lalalove

20 (& high)

[romantic-musings]

pretty pies

[nacizanebirgecee]

[khq-deactivated20260401]

i love ppl w calm minds who really try to understand others point of view

[newjackcity00-deactivated202108]

[bhodacious-deactivated20220401]

can someone tell me why anime food look so good??? 🍛🍲🍱

[iamoutofideas]

girl I’ll make you perceive shrimp colours

[minuty]

“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”

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[saccharind]

Midsommar (2019)

[law-of-abstraction]

“Serve and Protect”, sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building, before and after protests.

[archae-heart-deactivated2021012]

summer in Maine

[yourakh]

do good without expecting anything back

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

Red Doc>, Anne Carson

[ID: To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.]

[hail-lucifina]

TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zimmerman, who was found NOT GUILTY)

KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was NOT CHARGED)

ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking out her window, shot by police officer, who is STILL UNDER INDICTMENT for murder)

JONATHAN FERRELL (Asking for help after auto accident. Shot twelve times by police, case ended in MISTRIAL)

JORDAN EDWARDS (Riding in a car. Shot in the back of the head by police officer, who was found GUILTY of murder ⭐)

STEPHON CLARK (Holdng a cel phone. Shot 8 times, 6 in the back. Officers NOT CHARGED)

AMADOU DIALLO (While taking out wallet, officers fired 41 shots by four officers, who were all ACQUITTED)

RENISHA MCBRIDE (Auto accident, knocked on door for help. Homeowner was found GUILTY of second-degree murder ⭐)

TAMIR RICE (Playing with toy gun, shot by police officer arriving on scene. Officer was NOT CHARGED)

SEAN BELL (Hosting a bachelor party, 50 rounds fired by police officers, who were found NOT GUILTY of charges)

WALTER SCOTT (Pulled over for brake light, shot in the back by police officer, who pleaded GUILTY to CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS *NOT* MURDER)

PHILANDO CASTILE (Pulled over in car, told officer he had a legally registered weapon in car. Officer ACQUITTED of all charges)

AIYANA JONES (Sleeping, accidentally shot by officer in a raid on wrong apartment. Officer CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES)

TERRENCE CRUTCHER (Disabled vehicle, shot by police officer, who was found NOT GUILTY of manslaughter.)

ALTON STERLING (Selling CDs, shot at close range while being arrested. NO CHARGES FILED)

FREDDIE GRAY (Beaten to death by officers while being transported in police van. All officers involved were ACQUITTED)

JOHN CRAWFORD (Shopping at WalMart, holding a BB gun on sale, police officer was NOT CHARGED)

MICHAEL BROWN (Shot by twelve times by officer, including in the back. NO CHARGES FILED)

JORDAN DAVIS (Killed because he was playing loud music. Shooter found GUILTY of first-degree murder ⭐)

SANDRA BLAND (Pulled over for traffic ticket, tasered and arrested. SUSPICIOUS SUICIDE while in jail. NO CHARGES)

AHMAUD AUBREY (Jogging, shot by two men who claimed they suspected him of burglaries. Both men charged with murder and aggravated assault ⭐)

BOTHAM JEAN (Shot at home, which police officer mistook for her own. Officer found GUILTY of murder ⭐)

OSCAR GRANT (Handcuffed and face-down, officer shot him in the back. Officer found GUILTY of involuntary manslaughter ⭐)

COREY JONES (Waiting by his disabled vehicle, was shot three times by police officer, who was found GUILTY of murder ⭐)

Remember them all. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Also note, these are only the stories caught by the media and/or on video.

[logantheanimal]

Eight Minutes

I’ve worked in public safety for fourteen years. I spent thirteen in the Phoenix Metro area before realizing that I had to get out of the field and work on myself for a little while. So I moved to Saint Paul to be a 911 dispatcher.

On Monday night, TAC channels for Hennepin County lit up. We’re already having a rough night; fatality MVAs, people with alcohol poisoning, drug overdoses, it’s no fun. We start hearing about an incident on the South side. There’s a lot I can’t say, but twenty minutes later, a friend who is off-duty sends us a video.

It had just been posted online. It was eleven minutes of hell. It started with a white officer “restraining” a black man behind a police SUV. As soon as the person filming got closer, my stomach sank. The black man was face-down on the pavement. You could tell by the angle of his shoulders that an officer, possibly behind him, had his arms cranked straight up behind him. The white officer has him pinned by his neck, a knee firmly on it, his body weight fully pressed into a place it should not be.

I’m a paramedic. I know what this is. I’ve seen it. The black man is making very short statements: “I can’t breathe!” (Takes a rasping breath) *cries* “Please, I can’t breathe!” (Takes a rasping breath). I know the sound. With his arms in the position they’re in, his lung capacity is reduced to about 40%. That alone can suffocate him. The knee on his neck? That is cutting off the flow of oxygenated blood to his brain. What he’s experiencing is agony. He is begging for his life. The crowd that has gathered is begging for his life. This goes on for three and a half minutes.

In the midst of the argument, an Asian officer is being remarkably flippant. “Don’t do drugs!” He says at one point, smiling for the camera. I’m disgusted already, sitting there wanting to yell but unable to. I’m at work. Right next to me, a buddy is trying to give instructions for CPR.

Then the Asian officer yells, “If he’s talking, he’s breathing.”

NO.

That is a lie, one that everyone needs to stop repeating. From the start, my trained ear heard the respiratory distress. You can take short breaths and let out a few words for several minutes while your body isn’t getting the oxygen it needs. I have yelled at officers to get a patient out of that position because they don’t want to fucking listen. “If he’s talking, he’s breathing,” they said to me. “No, he’s not! You’re about to kill him, GET UP AND GET OUT OF MY WAY!”

I wanted to say that in this moment but I couldn’t. Finally, at 3:34, I hear a very faint “I’m done” and the black man goes limp.

I thought for sure they’d get off of him then. They didn’t. An off-duty firefighter shows up and starts demanding that they check his pulse. My trained eye sees the blue hue of hypoxia in his lips. The officers refuse. The crowd points out that he’s not breathing. They try to get closer only to be threatened with more force. Then the HCMC EMS crew shows up. Finally, the white officer gets off of the man’s neck. I look at the timer.

Eight minutes.

Eight minutes from the start of the filming, when the black man was already pinned, he finally stands up. By this time I know that poor man is dead. They aren’t going to get ROSC. They put him on the gurney and take off. I know why they aren’t staying on scene to do CPR. Because I know that tomorrow, the city is going to be furious. They have every right to be, because we’ve just watched multiple police officers torture a man to death. It’s murder. There is no excuse for what we’ve just witnessed.

Every single one of us watching this video is either in or near tears. The guy giving CPR instructions has missed it, but he sees the looks on our faces. That day marked ten years since a Phoenix officer I had worked with for years had been killed in the line of duty and I had been wearing my thin blue line pin. I took it off.

Right now, a day and a half later, we know his name. George Floyd. He was 46 years old. He was not a statistic. He was a human being with a family and friends who loved him. He was suspected of trying to pass counterfeit cash. Officers said he appeared to be under the influence. They then claimed that he struggled for ten minutes. New video contradicts that claim.there was nothing that could have possibly excused the response that ended his life.

Eight minutes. You cannot tell me that not one of those officers didn’t think in all that time, “what the fuck am I doing?”

[punjabaex]

what he said

[shantay]

[minuty]