Whow--this is a very buzy freeway leading in and out of downtown MPLS!




Erin Golden @golden_erin · 4h 4 hours ago

Protesters doing a "die-in" on 35W. Chanting "black lives matter."

Protesters doing a "die-in" on 35W. Chanting "black lives matter."

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Today Marks 45th Anniversary of Chicago Police Killing of Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton.

anyone remember, besides me?

ad Angela davis
to find out what history is repeating itself today.

stood around chanting off & on for about an hour. Then a group (I assume from Union Square) arrived a;nd a cheer went up and people joined them. I thought I knew where we were going but they kept surprising me. Now I see on Fox 5 local news that there is a mob of thousands in Herald Square (34th Street Macys neighborhood) sitting in the street. WOW!

Edit: also they were at the Staten Island Ferry, and Harlem, and there are still multiple separate groups roaming around.

comment live stream just now..

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/124908/events/3634900


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You are participating in history.

I fully support all the protesters across the country.

I read about the national action in Washington in a week. I might take a very long bus ride to attend!

We must change things. We must.

just to show that we're not all racist jerks. I was a child during the '60s civil rights strife and while it was far from where I lived, the news programs made an impression. Plus, I wasn't raised to be prejudiced.

How far from DC are you? From past experience I'd have to get up at 4 to get to a bus leaving at 6 for a 5 hour ride, then repeat a few hours later. I can't do that anymore.

Ended my Chicago girlhood innocence.

I lived in Chi town. I had been helped by the Black Panthers, when lost in the "bad neighborhoods."

A month prior to the event, I had been driving on Chicago's south side, when I witnessed a middle aged Chicago cop beating a young African American kid, probably around nine yrs old, with his billy club.

Another cop did not want my report, and I was told, "It is none of yr business."

The Black Panther murder story headlines screamed at Chcicago residents for a week, that a squad of conscientious Chicago men in blue had gone to the Fred Hampton apartment, and when they were met with a serious barrage of bullets from the BP's, they opened fire, in order to save their own lives.

A decade or more later, it came out that of the hundreds of rounds of bullets fired, ony one had come from the Black Panthers weapons, and that shot had endedup in the ceiling, as though the person firing it had been sleeping and then roused by something, so they did not have time to take proper aim. At this later date, it was also revealed that Hampton was not suffering from fatal wounds when taken from his apartment, but that the police deliberately fired into his body while he lay on a gurney, killing him.

So glad to see this.






Lnonblonde ?@Lnonblonde 3h3 hours ago

Congressman Hank Johnson Recites 'I Can't Breathe' Poem For #EricGarner On House Floor WATCH-http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-rep-recites-i-cant-breathe-poem-for-eric-garner-on-house-floor/ …
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stayed on the fringe because I was leery of being swept up by the cops. I left around 8pm when they were still coming onto the West Side Highway. Were there more than one swarm?

not keep track to much.

and get this:
100s of Denver high school students walk out to protest for 2nd day (Twitter)

and

Dan Ryan Expressway in #Chicago is Shut Down

Brooklyn Bridge shut down
There are a LOT of people marching, and lots of good pics on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/media

Excellent follow-up interview with NYU Law School professor (sorry, no name).
Ongoing in-depth coverage on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ICan'tBreathe&src=typd

as far as I can tell. --and NY.

They're hurting, but this helps at least a little.

She's a lovely person.

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Jeff Rae ?@jeffrae 32m32 minutes ago

Happening Now: thousands sitting down in silence at 30th and 6th Ave for #EricGarner #ICantBreathe pic.twitter.com/Js1EezO1Yd
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bluecheddar1 ?@bluecheddar1

MT @MaketheRoadNY: Coffins mark bodies of lives lost to the police's violence. #ICantBreathe #ThisStopsToday /s/9Pdf

Global Revolution TV retweeted
Keegan Stephan @KeeganNYC · 11m 11 minutes ago

Chants of "Shame" as the arrests go down in Times Square. #ThisStopsToday #EricGarner https://vine.co/v/OvU1vgAOKUr

Well said!



Maria ?@MariaM5SOS_ 53s53 seconds ago

#ICantBreathe I have no words. seeing everyone banding together in different cities for the same cause helps me gain hope in humanity again

I' ve heard that this fellow had about 30 priors and resisted arrest. Is that not true?

They should check cops backgrounds better.

You really want to do this here?

It's coming for you too. Don't think you're immune because you're white.

of these protestors.

Thanks also to the good people at DU who are informing us on this thread and elsewhere.

Black lives matter.

they are also organizing.. they are campaigns to change their police departments, their city halls.
the school to prison industry complex.

we are active.

at the grass-roots level. We need involvement to effect change locally. Thanks for your participation annm4peace!

It should be very rare for police to knock anyone to the ground or handcuff behind the back.

The zip-ties used for handcuffs have to go as well, its to tight/painfully.

Sure the zip-tie, tear gas, busses full of cages and shock torture devices, sales Corps will be pissed off at the loss of sales.. to hell with them.

This is "the peoples government" not the Corps gov.