Astral Planes

23,nyc,graphic designer, indian. This blog mainly consists of artsy fartsy stuff, cartoons, movies, astronomy, comics, music, and photography. last.fm etsy

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oh my GOD

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07/06/16

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Bought a magical-looking journal because I loved the cover & then I opened it 😍💘🐺🐰 @owls-love-tea (By Roger la Borde)

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cool fact for people who have a problem with looting:

cops in america are legally allowed to take people’s property (including large sums of money) purely because they feel like it. it’s called civil forfeiture and there are literally thousands of cases of pigs taking people’s property. that is looting.

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i watched this happen to my roommate after the cops kicked our doors in at 6 AM on a weekday for a no-knock raid that, surprise surprise, didn’t turn out anything. they opened his wallet in front of him, took out about $300 and told him that since they had no record of where it came from on premises, that they’d have to take it from him. they took this man’s rent money right in front of him while he was in cuffs and told him “too bad”. 

there was also a friend’s car in our drive way that had broken down so they left it over night. the doors were locked and the windows were up, and since the owner wasn’t there, they decided it’d be cool to just bust in all the windows to perform another fruitless search. 

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In Philly it’s been a HUGE and MASSIVE problem with cops taking people’s bank accounts, cars, electronics and pretty much anything worth any amount of money under a law that lets the DA seize property they think is related to a crime. “Related’ is a vague term though. They once forced a women and her grandchildren out of her home to sell it at auction because her son was found by police with $20 worth of weed.

(Depending on the property in question it can go under Civil Property Seizure or Seize and Seal, they’re not the same law but they work the same)

They don’t have to prove it’s related to a crime before or after, and even if the person suspected of the crime is cleared at questioning or acquitted at trial, you have to go through a MONTHS long process of court appearances (you can’t miss one or be late or you lose, no rescheduling) in hopes that they MIGHT get their stuff back. Most don’t.

Most people don’t think it’s worth the expense of days missed at work and a lawyer to get back a couple hundred dollars or whatever else the police stole. The city makes MILLIONS of dollars each year off this, around $6-10 (The DA doesn’t provide figures)

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but tell me more about “good cops.”

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Read the Last quote.

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yooo

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America 1968 2015

TIME’s Baltimore Cover With Aspiring Photographer Devin Allen

Source: TIME

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“There has been a lot of evil in the world. But to me, none as great as slavery. It’s the worst thing that has ever happened. They take you from your home. They take you from your family, your history. They make you work. They tell you when to mate. They chop off your foot if you try to run away. And I’m sorry to say this, but white people did that. And black people are still living with the remnants. For over 200 years, black people built this country and didn’t get a single dollar. And sure, it isn’t happening anymore, but we’re still living with the remnants. We don’t have the same connections, the same powerful friends, the same access to capital. I tell young African Americans that they’ll do just fine, but they’re going to have to work twice as hard. I tell them that they will need to go out of their way to search for their identity. They aren’t going to find much about their heritage in the history books. Even the constitution classifies black people as three-fifths of a man, and that was supposedly written by the most enlightened, glorified white people of that time. I tell young African Americans that they are going to have to dig hard to find out the giant contributions that Africa made to civilization, because they aren’t going to find it on the television. And I tell them that just because it’s a tough road does not excuse them from personal responsibility. I tell them that God put them on earth to build and not destroy. And I tell them that some opportunities cost money, but books are absolutely free.”

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before today, i hadn’t heard of “rough rides,” and there’s a good chance you haven’t either. basically, a “rough ride” is a horrifying process in which ‘a handcuffed man or woman is put into the back of a police van or paddy wagon, without being buckled in or secured. The vehicle then drives recklessly, making sharp, dangerous turns and sudden movements in ways that throw the passenger violently around the vehicle.’

as of today, we now know that this is exactly what happened to Freddie Gray before he died. 

here’s the evidence: rather than take Freddie Gray the short 2 minute drive from the arrest site to the police station (see left), he was deliberately driven recklessly for over 40 minutes (see right) around Baltimore, handcuffed and in the back of a police van, with no seatbelt, until his spine broke.

the terrifying thing is that this seems to happen a lot. earlier today, two more people came forward to testify that they were put through rough rides at the hands of the Baltimore PD. a 43-year-old man was charged with ‘public urination’ and given a rough ride that resulted in a spine fracture that rendered him quadriplegic for the rest of his life. five years ago, a former Baltimore police officer admitted that rough rides are an “unsanctioned technique” in which police vans are driven to cause “injury or pain” to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees. rough rides are very much a Real Thing.

in case it needs repeating: Baltimore police deliberately drove recklessly with a cuffed, injured Freddie Gray in the back of a van with no belt – a 40 minute ride for a destination 2 minutes away. his spine was severed, and it killed him.

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White people: kills MLK

White people: You should stop rioting and be peaceful like MLK

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Our American “justice” system at work (related post here)

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Cop shootings by race/per million: 1.47 white people vs 31.17 black people. And people really want to believe that the outrage is simply over one murdered black teenager.

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For anyone wondering how many people that amounts to, the current US population is at 316 million people. So- rounded to the nearest whole number, cops shot 465 white teens & young adults vs. 9850 black teens & young adults in a 3 year period (2010-2012).

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in other words, black teens age 15-19 are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than whites are.

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fucking public health crisis

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where are they getting these throwback ass kids from? why they dress like minor characters from good times?

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SEE BRUH! I SAID THIS! I SAID THAT PIC OF THE BOY WITH THE WATER BOTTLES LOOKS LIKE THE PIC OF THE BOY HUGGING THE COP!

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Bc it is the same kid. I was reading info on the first pic about how the mom of this boy takes around to purposely to pose for these photos.

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Yep. The photo’s staged and the child pictured is Devonte Hart, a transracial adoptee whose white adoptive parent uses him as a literal prop in her propaganda. Apparently he really didn’t want to hug the cop in that photo on the left, but his mother forced him into it, that’s why he’s crying.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — white saviors adopters coercing their own child into unwanted physical contact with an adult stranger who works in the force that regularly assaults and murders Black people with impunity… that doesn’t sound like abuse dynamics at all OH WAIT

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Bernie Sanders on Education in America (x)

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I really don’t want this blog to get political. I don’t. But at present, it’s the only one I’m using, and I have to say this: if you are an American leftist or liberal who can vote in the next presidential election, I am begging you to look into this guy. He is so little known compared to Hilary Clinton, but he’s so much better. I want to stop hearing people saying “I don’t really like Hilary, but she’s the only liberal running, so” because she’s not. Bernie Sanders 2016.

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You give this corporation your money, you’re the one paying for the abuse to continue.

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The notes on this post that is still circulating months after I made it really gives me hope. This generation really could be the one to see captivity end.