#BlackLivesMatter(!)
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 7th, 2016
I am as outraged as all of you must be over this recent murder of another black man by white thugs with guns.
Here’s the latest from the Huff Po. For some reason I can’t post the horrific act of murder. Maybe for the better. However, if you want to see how the cops killed this man in cold blood, click on the title:
New Video Shows Alton Sterling Wasn’t Holding A Gun When He Was Killed By Police
A cell phone video that emerged Wednesday shows that Alton Sterling apparently was not holding a gun when police officers fatally shot him in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
The Daily Beast first published the disturbing video, which it obtained from Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the convenience store where the shooting took place. Muflahi told the news organization that Sterling was not causing trouble and that he had been a “welcome presence at the store for years.”
Two white police officers shot Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, as he sold CDs in the convenience store’s parking lot early Tuesday morning. Authorities were responding to a complaint about an armed man threatening people outside the store.
Eyewitness video of Sterling’s death began circulating on social media on Tuesday. It showed Sterling on the ground, pinned underneath two officers. At one point, one of the police officers shouted, “He’s got a gun!” One of the officers is then seen holding a gun at Sterling’s chest at nearly point-blank range. Seconds later, Sterling is shot multiple times.
Paramedics pronounced Sterling dead when they arrived on the scene.
Police have claimed that Sterling was armed, but the new video does not show Sterling holding a weapon or behaving in a threatening manner.
The graphic footage, which was filmed close to the incident, appears to show two officers pinning Sterling to the ground just before several rounds are fired at him. Moments later, an officer shouts and at least three more shots are heard. As one officer sits on the ground, a second officer is seen pulling an object from Sterling’s right pocket. Sterling, still alive and with a visible wound to his chest, moves his left arm toward his head and face.
Sterling’s death has sparked outrage across the nation, as well as calls for an independent investigation into the slaying. The NAACP has called for the mayor and chief of police to resign over the killing, and the U.S. Department of Justice has already opened an investigation into the incident.
The Baton Rouge Police Department has provided scant details on what happened between the officers and Sterling. At a press conference Wednesday, Baton Rouge Chief of Police Carl Dabadie Jr. called Sterling’s death a “horrible tragedy,” but said there was still a lot not understood about the incident.
The department placed the two officers involved in the shooting on administrative leave on Tuesday, and later identified them as Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II.
District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III said the “officers feel they were completely justified” in the shooting.
Sterling was the 558th person to be killed by police in the U.S. this year, according to The Guardian’s database, The Counted.
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Readers: I am sickened as I watch another atrocity happen. Let this murder not go unnoticed and let justice be brought to the family, as they rightly deserve. As so many have rightly deserved but have not gotten justice. My heart goes out to Mr. Sterling who was just minding his own business, just trying to earn a decent living to take care of his wife and children. May his family stay strong and may he rest in peace. #BlackLivesMatter.
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July 7th, 2016 at 11:09 am
Horrifying. And I thought I read your number wrong … 558 … No words.
And I will refrain from saying Hilary is a shoe in ‘ignore anyone who says she’s in’ lol just grow a pair and say my name already, I’ve been at the center of plenty of whatever here in the past I can handle myself just fine but if you want to call me ‘anyone’ that’s cool, too : )
Luv, Zen Lill
July 7th, 2016 at 12:51 pm
Wanda, yes great article to send around…its been quiet in responses but I know they read it.
#13 bartender … You forgot one, if a regular comes in with someone new, unless they comfortably say the usual you never say ‘the usual’ bc they may not want their companion to know how frequently they attend your place.
~ ZL
(ps I do believe Hilary is going to landslide it despite poll numbers and any commentary otherwise, it’s just an opinion, my opinion, and I certainly hope I’m correct this time : )
July 7th, 2016 at 1:19 pm
Tell you what… I’m tired, and don’t feel too damn funny right now! I know my gift is important in this world, especially in these times. But, I’m tired of seeing people who look like me, shot by those who should protect them. Bullets don’t make mistakes.
