#ericgarner — Public Fediverse posts

@mekkaokereke @Viss The thing that radicalized me at age 20 was cops hassling me all the time in my all-white neighborhood because I was a long-haired dirtbag. "Where you goin? HEY JAGOFF! TALKIN A YOU! You gotta job?"

But the thing that seriously, permanently radicalized me, activated me, was years of taking the bus downtown for work overnight and seeing cops on the sidewalk ignore me and manhandle black guys my age, sirens, lights, spread against the wall, screaming, frisking, handcuffs, clubs, guns, totally routine, all the time, not for anything, just a bullshit sadistic power trip. Same as with hassling me, except always on the very edge of deadly violence for the black guys.

Justice for Jonny Gammage! And Eric Garner, and George Floyd, and all the guys before and since murdered by cops for being black.

#blm #blacklivesmatter #justice #jonnygammage #georgefloyd #ericgarner #neverforget

"I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

"I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

#Racism #Bigotry #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #AmericanHistory #SayTheirNames #TreyvonMartin #PhilandoCastile #GeorgeFloyd #SandraBland #TamirRice #EricGarner #BreonnaTaylor #DaunteWright #AndreHill #ManuelEllis #AtatianaJefferson #AuraRosser #StephonClark #BothamJean #AltonSterling

Fuck, there are just too many names...

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

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Via Brianna Tucker: “Mothers, fathers and siblings of Black people killed by police will attend President Biden’s #SOTU address as guests of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has ramped up a push for police reform since Tyre Nichols’s killing.” (gift article, no paywall) https://wapo.st/3Y5OyEV #Biden #StateOfTheUnionAddress #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceReform #BlackLivesMatter #TyreNichols #EricGarner #TamirRice #MikeBrown

#BlackLivesMatter
street #demonstrations following the 2014 #deaths of two more #AfricanAmericans, #MichaelBrown—resulting in #protests and #unrest in #Ferguson, #Missouri, a city near #StLouis—and #EricGarner in #NewYorkCity.[11][12] Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the movement have demonstrated against the deaths of numerous other African Americans by #police actions or while in police #custody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

This is my family:
#TrayvonRice
#GeorgeFloyd 
#FreddieGray 
#SamDubose 
#PhilandoCastile
#TerenceCrutcher 
#AltonSterling 
#JamarClark 
#JeremyMcDole
#WilliamChapman II
#WalterScott
#EricHarris
#AkaiGurley 
#MichaelBrown
#EricGarner

I watched the joyous skateboarding montage of #TyreNichols.

He could be your friend, your brother, your kid. In fact he is. So is:

#TrayvonMartin*
#TamirRice*
#GeorgeFloyd
#FreddieGray
#SamDubose
#PhilandoCastile
#TerenceCrutcher
#AltonSterling
#JamarClark
#JeremyMcDole
#WilliamChapman II
#WalterScott
#EricHarris
#AkaiGurley
#MichaelBrown
#EricGarner

#saytheirnames

(Edited because I am a dummy and transposed their names)

Black Twitter's Expected Demise Would Make It Harder To Publicize Police Brutality and Discuss Racism

#BlackTwitter
#policebrutality
#racism
#GeorgeFloyd
#LaquanMcDonald
#SandraBland
#BreonnaTaylor
#PhilandoCastile
#MikeBrown #Ferguson
#EricGarner #AltonSterling #TrayvonMartin #TwitterMigration #twitterexodus
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM

https://theconversation.com/black-twitters-expected-demise-would-make-it-harder-to-publicize-police-brutality-and-discuss-racism-195146