#Jamar Clark

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1. Sonya Massey - "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus." 2. George Floyd - "I can't breathe." 3. Eric Garner - "I can't breathe." 4. Michael Brown - "I don't have a gun. Stop shooting." 5. Philando Castile - "I wasn't reaching for it." 6. Breonna Taylor - "Why did you shoot me?" 7. Freddie Gray - "I need a doctor." 8. Tamir Rice - "It's not real." 9. Oscar Grant - "You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter!" 10. Laquan McDonald - No audible last words; shot while walking away. 11. Elijah McClain - "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I'm just different. I'm just different, that's all. I'm so sorry. I have no gun. I don't do that stuff. I don't do any fighting. Why are you attacking me?" 12. Alton Sterling - "What did I do?" 13. Walter Scott - "I’m just going home." 14. Botham Jean - "Why did you shoot me?" 15. Stephon Clark - "Grandma, call the police." 16. Atatiana Jefferson - "I’m here." 17. Sandra Bland - "Why am I being apprehended?" 18. Tony McDade - "I'm not armed." 19. Daniel Prude - "Give me your gun, I need it." 20. John Crawford III - "It's not real." 21. Manuel Ellis - "I can't breathe, sir." 22. Amadou Diallo - "Mom, I'm going to college." 23. Aiyana Stanley-Jones - No audible last words; shot while sleeping. 24. Terrence Crutcher - "I'm not doing anything." 25. Sean Bell - No audible last words; shot multiple times. 26. Jonathan Ferrell - No audible last words; shot while seeking help after a car crash. 27. Ezell Ford - "It's me, it’s me." 28. John Crawford III - "It's not real." 29. Renisha McBride - No audible last words; shot while seeking help after a car accident. 30. Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. - "Why are you doing this to me?" 31. Tamir Rice - "It's not real." 32. Eric Harris - "I'm losing my breath." 33. Jamar Clark - "Please don’t let me die." 34. Rayshard Brooks - "I don't want to hurt you." 35. Alfred Olango - "Please don’t shoot." 36. Shantel Davis - "What did I do?" 37. Kendra James - "Please don’t kill me." 38. Akai Gurley - No audible last words; shot in a dark stairwell. 39. Miriam Carey - No audible last words; shot in her car. 40. Timothy Russell - No audible last words; shot during a car chase. 41. Malissa Williams - No audible last words; shot during a car chase. 42. Jordan Edwards - No audible last words; shot while leaving a party. 43. Yvette Smith - "I'm coming out." 44. Jordan Davis - No audible last words; shot at a gas station. 45. Victor White III - No audible last words; died in police custody. 46. Dontre Hamilton - No audible last words; shot in a park. 47. Eric Reason - No audible last words; shot during a dispute. 48. Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. - No audible last words; shot in a mall. 49. Oscar Grant - "You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter!" 50. Clinton Allen - No audible last words; shot during an encounter. 51. Ronnell Foster - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase. 52. Tony Robinson - No audible last words; shot during an altercation. 53. Charly Keunang - No audible last words; shot during an altercation. 54. Samuel DuBose - "I didn’t even do nothing." 55. Quintonio LeGrier - "I’m sorry." 56. Bettie Jones - "I've been shot." 57. India Kager - No audible last words; shot in a car. 58. Keith Lamont Scott - "Don't shoot him. He has no weapon." 59. Jordan Baker - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation. 60. Christian Taylor - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation. 61. Michael Dean - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop. 62. Rumain Brisbon - No audible last words; shot during an altercation. 63. Gregory Gunn - No audible last words; shot during an encounter. 64. Yuvette Henderson - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation. 65. David Joseph - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation. 66. Calvin Reid - No audible last words; died in police custody. 67. Antonio Zambrano-Montes - No audible last words; shot during an encounter. 68. Zachary Hammond - "Why did you shoot me?"

