Lady Gaga: How many children must we lose?
Paul O'neal. #BlackLivesMatter How many children must we lose b4 our justice system does something? #Chicago #USA pic.twitter.com/DvvAxMJSeI
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 7, 2016
Lady Gaga took to her Twitter account today to show support in the wake of yet another shooting. "How many children must we lose b4 our justice system does something?," Gaga tweeted along with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.
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I wonder how far the lead poisoning issue will go.
people dont care unless it happens to them, or close enough to home that it makes them think it could happen to them.
Even it does happen nothing will change it
republicans would just push through more radical laws allowing guns literally anywhere because "more guns!!!" is their solution to everything
Praying for his family.
Rxn is short for reaction btw
Actually, after Sandy Hook, I don't think anything that happens will get people to give a fuck to change anything.
Sandy Hook was a different issue. If police were harassing, targeting and murdering white people at the same rate they do black men, women, and children there would probably be more motivation to 'reform the police department,' but that just doesn't happen. I mean, the police can and do treat white people unfairly (not generally systematically, unless we're talking about the poor, another thing which disproportionately impacts people of colour) but I don't know many white people, unless they've had a specific negative experience, who have to follow a mental checklist in their head when encountering a police officer to avoid getting targeted or shot, knowing full well if they do everything 'right' they still may get shot. White people, in general, just do not have that experience.
Which is all a long winded way of saying Sandy Hook/Gun violence =/= Police brutality and murder. They're not the same thing.
Edited at 2016-08-07 09:26 pm (UTC)
i honestly get uncomfortable when people bring up things like sandy hook in these posts because they have nothing in common.
1) police brutality doesn't necessarily mean injury or death by bullet (eric garner, freddie gray, and sandra bland come to mind)
2) there's an overall sense of innocence that comes with mass shootings. people in a movie theater or classroom are seen as totally unsuspecting victims. compare that to many police brutality cases where someone is being pulled over, arrested, sometimes has a previous record or was even being difficult (although that still doesn't justify the death).
3) gun violence has a much more broad spectrum of victims. different races, different classes, age groups, etc. police brutality is almost exclusively poc.
idk maybe it's nitpicking, but i wish people would separate the two topics more often.
Edited at 2016-08-07 09:52 pm (UTC)
Another reason to wish her a painful death. 🌸
uhhhhh lmao
a police car was set on fire in Daytona Beach, FL and at the scene of the crime was a perfectly intact note that said black lives matter. Like, they aren't even TRYING XD
i can't believe all the furore over this guy when he very much had it coming.
are police a problem? absolutely. did the scrap protocol in this instance? absolutely. is paul really the wronged innocent like tamir or countless others? nope.