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Cuban model Yadira Borrego is using social media to respond to critics.
Yadira, who has children with rapper DMX from a more than year on-again, off-again relationship is now streaming her new reality TV show on social media services.
Previously, rapper Chief Keef caused a controversy with a rap about having sex with DMX’s baby’s mama and called her out by name.
This caused many to say,”If there wasn’t some smoke near the fire.”
Ron Hillstrom tased and beat to death by Pierce County WA Police Department
OMG… Don’t ever call 911
What gives me hope is that we live in the era of the cellphone video. We are seeing what before no one saw. And it means this is being brought to light.
I believe there is no reason every cop should not have a video system mounted right on him.
Just like a black box in an airplane, these video cameras would record in a loop of so many hours and uploaded to the cloud.
In the event of any possibly criminal incident, his camera data is immediately put into evidence.
Cops do not need privacy while on the job. We have good reason to monitor their activities at all time.
SMH…. I hope those officers enjoyed their paid vacation
Just another murder that citizens are powerless to prevent or even get justice for.
If you get pulled over be sure to go somewhere with lots of people around or you could end up like this guy.
Based on the minimal information presented, the only thing I have difficulty understanding is how four officers cannot seem to cuff/shackle one man
The man is down, officer has his knee on his neck (perfectly acceptable police procedure when suspect is resisting), the other three should be able to easily joint-lock and restrain suspect.
Done.
Instead, the suspect is repeatedly clubbed (according to eyewitness reports).
We need specialized mental health professionals on call to deal with these sorts of situations.
All of the witnesses seem like kind, receptive people who would be happy to see this poor man talked down and taken care of.
Like a non-violent mental health swat team?
And with the SWAT, I am not envisioning squads with Thorazine and Atavan in tranquilizer darts, roaming the cities and bagging them some kooks.
We also need cops who are trained and accountable.
As long as you can beat a man to death on film and get administrative leave, this will keep happening.
LOL… At least there are no cops like this in Heaven.
He was HUMAN!!! He was a Dad, A Son, A Brother, too often police officers forget this as they escalate the situation on the citizens, they are supposed to protect and serve.
QUOTE…. “The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people. To enforce the relations of exploitation and oppression, the conditions of poverty, misery, and degradation into which the system has cast people and determined to keep people in. The law and order the police are about, with all their brutality and murder, is the law and the order that enforces all this oppression and madness.” – Bob Avakian
There needs to be more pressure from society at large to stop this.
Trouble is, whenever we try to hold them accountable for crap like this, they threaten us with the usual bogeymen.
If we don’t let cops “do their jobs” we’ll all die at the hands of muggers, rapists and home invaders, so they say.
Our fear usually wins out.
It’s time we realize the world isn’t as horrible as the cops want us to think.
We don’t need to strike a deal with devils to keep us safe.
Police unions are a huge part of the problem
INITIAL PRESS COVERAGE…..
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Neighbors who live near Ron Hillstrom say they knew something was not right early Monday morning.
It appeared Hillstrom was having some sort of episode in the parking lot of their University Place apartment complex. Neighbor Ashley Patterson said he was walking around in a circle asking for help.
“I see four officers walking up on him and they’re like, ‘It’s the police,’ and he’s like ‘You’re not the police’, and he goes to run in the circle and as soon as he comes back the police use four tasers at one time,” Patterson said.
She said officers continued to tase him, and once they had him on the ground an officer used a flashlight to strike Hillstrom several times. Multiple residents told KOMO 4 a similar story, and several people also shot video of the incident on their cell phones.
Hillstrom died soon after being subdued. Witnesses say they saw him with a screw driver in one hand, but say he didn’t use it to threaten law enforcement.
“Without seeing the whole entire incident in context, you’re not going to know why that was happening. They, officers all that were there, are all on paid administrative leave while we review it and look into it and determine what happened. Whether there’s a way we could do it better or if somebody did something that wasn’t appropriate,” said Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
Troyer claims the Pierce County Medical Examiner found no blows to Hillstrom’s head.
BRAVE MAN: Martin Luther King’s speeches always made sense in contrast to what is happening in the world today,
WORDS OF WISDOM: Had we listened to you there would be less terrorism today.
I am an American and I support this message…
MLK says America be warned
“You are too arrogant! And if you don’t change your ways I will rise up and break the backbone of your power and place it in the hands of a nation that don’t even know my name”
And we see that happening right now.
Some people say that China will receive a piece of that broken backbone.
The nations that claim to be the followers of The God of Abraham (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) have all become arrogant and caused much death and destruction in his name.
Look at what we have now!
Great words that speak the truth about America then and now.
No amount of lies or deceit from anyone can hide this powerful message that resonates to this day.
Kermit the Frog would like a word about our house…..
ROFLMAO…. Why is Kermit filming a Trump rally?
Kermit PSA: “Waste Deep” aka “Food” (60 Seconds) – Better World Society
In 1989, Kermit the Frog served as spokesfrog for the Better World Society. He appeared in two Public Service Announcements directed by Jim Henson in November of 1988, which aired the next year. In 1990, Jim Henson Productions was presented with Telly Awards for both PSAs.
The first PSA (titled “Food” in production and later honored by the Telly Awards as “Waste Deep”) features Kermit posing a question to the viewer: “What if everyone in the world lived in one house?”
The camera pans from left to right through several rooms filled with Muppet monsters involved in a number of raucous activities: eating food (with the refrigerator door left open), bathing (in a full tub, with the water still running), brushing teeth (the water pressure noticeably affected by the monster bathing in the preceding room) and lastly, a bedroom full of monsters trying to find their own space in an over-crowded bed.
Kermit appears at the end to repeat his question, and answers, “We do.”
LOL… The house is getting smaller though, as can be seen in the clip.
The great leader is not the safe-for-all-political stripes hero he is sometimes portrayed as.
He was never just the “I Have a Dream” speech.
He was an anti-war, anti-materialist activist whose views on American power would shock many of the same politicians who are currently scrambling to sing his praises.
Dr. King’s more radical worldview came out clearly in a speech to an overflow crowd of more than 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York.
“The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: ‘A time comes when silence is betrayal,'”
Martin Luther King Jr. is being hailed by politicians of all stripes on Wednesday, from a president who is considering military options in the Middle East.
Even the March on Washington itself was more radical than it is often remembered as being, having been largely designed by A. Philip Randolph, a union leader, and Bayard Rustin, a gay pacifist and World War II conscientious objector.
The radicalism of the 1967 speech didn’t just extend to Vietnam. King called for the U.S. to “undergo a radical revolution of values,” saying that “we must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.”
“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” he said.
The speech, and King’s stance on Vietnam more generally, were not particularly well received by major media outlets at the time.
Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.”
The Washington Post wrote that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”
A New York Times editorial titled “Dr. King’s Error” took a wider view:
Dr. King can only antagonize opinion in this country instead of winning recruits to the peace movement by recklessly comparing American military methods to those of the Nazis testing “new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe.” The facts are harsh, but they do not justify such slander ….
King explicitly addressed such questions in his April speech:
“Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don’t mix, they say. Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment, or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.”
As he himself said, King was always more than “I Have a Dream.” His other stances — from economic justice to Vietnam — are just more controversial.
That doesn’t mean that, decades after his historic march, they deserve to be forgotten.
he total spectrum of his beliefs may not be as easy as “let freedom ring,” but the full MLK was much larger than the safe-for-everyone caricature that is often presented today.