69. Anthony Hill - No audible last words; shot while naked and unarmed.

70. Saheed Vassell - No audible last words; shot while holding a metal pipe.

71. Willie McCoy - No audible last words; shot while sleeping in a car.

72. Robert White - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

73. Micheal Lorenzo Dean - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop.

74. Monique Tillman - "I didn’t do anything wrong."

75. Randy Evans - No audible last words; died in police custody.

76. Vernell Bing Jr. - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.

77. Cameron Massey - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

78. DeAndre Ballard - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

79. Maurice Gordon - "Can you let me out?"

80. Rayshard Brooks - "I don’t want to hurt you."

81. Pierre Loury - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase.

82. Deborah Danner - "I’m not feeling well."

83. Jason Harrison - "I’m sick."

84. Corey Jones - "Hold on, wait!"

85. Keith Childress - "Don't shoot."

86. Justine Damond - No audible last words; shot after calling 911.

87. Amilcar Perez-Lopez - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

88. Mario Woods - "I'm not going to shoot you."

89. William Chapman II - "Don’t shoot me."

90. Chad Robertson - No audible last words; shot while running away.

91. Charlie Willie Kunzelman - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

92. Terrence Sterling - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop.

93. Sylville Smith - "Why are you harassing me?"

94. Bruce Kelley Jr. - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

95. Korryn Gaines - No audible last words; shot during a standoff.

96. Maurice Granton Jr. - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase.

97. Paul O'Neal - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.

98. Antwon Rose II - "Why are they shooting?"

99. Patrick Harmon - "I’ll go with you."

100. Aaron Bailey - "Why did you shoot me?"

101. Miles Hall - "No! Don't do it!"

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1. Sonya Massey - "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus."

2. George Floyd - "I can't breathe."

3. Eric Garner - "I can't breathe."

4. Michael Brown - "I don't have a gun. Stop shooting."

5. Philando Castile - "I wasn't reaching for it."

6. Breonna Taylor - "Why did you shoot me?"

7. Freddie Gray - "I need a doctor."

8. Tamir Rice - "It's not real."

9. Oscar Grant - "You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter!"

10. Laquan McDonald - No audible last words; shot while walking away.

11. Elijah McClain - "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I'm just different. I'm just different, that's all. I'm so sorry. I have no gun. I don't do that stuff. I don't do any fighting. Why are you attacking me?"

12. Alton Sterling - "What did I do?"

13. Walter Scott - "I’m just going home."

14. Botham Jean - "Why did you shoot me?"

15. Stephon Clark - "Grandma, call the police."

16. Atatiana Jefferson - "I’m here."

17. Sandra Bland - "Why am I being apprehended?"

18. Tony McDade - "I'm not armed."

19. Daniel Prude - "Give me your gun, I need it."

20. John Crawford III - "It's not real."

21. Manuel Ellis - "I can't breathe, sir."

22. Amadou Diallo - "Mom, I'm going to college."

23. Aiyana Stanley-Jones - No audible last words; shot while sleeping.

24. Terrence Crutcher - "I'm not doing anything."

25. Sean Bell - No audible last words; shot multiple times.

26. Jonathan Ferrell - No audible last words; shot while seeking help after a car crash.

27. Ezell Ford - "It's me, it’s me."

28. John Crawford III - "It's not real."

29. Renisha McBride - No audible last words; shot while seeking help after a car accident.

30. Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. - "Why are you doing this to me?"

31. Tamir Rice - "It's not real."

32. Eric Harris - "I'm losing my breath."

33. Jamar Clark - "Please don’t let me die."

34. Rayshard Brooks - "I don't want to hurt you."

35. Alfred Olango - "Please don’t shoot."

36. Shantel Davis - "What did I do?"

37. Kendra James - "Please don’t kill me."

38. Akai Gurley - No audible last words; shot in a dark stairwell.

39. Miriam Carey - No audible last words; shot in her car.

40. Timothy Russell - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.

41. Malissa Williams - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.

42. Jordan Edwards - No audible last words; shot while leaving a party.

43. Yvette Smith - "I'm coming out."

44. Jordan Davis - No audible last words; shot at a gas station.

45. Victor White III - No audible last words; died in police custody.

46. Dontre Hamilton - No audible last words; shot in a park.

47. Eric Reason - No audible last words; shot during a dispute.

48. Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. - No audible last words; shot in a mall.