Who the Hell, are we hiring as Law Enforcers? If they have a quick trigger, they SHOULD NOT be out There! I’m sick of this ………… I know Officers that know how to talk respectably to people. They go home without blood on their hands.
We must STOP being distracted by these BULLSH… Political Campaigns.
I don’t give a DAMN about Syria, or an email. 500 Black People DEAD by shots fired from Law Enforcers! Speak to this, HILLARY, DONALD, BERNIE and whomever else wants a Vote. My VOTE!
Wait… There’s more;
At the same time, I’m waiting and praying that my own Father, #RalphSr who just yesterday was fighting for his Life on an operating table for nearly 10 hours. He’s now in ICU, and I pray to God he fully recovers… I still have questions. And, I haven’t told him I Loved him enough times! I need my Dad.
Yes, I’m Fck’n Pissed. I’m Grown, and I’m Tired of this Shit.
I’m Tired
July 7th, 2016 at 4:47 pm
Ralph#3, if you are really tired then you should get a group together that will deal with the thugs with badges who white folk refuse to convict.
Until you niggers get a pair and start to deal with the white boy using racist thugs with badges to terrorize you, they will continue.
White america only uses the OTW to fight for their causes which are usually something for money, power or establishing racial superiority.
July 7th, 2016 at 5:03 pm
james#4, that came out of left field. Unless you are IS trolling for support from the black community. Personally I can’t accept a religion that is based on subjugating women and forcing them to be sex slaves.
But for the sake of argument, I would consider discussing looking the other way if you only did your business in white neighborhoods. They’re segregated and full of racist trash.
I wouldn’t help, but I wouldn’t turn you in either.
And yes, I agree that we as black men need to take this situation of white racist cops murdering our people seriously. If that means bringing them to justice after the white justUSice exonerates them. I’m down for it.
All I ask is that when we are tried for taking care of that scum, no OTW on the jury cast a guilty verdict. Follow the white jurors lead and say “not guilty” every time.
The best the white racists bastards will get is a hung jury.
July 7th, 2016 at 5:07 pm
Zen Lill the point is to encourage people to get out to vote. Your “shoe-in,” “landslide talk” could keep some needed Congressional votes at home.
Good for you if you know what you know. But for the sake of taking back the Senate give it a rest.
July 7th, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Ralph#3, I feel you. We as black men have to stop killing each other and take some of that anger to the source. If we show racist thugs with badges that if they murder a black man they will have to pay with their lives, they will not act with the impunity that white america gives them with their not guilty verdicts.
Like Rosa Parks someone has to stark it. There are plenty of perps. All someone has to do is pick one and get the job done as mean as possible.
And the next time a dead cop funeral parade passes by toot your horn twice to say fuck you and the hearse you rode in on.
July 7th, 2016 at 6:25 pm
Ally point taken and dems need to get out to vote presidential and mid terms so if me simmering down makes people act and step up, then consider it done…
All dems know now that republicans never miss an opportunity to vote so now it’s about making it a front and center priority. Agreed.
~ ZL
July 7th, 2016 at 7:21 pm
Black lives matter only to black people. Most whites couldn’t less about the death of a black person unless that person was of some value to them.
A four year old child has to stay strong when a disgusting racist murderer kills her mother’s boyfriend in front of her. The only difference between this murder by cop and the tens of thousands that have happened to blacks before the use of cell phone videos is the fact that white people can not deny it is happening because it is recorded.
However, it has not changed the white lie that it is not happening. They just continue to allow this injustice by letting off the criminals when they are tried.
I am inclined to agree with the sentiment that something direct has to be done. I wish I were younger. I would have no problem blowing away one of those murderers.
I know for certain I will never again avoid getting on a jury. If a black man is being charged with killing a white cop, I will not vote guilty.
Black men need to be told they will be held to the same standard by a black juror that white jurors hold white murdering racist cops.
Black people need to do whatever they can to get on juries and NEVER convict a black man of killing a white cop.
Sure some dead white cops will not get justice, but they have brought that upon themselves. The racist white thug cops do what they do because the other white cops aid and abet their racist behavior by looking the other way.
