[ACLU\Portland]
ACLU: “Multiple volunteer street medics are suing the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Marshals Service, and the City of Portland for targeting and attacking them at Portland protests against police brutality.”
Photo: ACLU
Black Lives Matter
MLB Will Allow Black Lives Matter Patches on Jerseys
[Major League Baseball]
Yahoo: Major League Baseball players have the option of having a patch with ”Black Lives Matter” or ”United For Change” on a jersey sleeve on opening day…”
Photo: YouTube
Trump’s Secret Police Creating Constitutional Crisis in Portland
[Trump’s Secret Police\Portland]
Brown: “Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland have been shot in the head with kinetic impact munitions, swept away in unmarked cars…We cannot sit idly by and accept this as the new normal — in Portland or anywhere else in this country.”
Photo: Twitter
NYC Council Speaker: We Are “Reimagining Public Safety” in Eric Garner’s Name
[Eric Garner]
NYC Speaker Corey Johnson: “Today, we recommit to the work of reimagining public safety, in the name of Eric Garner.”
Photo: YouTube
Preston Wilson: MLB Late in Speaking Out on Social Justice
[Preston Wilson]
Sports Illustrated: “Nine days after police officers in Minneapolis killed George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement overtook the headlines, Major League Baseball became the last major U.S. professional sports organization to speak out.”
Photo: YouTube
Barkley: Sports World Turning in “Circus” on Social Justice Issues
[Charles Barkley\Social Justice]
Barkley: “We need police reform, we need prison reform. My concern is turning this into a circus instead of trying to do some good stuff.”
Photo: YouTube
Major League Soccer Players Launch Season with Silent Protest
[Major League Soccer\Black Lives Matter]
Tampa Bay Times: “Players wore black T-shirts, black gloves and black face masks emblazoned with Black Lives Matter. The shirts had varying slogans that included Black And Proud, Silence Is Violence and Black All The Time.”
Photo: YouTube
Black Lives Matter Shines Light on Police Brutality in Africa
[Police Brutality\Africa]
Campbell: “Police use of excessive force is an old song in Africa, and reform is difficult. Police forces tend to have been established by the former colonial powers, and they are national—a gendarmerie—rather than local”
Photo: YouTube
New Book: White Christian Privilege Pervades US Political, Social Institutions
[“White Christian Privilege”]
Joshi: “As long as we treat our foundational ideals…as if they are realities rather than aspirations, the dominance of Protestant Christianity and Whiteness over the political and social institutions of the United States will remain invisible.”
Photo: YouTube
Killer Lines, Killer Cops, and Trump’s Vote-Heist 2020 Dress Rehearsal
[2020 Elections\Voter Suppression]
Palast: “What the press calls the “meltdown” in Georgia (and in the Wisconsin and Kentucky primaries) was very much a dress rehearsal for the plan for minority voting hell in November.”
Photo: YouTube
