In the last few days, there have been 3 major terrorist attacks that have gone hugely unreported by mainstream media:
June 28th - Ataturk Airport Attack, Turkey - 45 dead, 238 injured
July 2nd - Dhaka Cafe Attack, Bangladesh - 22 dead, 40 injured
July 3rd - Baghdad Shopping Mall Attack, Iraq - 130 dead (the death toll so far), over 160 injured
All in Muslim-majority countries. All during the Holy Month of Ramadan. And all committed by ISIS.
And yet people still have the audacity to claim that “all Muslims are terrorists”, or paint those in the West as terrorism’s biggest victims.
- More than 80 people died in three separate bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday — the bloodiest day the Iraqi capital has seen in 2016.
- At least 63 people were killed when a car bomb tore through a busy market in the Sadr City neighborhood on Wednesday morning. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
- Eyewitnesses described a “thunderous explosion” that shook the ground.
- Hours later, two further bombs struck the city: a car bomb in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood killed at least 15, before another blast in western Baghdad killed at least 7.
[image description: A series of tweets from Mikael Chuks Owunna @OwningMyTruth: American evangelical pastors were the key architects of Uganda’s initially proposed anti-LGBT law that mandated DEATH sentences 4 LGBT ppl. These pastors and missionaries have played a CENTRAL role in advancing anti-LGBT legislation not only in the US but in Africa as well And they worked alongside colonial regimes that not only created homophobia & transphobia as we now know it but advanced it across the WORLD. So it’s absurd to me hearing all of these fools like HRC and others going on about radical islam when AMERICANS are inciting killings & brutality against lgbtq people AROUND the world. where we have lgbtq people seeking asylum because their home communities have been made unsafe for them by the western imperialist advancement of homophobia and transphobia into our lands. People need to STFU about Islam being inherently homophobic/transphobic and look at how those systems are historically rooted in the WEST. And all of the brutality that is visited upon lgbtq folks, and especially twoc daily here speaks volumes to those historical roots]
Yes yes yes
And this is not just some history shit (it’d still be relevant if it was), American Christians are doing this work RIGHT NOW.
this is not househunting related whatsoever but i have 90k followers and i know many of you live in florida:
Orlando hospitals are in massive need of blood donations after the unbelievable hate crime/terrorist attack (50 dead, 50+ injured) that happened at a gay club last night.
“There is an urgent need for O Negative, O Positive and AB Plasma blood donors following a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida,” said the news release from OneBlood.
please, if you can, head over to a donation center today, and boost this post.
Four local OneBlood banks are open today 8 a.m.-4 p.m.:
-Orange Park Donor Center
2153 Kingsley
-South Jacksonville Donor Center
8013 Beach Blvd. (near Parental Home Rd.)
-West Jacksonville Donor Center
5209 Blanding Blvd.
-Mandarin Donor Center
10501 San Jose Blvd
Police Shoot Unarmed Man and his 6-Year-Old Autistic Son in the Head Multiple Times Killing Son
As of Thursday morning, at least 834 people had been shot and killed by American police officers so far this year.
Six-year-old Jeremy David Mardis is the youngest among them.
The autistic first-grader was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car being driven by his father, Chris Few, in Marksville, La., when city marshals “allegedly” attempted to serve the man a warrant about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. But when checked with the County Clerks office, no warrant could be found in the database.
Police claim Few fled, eventually turning down a dead-end street. And that Few then attempted to back his vehicle out, striking officers’ cruisers, prompting an exchange of gunfire between the officers and driver that left him hospitalized and his son dead.
However, An official briefed on the shooting said that Few was unarmed when two officers opened fire, shooting between 13 and 18 bullets combined. Five of the officers’ bullets pierced Jeremy’s body, Mayeux said, with the two fatal shots hitting him in the head and chest. That official said it is unclear if the shooting was captured on camera.
The police involved in the shooting all had criminal records including rape.
After the officers names were released, It didn’t take long for local press to uncover extensive rap sheets for both officers:
- Derrick Stafford, the officer indicted for rape, also has five pending civil suits against him for various complaints of excessive force, including breaking the arm of a 14-year-old girl on a school bus as well as assaulting and pepper-spraying a 15-year-old boy at a Fourth of July celebration.
