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May

The Cops Have Always Been The Violent Ones

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #DefundPolice, #DefundThePolice, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, Ahmaud, Arbery, atlanta, Breonna, cnn, cops, Floyd, george, minneapolis, New York, police brutality, protester, Protesting, protestor, protests, racism, racist, racists, taylor, tweets, Violence, violent, White Supremacy

This boy had his hands up when an NYPD ofcr pulled his mask down and pepper sprayed him. ⁦@NYPDShea⁩? Mayor ⁦… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) May 31, 2020

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own fro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

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notice how you don’t see any of this on the news. https://t.co/kaYiXVVagN
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𝐲𝐚𝐬 🐝BLM (@sottcalum) May 31, 2020

White people talking to white people. More of this please. If you’re white and you believe yourself not to be racis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 31, 2020

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Evergreen until it’s not. https://t.co/AG11URt6O2
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Issa Rae (@IssaRae) May 30, 2020

This is the moment Minneapolis Police fired on our CBS News crew with rubber bullets. As you can see, no protesters… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Michael George (@MikeGeorgeCBS) May 31, 2020

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I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020

watching a stream of the union square protests to see this police officer throw up what looks to be a white power s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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kiki (@kikimurphy_) May 31, 2020

May

Property Is Not More Valuable Than Black Lives

By Nerdy Wonka 312 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, #BreonnaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, #JusticeForAhmaud, activism, Activists, Ahmaud, Arbery, Breonna, civil rights, death, Do The Right Thing, Fannie Lou Hamer, Floyd, george, lee, minneapolis, minnesota, movie, murder, politics, protester, Protesters, Protesting, protestor, protestors, protests, racism, Radio Raheem, spike, Spike Lee, taylor, tweets, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Spike Lee said that when Do The Right Thing came out, a lot of critics thought it irresponsible to show Mookie thro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Lysol In E Flat (@GeeDee215) May 28, 2020

Spike often notes that it's exclusively white people who ask him if Mookie did the right thing by throwing the tras… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Wesley (@WesleyLowery) May 28, 2020

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(Spoiler: the message of the movie was that in the face of oppressive state violence and persistent structural and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Wesley (@WesleyLowery) May 28, 2020

@WesleyLowery https://t.co/1TQlQWGiV3
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Kamesha ‘Corprate Thuggin’ Williams (@raynebowmom) May 28, 2020

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This is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer talking about the history of racial terror lynchings of Black people and how some Bla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The Funky Educator (@MrKinetik) May 28, 2020

They. Know. What. They've. Done. To. Us. twitter.com/mrkinetik/stat…
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king crissle (@crissles) May 29, 2020

Jul

The President’s Day

By Nerdy Wonka 85 Comments

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Activist, Activists, Barack Obama, building, cops, Obama, police brutality, Political And Funny Tweets, protester, Protesters, tweets, white house

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President Barack Obama speaks during a conversation on community policing and criminal justice

Black Lives Matter activist Mica Grimm (R) listens beside New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman (L) during a discussion on community policing and criminal justice at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, on July 13, 2016 in Washington, DC. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Black Lives Matter activist Mica Grimm listens beside New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman

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Just finished a nearly 4.5h meeting with @POTUS. I'll share more later, but it was honest, productive, truthful...and a marathon 😉
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Brittany Packnett☔️ (@MsPackyetti) July 13, 2016

.@WhiteHouse staff keeps telling us this is the longest meeting they've personally been in w @POTUS. I'll say this: he cares.
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Brittany Packnett☔️ (@MsPackyetti) July 13, 2016

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti; President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Sherrilyn Ifill; Chief Terry Cuningham of the International Association of Chiefs of Police

Feb

Don’t Come For President Obama If He Didn’t Send For You

By Nerdy Wonka 134 Comments

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Tags: 2014, Barack Obama, dnc, heckler, Obama, President, protester, russia

The most EPIC BURN in the history of burns. Bravo, President Obama!

Feb

the face of, eh, compassionate conservatism

By Chipsticks 1 Comment

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Tags: Barack, care, health, healthcare, medicare, Obama, President, protester, summit, teabagger

But if she chokes on a teabag she’ll be okay, she has Medicare.

Protesters against national healthcare demonstrate across the street from Blair House, site of today’s Health Care Summit, February 25, 2010 in Washington