[Police Killing\Tony McDade]
David J. Johns: “We encourage you to call the Tallahassee Police Department at 850-891-0000 to register concern and to demand a complete investigation and public accounting for what happened to Tony McDade.”
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Breonna Taylor
TALLAHASSEE POLICE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR KILLING BLACK TRANS MAN TONY MCDADE
WHAT DOES MEMORIAL DAY REPRESENT FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS?
[Memorial Day]
African-Americans are cited as having been the first to commemorate what would become Memorial Day, though it has now been fully co-opted by white America.
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LAWYER SAYS POLICE “NEED TO GET THEIR STORY STRAIGHT” AFTER BREONNA TAYLOR’S BOYFRIEND RELEASE
[Breonna Taylor\Kenneth Walker]
Crump: “They need to get their story straight. First, they publicized that they knocked and announced. But then they stated they had a no-knock warrant that did not require them to knock and announce.”
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WHAT WOULD MALCOLM X SAY IF HE WERE HERE TODAY?
[Black Star Editorial\Malcolm X]
Malcolm X: “When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom…A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.”
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INVESTIGATE AHMAUD ARBERY’S DEATH—AND CORRUPT SYSTEM THAT LET HIS MURDERERS GO
[Marc Morial\Ahmaud Arbery]
Morial: “It boggles the mind that in the year 2020 there are still people in positions of authority who accept, unquestioningly, the notion that a Black man who fails to heed the orders of a white man on the street deserves instant death.”
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LYING LOUISVILLE COPS MURDERED BREONNA TAYLOR THEN ACCUSE BOYFRIEND OF ATTEMPTED COP KILLING
[“Speaking Truth to Empower”]
Benjamin: These despicably dishonest officials want to railroad Walker on the false charge of attempted murder—after these police murdered his girlfriend Taylor. Doesn’t this show us just how perverse America’s so-called criminal “justice” system is?
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THE PANDEMIC OF AMERICAN RACISM MUST BE HEALED TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY
[American Racism]
Koehler: “Real change would probably have to begin with an enormous public conversation, and national acknowledgment of our history, including slavery and genocide — the theft of people, the theft of the continent — followed by atonement, reparations.”
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BREONNA TAYLOR’S KILLING BY POLICE SHOULD BE INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATED
[Breonna Taylor\Racial Policing]
LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill: “Breonna Taylor was entitled to be treated as a hero. Instead, her life was taken from her in a killing that warrants the close scrutiny of an independent, transparent investigation.”
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