- Norris Greenhouse Jr., the other officer implicated in the murder of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis, is named in several of the same suits for acting in tandem with Stafford.
Louisiana State Police announced on Wednesday that they had launched an investigation into the incident at the request of the Marksville Police Department.
#StayWoke
Pennsylvania shooting claims 6 black lives
Six people are dead after a pair of gunmen opened fire at a barbecue in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Wednesday night. Four women, one man and an unborn child were shot at a private residence in what authorities are calling a coordinated attack. All of the victims were black.
While outlets across the country have given it some coverage, the incident has largely been spared the 24-hour news cycle treatment granted the likes of other recent attacks.
A fund has been set up to help the family defray the cost of losing 5 family members (plus one baby due in late May). One mother lost 3 adult children and 2 nieces in a few minutes of horrific gun violence. One of her sons is in critical condition in the hospital. She has several grandchildren who lost their parent.
The Shelton-Powell Memorial Fund has been set up at Citizens Bank to help the family with the burials and funeral. Walk into a Citizens branch and donate. (I will post more if I find out how to donate remotely.) This is one way to show this family that we are thinking of them in their time of grief, that we stand together against gun violence.
http://filmingcops.com/police-thought-fellow-cop-was-ordinary-citizen-fired-34-shots-and-killed-him/
34 shots. On an “ordinary citizen”. 34. thirty-four. Thats 5 and one third times more than fit in a cowboy’s revolver. That’s more than you need to kill a player in a first person shooter.
That is unnecessary. More than. On an “ordinary citizen” thats too many. One is too many. This is beyond out of hand, this is out of mind. Stop this
‘I Don’t Want To Die In Your Cell,’ Woman Told Police Shortly Before Dying In Jail
A recently released video shows Ralkina Jones discussing her multiple health issues with police.
Find out exactly what transpired here.
UPDATE: OAKLAND, CA. 10:20 PM LOCAL TIME. PROTESTERS STORM THE STREETS OF OAKLAND IN AN IMPROMPTU DEMONSTRATION AFTER A BLACK MAN IS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE. THE MAN, NAMED JOE BART, WAS SHOT IN THE BACK BY POLICE WHILE SURRENDERING TO THEM. HIS LAST WORDS WERE “OK, OK, OK.”
Save Our Kids (8/8/15): Christian Taylor, a 19-year old college football player was gunned down by police early Friday morning in Arlington, TX. Christian crashed his vehicle into a car dealership. Police claim he was trying to rob it. How and why a kid with his own new car and a promising college career, would try to single-handedly rob a car showroom by crashing into it, I couldn’t tell you (reeks of bullshit/this ain’t Fast & Furious). He was unarmed. Police will always prioritize property over our lives. Don’t be shocked if/when video gets released later contradicting the killer cop’s story though.
Unarmed black teen William Chapman, killed by police officer who just came off suspension for killing.
On April 22, the Portsmouth, Virginia, Police Department claimed that 18-year-old William Chapman was suspected of shoplifting from a local Walmart. Completely unarmed, he was shot in the face and killed by an officer with a record so heinous that it is criminal he was ever allowed on the force in the first place.
In a powerful report written by Jon Swaine of The Guardian, it’s made abundantly clear that Chapman’s mother has not only been stonewalled for answers, the local Walmart actually called the police on her when she came to the store days later to ask exactly what they are claiming her son stole. They wouldn’t give her any answers either.
The officer who killed Chapman is Stephen Rankin, who had been suspended from street patrol for nearly three years after he killed another unarmed man.
In addition to this suspension and warnings from his superiors that he was likely to cause harm, Rankin had also been suspended for posting Nazi-inspired images and messages online. How can anyone with such a record be allowed to be in public service?
Sallie Chapman, the mother of William Chapman, is seeking funds for his burial expenses. Please donate here
Here is a video of his mother speaking about her loss and the injustice done to her family.
If you can’t donate, please at least help spread this link. I’ve barely seen anything about William Chapman on Tumblr or Twitter yet he was killed in April.