So if a few of those aid and abettors become collateral damage in the seeking of justice from those thugs with badges, so be it.
Like white folks say, I can live with it.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:24 pm
Alycedale#9, you don’t have all the faaaaacts before blaming this officer.”
July 7th, 2016 at 7:38 pm
“Philando Castile was shot during a traffic stop Wednesday, after he was pulled over for a broken tail light by St. Anthony police officers. According to his girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, officers instructed Castile to show his license and registration.”
“As he was reaching for the documents, she said, Castile told the officers that he was in possession of a firearm and a concealed carry permit. Moments later, he was shot four times.”
“In a graphic video broadcast live on Facebook after the shooting, Reynolds calmly explains that Castile was following the officers’ orders, as her boyfriend bleeds out in the passenger seat.”
“Her 4-year-old daughter watches from the back seat as the shooting officer yells and keeps his gun pointed at the car. More police officers arrive at the scene and yell for Reynolds to exit the vehicle.”
“With her boyfriend bleeding out next to her, Reynolds follows the officers’ commands. As she gets out of the car, the officers aim their weapons at her. She’s eventually handcuffed, ordered to her knees, and seated in the back of a police car.”
At the end of the video, her 4-year-old daughter says, “It’s okay, Mommy. I’m right here with you.”
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The racist cops just see blacks as targets they can abuse without recourse by whites.
The fault is NOT with the thugs with badges, the fault is with the white racist bastards that enable these thugs by never convicting them when they are charged.
Perhaps we should look to ISIS as Ali said the vietnamese never called me nigger. I would say that ISIS has never stopped and murdered a black person for being black.
So why should we care if ISIS comes to this country and kills these white racist bastards? We should just refuse to get involved as long as ISIS keeps it violence to white neighborhoods.
Do like whites do when they see white cops murdering blacks, witness nothing.
If this offends any of my white friends, I am sorry but I, like Ralph#3 am “tired” of your race killing mine with impunity.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:42 pm
In America it will not take long for before the whites are up defending the uniformed thugs and murderers that make life hell for so many in this country.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:46 pm
American cops are vastly disproportionately both murderous and willing in far too many cases to cover up for one another. Second, they are consistently aided by the worst of our citizens, including some who frequently appear here on Michelle’s blog.
This is the context from which I look at this story- which I have looked at on several sites. The cops have worked hard to destroy the trust of decent Americans and it is up to them to rebuild it.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:49 pm
You liberals are so sure that you have all the facts necessary to avoid an erroneous conclusion for these incidents?
Why don’t these blacks just shut the fuck up when they are stopped by police and do what they are told.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:51 pm
Alycedale and Ruth you claim to be Americans, yet you solicit murder of white Americans by foreigners from ISIS.
Fuck you.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:54 pm
Troy#14, I was going to counter your stupid position, but I can’t I just can’t play with you ignorant children any more.
You are just a fucking contrarian, anything that we call good you call bad if we say it is needed you say it’s frivolous, if we say don’t do something you do it..
I know you want attention so you don’t remember the horror of your childhood, but what happened to you as a boy is not our problem, so stop making it our problem you petulant little brat.
And we are all about honesty and fact checking, but admitting that would make you trolling a little less fun..
And I know no matter what we say we are the bad guys, because we are liberals, and liberals is tha devil.
But regardless I think deep down you may be a good person, don’t let what your daddy did to your tight little asshole, keep you from being good. You can do it if you try.
We are all here for you if you need to talk it out.
July 7th, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Henry#15, doesn’t feel to good to know that members of your society will not stand up when criminals attempt to harm you, does it?
So according to you, we should be concerned if you are being targeted for death, we should just be content when we are being targeted for death.
Let me repeat, if ISIS got into this country, and bought guns because you have made it easy for them to get guns, I will not assist them, but I will not remember any vehicle plates or faces of those using those guns.
If that bothers you, then fuck you.
July 7th, 2016 at 8:08 pm
Henry#15, my feelings result from your race permitting such actions and those of white prosecutors giving a free pass to bad cops.
