Policing is an instrument of social control and racial domination. #AbolishThePolice

“Another unarmed black boy has been shot down by police. Absorbing the ongoing news of the investigation Monday morning, I listened to eyewitness interviews and looked on as the media flashed pictures of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old gunned down by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer over the weekend. . . . Let me be clear: Unarmed college hopefuls don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids heading to work or trade school don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids floundering aimlessly through life don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids who have been in trouble—even those who have been nothing but trouble—don’t deserve to be shot. “. . . We cannot and should not engage in discussions that look like black and brown people explaining that an unarmed person shouldn’t have been shot because they lived in a way of which we are proud. “I wouldn’t have cared if Mike, Trayvon and John all sagged their pants down to their ankles and if the only images of them depicted them smoking pot and throwing gang signs. I wouldn’t have cared if they’d been high school dropouts who fought and tagged walls. Their lives would have been every bit as valuable, and their losses every bit as infuriating and sad. . . .” — Jasmine Banks @ The Root http://ift.tt/1sUN7oP

Michael Brown was gunned down by police for jaywalking and for trying to run away from a lunatic cop who was already threatening to shoot him. #PublicSafety #AbolishThePolice

Nevada folks! FNB chapter starting in Reno

Torrance Police’s “reasonable mistakes” look like this: ‘. . . Now driving the opposite direction as instructed, Perdue then saw another Torrance Police vehicle come around the corner traveling towards him on Flagler Lane. Perdue pulled his truck to the side of the road. ‘“Without any warning, the second Torrance police car accelerated to 25-30 mils per hour, suddenly turned and crashed broadside into David’s black Honda Ridgeline, spinning him around and tearing off the rear axle. The airbags and side curtain airbags in David’s vehicle deployed. David’s upper body was thrown over the console, toward the passenger seat,” the lawsuit states. ‘One or both of the unnamed officers then opened fire on Perdue, riddling the truck with bullets that pierced the windshield and the airbags, narrowly missing the innocent driver. Perdue was then ripped from the driver’s seat and a gun was placed to his head, and he was forced to lay face down on the street. . .’ . . . ‘The police alleged that they thought they were attacking Christopher Dorner; a 6’2″ 270-lb muscular black man with a shaved head driving a 2005 charcoal-gray Nissan Titan pickup truck, with a roof-rack and oversized tires. David Perdue is a white man, under 6′ tall with a small build, who was driving a black Honda Ridgeline pickup truck. . . .’ Oh. Whoops! Our bad!* (* N.B.: even if it had been Dorner they rammed and lit up, this was an obvious attempt by police to flat-out murder a man without any semblance of due process. But, in this case, we’re told it’s a “reasonable” mistake when they engage in hyperviolent attacks on people when they cannot have any possible clue who they’re assaulting.) #AbolishThePolice

Hey, remember back when they elected a guy who was going to end the war on Iraq? Boy howdy, that was a time. #USOut

http://ift.tt/1olKRYg Jocelyn Pook, “Oppenheimer” (1997).

Fountain and Peace Statue at the Nagasaki Peace Park, present day. http://ift.tt/1lKxbAn

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