The officer shot a man who was handcuffed inside a patrol car seven times, police say.
So it seems it’s a bad news, good news, obvious news thing.
A black man was shot to death in police custody while he was handcuffed in a patrol car this past Monday (the 27th of January).
That’s the bad news. (Obviously).
And - for once, the officer is being charged with his killing.
That’s the good news - that the police are actually charging one of their own with killing an unarmed black man.
However don’t get too excited. Because the picture at the top is not the victim.
It’s the officer alleged to be responsible.
Because you JUST KNEW that if a police officer was going to be charged, it wasn’t going to be a white one. A white, American police officer being charged for shooting an unarmed black guy? No - never going to happen.
But a black guy shooting another black guy? BANG HIM UP! THROW THE BOOK AT HIM.
(That was the obvious part, if you are curious).
Because apparently #blacklivesmatter only when they are taken by other black people.
When they are taken by white people, the system doesn’t give a shit.,
Black Cop Charged Quickly With Murder For Shooting Handcuffed Suspect To Death
Black Cop Charged Quickly With Murder For Shooting Handcuffed Suspect To Death
William Green had his hands cuffed behind his back inside a police cruiser when he was shot seven times.
Law enforcement officials in Maryland identified the police officer who killed a man inside a police cruiser with his hands were cuffed behind his back on Monday night. Prince George’s police Corporal Michael Owen, Jr., a Black man, shot William Green, who was also restrained by a seat…
On Monday, September 2, 2019, the United States will observe the 125th anniversary of Labor Day. A day that honors and celebrates the worker.
Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September a legal holiday on June 28, 1894. The organization that would become The American Federation of Labor was started in 1881 by Samuel Gompers as the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States of America and Canada. Another organization, the Central Labor Union, celebrated the first Labor Day on September 5, 1882, in New York City.
**The Golda Meir Library will be closed on Monday, September 2.**
This letter was written to Milwaukee lawyer and politician Joseph A. Padway from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor on June 18, 1934. Joseph A. Padway Papers, 1916-1940, 1946 (MIlw Mss 6 box 2 folder 7)
Artist William Green using his bicycle tyres to spread liquid paraffin and black bitumen into the surface of the canvas, filmed in his London studio for Pathé News 1957