If that bothers you, then you should work within your race to deal with their racist callous attitude towards the murdering of my people by yours.
In the meantime don’t expect me to continue to see your race as deserving of my interference when they are threatened by ISIS.
As Alycedale said if that bothers you, then kiss my black ass.
July 7th, 2016 at 8:10 pm
Cops are NOT here to protect and serve. They by finding of the Supreme Court are here to investigate crimes and arrest suspects and not one other thing.
If that means they have to kill a nigger or two, so be it.
July 7th, 2016 at 8:12 pm
Since when do facts matter when talking about police abuses? All the facts in the world won’t make any difference as long as the culture of corruption and racism runs police departments.
July 7th, 2016 at 8:13 pm
The Supreme Court also found corporations to have many of the rights citizens do. The issue is not what corrupt justices do but what the principles this country was founded on are and how to protect them from their enemies- inclusing thoise wearing judicial robes or police uniforms.
Read the Preamble of the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence and you will see principles alien to those of the corrupt justices on the court who made that ruling.
Cops are servants of the people and that is ALL they legitimately are.
July 7th, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Dwight #7, I wonder if the NRA will get behind their slogan that “the only way to stop a bad guy(murdering thug with a badge) is with a good guy(avenging black) with a gun”?
July 8th, 2016 at 4:25 am
Vince#22, Looks like you won’t have to wait long to get that answer from the NRA.
July 8th, 2016 at 4:28 am
Dallas sniper attack: 5 officers killed during protests against police.
What do you niggers have to say now?
July 8th, 2016 at 4:41 am
Randy#24, The way I see it, This is still the fault, on so many levels, of white people.
1. Did they think that black people would continue to take their callous response to thugs with badges murdering a race of people simply because they know that whites won’t hold them accountable would be allowed to go on forever?
2. Did the supposed “good cops” think that the black race would feel they have to distinguish between the “good Cops” who look the other way when the “bad cops” are allowed to murder black people at will.?
3. Did gun crazy whites think that they would be the only ones buying weapons designed to kill human beings at such an incredible rate?
Finally the narrative has not changed – Black people are tired of racist thugs with badges murdering them at will.
If every time a racist white cop murders a black man, some black with an automatic weapon takes his frustration out on any police force, I guarantee you the supposed “good cops” will start to do what the white race as a whole have refused to do. They will begin to police themselves.
Why? Certainly NOT out of concern for the deaths of those innocent blacks being murdered, but out of a sense of self preservation. They don’t want to see happen to them that they were all too willing to allow to happen to innocent black folk.
So my answer to all who write in complaining about the deaths of a few dallas cops is that number is murdered every day by racist white cops.
Get over it.
July 8th, 2016 at 4:45 am
Randy#24, this nigger says are we black folk supposed to feel more sympathy for the cops killed than the blacks murdered by cops.?
Especially since the cops’ refusal to stop the thugs with badges among them from doing their dirt.
I say this is a good start as a wake up call to police organizations all over this country that if you don’t police yourself, It will be done.
Yes NRA a good guy with a gun can stop the behavior of bad cops with guns.
July 8th, 2016 at 4:47 am
My hope is that if they take any of the shooters alive, no black on the jury finds him guilty. Whites need to learn that they are not the only ones who can be callous in the face of insanity.
July 8th, 2016 at 4:49 am
I’m white but I can understand the frustration these shooters have with the system controlled by my race which refuses to address the murdering of innocent black men.
Something like this was bound to happen especially with the support of the proliferation of killing machines by my race.
July 8th, 2016 at 4:53 am
I suppose only white people thought they could continue to ignore the state of terror black men feel when they leave their homes.
How long before that fear of police lights in their rearview mirror would explode into this type of response?
Crazy white people get automatic weapons and murder at will and everyone is supposed to try to understand.
This is understandable. If cops don’t want to be hunted at random, then police your own who do it to black people.
July 8th, 2016 at 4:55 am
I have to say, many of us here in Japan can’t understand why this has’t happened sooner.
