When the system you live under says it is “justified” for the police to murder a one-year-old baby it means it is time for a new system that serves and protects the people instead of profits.
He missed the school bus. So Brennan Walker, fourteen, walked the route from memory and got lost, and knocked on a door to ask for directions.
A woman screamed. Her husband came down the stairs with a sh0tgun.
Rochester Hills, Michigan. The morning of 12 April 2018. His phone was dead. He had never had to walk it before.
He knocked. Through the glass he tried to explain he had missed the bus and needed to know which way the school was.
The woman inside started shouting that he was trying to break in. Her husband, Jeffrey Zeigler, a retired firefighter, came downstairs with a sh0tgun.
Brennan ran. Zeigler came out onto the porch and fired at the back of a running fourteen-year-old. The shot missed. It is on the house's own doorbell camera, which is why we are not relying on anybody's memory.
Brennan kept running until he found someone to call his mother.
Zeigler was charged and convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and a firearm offence, and sentenced to four to ten years.
Brennan's mother, Lisa Wright, said afterwards that she had taught him what to do if he got lost. Go to a house. Knock on a door. Ask an adult.
Every parent teaches that. It is the single most basic instruction there is.
He did it exactly right, and a man fired a shotgun at him for it.
He was fourteen, and he was late for school.
This is why in our book we confront the painful history too many people never hear. We must never forget these injustices
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Ellie Cohanim is advising Israel to criminalize the journalists who filmed terrorist Jewish settlers beating and stabbing Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine today
@EllieCohanim currently serves as a top advisor to US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz
🚨Six Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officers face termination or have resigned after an internal investigation uncovered a text message thread filled with severe racial slurs, including the n-word, and other explicit biases.
The text messages were discovered by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) while reviewing a phone belonging to former officer Seth Elliott. Elliott was undergoing a separate criminal investigation for allegedly misusing the department's Flock license plate reader network to aid a drug dealer.
Key Details of the Scandal
•The Content: The texts, which spanned several years, featured racial, sexual, and religious biases. Officers bragged about arresting Black residents, targeted Black drivers, and even instituted a competition to see who could make traffic stops involving the most Black drivers. In one message obtained by investigators, an officer explicitly stated that their group message group "sound like a clan rally".
•Officer Fallout: Out of the six officers implicated—all of whom were part of the same 2024 graduating class—three have officially resigned. The other three remain suspended without pay while a Civil Service Board reviews recommendations for their termination.
•Federal Investigation: On October 15, 2026, the FBI launched an active investigation into the department for civil rights violations.
•Impact on Legal Cases: Defense attorneys in Charlotte have raised alarms that any pending or past criminal cases involving these officers are now severely jeopardized due to overt racial bias.
This is the attitude behind every racist shitbag on this platform.
Part of a little girl’s skull was found near Mackay in Qld.
The skull was taken to the local pub.
The locals used it as a communal ashtray.
Why? Because they thought it was an Indigenous girl’s skill.
They felt bad only when it was revealed to be from a white girl’s murder.
Forget the spin, forget how innocuous they pretend to be, THIS is who they really are.
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She was EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT, getting her two children ready for school, when six officers arrived at the door with a warrant.
Porcha Woodruff thought it was a joke. They were arresting her for carjacking.
She and her fiancé asked them to check whether the suspect on the report was pregnant. They refused.
Detroit, the morning of 16 February 2023. She is 32.
Here is how they got to her. A woman had returned the victim's phone to a petrol station. Police ran facial recognition on the petrol station video. The software produced Porcha Woodruff.
Then — and this is the part that turns a software error into a human one — they put her in a photo line-up using an **eight-year-old picture** from a 2015 arrest. They had her current driver's licence. They used the old photo. The victim picked it.
A visibly, enormously pregnant woman was processed for robbery and carjacking.
She was held and released that evening on a hundred-thousand-dollar personal bond. By the time she got out she was having contractions from the stress, and a medical centre recorded a low heart rate from dehydration.
On 6 March the Wayne County Prosecutor dropped the case. Insufficient evidence.
Her lawsuit calls the match what it was: an "unreliable facial recognition match." The police chief said the allegations were "very concerning."
Think about the order of events once more, because it matters.
The machine was wrong. Then a detective chose an eight-year-old photograph over the licence on file. Then six officers went to a house.
Then nobody in that chain looked at a woman eight months pregnant and compared her to a report that did not mention a pregnant suspect.
Her story is a reminder of why these injustices must be documented, remembered, and challenged. Get our book which documents over 150 of the crimes against Black people https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF
North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud 👏🏽
This story is bigger than a book simply being cancelled.
Penguin Random House pulled Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari’s book about the Palestinian experience after clashing with them over how to tell Palestine’s story.
Apparently, even a children’s book about Palestine needs a disclaimer making sure everyone knows October 7 was illegal, while the Nakba, occupation and decades of dispossession are up for editorial debate.
Alana and Jenin eventually walked away rather than publish a version they couldn’t stand behind.
Imagine having to fight a publisher just to tell your own people’s story.
Thankfully, Palestinian-owned Interlink Books will publish it in 2027.
French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead in her home in Marseille while working on a documentary covering Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Violent assault.
This white man followed this Black woman for MILES on the highway in Louisville, Kentucky.
he DRAGGED her out of her car and savagely, viciously BEAT her with a metal steering lock rod! In broad daylight while everyone just drove around.
@PampireRN Ugly souled pieces of shit like yourself whose humanity has been cauterized through years of indulged misogyny and racism don’t give a fuck when a woman is savagely beaten on the street, *especially* a Black woman.
I understand.
Why would I ever want to be like you??
dumb ass
@Rexgriddlecakes@BASEDrudeus Ahhhh the “low IQ” stereotype. No wonder you hide your racist face. If your firm knew what a truly repulsive racist shit you actually were, you’d be fired in a second.
Stay hidden coward… 😂