Kimberly Jones:
a partial transcript of Kimberly Jones (You Tube video link) edited by You Tube? to remove swearing for whatever reason?:
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why do you burn down the community why
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do you burn down your own neighborhood
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it's not ours we don't own anything we
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don't own anything there is Trevor NOAH
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said it so beautifully last night
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there's a social contract that we all
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have that if you feel or if I steal then
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the person who is the authority comes in
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and they fix the situation
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but the person who fixes the situation
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is killing us so the social contract is
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broken and if the social contract is
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broken why the do I give a [fuck edited out]
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about burning the Football Hall
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of Fame about brother the target
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you broke the contract when you killed
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us in the streets and he give up
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you broke the contract room for 400
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years we played your game and built your
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wealth you broke the contract when we
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built our wealth again on our own by our
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bombs on us when we built it in
Rosewood
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and you came in and you slaughtered us
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you broke the contract so your
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far as I'm concerned it could burn this
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bitch to the ground and it still
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wouldn't be enough and they are lucky
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that what black people are looking for
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is a quality and not revenge
— more on the Greenwood massacre
“The roots of white supremacy run deep”
John Oliver begins the segment with an accurate analysis of the deeply flawed and unjust “qualified immunity” shielding police from accountability for acts of brutality; the Trump regime gutting of consent decrees; and of the purposeful “police warrior” training that has infected so many of the police forces into violent organizations harkening back to a pre-Jim Crow era when Black Codes were favored by former slaveholders and written into laws (and as a replacement for Slave codes)
Just out today:
Democrats Release Legislation To Overhaul Policing
— Barbara Sprunt | June 8, 202012:37 PM ET
House and Senate Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Monday to overhaul policing in the U.S., following weeks of national protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man who died after a police officer held his knee to Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes.
The proposal, titled the Justice in Policing Act, would prohibit police from using chokeholds, create a national registry to track police misconduct, lower legal standards to pursue criminal and civil penalties for police misconduct, and ban certain no-knock warrants. (You can read a summary of the bill here.)
a link to:
• Justice in Policing Act Full Bill Text
• Justice in Policing Act Summary
What Kimberly Jones @kimlatricejones said, and this excellent work by John Oliver — imo
Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
— June 7th, 2020
As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward