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- grafician-4
Guess not.
"The shocking death of Tyre Nichols after a police beating has reopened anguished debate across the United States about police violence, fueling a sense that the huge, nationwide demonstrations of 2020 have done little to solve the problem."
- grafician4
“We stand in solidarity with our brothers in the NBA” —Elizabeth Williams announces that no WNBA games will be played tonight.
- drgs0
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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/…An old story about Isaac Woodard, a black decorated WWII veteran, discharged from service with honour in 1946.
""On February 12, 1946, Woodard was on a Greyhound Lines bus traveling from Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where he had been discharged, en route to rejoin his family in North Carolina. When the bus reached a rest stop just outside Augusta, Woodard asked the bus driver if there was time for him to use a restroom. The driver grudgingly acceded to the request after an argument. Woodard returned to his seat from the rest stop without incident, and the bus departed.[2]
The bus stopped in Batesburg (now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina), near Aiken. Though Woodard had caused no disruption (other than the earlier argument), the driver contacted the local police (including Chief Lynwood Shull), who forcibly removed Woodard from the bus. After demanding to see his discharge papers, a number of Batesburg policemen, including Shull, took Woodard to a nearby alleyway, where they beat him repeatedly with nightsticks. They then took Woodard to the town jail and arrested him for disorderly conduct, accusing him of drinking beer in the back of the bus with other soldiers.
During the course of the night in jail, Shull beat and blinded Woodard, who later stated in court that he was beaten for saying "Yes" instead of "Yes, sir".[4] He also suffered partial amnesia as a result of his injuries. Woodard further testified that he was punched in the eyes by police several times on the way to the jail, and later repeatedly jabbed in his eyes with a billy club.[5] Newspaper accounts[6] indicate that Woodard's eyes had been "gouged out"; historical documents indicate that each globe was ruptured irreparably in the socket.[7]
The following morning, the Batesburg police sent Woodard before the local judge, who found him guilty and fined him fifty dollars.""
Rest of the story, tl;dr -- 7 months later, president Truman directed to open an investigation, Shull and his officers were indicted, during the trial Shull did not dispute the eye poking, but the prosecutor stated that if the police chief was to be convicted, South Carolina would announce its independence from the States. The jury unanimously found him innocent, met with a lengthy applause by all who were gathered.
A black soldier who fought against Nazism and came home to racially segregated buses and toilets and had his eyes poked out.
Why? Because "home of the brave and land of the free".Burn the whole continent with napalm, and sow it with 1 meter thick layer of salt, so that no life ever grows out again.
- Ramanisky20
Give him the ticket and be on your way. This cop is in the wrong, knows it and still can’t back the fuck down and de-escalate the situation.
- pango-1
- grafician0
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