There's nothing at all to see here, only more mass shootings, killings and killer cops in the U.S.
A violent society continues to be violent -- there's no "reforming" that can be done
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SOME OF THE NEWS HEADLINES AND STORIES FROM THE LAST FEW DAYS
Exclusive from Roland Martin Unfiltered on The Black Star Network: a scandal at HBCU Bethune-Cookman University with the neglect of facilities for students and the firing of the university’s football head coach Ed Reed — riveting and powerful interviews - a must-watch (starts at 11-minute mark or thereabouts)
Updated: Now there have been at least 40 mass shootings so far in this first month of 2023 in the U.S. — and at least 67 people have been killed from those shootings; in a three day stretch (last Saturday to this Tuesday — at least people were killed in shootings in the U.S. (according to video from CBS Mornings)
Second mass shooting in California in a three-day span - gunman kills seven people in workplace violence in Half Moon Bay
Monterey Park mass shooting - the shooter kills eleven people in California then ends his own life
Photo: Memphis Police Department
Five Black police officers (now fired) from Memphis charged with second degree murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man; video to be released today
Only 1.6 percent of rape cases in the UK get charged (may be paywalled)lican Governr
Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis bar African-American studies classes in Florida schools
Graphic video of the violent attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul is released (Warning: VIDEO here contains disturbing scenes of violence)
Losing Republican candidate shoots up the homes and offices of at least Democratic Party officials in the Albuquerque area in New Mexico
A Black sommelier opens a new wine bar in San Francisco
The US and Germany will send tanks to Ukraine
Superintendent George Parker III fired from Virginia school (with half a million dollars’ salary severance) where officials did nothing despite repeated warnings that six-year-old boy, who eventually shot a teacher at the school, had a gun
Four members of the Oath Keepers found guilty of seditious conspiracy in the terrorist attack on the U.S. on January 6, 2021
The spouse of a Republican politician in Iowa is charged with 52 counts of voter fraud
Actor Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
The Conservative Party in the UK suspend one of its members of parliament for comparing Covid vaccines to the Holocaust (may be a paywalled article)
In the space of five days DT voluntarily removes two federal lawsuits against New York State Attorney General Letitia James
Police sergeant in Ohio placed on paid leave after video emerges of him repeatedly punching a Black woman in the head
In 2022, the U.S. Capitol police investigated roughly 7,500 threats against members of the U.S. Congress
A white art gallery owner who sprayed a Black unhoused woman with a garden hose full of water in San Francisco is finally arrested, ten days after being caught on video doing what he did
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I have to listen in increments but you are so right on to say the least. If only you got air time on msm to speak your truth to power. I’m a couple of days behind your podcasts but will keep listening , following your words and absorb and learn from them.