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[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Six days after Hurricane Katrina, a family walked across a bridge in New Orleans looking for food and medicine.

Police drove up in a rented truck and opened fire without warning.

A seventeen-year-old was killed. A forty-year-old man with intellectual disabilities was shot in the back as he ran.

The Danziger Bridge. September 2005. James Brissette was seventeen. Ronald Madison was forty and had the mental capacity of a child; he was with his brother Lance.

Nobody on that bridge was armed. Nobody had done anything.

Then came the part that turned it from a shooting into a conspiracy: officers invented witnesses. They planted a gun. They wrote a report describing a gun battle that never happened. They held meetings to get their stories straight. It went on for years.

Federal prosecutors eventually broke it open. Five officers were convicted in 2011.

A city was drowning. A family walked across a bridge to find food. And the cover-up lasted longer than the storm, the trial and the appeal combined.

This is why we preserve the histories where lives were taken, truth was buried, and accountability came far too late. https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF

[Collins Hill Eagles Football @CollinsHillFB]

Happy Birthday to our head coach, @SwickONE8 !

Your Eagle family and community hope you have the best day!

#FORTHEHILL #GOEAGLES

[vic martin @vgriff2u2]

@CollinsHillFB @SwickONE8 @CoachBeck56 @coachaj_rathbun @bna424 @coachMMartin54 @SCOOBZILLA730 @Frfountain2002 @Pdub_100 @SpeedyGermana @CoachCam_CHill @Nico11swoll Happy Birthday

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

It is a dame shame that former Florida sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran was found not guilty for killing Air Force Airman Roger Fortson. That video was sickening. It was THREE SECONDS from the door opening to the first shot being fired. That man was absolutely guilty. More injustice.

[Rickey Smiley @RickeySmiley]

Ms. Fletcher wasn't feeling the songs people were performing today at my #KaraokeBrunch, so I sang "Down Home Blues" by #ZZHill for her!!!

#RickeySmiley #Karaoke #Blues #TheBlues

[FOX 5 Atlanta @FOX5Atlanta]

Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate between Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson was canceled after Jackson declined to appear. https://t.co/i24Gn25F3A

[TDClubofGwinnett @Gwinnetttdclub]

Mark your calendars, it is Monday this year and you do not want to miss it! High School and college Coaches!

[Murray State Football @racersfootball]

Open the Gates😤

📍 Stillwater, Oklahoma
🏟️ Boone Pickens Stadium
🆚 Oklahoma State Cowboys
⏰ 6:00 p.m. CT
🎟️📺📻📊https://t.co/YbkVQn665p

#GoRacers🏇

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

What happened to #NolanWells? @tatereeves

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

There’s a Black Farmer In Colorado thats been going live everyday crying out for help bcuz white people in his town keep vandalizing his 1000 acre ranch, messing up his live stock, and threatening his families lives DAILY. And the police won’t do anything about it. They are in on it! They actually put HIM in jail for trying to protect his family 🤦🏾‍♂️His Name Is CW. He’s a Veteran. He Is The Owner of Freedom Acres Ranch. YT people love to say r@cism don’t exist but I promise this won’t go how they think it’s gona go. It’s not 1942 and we the ppl BEEN TIRED like leave us df alone 👏🏽😮‍💨

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.

But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.

I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.

I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction.

But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

[Murray State Football @racersfootball]

THE EXCLAIMATION‼️ | @MykelAllen05

#GoRacers🏇

[Deborah Roberts @DebRobertsABC]

So very sad to hear that we are losing a brilliant mind in our country’s culture and history. Lonnie Bunch, the first black secretary of the Smithsonian, has decided to retire. He has been criticized by the Trump administration for the portrayal of U.S. slavery experiences.

[WSB-TV @wsbtv]

21-year-old woman disappears in Georgia state park https://t.co/4CIQK0s6eh

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

5-year-old boy wanted to play soccer. Instead, ICE pulled over his family, cuffed his father, took him away crying as he clung to his dad’s shackled hands. This is cruelty inflicted on a child. Kids should be in school, not in the back of an ICE van.

Op: @msnownews

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

“I need 10 men.”

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens challenges Black men to reach 10 brothers in their own circles, help them get ready and then “go with them.”

@andreforatlanta @keishaforga

https://t.co/aZYLgs0uo0

#MenForKeisha

[rolandsmartin @rolandsmartin]

Gov. Wes Moore rallies men behind Keisha Lance Bottoms, saying the next 64 days will require “everything we've got.”

“We are gonna have her back, because she's always had ours.”
https://t.co/aZYLgs0uo0
@iamwesmoore @keishaforga #MenForKeisha #Georgia

[Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc]

Prominent Black Democrats rally behind Keisha Lance Bottoms https://t.co/96E6pFsfhE

[Ryan Cameron @ryancameron]

I’ve got 2 lower level for Thursday vs the Buffs . Like and RT for your entry ! #stingem🐝🐝🐝deadline Monday at midnight.

[Governor Wes Moore @GovWesMoore]

If you're one of the students who were just disenrolled from Howard University, Maryland has your back.

We're working to provide expedited admission support to University System of Maryland schools, explore financial aid options, and provide an $800 credit for impacted students.