Maybe if it continues, the whites in your country will take seriously the psychological pressure they are forcing upon their black citizens when they leave their homes.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:01 am
Don’t count on the whites in your country taking a serious look at what caused this explosion of anger by the blacks they terrorize with their police.
They will try to change the narrative to be about “a war on blue lives.” This will mean that unless blacks are willing to continue to act out, nothing will change.
Blacks in your country, you will have to decide.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:07 am
If I hear one more time that police officers “put their lives on the line every day” I will puke. Excuse me, that is the JOB DESCRIPTION of their occupation.
We, the citizen they are supposed to serve pay them handsomely to do just that.
Where else can a high school diploma earn $70 to $200,000.00 a year but in an occupation with that JOB DESCRIPTION?
That doesn’t give them the right to murder innocent black men. If they won’t take action within their organization to stop the bad cops, then they have no right to complain if some of the “good cops” become collateral damage when the “good guy with a gun” attempts to take out the “bad guys.”
July 8th, 2016 at 5:09 am
I’d like to feel sorry for those 5 dead cops, but I keep thinking that they brought it upon themselves. My suggestion to the Dallas police department and all others police departments in America is do your jobs.
Prevent crimes by your own with as much zeal as you claim to bring to the streets. If you don’t many people like me will simply turn away when karma comes and bites you in the butt.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:17 am
As usual white people in America will expect ALL of America to see the situation from their point of view.
Yeah some cops were killed. That I can agree on. But the reason and the solution I will undoubtedly differ with you on.
You may say there is no reason that can justify wanton murder of police officers. I say on principle that should be true, but the reality that faces blacks being preyed upon and terrorized by whites with badges changes that principle.
Do whites expect that blacks will not eventually react negatively to their insensitivity to white cops murdering them without concern about being brought to justice?
If they do, then they are dumber that I thought.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:19 am
Here in Holland we are not surprised that this has happened. The surprise is that it has taken so long.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:22 am
So you Americans are always tell us in Russia that we are the bigots who go around Europe terrorizing out neighbors.
It appears you have the dirty laundry, I can’t wait to hear your whitewash of this Dallas.
Never will we hear that it is a result of the terrorizing of your blacks by your whites. You fucking hypocrites
July 8th, 2016 at 5:28 am
America fix your own house before you come to the Middle East attempting to help us.
No wonder you understand the jews discriminating against us Palestinians, you do it so well with your blacks.
Now that they have discovered the courage to act out the way we Palestinians do against the jews what will you do?
When they learn the value of suicide bombers making a sacrifice among your mists. What will you do?
Your politicians get elected on racist platforms. Your police murder your blacks with the tacit and overt approval of your whites. How is this different from what we Palestinians experience at the hands of the jews?
I am so happy for you.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:34 am
What do the whites in America expect their blacks to do about their refusal to give them justice when rogue racist cops murder them at will?
Sooner or later the terror of police lights in their rearview mirrors was going to cause some of them to snap.
Now the attempt by the whites in America to make this about “blue lives” could fall on deaf ears in the OTW communities in America.
You whites better hope that doesn’t happen. Syria, Iraq, Libya, etc thought that couldn’t happen.
Fix your racist behavior white america or face the anger of your oppressed.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:38 am
In the face of what has happened let it be known that I stand by my every word. If white America is upset about what happened, then act to bring to justice those white racist thugs with badges that murder my people every day.
You have no one to blame but yourselves. It is your politicians who take money from the NRA to permit people to own automatic killing machines. I wonder how long this will last now that blacks are using them on yours.
July 8th, 2016 at 5:44 am
I am so tired of hearing we in America have to fear the white man’s backlash. Since the NRA has paid off the republicans to proliferate the country with guns that can kill in a massive fashion, it appears some in America may have to fear the black man’s backlash.
if enough of a minority is willing to die to make a statement and support a cause that “black lives matter”, then the majority will either have to listen and do something about their grievances or accept the consequences.
Stop supporting thugs with guns and badges murdering innocent and unarmed black people.