This is What the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" Looks Like in 2015 Y'all

Protesting while white vs. protesting while black. Police protection vs. police interference #ConcernedStudent1950 pic.twitter.com/2XMevobXrY

— Teezo (@365DaysOfAutumn) October 13, 2015

See, this is where I start to lose it! ---> http://t.co/v08Jtw4x2F pic.twitter.com/f1AHLLMQiQ

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) October 13, 2015

Video shows GA deputies tase handcuffed man in groin before he died in custody

Father pressing charges against Cop who threw son to the ground by the throat.

Waiving the wrong flag while waiving their rights.

How NBA player Thabo Sefolosha took on police brutality and won.

Here's what happens when you complain to cops about cops.

It's the white, male dominated media driven racial stereotypes.

"And they want us to sing God Bless America?"

No

No

No

You’re either going to treat us right, or we’re going to withdraw from you our economic support,We intend to boycott Christmas, but not Jesus,” said Farrakhan. “So on Black Friday, we won’t be there.” ‪#‎JusticeOrElse‬  #NotOneDime

Update~#Justice for All on TeeVee, in real life... not so much #FergusonReport #Scandal #BlackLivesMatter

In the end, we went with showing what fulfilling the dream SHOULD mean. The idea of possibility.  And the despair we feel now. #scandal
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) March 6, 2015

Isn't it ironic  night's episode of #Scandal addressed institutional racism and police brutality shortly after the release of the #FergusonReport?

Thursday night's "Scandal" focused on the shooting of an unarmed black teen named Brandon Parker in Washington, D.C., less than two miles from the White House. In the episode, called "The Lawn Chair," tensions run high as the boy's father positions himself in front of his son's body with a shotgun, refusing to move from the crime scene. Mere days after being held hostage and auctioned on the black market, Olivia Pope is brought on the help the police force manage the incident. She works to avoid a riot, but soon finds herself disillusioned by the people she is defending.
It doesn't take long for Liv to be swayed by the injustice, and she joins forces with the activist leading the crowd surrounding Brandon and his father Clarence. "Stand up. Fight back. No more black men under attack," she chants.

Did I mention this was TeeVee and not real life?  We all know in real life Oliva Pope would not join forces with the other side.   In real life the people who are part of the problem are asked to help solve it.

While Ms. Twitty was terminated, her involvement in the emails and their wide distribution illustrate how difficult fixing the Ferguson Police Department and municipal court will be when many city officials led, participated in or tolerated the most controversial practices uncovered by the Justice Department. Those city employees include the police chief who authorized arrests without probable cause; the municipal judge who adds new charges when people contest their citations, yet quietly got his own traffic ticket wiped away; and the city manager who was the force behind the financially driven policies that led to widespread discrimination.

What could possibly go wrong with people who are part of the problem fixing the problem? I mean, really?

Through her usual super-human powers, Liv is able to prove the knife did not belong to Brandon -- it was evidence from an earlier arrest; Brandon was just reaching for a receipt -- and puts the offending office behind bars. "What the hell is it with you people? Yeah, you people," the (unabashedly racist) policeman who shot Brandon yells at Olivia when she confronts him at the station. "You people have no idea what loyalty is, what respect is. You're here because you were supposed to help us and you spend every second of it trying to tear me down and push your own damn agenda." It's a sobering moment where the camera finds the black officers in the room, focusing on each of their faces as the cop spews his racist agenda.
During the final moments of the episode, Nina Simone plays in the background and Liv tells Clarence the officer is behind bars. Justice is served. She then brings him to the White House and the episode closes with Clarence crying in President Fitz's arms. A final shot shows Brandon being zipped into a body bag.

Did I mention this we TeeVee and not real life?  Everybody knows in real life Liv wouldn't have been able to prove the victim was not to blame for their own death.  Everybody knows in real life the Attorney General and the President of the United States of America would make sure Justice is served.

Last night's episode was deep.  Thank you #ShondaRhimes for bringing this topic to light, now if we could only apply it to real life and fulfill what the dream should mean.  

President Obama on Friday defended the Department of Justice's (DOJ) conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014.
Obama said during a town hall in South Carolina that he had "complete confidence and [stood] fully behind" the DOJ's decision regarding Wilson, whom said he killed Brown in self defense.
"We may never know exactly what happened, but Officer Wilson — like anyone else who is charged with a crime — benefits from due process and a reasonable-doubt standard," Obama said, fielding a question about why the DOJ didn't charge Wilson.

But I’m sure by next week, all will be back to normal in Hollywood


#BlackLivesMatter

Fox News Caught on Tape Distorting What You Decide with all Spin all the Time, UNfair & Unbalanced. Lovely.

 

If you don't realize Fox News is pure propaganda, it's because you've already been brainwashed. pic.twitter.com/j5QqmMJNf2 #BlockFoxNews @DISH
— Zach Green (@140elect) December 16, 2014

In an attempt to discredit Rev. Al Sharpton and the massive #JusticeForAll marches held all over the country last weekend, Fox News proved once and for all they hate us for our freedom.  That's the only conclusion I can draw from their attempt spin #BlackLivesMatter  into an anti cop crusade by editing a piece of video tape to make it seem demonstrators  had chanted calls to kill police during his speech,  making the divide between the police and protesters even worse.  For some reason the site of large groups of black people marching for truth, justice, and the American way, just doesn't sit well with some people.

Let's recap

During the broadcast, they showed a clip from a protest last night in Manhattan where some people were reportedly heard chanting “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” The video then flipped to Sharpton leading a peaceful rally where he says,  “We’re not saying all police are bad. We’re not even saying most are bad. We’re not anti-police, but we’re anti-brutality. And the federal government must have a threshold to protect that.”
The intention of the shoddy editing was to make Sharpton look like a hyprocite, although anyone paying attention could see the clips were from drastically different times of day. That didn’t stop the hosts from using this footage as evidence that the protestors had ill intentions.

About that "What do we want? Dead cops!' video,..notice how far the camera shot is from the crowd, but how clear their words are? We can't see the faces of the people but we can hear their words?  And how come Fox News is the only network that reported these chants?  Makes you go Hmmmm doesn't it?

For the record, no one, I repeat no one, wants cops or anyone else dead. Nor are the protest an indictment of all cops.  To say that all cops kill unarmed black men, women, and children without impunity is like saying all black people are thugs, and we know that's not true.  To say #BlackLivesMatter does not mean that white lives, and police lives don't matter.

To #AllLivesMatter: yes, cops kill white people, but young Black men are 21 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by cops than young white men

This movement is about equality not vengeance. We are not a divided country. It's ONE Nation, with Liberty and Justice for all. The sooner Fox News realizes this the better off we all will be.