@clozilly It was a Black woman holding up a picture of a Black cop, on behalf of the Black sister-in-law of the Black man who was killed. The family wants to perdue legal action, so that was touched on, as well as addressing the larger systemic issues
@highthymes420 And there's no singular group here, that's just what people have decided happened. Its really just an assortment of people. The center of it is Jim's family
@highthymes420 One of the people who helped put the press conference on is a friend of Tiffany's, they worked together on this. You're touching on a bigger thing here but I just want it to be clear here that in this instance, those who have stepped in are working side by side Jim's family
@clozilly like you're saying something that a) is false and b) is going to detract people away from a fight that is initiated by the sister-in-law and nieces of Jim Rogers
@mynameisjro@shawna_morlock@KGforNYC I had a great conversation with a gay NYPD officer a few weeks ago who felt very much unjustly victimized. She's only ever wanted to be a police officer since she was ten. She's been proudly gay for almost as long. Why is she excluded?
I can not STRESS enough how important it is for middle school english teachers to teach students the word "titular" so that when they get to high school everyone can be on the same page that it is NOT an inappropriate word
singlehandedly being a human pride flag or "safe space" sign for any cafe I sit in front at
Like I've already had two people say hi to me as they step inside as if I'm an advertisement/endorsement
(Or maybe ppl are just friendly)
got hung up on by operators of both numbers but it's worth calling anyway, just go directly into leaving the message (for the jail I dialed 4, and then waited for the options to be listed without pressing anything and I was redirected to an operator)