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iluvtennis

(19,863 posts)
Sat Jun 15, 2019, 01:49 AM Jun 2019

Video shows cop threatening to shoot a Black mother dead because her 4-year-old "stole" 99 cent doll


@OccupyDemocrats
BREAKING: New video shows a deranged cop threatening to shoot a Black mother dead because her 4-year-old toddler "stole" a 99 cent Barbie from a dollar store. UNBELIEVABLE! THIS IS AMERICA... #Racism #PhoenixPD #BlackLivesMAtter #ThisIsAmerica



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This sh*t needs to stop. These cops put the life of a woman and 2 kids at risk for a barbie doll that the 4 year old took from dollar tree. I doubt a 4 year old even know what to steal something is.

These cops need to be fired. This is unacceptable behavior.

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Video shows cop threatening to shoot a Black mother dead because her 4-year-old "stole" 99 cent doll (Original Post) iluvtennis Jun 2019 OP
Fired, and thrown in jail!!!! secondwind Jun 2019 #1
Sickening abuse of power democrank Jun 2019 #2
HANDS IN THE AIR! OPEN The DOOR AND STEP OUT OF THE CAR! alphafemale Jun 2019 #3
And she had a little one in her arms. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #4
This is not going to go away quietly. The Family attorney is the ex Az AG. irisblue Jun 2019 #5
Good - that was out of control csziggy Jun 2019 #6
Ditto iluvtennis Jun 2019 #8
I just finished listening to a podcast about the "Red Summer" 1919. Fla Dem Jun 2019 #7

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. Fired, and thrown in jail!!!!
Sat Jun 15, 2019, 02:49 AM
Jun 2019

I can’t believe my eyes, what I just saw and heard!

We are BETTER than this, damn it.

irisblue

(32,985 posts)
5. This is not going to go away quietly. The Family attorney is the ex Az AG.
Sat Jun 15, 2019, 11:13 AM
Jun 2019

azfamily 3TV CBS 5 (@azfamily) Tweeted:
Family to sue Phoenix PD for $10 million over officers' response to a report about stolen doll
https://t.co/d8pGHnVSyW https://t.co/G3V1CR2xc5


Fla Dem

(23,696 posts)
7. I just finished listening to a podcast about the "Red Summer" 1919.
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 03:42 PM
Jun 2019

We really haven't come very far. It seemed for a while the US was moving forward, but there has been so much backsliding in the last 3 years, it's discouraging. Or perhaps we as a nation really didn't progress as much as I thought. It was all just an illusion while festering under the surface were the nationalist, bigots, racist and supremacists waiting for the likes of DJT to raise his serpent head and say follow me, "Make America Great Again"

Red Summer
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The Red Summer refers to the late winter, spring, summer, and early autumn of 1919, which were marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of anti-black white supremacist terrorist attack that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases many black people fought back, notably in Chicago and Washington, D.C. The highest number of fatalities occurred in the rural area around Elaine, Arkansas, where an estimated 100–240 black people, and five white people, were killed; Chicago and Washington, D.C. had 38 and 15 deaths, respectively, and many more injured, with extensive property damage in Chicago.[1]

The racial riots against blacks resulted from a variety of postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both black and white, and competition for jobs and housing among ethnic white people and black people.[2] In addition, it was a time of labor unrest in which some industrialists used black people as strikebreakers, increasing resentment. The riots were extensively documented in the press, which, along with the federal government, feared Socialist and communist influence on the black civil rights movement following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. They also feared foreign anarchists, who had bombed homes and businesses of prominent business and government leaders.

Civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson coined the term "Red Summer"; he had been employed as a field secretary since 1916 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1919, he organized peaceful protests against the racial violence of that summer.[3][4]


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