We are a nation in pain right now, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us.
As President, I will help lead this conversation — and more importantly, I will listen, just as I did today visiting the site of last night's protests in Wilmington. pic.twitter.com/0h2ApbKT0C
The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor are not isolated incidents. They are the result of systematic racism that has existed for generations.
Police brutality is a matter of life & death for Black people in America. Countless others should still be alive.
If you missed the AWESOME Kirk Franklin and the MAGNIFICENT Fred Hammond in their Verzuz TV battle of gospel hits today, here’s the best news! Replay is available on Instagram and YouTube! Yaaaaaay!
As protests erupt over the death of George Floyd, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says many in his country are watching "the news out of the United States with shock and with horror." https://t.co/Rn6IWPdpVYpic.twitter.com/BJFglO5mYr
Those images of cops kneeling with protesters is such performative nonsense. We don’t need you kneeling with us. We need you to stop murdering Black people.
The same cops kneeling today are the same ones who have killed us in the past and will kill us tomorrow.
Stop with your ridiculous kneeling and marching and surrender your weapons of war. Work with local and city councils to rein your obscene budget that does nothing to help protect communities and only empowers you to act with impunity. Call out your police unions for being nothing more than the KKK with different hoods. Hold your fellow killer cops accountable and stop taking taxpayer money to support their killings. Let the funds come from their large pension pool.
Work with local, city, and state law makers to create trained, fully budgeted, expert and community organized alternative teams and departments that the cops have no involvement with. There should be no reason why when social, health, and mental health services are needed, the cops show up, escalate the situation, and it becomes deadly.
Cops should never be equipped with military vehicles, military gear, and military weapons. They’re cops. They’re not in a bloody active war zone.
This and so many more policies need to be enacted. Until then, you can miss me with your bullshit.
This was the start of protests in Bellevue today. Officers arm in arm with demonstrators, praying. Video credit to Mike McKnight pic.twitter.com/Gkg5lhEE4j
WATCH: Gripping video of a SHREVEPORT Police Officer consoling a crying protestor. In confusion they feared for their lives when the officer told them not to be on top of the courthouse statue pic.twitter.com/baFyjTcSg7
We are a nation in pain right now, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us.
As President, I will help lead this conversation — and more importantly, I will listen, just as I did today visiting the site of last night's protests in Wilmington. pic.twitter.com/0h2ApbKT0C
that symbol on the pillar of a capital A inside of a circle-means #Anarchy i have seen it in a doz. places. A capital A inside a circle is the symbol for Anarchy, which is a “state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems”. https://t.co/dZKPXdx4xW
I stand with peaceful protesters in Petal, Mississippi and across the state. They’re doing the right thing the right way. Mayor Marx should be ashamed of himself.https://t.co/eRCyU7Eopi
As Americans protest racism and police brutality across the country for the 4th day, Trump’s re-election campaign sends a fundraising plea to help defeat “Cheatin’ Obama” — the country’s first African American president pic.twitter.com/iDWi5asLL0
BREAKING: Mayor of Atlanta just announced that 2 police officers have been fired for using excessive force in dragging 2 individuals out of a car last night. This is the video. pic.twitter.com/yWyTcpZguV
My wife still gets only one paper mask per 15-hour ICU shift, and she's still expected to provide her own face-covering when walking in the door. https://t.co/hhg28fjKWD
James Scurlock, a 22-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a white bar owner on Saturday night in Omaha, Nebraska, during a George Floyd protest. Witnesses said the gunman used racial slurs before the shooting. #JamesScurlockhttps://t.co/N2Yi3VN8eVpic.twitter.com/BxVt8hEMwP
BREAKING: Tanker truck plows into crowd of demonstrators on Minneapolis highway. Protesters scrambled as truck battled toward them. pic.twitter.com/Q5cTF9AGB2
Watched that LIVE as it was happening on our Local TV.
The driver was arrested.
So far no motives established.
Imagine ploughing an 18 wheeler possibly filled with something as thousands were peacefully protesting.
Scary.
UPDATE: @MnDPS_MSP say the truck driver was injured & taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He is under arrest. It doesn’t appear any protesters were hit by the truck. #wcco
While protestors were taking a knee on I-35 a semi truck driver ran into protestors. The police have arrived macing protestors instead of going after the truck driver. pic.twitter.com/BmqFseSmUJ
Today's @HoustonChron, the 3rd largest Sunday and 9th daily newspaper in the US, is the boldest I've ever seen an American newspaper. pic.twitter.com/TYhsPsf2UD
Coward uses ignorant inflammatory language, and now he scared. He can rot in hell. I hope he is terrified every day of his miserable life
Nervous for his safety amid the protests outside the White House gates on Friday night, Secret Service agents abruptly rushed Trump to the underground bunker used in the past during terrorist attacks. https://t.co/sW0d4MBvBs
"We can’t see the African Americans dying of covid inside our hospitals, but we can see George Floyd cruelly singled out for asphyxiation in the street. His death is a symbol of the obscene inequality and racial hostility of this moment." My column: https://t.co/fTsr3K4v4A
I don’t think people are really acknowledging how large Biden’s lead over Trump is. Trump is the worst polling incumbent in 80 years. An incumbent President has never polled as poorly as Trump in an election year. He’s not invincible. In fact he’s very weak. Always was.
