warofpositionist:

FORWARD WIDELY:

“Darius Simmons was by all accounts a good kid. The fun loving 6th grader was simply moving a garbage can in front of his home when his neighbor, 75 year old John Henry Spooner confronted him with a shotgun and accused him of stealing from his home. Darius, who was in school the time of the robbery, denied being involved with the theft. John Henry Spooner then proceed to shoot Darius in his chest, while he had his hands raise showing Spooner he was unarmed. His mom, who was watching in horror, ran to Darius to see if she could find a pulse, she couldn’t. Darius, 13 years old and unarmed, was murdered in cold blood in front of his mother.” 

scarygodmother:

“Jones said Lee “needs to be reinstated immediately” and that most of the issues regarding the police department stem from a small number of people in Sanford.

“For some, there is complete disdain of the police department, even if Jesse Jackson was the police chief,” Jones said.”

Oh fuck you, you racist dickbags. 

Lee and that police department need to be charged with…with whatever they can charge shitstains who not only fucked up a case like this, but also to alter the fucking case - telling a witness their account is “wrong”, trying to pin the blame on Trayvon, finding excuses for Zimmerman - and then not arresting Zimmerman or charging him with anything until the fucking FBI has to be called in to do their fucking job.

How dare these scum act petulant and hurt when people call them out on their bullshit? Bill Lee and his department of racist, child-murderer-abetters need to face real punishment for how they’ve acted. None of them are fit to be allowed to called “police”. None of these people are fit to hold that power, to supposedly uphold justice and protect the people of Sanford. They deserve to be fired, fined, and - for some - even jailed for this flagrant participation in the aggressive denial of justice.

soulsentwined:

The worst fauxpology ever

shaelephant:

cruelyouth:

sherbertsheperton:

cruelyouth:

shaelephant:

thatgirlannabagelhead:

cruelyouth:

“I wanted to say I am sorry for the loss of your son,” Mr. Zimmerman, 28, said in a soft voice as he took the stand with shackles at his feet and waist. “I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. I did not know if he was armed or not.”

Oh, and that’s some nice writing, NYT, but it doesn’t fucking matter how soft Zimmerman’s voice was or that he had shackles on.

OH WOW, did he say it in a SOFT voice?

Well THAT just makes it all okay, doesn’t it?

soft voices mean that he’s meek, repentant, and worthy of forgiveness, duh.

motherfucking babykiller

also i can’t be the only one bothered by the fact that they found it necessary to mention shackles in a case that is so inherently about anti-black racism it’s disgusting. like i think that’s pretty goddamn insensitive. because it conjures images of him, a white man, enduring the same imprisonment felt by millions of black pocs for centuries and that’s really not okay to me.

@ the bolded (mine)

Nope, you’re not the only one.  I just didn’t have the words to describe it.

Guys, I think you’re missing the point. If he was speaking softly, then it’s the reporter’s job to report that. If he was shackled, then it was the reporter’s job to report that. A reporter is a writer, and they must show us what we cannot see due to there being no photo or video show the reader those things. 

He wasn’t trying to make it sound insensitive. He wasn’t trying to detract from the issues. He was merely illustrating the moment. No need to get all up in arms about it. There are things that are worth being outraged over, and things that aren’t. This is one of the latter.

As an ex-journalist myself who knows that journalists do add unnecessary qualifiers to make the stories more “marketable” (and they teach us to do this),

Shut the fuck up, you naive twit, and take some fucking seats.

i’m going to go ahead and second what’s said above. are you seriously naïve enough to think that the news media isn’t as rooted in institutionalized, unquestioned anti-blackness as the rest of this country? 

the news is dictated by what we as a people have proven we want to hear. the news isn’t for reporting facts anymore. the news is for creating propaganda and perpetuating despicable stereotypes. open your eyes and look at the facts. this man killed a 17-year-old black boy in cold blood with no motive beyond his own racist judgments, and they feel the need to portray him as sensitive, humble, appropriately chastened. no, he has not yet been dealt anywhere near enough punishment for his hate crime. no, i don’t want to see in the newspapers words that i recognize to evoke pity and sympathy for a man who committed an insufferable murder. and no, i’m not going to listen when someone tells me it’s not worth getting angry over. we have no ability to be objective as a country, and we never have, so don’t even try. 

^^^^^^^^^^

And whatever makes white people feel more comfortable about racism sells.

Source: cruelyouth

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