Today the US justice system proved that it’s not really worried about fighting terrorism. Just promoting racism instead.
Rest in power, Tamir.
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13 Fri May 2016
Today the US justice system proved that it’s not really worried about fighting terrorism. Just promoting racism instead.
Rest in power, Tamir.
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23 Tue Feb 2016
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Apparently, it wasn’t enough for a Cleveland police officer to shoot 12-year-old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after arriving on-scene in 2014 and handcuff his sister when she tried to help him, nor for his mother to be left homeless in 2015 as she waited months for an investigation. It wasn’t enough for Cleveland to actually blame the little boy for his own death, or to present multiple reports which found his killing to be “reasonable”.
On Wednesday, in a letter submitted by the city’s Director of Law Barbara Langhenry, the City of Cleveland actually sued Tamir’s family for $500, which it claims is “past due – owing for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense”, according to Cleveland Scene.
Suing families of slain black youths is racial capitalism at its most grotesque | Steven W Thrasher
19 Fri Feb 2016
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Since
its original sin of slavery, America has been obsessed with the fear of
black men. Rather than atone for its own sins when it worried about
what would happen when slavery ended, white supremacy projected its
fears onto black America. It was this irrational, dangerous fear that
led to the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Consider the results of a recent study,
which found that merely hearing that someone had a “black-sounding”
name made subjects assume a person was bigger than they actually were,
revealing through science again how black men are unfairly presumed to be threats. An officer who arrived on the scene after 12-year-old Tamir had been shot thought “the male looked to be 19 or 20 years old”.
Tamir Rice was killed by white America’s irrational fear of black boys | Steven W Thrasher