Fashion inspiration: Ladies of Twin Peaks.
CNN has obtained a video, taken shortly after Michael Brown was shot, that shows a contractor who had been working near the shooting site describing the incident in a manner that matches other eyewitness testimony—raising his arms and shouting “man, he was going like this,” as if to suggest that Brown had adopted a posture of surrender before he died.
Two contractors are shown in the video, and both have spoken to CNN; one also spoke previously to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one to Fox affiliate KTVI. The individual who is shouting and raising his arms in in the video told CNN that “the cop didn’t say get on the ground. He just kept shooting.” The other said that he saw officer Darren Wilson “chasing” Brown, that Wilson fired a shot at Brown while Brown’s back was turned, and that Brown raised his hands before he died, though it’s not clear at what point the witness saw Brown’s hands raised. (For what it’s worth, it seems like the worker who spoke to KTVI is the one wearing a pink shirt in the video and that the worker who spoke to the Post-Dispatch is wearing a green shirt.)
The CNN account notes that the workers are not from Ferguson and did not know the Brown family—a detail that could increase their perceived objectivity vis a vis witnesses from Brown’s neighborhood.
33 Days since Mike Brown’s murder, and his killer, Darren Wilson, is still a free man. How much more evidence is needed to make a fucking arrest?! #farfromover #staywoke #ArrestDarrenWilson
This makes me sick to my stomach
Pictured: Sheneque Proctor, 18 years old at the time of her death
A young African American woman from Brighton, Alabama recently died in police custody. Police have still refused to provide any reasonable explanation for the cause behind her…
Please let’s not forget about our black girls
This makes me so happy. They’re saying he’s drawing larger crowds than any other candidate.
signal boost because cable news is too terrified to acknowledge him
You’ve been number one for too long, Sullivan. Now your time is up. And don’t worry, I’ll take good care of the kid.
its easy to see posts about the abuse that goes on in the porn industry and immediately be against porn as a whole. i mean if you see something bad, you want it to stop right?
im not gonna lie i was against porn too!!
the thing is.. porn abolitionists & and SWERFS (sex worker exclusionary feminists) generally dont listen to sex workers. they dont try to help sex workers be safe while doing what they do. they just push for further criminalization of sex work and want porn to cease to exist
theres tons of sex workers who cannot hold “normal” jobs. and by abolishing porn and criminalizing sex work, you are putting sex workers out of work and are endangering them
listen to actual sex workers talk about “the porn industry” and sex work as a whole
not civilians who have never entered sex work yet think they know it better than actual sex workers
you need to protect & support sex workers and trust that they know whats best for themselves
:)
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered a new judge to preside in the case against the Charleston church shooter.
The change came as revelations later surfaced that Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr., who presided over confessed gunman Dylann Roof’s bond hearing on Friday, made racist comments in a courtroom over a decade ago.
Gosnell was reprimanded by the state Supreme Court in 2005 for telling a black defendant in 2003, “There are four kinds of people in this world: black people, white people, rednecks, and n******.”
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