@foser In the immortal words of Rodney King : "People, I just want to say, can't we all get along? Can't we all get along?" May 1 1992. The anniversary is coming up. There should be a 'can't we all just get along' day. #RodneyKing #CantWeAllGetAlong

#Mood — "Fed the fuck UP!"

Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

They're the chosen whites.

The US could use more "Fuck you! I won't do what you tell me!" right now. Be inspired.

"Killing in the Name" (1992). #RATM #RageAgainstTheMachine

#resistance #protest #music #90s #police #brutality #LAPD #RodneyKing #SayTheirNames #SameShitDifferentDecade

https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

‘Joy too can be a form of resistance. Honey, the question is: How do you want to exist in the world & how are you going to do the work?’ -Nick Cave

-how possible fr me to not know this #artist til now?

-Soundsuits obscure identity esp for a black, gay, creative man in wake of #RodneyKing…#GeorgeFloyd. Believes the mundane + spectacular should coexist…his mission is to break down divisions of all kinds. #othering #Forothermore

#Guggenheim #NickCave #BlackMastodon #NYC

http://bit.ly/40FA7bk

George Floyd’s Family to Join in Laying Tyre Nichols to Rest | https://www.theroot.com/george-floyd-s-family-to-join-in-laying-tyre-nichols-to-1850053718 #nationalactionnetwork #africanamericanpeople #civildisobedience #jlawrenceturner #policebrutality #americansociety #benjamincrump #humaninterest #tyrenichols #georgefloyd #alsharpton #emmitttill #rodneyking #nichols #victims #crime #lora #nbc

Graham floats potential compromise on qualified immunity https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3835986-graham-floats-potential-compromise-on-qualified-immunity/ "The House passed the #GeorgeFloyd Justice in Policing Act in June 2020, but negotiations for a package that could clear the evenly divided Senate collapsed later. The brutality of the beating taken by Nichols, seen in #police videos released last week, has renewed the ambition of legislators to get a #reform package passed." It's 1991 all over again. #RodneyKing #defund

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'I'm tired. Aren't you tired? ... And if you are affected by this, do something.'

Listen to the powerful words of @lora_kingrkf, daughter of the late Rodney King, on the death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of 5 Memphis police officers

#rodneyking #tyrenichols #memphis #policebrutality #blacklivesmatter

#Tyre Nichols brutal arrest ‘worse’ than #RodneyKing, Memphis police chief says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/tyre-nichols-officers-rodney-king-police-b2271113.html

If there was only one thing I could leave behind, it would be the changed perspective, the deeper self-awareness, the cognitive-diss filters removed, that happens after years of looking at the US from outside, to my fellow Americans.

Fix it. Now.

#TrayvonRice

#GeorgeFloyd 

#FreddieGray 

#SamDubose 
#PhilandoCastile
#TerenceCrutcher 
#AltonSterling 

#JamarClark

#JeremyMcDole
#WilliamChapman #WalterScott

#EricHarris

#AkaiGurley

#MichaelBrown

#EricGarner
#TyreNichols
#RodneyKing

1/ I know I shouldn’t have watched the #tyrenichols but that is worse than #rodneyking. They literally beat that poor man to death. I had an encounter years ago where I was in a conference call with a client in another state and I got pulled over by the police. They asked me if I wanted to call them back and I said “no, if anything happens to me, you’ll know the truth”. One of the cops looked at me and my registration and asked “is this car yours?”

@kitsystratton @shoq
There are few objections from me but what is non violent when a black person is confronted by a bunch of cops, black or white, when the victim is unarmed, where they comply with instructions and the cops still kill them?

#RodneyKing, #TyreNichols that's just in the USA that made the news. What about the ones that don't? What about the 500+ First Nations people in Australia. Entirely non violent. Still dead.

#BLM #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

I watched only about 15 minutes; but the worst parts of it that MSNBC would air.

I kept thinking "This is like some of the Russian Wagner War Crime shit I've watched. Those cops committed a war crime. In America."

#Tyre #Nichols #TyreNichols #DemilitarizeThePolice #DefundthePolice #PoliceReform #police
#RodneyKing

Violence
On display
Rodney King's, Tyre's too
Unjustly beheld
Painful truth

#policeviolence #riots #rodneyking #tyrenichols #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/us/tyre-nichols-rodney-king.html

RT @AtlantaJustice
The body cam footage of what happened to #TyreNichols will be released tomorrow. It has been described as being similar to what happened to #RodneyKing
#JusticeforTyreNichols #ACAB #NoJusticeNoPeace #PoliceBrutality

Can anyone recommend any good resources (e.g. books, documentaries) about the Rodney King riots?

Heard them mentioned in an episode of S.W.A.T. yesterday and whilst I have heard of them before, I realise I don't know enough.

#blackhistory #rodneyking #history #help #informaton #learning

Mine is that #AnnaKendrick is hot AF. And I'm of the age that knows that #ShirleyMacLaine is hot AF.

And #Noelle is a wonderfully silly and happily concluded story if a cathartic release of nonsensical childhood beliefs coalescing into the words of the great #RodneyKing when he said "Can't we all just get along?"