49. Oscar Grant - "You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter!"

50. Clinton Allen - No audible last words; shot during an encounter.

51. Ronnell Foster - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase.

52. Tony Robinson - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

53. Charly Keunang - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

54. Samuel DuBose - "I didn’t even do nothing."

55. Quintonio LeGrier - "I’m sorry."

56. Bettie Jones - "I've been shot."

57. India Kager - No audible last words; shot in a car.

58. Keith Lamont Scott - "Don't shoot him. He has no weapon."

59. Jordan Baker - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

60. Christian Taylor - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

61. Michael Dean - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop.

62. Rumain Brisbon - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

63. Gregory Gunn - No audible last words; shot during an encounter.

64. Yuvette Henderson - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

65. David Joseph - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

66. Calvin Reid - No audible last words; died in police custody.

67. Antonio Zambrano-Montes - No audible last words; shot during an encounter.

68. Zachary Hammond - "Why did you shoot me?"

69. Anthony Hill - No audible last words; shot while naked and unarmed.

70. Saheed Vassell - No audible last words; shot while holding a metal pipe.

71. Willie McCoy - No audible last words; shot while sleeping in a car.

72. Robert White - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

73. Micheal Lorenzo Dean - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop.

74. Monique Tillman - "I didn’t do anything wrong."

75. Randy Evans - No audible last words; died in police custody.

76. Vernell Bing Jr. - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.

77. Cameron Massey - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

78. DeAndre Ballard - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

79. Maurice Gordon - "Can you let me out?"

80. Rayshard Brooks - "I don’t want to hurt you."

81. Pierre Loury - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase.

82. Deborah Danner - "I’m not feeling well."

83. Jason Harrison - "I’m sick."

84. Corey Jones - "Hold on, wait!"

85. Keith Childress - "Don't shoot."

86. Justine Damond - No audible last words; shot after calling 911.

87. Amilcar Perez-Lopez - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

88. Mario Woods - "I'm not going to shoot you."

89. William Chapman II - "Don’t shoot me."

90. Chad Robertson - No audible last words; shot while running away.

91. Charlie Willie Kunzelman - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.

92. Terrence Sterling - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop.

93. Sylville Smith - "Why are you harassing me?"

94. Bruce Kelley Jr. - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.

95. Korryn Gaines - No audible last words; shot during a standoff.

96. Maurice Granton Jr. - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase.

97. Paul O'Neal - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.

98. Antwon Rose II - "Why are they shooting?"

99. Patrick Harmon - "I’ll go with you."

100. Aaron Bailey - "Why did you shoot me?"

101. Miles Hall - "No! Don't do it!

102.Justin Horton Smith- Can’t breathe.;

[lboogie1906]

Jamar Clark (May 3, 1991 - November 15, 2015) was killed by two Minneapolis, Minnesota police officers, Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. He was born in Hennepin County, Minnesota. He was adopted by Wilma and James Clark when he was four. He remained in a close relationship with his biological parents and his fourteen siblings. Not much is known about Clark’s early life. He was employed at Copeland Trucking and he hoped to attend college.

He attended Nekelia Sharp’s birthday party at her apartment on the 1500 block of Plymouth Avenue North in Minneapolis. Sharp and her husband began arguing when his girlfriend, RayAnn Hayes, attempted to break up a fight between Sharp and her husband. He grabbed Hayes in an attempt to prevent her from intervening in the fight. Hayes began fighting him and broke her ankle in that struggle. Paramedics were called to treat Hayes’s injured ankle. Police arrived on the scene at the same time, they asked him to step away from the ambulance. They attempted to arrest him, wrestling him to the ground. An EMS supervisor placed a knee on his chest and then he was shot by police.

There were widely differing accounts of why he was killed. One account described him as getting into a confrontation with paramedics which led police officers to respond, generating the struggle where he was killed. Another account claimed that he grabbed a police officer’s gun, prompting the other officer to shoot him. Hennepin County District Attorney Mike Freeman explained that he was resisting arrest but was not handcuffed while Nekelia Sharp described the shooting as occurring while he was handcuffed and not resisting. Other witnesses claimed he lay still on the ground when he was shot, that he had his hands behind his back, or that his hands were up in the air when police shot him.

His death was protested by the NAACP and Black Lives Matter. The two officers who were responsible for his death were placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation was ongoing. Hennepin County Attorney announced that no charges would be filed against the officers. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #blm

[sheikhmo]

GENOCIDE IN AMERIKA

[h2shonotes]

As we commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend, I renew attention to David Byrne's American Utopia. The central idea is that the world depends on our individual, inner transformation of mind and heart, which we cannot accomplish alone. Our true selves are linked to one another through relationships.

Byrne covers Janelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout” to name African-American victims of American law enforcement and the systemic racism that continues to perpetuate this ongoing legal form of genocide. 

Say their names.

Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Michelle Cusseaux, Laquan McDonald, George Mann, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jerame Reid, Matthew Ajibade, Frank Smart, Natasha McKenna, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Mya Hall, Phillip White, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, William Chapman II, Alexia Christian, Brendon Glenn, Victor Manuel Larosa, Jonathan Sanders, Freddie Blue, Joseph Mann, Salvado Ellswood, Sandra Bland, Albert Joseph Davis, Darrius Stewart, Billy Ray Davis, Samuel Dubose, Michael Sabbie, Brian Keith Day, Christian Taylor, Troy Robinson, Asshams Pharoah Manley, Felix Kumi, Keith Harrison McLeod, Junior Prosper, Lamontez Jones, Paterson Brown, Dominic Hutchinson, Anthony Ashford, Alonzo Smith, Tyree Crawford, India Kager, La’vante Biggs, Michael Lee Marshall, Jamar Clark, Richard Perkins, Nathaniel Harris Pickett, Benni Lee Tignor, Miguel Espinal, Michael Noel, Kevin Matthews, Bettie Jones, Quintonio Legrier, Keith Childress Jr., Janet Wilson, Randy Nelson, Antronie Scott, Wendell Celestine, David Joseph, Calin Roquemore, Dyzhawn Perkins, Christopher Davis, Marco Loud, Peter Gaines, Torrey Robinson, Darius Robinson, Kevin Hicks, Mary Truxillo, Demarcus Semer, Willie Tillman, Terrill Thomas, Sylville Smith, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher, Paul O’Neal, Alteria Woods, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Ronell Foster, Stephon Clark, Antwon Rose II, Botham Jean, Pamela Turner, Dominique Clayton, Atatiana Jefferson, Christopher Whitfield, Christopher Mccorvey, Eric Reason, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Breonna Taylor.

This non-comprehensive list of Black people in the United States killed by police since July 2014 was compiled by National Public Radio’s Code Switch as part of an episode entitled “A Decade of Watching Black People Die.”

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JUSTICE FOR JAMAR CLARK

In 2015, Jamar was at a party with his girlfriend when his girlfriend got into a fight with the party's host. Jamar pulled his girlfriend aside, and someone called for medical help, leading to the arrival of both paramedics and police. As his girlfriend was being escorted to the ambulance, Jamar tried to talk to her, and was told to step away from the ambulance. According to witnesses, that was when Jamar was attacked by officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, handcuffed on the ground, had a knee placed on his chest by an EMS supervisor, and shot fatally. Police dispute that Jamar was ever handcuffed, but it is indisputable that they shot and killed an unarmed man without any attempt at deescalation. (Minneapolis, MN)

Learn more about this case

Please join us in demanding justice for Jamar and other victims of police violence!  

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[ace-of-travels]

My hometown of Minneapolis is burning.

And I'm tired of my liberal white friends acting like that's worse than the brutal murder of black people in the streets.

[andthisisstraightupwhoiam]

[aforeverunfinishedproject]

They protest peacefully with a sit-in. But sit-ins don't make the news, and so nothing changes.

Tomorrow another name will be added to the list of the dead as a result of state-sanctioned violence against their community.

They protest peacefully by marching on the sidewalk, so as not to disrupt traffic. But if you dont inconvenience the general public, you wont make the news, and nothing changes.

Another name. Another brother lost. Another beloved daughter. Another human being who's right to live was removed for no other reason than breathing while black.

They protest peacefully by taking a knee during the national anthem, and they are lambasted and mocked and the general public sets out on a quest to destroy anyone who is seen kneeling during their precious song. Still, nothing changes.

More names are added to a list that should never have started, let alone been allowed to grow this long.

Years go by. Then decades.

Thousands of names, thousands of destroyed futures, thousands of grieving families.

Grassroots community action and organization and peaceful protest continue, every single day, but go unnoticed. The general public doesn't think it's that bad. The general public claims that if people would just "comply" they'd be taken alive. Even when they see armed, violent white criminals attacking police and being taken in alive, they still say that unarmed black people must have deserved to die.

Because when your skin is seen as inherently dangerous, you can never be truly "unarmed" in the eyes of a racist system*.

So, they rise up. "You care more about protecting business and property than you've ever cared about protecting our lives!" And they burn down business and destroy property. "You protect your own from the hand of justice when they murder us for nothing!" And so they burn down police precincts.

Now the general public looks down from their privileged pillars and say, "how silly of them to burn down their neighbourhoods... that will never fix anything". They choose to remain blind and comforted in the knowledge that it's not their problem, while simultaneously believing that their understanding of the situation and necessary solution is clearer than the understanding of those on the ground, enduring state sanctioned violence against their own for generations.

The violence will only get worse as the powers-that-be refuse to change.

Maybe if you actually listened to peaceful protest, it wouldn't have had to come to this.

