Yashua

Heartthrob.

[Yashua @yashflee]

movement.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

LAWSUIT: Eight officers raided his home before dawn.

His offense? He filmed an officer speeding, criticized him when he got to a drive-thru, and embarrassed the department.

In a free country, criticizing police shouldn’t end in handcuffs.

In 2022, Joshua Gibbons filmed a Kingsport, Tennessee police SUV speeding without lights or sirens, violating state law.

He caught up with the officer at a drive-thru and had salty words about his disregard for the law.

That exchange lasted all of one minute. The consequences for Joshua lasted four years.

After someone complained about a different video — an officer flipping Gibbons off — police scoured Gibbons’ YouTube channel for ammunition.

Before dawn the next morning, while Gibbons was still in bed, eight armed officers raided his mother’s home to arrest him — for speeding using a cellphone while driving, and disorderly conduct.

A judge dismissed the speeding and cellphone charges but convicted him of disorderly conduct, saying he was “offended by the way” Gibbons was “talking to that officer.” Gibbons appealed. At a second trial, a jury again found him guilty.

In June, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously reversed that conviction and dismissed the charge.

The court found “no evidence” that Gibbons’ criticism prevented anyone from doing anything lawful.

The court recognized — as many courts had held — that even “profane and insulting” words alone aren’t a crime, especially when directed at police officers, who are trained to exercise restraint.

With FIRE’s help, Gibbons is suing to vindicate his First Amendment rights.

The First Amendment protects your right to film and criticize police. Kingsport PD needs to hear that message loud and clear.

[Ms. 321 @blackginger000]

✨New painting Commission✨

“New Blooms”

30x40”
Oil on stretched canvas
2026

https://t.co/isZril26hw

[lil @liileve]

mmmmhm

[Zev Love X @Drethaoneda]

Nate Dogg was a real life psychopath “I laid all them busta’s down I let my gat explode now in switchin my back into freak mode”

Cuhz wasn’t wrapped to tight

[TheBTheLTheATheZTheE 🥳🔥 @anonymously_uni]

Girl fuck you AND them

[Yashua @yashflee]

great place to be

[thamma ajanna 𓇼 @piinkst4rr]

https://t.co/lGjiIoLgJm im still here

[WINNIE @winnielark]

And they just had to submit an essay to Cornell to “mitigate their conduct” 🙂 Matthew Ingalls, Johnathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris, and Scott Kretzschmar, you are rapist scum

[jack @jack_bfr]

Here’s a clip of Gronk’s injury in 2015 that ended up being a Grade 1 knee strain.

He pounded the ground, rolled around, and yelled for 2 minutes. He only missed ONE game.

This was your reaction, @stoolpresidente.

[Yashua @yashflee]

! i’m fasho wasting yall liquor

[Miss Gen5☆ @GenoviaKilla]

I can’t lie when y’all force me to take a shot I throw it into the plant or sum

[ruffin dot works @1rufffin]

Blender work for @elektramagazine 📌

[Yashua @yashflee]

?

[GrimReaperGang @NahCeeBando]

I’m tellin a coworker bout “da 1 dat got away” why son back out a vid of him gettin spits frm ha in a black truck

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Two janitors found a girl's body at a Texas high school.

One was Black, one was white. An officer looked at both of them and said: one of you two is going to hang for this.

Then he turned to the Black man and said, you're the one — you're elected.

Clarence Brandley. Conroe, Texas, 1980.

He was convicted and sentenced to death. He came within days of execution twice.

It fell apart slowly: witnesses recanted, saying they had been pressured. Evidence had gone missing. A judge who reviewed the case wrote that in his entire career he had never seen a more shocking disregard for fundamental rights.

He was released in 1990 after nearly a decade on death row.

Texas never paid him. He fought for compensation for years and got a fraction of what the law allowed, late.
He died in 2018.

The officer told him he was elected. He was right — that was exactly how it worked, and the man said it out loud at the start

Clarence Brandley spent nearly a decade on death row because someone had already decided what his fate would be.

How many other cases began the same way? We dug through the record and documented up to 150 in a book. Get yours https://t.co/V6OJtazidd

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

A 25-year-old artist was arrested for writing on a subway wall with a marker.

He arrived at the hospital thirty minutes later in a coma, hogtied, covered in bruises. He died thirteen days later.

Michael Stewart. New York City, September 1983.
Eleven transit officers were involved in some part of the arrest. Six were charged. All were acquitted in 1985.

The medical examiner's findings changed over time, in ways that the city's own investigators found troubling. Stewart's eyes had been preserved for examination and then, somehow, were not available.

He was a young Black artist in the downtown scene — he knew people, he was part of that world. And his death terrified the people in it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was 22 and already famous, painted a picture of two police officers clubbing a faceless Black figure. He called it "Defacement." He reportedly said afterward: it could have been me.

Basquiat died five years later. The painting still exists. It is one of the most important things he ever made and almost nobody knows what it is about.

A kid with a marker. Thirteen days. Zero convictions.

[Yashua @yashflee]

@EFCJakeWY @SloughWillum damn i’ll try tomorrow 💔🫡

[Yashua @yashflee]

“ahhhh i’m inspired by white people who liked r&b and not black people who liked r&b ahhh im so different”

[Yashua @yashflee]

i’ve also been informed that there is only one white nigga in massive attack. my bad yall 🫡

[Yashua @yashflee]

when i listen to Res, Kelis & Santigold i know that i’m listening to something outside of the genre of r&b because the music will tell you. put the music first always.

[Yashua @yashflee]

@kngdomheartszel nah

[Yashua @yashflee]

@predebutjjong69 honestly the response was more-so to trip hop being looked at as this huge diversion from r&b when it’s not. but i also didn’t know that there was only one white dude in massive attack lmao.