Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait

Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 15 - 12:27 AM

Systemic racism needs to address;
Bail reform
court fees leading to perpetual jail
extortion of innocent people to plead guilty
sub prime fraud
red lining
white supremacy cops
Grand jury for every murdered black man woman or child.
Stop electing prosecutors.
body cams, face cams
no more street line ups
stop hide and swoop
cut back swat attacks by 90% to 70 levels
stop leaving dead black bodies in the street for 6 hours
Fire abusive cop 1st time he costs the county or state settlement money.

Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
From: Greg F.
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 05:29 PM

Perhaps the mods should have deleted the idiotic guest post of 29 Jun 15 - 01:27 PM as well,eh?

Nothing to do with "shaming" - everything to do with confronting idiotic nonsense.

Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 05:19 PM

Perhaps the Challenger should have stopped.

Subject: anymod help request, blickifying image links above
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 02:31 PM

Post above deleted

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Please no shaming in this thread. The subject matter is a tragedy, not a flaming/shaming opportunity.

~S~

Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:27 PM

Some children were run over in a police chase. The article calls Detroit police practice in car chases into question but the text makes no mention of the race of the pursued, the victims or of the police officers.

Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:13 PM

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A friend of the family described the horrible scene:

"[The police] were right on their rear, the police car bumped their tail a little bit, and the car flew up in the air," the friend said. "There was no need for the police to be that close. I yelled 'WATCH OUT' but it was too late. When the car hit them, both of them just looked at me. They screamed. It just keeps re-playing in my head. … I ran down there, I yelled out their names, but they were gone. Makiah's eyes were wide open, they died on impact."

"I'm the last one they talked to. They looked at me, they were here, I saw their faces. L'il Mama (Makiah) thought I was going to take them to the park, so she came with me to the sidewalk. I told her I promise I'll take you to the park tomorrow."

Even after the car had dragged the children a distance down the street, the police did not stop their pursuit. They continued to chase the car across one front lawn after another, finally crashing, critically injuring three more children including three year old Darius Andrews, Jr., Isaiah Williams, 5, and Zyaire Gardner, 7. Twenty-two-year-old LaKendra Hill sustained injuries. The father of the youngest called seven-year-old Zaire "the real hero," adding, "He saved my son's life. He grabbed him and tried to hold him."

Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 01:11 PM

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"Officers must place the protection of human life above all other considerations."

Detroit, MI — Or so says the official policy of the Detroit Police Department. Yet, on Wednesday, Detroit police continued a high-speed chase into a busy neighborhood, resulting in two small children being killed and others injured.

Brother and sister Michaelangelo and Makiah Jackson, ages 6 and 3 respectively, were playing in front of their home when a police car appeared, chasing what appeared to be a red Challenger. According to eyewitnesses, the police car bumped the Challenger, and the car "flew up in the air." Witnesses heard tire squeals, as if the car was attempting to stop, but by then it was going too fast and had lost control and hit the two small children, killing them instantly.


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-tear-neighborhood-stopping-chase-plowing-killing-children/#op6tsR4ZOqCbvl68.99

Subject: Why action to end US Systemic Racism can't
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 15 - 12:08 PM

Read this and weep. Then don't spend too long doing that before you get busy.

PRECIOUS CHILDREN 

~Susan