[* original quote "When the color of your skin is seen as a weapon, you will never be seen as unarmed" by #TaylorGriffin]

[the-football-chick]

#blackoutTuesday

[saturngirrrl]

it has gotten to a point where it is clear this is not a bad apple problem, this is a product of structural racism that exists in every precinct in america that will continue to exist until we do something about it. innocent, unarmed black people are being murdered by police and have been for decades. peacefull protesters are being arrested and shot by police. they have shown us time after time they will not change. so we must force them to change.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Week of action to honor Jamar Clark, demand end to police terror

By Linden Gawboy

Minneapolis, MN - The week for #JusticeThruJamar kicked off with a news conference on November 12. Dozens of people gathered outside Minneapolis City Hall, in one of the first cold spells of winter, to announce a week of actions centered around the memory of Jamar Clark, who was murdered by Minneapolis police officers on November 15, 2015.

The week of actions, organized the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar Clark (TCC4J) is focused on the demands: Reopen the case surrounding the murder of Jamar and prosecute Minneapolis Police Department officers Dustin Schwarze and Mark Ringgenberg. Stop police terror in our communities – justice for all victims of police violence. Community Control of the Police – actual, community control, not the current rubber-stamp systems that exist.

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Locks with the names of police brutality victims placed on the fencing around the Hennepin County Government Center during the Derek Chauvin murder trial.

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Dua Saleh – ‘Body Cast’ After the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Minneapolis rapper Dua Saleh released the angry and powerful track '

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“This is what a suite on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay looks like,” reads a local radio station headline, caught somewhere between misguided thoughts and prayers, broken-record-repetitive calls for gun control, and weary sighs of disbelief. What they mean to say is, “this is the lap of luxury upon which a coldblooded killer made himself comfortable, the throne upon which he declared himself king.” What they mean to say is, “we don’t want to politicize tragedy, so instead please accept our halfhearted attempt at humanizing this monster-man.” What they mean to say is, “his name was Stephen Paddock and he was white and he was angry and he took 23 firearms with him that night and left with 59 lives that were not his to take,” but what comes out is that he was a gambler, a drinker, a lone wolf, a real troubled guy who adored his mother and had no criminal record, which is to say he was not one of those bad guys. Stephen Paddock loved country music and led a quiet life. And Oscar Grant wanted to get home to his daughter and Renisha McBride just wanted to find help and Dontre Hamilton was only trying to get some sleep and Ramarley Graham was unarmed and Jamar Clark was looking out for his girlfriend and Freddie Gray cooperated with his own arrest and Tamir Rice was “probably a juvenile” and Sandra Bland spent her summers helping others and Amadou Diallo was just trying to make a living and Philando Castile regularly paid for students’ lunches when they couldn’t afford to and Eric Garner was a neighborhood peacemaker and Mike Brown’s teachers said that he was one of the hardest-working students they’d ever had and Trayvon Martin saved his father’s life when he was only 9 years old and Charles Kinsey was protecting his patient and Emmett Till was innocent and this list will just continue to grow while these lives are suspended in time but all anyone seems to care about is their rap sheets and their mug shots and how scared those cops must have been facing something so dark and so big and so scary. What they mean to say is, “this was an act of terrorism,” but what comes out is that this country will shield you from the flak, escort you to the squad car, and find you not guilty on all counts as long as you look like the rest of them. What they mean to say is, “this was never about race,” but the minute a brown man with a name too foreign for our whitewashed tongues unleashes a rainstorm of bullets on a crowd of innocent bystanders, his face is plastered across every screen so we know what the enemy really looks like. The enemy is never white. The Las Vegas shooter loved country music and led a quiet life, which is to say that he wasn’t much different than you and me. It’s much easier to pretend that monsters don’t walk among us when we deny their very monstrosity in the first place. What they mean to say is, “this could have been you,” but what comes out is a virtual tour of his suite on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay and a laundry list of what made him human.

Taylor Pearson | 10.3.2017 | The Las Vegas Shooter Loved Country Music and Led a Quiet Life

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Noor trial exposes Mpls police as den of liars, drive-by shooters, cover-up artists

Noor trial exposes Mpls police as den of liars, drive-by shooters, cover-up artists

Lt Dan May was a then un-ranked patrol officer when he shot unarmed 17 year old Tycel Nelson in the back with a shotgun in December of 1990. May was given an award of valor for his actions and has received several promotions. He was one of the officers advising Mohamed Noor after he killed Justine Damond for no apparent reason.

Where do law enforcement personnel go who have, killed, maimed,…