Mario Woods, the Bay Area man whose fatal shooting by the police was recorded in a series of disturbing videos, was found to have been shot at least twenty times by the San Francisco police, autopsy results showed Thursday. The report showed that Woods died from gunshots to his back, head, …
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Finally, two months after five officers shot and killed 26-year-old black man Mario Woods, the US Department of Justice will launch an investigation into his death. The killing has prompted widespread criticism of the SFPD after cell phone videos surfaced calling into question whether the officers’ use of force was justified. …
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Comparing the LGBTQ people to serial killers and pedophiles, Indiana State Representative Woody Burton (R) recently went on record as saying his opposition to equal rights for the LGBTQ movement stems from the fact that “fat white people” enjoyed no special rights. Via Raw Story: At a town hall event over …
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In a weekend-long series of actions aimed at reclaiming/restoring Martin Luther King Jr’s history of radicalism and revolutionary action, Black Lives Matter activists chain linked cars together and blocked traffic at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Via The Guardian: “Today is the day when we reclaim MLK’s radical legacy,” …
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Protesting the death of Mario Woods, 9 Black Lives Matter activsts were arrested yesterday in San Francisco. See the protests through their own eyes: Protests on the 405 South have the freeway stopped for miles #405south pic.twitter.com/j8hJ9ISrJf — Tory Barneson Benoit (@ToryWithaWhy) December 23, 2015 We shutdown the highway for …
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