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) June 1, 2020
The justice system must be fair both in theory and practice. @GovTimWalz's decision to have Minnesota’s Attorney General take the lead in this case is the right one to ensure independence, public trust and justice.https://t.co/bBxyjld39G
More than a thread, this is a history lesson not taught in America’s schools or in the books which we use to educate our children. Knowledge is power… ignorance begets itself. https://t.co/EJWN3zfsVu
Listen to this woman. She’s been advocating real education and justice for decades. Those she taught are still clear about what is right and wrong to this day. Her name is Jane Elliot. https://t.co/BlcURdpNfe
In solidarity w/ our brothers & sisters in Minneapolis, KYRC + @kaepernick7 established our Legal Defense Initiative to support Freedom Fighters on the ground. If you, or a loved one needs legal assistance, or to donate, go to https://t.co/BQO5g9f5wb#wegotuspic.twitter.com/5g3wn1wXso
— Know Your Rights Camp (@yourrightscamp) May 29, 2020
A free and independent press is a bedrock of our democracy. It's part of what sets us apart from dictatorships. Attacking press who are on the ground during these protests is horrifying and undermines our democracy.
There is a perversity about Trump and his followers. We can so clearly see it. Everything they say and do is an affront to decency, kindness, respecting one’s fellows and integrity. They are damaged people who have congregated and unleashed their severe disorders onto the country. I try to reach out in my mind and heart each day for something that is the opposite. Respecting, empowering and including. Trump’s mental illness and generational malignant narcissism is playing out before our eyes and we have to stay strong in our own reality and not get sucked into their morass of sadism and destructive insecurity.
Reading your words this morning, my first thought was that they were the makings of a good Foreword to a profound book. Keep writing – and, most importantly, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I have been in and around politics my entire life. For last 15 years I have been working in political advertising. I have seen thousands of ads. None of them made me cry. Until today. https://t.co/oRgmfLOvIF
Symbolically yes but is he gonna actually leave? No.
This is a resignation. It should be taken as a resignation. If your country is in crisis, your cities are burning, your police forces are assaulting, murdering, and kidnapping people, and you turn the lights off and hide? You’re not the President. You’ve resigned your duties. pic.twitter.com/VGtIaOVdtO
The ‘president” is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. The 25th amendment was never more appropriate. Late is better than never. A few months can be forever and a lot can happen. The words utterly seismically tragically UNFIT are not sufficient. Chase the filthy racist from the people’s house.
Saying the quiet part out loud “we’re going to manufacture rosy economic reports and rush through a bunch of lifetime judgeships for unqualified right-wing sycophants”
Asked about protests/police brutality, Trump said: “I’m going to win the election easily. The economy is going to start to get good & then great, better than ever before. I’m getting more judges appointed by the week.”
In this video, a black woman picks up a brick and returns it to a car with white people and admonishes them not to give bricks to black people to throw so that black people will get in trouble with the police. https://t.co/ZFzAF8gye5
A number of cadets from US Military Academy class of 2020 who were brought back for graduation where Pres Trump is giving address now tested positive for coronavirus. Army spox: “about 1.5 percent” of Class of 2020 who were brought back have tested positive per @barbarastarrcnn
There is no woman I respect more than Senator Kamala Harris. “Justice is on the ballot.” She doesn’t just say it. She lives it. pic.twitter.com/KL1OYkCj1N
I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action. https://t.co/jEczrOeFdv
This white man had a gun to me and my friends face. He was not w/ the police he was just out here instigating. If he had been black he would have been thrown to the ground arrrested and beaten. But he was peacefully tuned away. Because he’s white. pic.twitter.com/0Dxy3PcRFJ
"I was meeting with him four times a week back, a month or so ago. But as you probably noticed, that the task force meetings have not occurred as often lately. And certainly my meetings with the president have been dramatically decreased."
Thank you, @ObamaFoundation, for lifting up our New Era of Public Safety report. The best practices it recommends are adaptable to every police department in America.
Total lack of leadership. And more dangerous by the day.
