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  1. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  2. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  3. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  4. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  5. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

  6. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

  7. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

  8. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

  9. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

  10. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

  11. 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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  12. 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)

    (6/6)

  13. 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)

    (6/6)

  14. 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)

    (6/6)

  15. 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)

    (6/6)

  16. Historianspeaks remembers Eric Garner whoo would have turned 54 today.
    On July 17, 2014, Garner, an African American man, was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island by Daniel Pantaleo, NYPD officer, after Pantaleo approached Garner about selling loose cigarettes, used a chokehold, an illegal restraining tactic, causing Garner to lose consciousness and die.. Video footage of the incident generated widespread national attention. #EricGarner #ICan'tBreathe #NYPD #PoliceBrutality

  17. Policing America…sad, reprehensible, repulsive

    “To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked Dodge Chargers through the streets, often all too recklessly, sowing fear as they went, spitting venom from their windows, jumping out with guns drawn at the slightest sign of an infraction.”

    #tyrenichols #ericgarner #policebrutality #policeviolence
    bit.ly/3xV4kqF

  18. Policing America…sad, reprehensible, repulsive

    “To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked Dodge Chargers through the streets, often all too recklessly, sowing fear as they went, spitting venom from their windows, jumping out with guns drawn at the slightest sign of an infraction.”

    #tyrenichols #ericgarner #policebrutality #policeviolence
    bit.ly/3xV4kqF

  19. 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) wapo.st/3Y5OyEV #Biden #StateOfTheUnionAddress #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceReform #BlackLivesMatter #TyreNichols #EricGarner #TamirRice #MikeBrown

  20. CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol

    Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works axios.com/2023/02/03/most-amer "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.

  21. #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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Li

  22. RT @[email protected]

    #BlackLivesMatter protesters marching from 42st to Trump tower, led by Rev Kevin McCall, #EricGarner mother and #GeorgeFloyd brother. Chanting take your knees off our neck.

    🐦🔗: twitter.com/theeye74/status/12

  23. Die Proteste nach George Floyds Tod weiten sich auf die gesamten USA aus. Sie zeigen, wie groß die Wut über rassistische Polizeigewalt und die überproportional hohe Zahl der von Beamten getöteten Afroamerikaner ist.
    USA: Afroamerikaner im Visier der Polizei | DW | 01.06.2020
    #USA #Polizeigewalt #Minneapolis #Rassismus #GeorgeFloyd #EricGarner
  24. We hear about #RamseyOrta from his fiance, Deja, as well as his mistreatment in prison for his copwatching of NYPD killing of #EricGarner & Ramsey's push for release. Then, housing organizers in #Asheville on #mutualaid, precarity & #rentfreezenow.

    thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org

  25. Via Brianna Tucker: “Mothers, fathers and siblings of Black people killed by police will attend President Biden’s 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) wapo.st/3Y5OyEV

  26. 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) wapo.st/3Y5OyEV #Biden #StateOfTheUnionAddress #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceReform #BlackLivesMatter #TyreNichols #EricGarner #TamirRice #MikeBrown

  27. 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) wapo.st/3Y5OyEV #Biden #StateOfTheUnionAddress #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceReform #BlackLivesMatter #TyreNichols #EricGarner #TamirRice #MikeBrown

  28. 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) wapo.st/3Y5OyEV #Biden #StateOfTheUnionAddress #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceReform #BlackLivesMatter #TyreNichols #EricGarner #TamirRice #MikeBrown

  29. CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol

    Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works axios.com/2023/02/03/most-amer "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.

  30. CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol

    Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works axios.com/2023/02/03/most-amer "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.

  31. CW: Americans don't understand prohibition #uspol

    Most Americans don't understand how #prohibition works axios.com/2023/02/03/most-amer "The majority of Americans (57%) support a ban on the sale of all #tobacco products and even more support blocking sales of #menthol #cigarettes [favored by Black people] (62%), a CDC study ... found." Not mentioned: how much more policing and jail capacity would be needed to enforce it. Americans have forgotten how cops killed #EricGarner for selling loose cigarettes.

  32. #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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Li

  33. #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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Li

  34. #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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Li

  35. #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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Li