@thenewsoncnbc Hi Shepard, I’m a grand mother and for the record we don’t tell our children to find a policemen anymore. At least I don’t or my children. FYI
1st felony sentencing of a Jan 6 insurrectionist was 8 months. Prosecution wanted 18. Defendant Hodgkins begged for no jail so he wldn't lose his job, was remorseful and pleaded guilty. Others may (hopefully) get longer terms. Sentence should help deter future insurrectionists.
If we take a knee, they’re mad. If we speak up like I do, they’re mad. If we protest like Martin Luther King Jr. taught us to do, they’re mad. What is it that they expect us to do when police keep killing us?
I have to ask white people....
Is protecting this piece of trash Derek Chauvin worth spending 27 million dollar payouts, tens of BILLIONS of dollars in damage around the country, causing injury and loss of life for other cops during protests?
All that to feel “supreme?”
The next four witnesses, who watched George Floyd plead for his life as Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, are not being shown on camera because they are so young.
Let that sink in.
Too young to be shown on camera but witnesses in a murder trial.
Darnella Frazier, at 17, changed the world by filming George Floyd's death.
Her video is at the heart of this trial, the $27M settlement for Floyd's family, the national racial reckoning, and so much more.
And, she is haunted by what more she could have done.
My goodness.
Charles McMillian, who tried to speak to George Floyd as officers first tried to put him in a police car and then later as Floyd shouted for his mama while Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, just broke down on the witness stand.
Court on a break now.
"As you watch this, you always want the ending to change. You want to watch the video and one time, have Chauvin take his knee off of George Floyd's neck and it never happens. This is what the jury is seeing" - @JoyceWhiteVance w/ @NicolleDWallace
“Trickle down” economics has failed. Now, President Biden is trying a new approach: a rising tide of prosperity, from the ground up. Let’s embrace the fact that we’re entering a time in America when our leaders value and promote compassion and equality. Let’s get after it.
Corporations that give to ALEC & refuse to challenge voter suppression don’t get a pass b/c they also give to civil rights orgs. You can’t play both sides in a struggle for justice.
White supremacists are trying their hardest to deflect from the fact the Boulder suspect is WHITE. Syrians in America are legally, politically & socially WHITE. Their white status is well documented in court cases
Terms like "muslim", "Arab", "islamic" doesn't change whiteness
Ppl have realized that most of these manufactured "crime wave" videos involving Black ppl harming Asians are bogus. But you are about to start seeing the exact same propaganda stories about random "Black people attacking Hispanics". So Black ppl are going to be hit on all angles