The sheriff jabbed her in the neck with his club while she queued to register to vote.
She was fifty-four years old. She turned round and punched him so hard he went down.
Three deputies put her on the ground. Annie Lee Cooper.
She had tried to register before. She had already been sacked from her job at a nursing home for trying.
On that morning in January 1965 about a hundred and fifty people were queuing outside the Dallas County courthouse in Selma.
Sheriff Jim Clark was working the line as he always did, moving people on.
He pushed her. She told him he should not have done that. He jabbed her with the billy club. And she hit him. Properly. He went to the pavement.
The photograph of her being held down by three men while Clark stood over her with his club raised ran nationally and is one of the images that moved Selma onto the front pages in the weeks before the bridge.
She was jailed for eleven hours.
She lived in Selma for another fifty years, voted in every election she could, and in 2008 stood in line again, at ninety-six, to vote for a Black president.
She said she would have waited all day. She died in 2010 at ninety-nine.
Fifty-four years old, in a queue, with a club in her neck. And she swung.
A 25-year-old woman was abducted at gunpoint and forced into the back seat of a car.
Desperate for someone to notice, she locked eyes with two teenage boys in another vehicle and silently mouthed two words… “Help me.”
17-year-old Jamal Harris and 19-year-old Aaron Arias immediately called 911 and began following the car.
The driver realized they were behind him and started speeding up, slowing down and swerving through traffic trying to lose them. But Jamal and Aaron stayed with him, continuously updating police on where the car was going.
They knew if they lost sight of it, the woman could disappear.
Police eventually caught up, surrounded the vehicle and arrested the driver. The woman was finally safe, and later embraced the teenagers who had noticed her silent plea and refused to look away.
Jamal and Aaron were just out driving that day. But because they paid attention and kept following when it would have been easier to turn away, a kidnapped woman made it home safely.
These are the types of young people the internet should be talking about. 💙
@LFRFamily I simply DON’T want it!!!! I don’t trust SHIT that the government says. There would be some “secret” loophole and NO ONE would get paid…but they’d have your black a$$ right where they want you. No citizenship anywhere, no money, no land etc.
@lin_lw8557097 Ummm….HELL NO. I don’t care if the victim was orange, green, red, white or polka dot , his actions were over the top and I’d STILL feel the same
Hey y’all. WE NEED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ALEXANDER BROTHERS CASE.
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander are three Israeli-American brothers from a wealthy Miami family. Oren and Tal became powerhouse luxury real-estate brokers selling multimillion-dollar homes to celebrities and billionaires, and represented Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in their $24 million Florida home purchase. While Alon worked in his family’s private-security business.
For over decades all 3 brothers used their status to recruit women through clubs, parties, dating apps and promoters, and lure them with luxury trips and exclusive events, THEN DRUG, ISOLATE and RAPE them, sometimes TOGETHER and with other men. More than 60 WOMEN have come forward saying they were raped by one or more of the brothers. ELEVEN women testified in court!
The evidence was fucking horrific: women drugged, incapacitated, restrained and raped. Multiple men and MINORS were involved. Jurors saw texts, emails, photographs and videos.
On March 9, 2026, a federal jury UNANIMOUSLY convicted ALL THREE on EVERY COUNT.
Seven months later, they still haven’t been sentenced.
Now their wealthy Jewish family has hired Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein’s and Trump’s former lawyer. Dershowitz’s correspondence says his work includes exploring “executive clemency and judicial reversal.”
These men aren’t accused. THEY’RE CONVICTED.
Yet this story has received nowhere near the sustained national attention its scale deserves.
October 27 is Sentencing day.
Keep your eyes wide fucking open.
#cornell7 #israel #antisemitism