“One uniformed officer and three in plainclothes fired a total of 10 shots, hitting Vassell multiple times.”

Repeatedly.

Someone needs to punch Larry Johnson in the face.

Sorry for all the gaslighting these asshats are doing on this thread. Seems like the willfully obtuse brigade is out and proud for this post.

One of the things that is often missed in cases of cops murdering black folks, is that many times the cop chooses to escalate a benign encounter because he feels the black person isn’t showing him his proper respect. This ‘contempt of cop’ could be the words the black person spoke, a tone of voice, a gesture, a look,…

So does walking down the motherfucking street minding your own goddamn business. You act as though following the law means anything when it comes to Black people. This country will criminalize us any goddamn way. So again, respectability politics aren’t getting us anywhere; it’s merely stifling us from rightly cursing…

The bottom line is you shouldn’t be over charged for what you did. In Virginia murder is the killing of someone with malice aforethought (you intended to kill). This person fucked up. But it doesnt sound like he intended to kill. And the charging and conviction of him for that is a miscarriage of justice. And just…

Miss me with the shitty respectability politics. They aren’t getting us anywhere.

That’s about white.

“But don’t you dare ever fight back. Because you will be shot or imprisoned.”

Manslaughter would be fair - that’s literally the definition of it. Killing someone without intending to. But he’s black, so that means he is a brutal, animalistic murder machine, so I’m actually somewhat surprised he didn’t get first degree and the death penalty.

Dag I definitely aint in favor of murdering anyone, but if someone non-white uses the “N-word” there has got to be some consideration of that. He should have got probation

So the white kid who drove drunk and with valium(?) and killed a bunch of people got...probation (until he fucked that up)?

Them racoons can’t stop cooning.

Oh for fuck’s sake! You’re the one who came in here calling people names. I haven’t called you a single name I merely described what you’re doing in unflattering terms. Unfortunately for you it’s apt. You’re the one here tearing PoC apart for not agreeing with you and now you want to lecture?

Yo you ever see how vigorously POC’s defend this cat on social media. This is what’s wrong with our people.....when we be mad at Lebron James (sigh)but we but riding this Fucboys nuts........STAY SMMFH

Perhaps you might do the oh so hard work of clicking on a name and checking their history before making easily refuted statements then backtracking afterwards. Then you wouldn’t come across like a mindless automaton.

It sure is funny that black men’s misogynoir is always redefined as preference in order to make it seem insignificant (and black women seem petty) and definitely not part of a larger pattern of abuse that black women face. We know that black girls are seen as less innocent than their non-black peers. We know that…

The difference is nobody is claiming that he deserved to die for his misognynoir the way those who would bring up a criminal past would. The question is how much effort should Black women put into being on the front lines for a man who wanted nothing to do with them. Perhaps the women he preferred would like to take…

Andrew McCabe was recently seen picking up an application for Costco.