I'm in touch with someone who's on the governors' call with President Trump right now. They and others listening in are alarmed. The president is urging governors to take back the streets, not be "weak," and use force as the nation faces growing racial unrest.
The Obama Diary 
A welcome break from all the activities on this planet tonight. Thanks!
THANK YOU EVERY DAY, NERDY WONKA.
God bless Joe.
Add this to the list, Nerdy.
If you missed the AWESOME Kirk Franklin and the MAGNIFICENT Fred Hammond in their Verzuz TV battle of gospel hits today, here’s the best news! Replay is available on Instagram and YouTube! Yaaaaaay!
Playlists are available on Spotify, Tidal and Pandora! Woohoo!
Two of my faves from Fred:
Two of my faves from Kirk:
Those images of cops kneeling with protesters is such performative nonsense. We don’t need you kneeling with us. We need you to stop murdering Black people.
The same cops kneeling today are the same ones who have killed us in the past and will kill us tomorrow.
Stop with your ridiculous kneeling and marching and surrender your weapons of war. Work with local and city councils to rein your obscene budget that does nothing to help protect communities and only empowers you to act with impunity. Call out your police unions for being nothing more than the KKK with different hoods. Hold your fellow killer cops accountable and stop taking taxpayer money to support their killings. Let the funds come from their large pension pool.
Work with local, city, and state law makers to create trained, fully budgeted, expert and community organized alternative teams and departments that the cops have no involvement with. There should be no reason why when social, health, and mental health services are needed, the cops show up, escalate the situation, and it becomes deadly.
Cops should never be equipped with military vehicles, military gear, and military weapons. They’re cops. They’re not in a bloody active war zone.
This and so many more policies need to be enacted. Until then, you can miss me with your bullshit.
I know that blk folks would not be using that symbol
Something to Ponder…
Watched that LIVE as it was happening on our Local TV.
The driver was arrested.
So far no motives established.
Imagine ploughing an 18 wheeler possibly filled with something as thousands were peacefully protesting.
Scary.
Thank goodness he didn’t run over anyone with that truck. I’m so glad he’s under arrest.
Coward uses ignorant inflammatory language, and now he scared. He can rot in hell. I hope he is terrified every day of his miserable life
Look for the helpers
Just watched her videos. She is amazing. Fantastic.
Interesting
A good thing. The phone call and tweet some of us sent to the governor and Keith Ellison was this request.
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All the Colins I follow are some cool people! ♥️
The thread in here is wild! 😆
So busy laughing I forgot the link
Thread
I’m afraid I don’t understand the significance of destroying a sidewalk curb. GEEZE.
To make rocks for throwing at cops and breaking windows.
Oh, of course. My bad. Thx, D.
No prob. Took me a minute too.
Gunmen at the windows? They have Doom to thank.
You nailed it.
There is a perversity about Trump and his followers. We can so clearly see it. Everything they say and do is an affront to decency, kindness, respecting one’s fellows and integrity. They are damaged people who have congregated and unleashed their severe disorders onto the country. I try to reach out in my mind and heart each day for something that is the opposite. Respecting, empowering and including. Trump’s mental illness and generational malignant narcissism is playing out before our eyes and we have to stay strong in our own reality and not get sucked into their morass of sadism and destructive insecurity.
Reading your words this morning, my first thought was that they were the makings of a good Foreword to a profound book. Keep writing – and, most importantly, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS.
Thank you, catrst, for expressing what is so true, so real, so utterly stupefying that it leaves so many of us speechless.
❤️
thank you, incredible.
Morning everyone
i am tired of the meme of Kamala Harris as AG!
This is the BEST ad I’ve ever seen!
Symbolically yes but is he gonna actually leave? No.
The ‘president” is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. The 25th amendment was never more appropriate. Late is better than never. A few months can be forever and a lot can happen. The words utterly seismically tragically UNFIT are not sufficient. Chase the filthy racist from the people’s house.
🙏🏾🎾
SOON: Biden meets with community leaders in Wilmington, DE – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
Thank you, JER. Appreciate you!
✊🏾👏🏾♥️
Morning everyone. Ann Fucking Coulter. I’ve really gone into the Twilight Zone.
SCOTUS rulings coming out NOW.
No DACA ruling today.
Saying the quiet part out loud “we’re going to manufacture rosy economic reports and rush through a bunch of lifetime judgeships for unqualified right-wing sycophants”
Huh, how could this happen?
Wow, New Zealand ♥️
Forever POTUS
VP Joe is live now. Link above with JER.
I got an Error.
Did you use this link?
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
or: https://abcnews.go.com/Live
More of this, please…. especially from Police Chiefs!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/if-youre-not-with-for-us-youre-against-us/
Hopefully the link will be fixed soon
Right?
Total lack of leadership. And more dangerous by the day.