Month: November 2014

drugcartels:

“I don’t like the fact he learned how to hide from the cops well before he learned how to read. Black boys in this country cannot afford to play cops and robbers if we’re always considered the latter.”

Javon Johnson-Slam Poem-“Cuz He’s Black” 

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

skulls-and-tea:

skulls-and-tea:

“14-year-old Parkview High School Freshman, Caleb Christian was concerned about the number of incidents of police abuse in the news.  Still, he knew there were many good police officers in various communities, but had no way of figuring out which communities were highly rated and which were not.  

So, together with his two older sisters: Parkview High School senior Ima Christian, and Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology sophomore, Asha Christian, they founded a mobile app development company– Pinetart Inc., under which they created a mobile app called Five-O.

Five-O, allows citizens to enter the details of every interaction with a police officer.  It also allows them to rate that officer in terms of courtesy and professionalism and provides the ability to enter a short description of what transpired.  These details are captured for every county in the United States. Citizen race and age information data is also captured.

Additionally, Five-O allows citizens to store the details of each encounter with law enforcement; this provides convenient access to critical information needed for legal action or commendation.”

Read more here. [x]

UPDATE:

The app is available to download for Android here: [x]

Sign up for the iPhone pre-launch updates list here: [x] 

Connect with and promote the app’s creators: Twitter | Facebook 

firstrising:

mike brown should be in college right now. mike brown should be pulling all-nighters studying for tests. mike brown should be going to visit his family for thanksgiving. but instead of that he’s six feet under because that’s where darren wilson decided he belonged. and now darren wilson is married and half a million dollars richer. don’t forget this. don’t forget that darren wilson took away everything  mike brown could have had and is walking free despite that.

aka14kgold:

erinburr:

iwriteaboutfeminism:

I have no words.

Wow.  Not even he looked like a demon.  It.  He was an it to Darren Wilson, who apparently is such a shitty cop he wasn’t maintaining his service weapon properly.

Not to mention, of course, that he acknowledges Brown’s hands were up.

Wilson can say straight-up that there was no real threat, and his bloodlust is still deemed justifiable. Quite literally, he states his only justification to be that Brown looked wrong.