Duran shot Fortson, 23, multiple times on May 3, two seconds after he opened his door while legally holding a handgun pointed down, the deputy’s body camera footage shows. Fortson was Black.
As always radio silence from the NRA, the official Russian consulate for American gun manufacturers.
"If they were killing 300 white women a year, you don't think they'd have the 82nd Airborne down here?"
As a country and species, we need to be open and honest and start facing these issues directly. I agree with this mother's sentiment.
As a country and species, we need to be open and honest and start facing these issues directly.
We won't because no one gives a shit about black ppl. If we aren't entertaining the masses we don't matter. Black ppl have lived in the US 400+ years. If the massed haven't figured it out yet, it's because they don't want to
It seems to me a lot more people give a shit. The one's that don't are very vocal rn.
It wasn't always like that tho, and politicians still only pander to the loud minority of people, that's why racists get more attention. And that's not great.
Qualified immunity needs to end.
Just some context, on average 15k people are killed by others with firearms a year...this excludes suicides. 1,000 of those are from the police. Yea 1 in 15.
Finally, no more kissing the murderer.
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