Cyrus Belton was 14 years old. He was shot. The man who killed him was acquitted.
For many Black Americans, the acquittal in this case reopened wounds that stretch across generations and raised painful questions about justice, accountability, and the value placed on Black life.
From Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice, the names change, but the questions remain.
Last week, Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager who was bullied, was convicted not of manslaughter but first degree murder. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Many are left asking what these vastly different outcomes reveal about accountability, race, and the way justice is experienced in America.
We mourn Cyrus, stand with his family and loved ones, and recommit ourselves to the ongoing pursuit of justice and healing.
Btw……..if the @nyknicks come back and win this, no more noise about OG! @jalenbrunson1 cannot be denied MVP! Again……..IF the @nyknicks come back and win this thing
Our whole city is cheering for the Knicks tonight.
So it’s only right that we bring the Knicks to the whole city.
Tonight, Game 5 will be streaming on 130 LinkNYC kiosks.
Let’s go Knicks.
The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
But
They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide https://t.co/pJHc9dGTCF
New York City has declared June 11, 2026 as "OG Anunoby Appreciation Day" 🙌
Manhattan Borough President, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, shows love to OG after his Game 4 NBA Finals performance in the Knicks’ win 🔥
(via @bradhoylman)
Bondi and @JDVance were directing the cover up of sexual abuse detailed in the Epstein files from the situation room.
I discussed with @Lawrence how his team was instrumental in @RepThomasMassie and my passing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
@jonathanvswan and @maggieNYT's book will show that our efforts broke Trump's coalition and remains his biggest liability with American voters.
“My son didn’t intend to hurt anyone”: The parents of Karmelo Anthony, the Texas teenager who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of a fellow high school athlete, Austin Metcalf, spoke about their son and the trial in an exclusive interview with CBS News. Anthony's attorneys have filed an intent to appeal.
Metcalf’s father called the sentencing bittersweet: “Austin will never walk through that door again.” https://t.co/jeihZ2Vtxy