recognized constitutional problems with their cases.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

In at least six of the 25 cases, prosecutors have "lost" evidence that could have undercut the credibility of key witnesses or supported defenses such as actual innocence or self-defense.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

At least 10 of the men had co-defendants who were equally or more culpable but were not sentenced to death. In some cases, prosecutors made inconsistent arguments at the separate trials of the co-defendants, claiming that each one was the actual killer at their individual trials.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

40% of the men scheduled for execution are Black in a state where the overall population of Black citizens is just 7.8%. Oklahoma prosecutors used racially charged language in the trials of several men. At least one was tried before a judge known to be overtly racist.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

At least two of the men are so debilitated by psychosis that they have no rational understanding of why Oklahoma is trying to execute them. One man, Wade Lay, has a competency hearing scheduled yet the Oklahoma Attorney General's office sought an execution date anyway.