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Illinois Woman Who Drove To Texas For New Job Found Hanging/Dead In Jail Cell 3 Days Later
Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma mater of Prairie View A&M, she was pulled over for a routine traffic violation (failure to use her turn signal). Everything from that point forward screams racism and foul play, including her death in the Waller County jail Monday.
The Waller County Sheriff’s Office told the Chicago Tribune that Bland was arrested on Friday and charged with “assault on a public servant.”
A video capturing the incident shows differently!!
It shows several police officers standing over Bland while she is on the ground, arguing with them about why they’re being so rough.
At one point, she can be heard saying, “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?” She also thanks the man recording the incident for filming as she is led to a police cruiser.
Her friend, Malcolm Jackson, told ABC 7,
“After he (an officer) pulled her out of the car, forced her and tossed her to the ground, knee to the neck, and arrested her.”
What we see from a bystander video is her telling the officers she is in pain and cannot hear after her head was slammed on the ground by the male arresting officer.
We have now learned that Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith, who made the first public comments about Bland’s in-custody death, was suspended for documented cases of racism when he was chief of police in Hempstead, Texas, in 2007. After serving his suspension, more complaints of racism came in, and Smith was actually fired as chief of police in Hempstead
Family and Friends close to Sandra, including most of twitter, is at an uproar, believing there was no way she committed suicide, and saying that foul play was at work.
“I do suspect foul play,” another friend, Cheryl Nanton, told the news station. “I believe that we are all 100 percent in belief that she did not do harm to herself.”
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UNARMED BLACK MAN FATALLY SHOT BY VOLUNTEER COP
Eric Harris, who was unarmed, died an hour later after what Tulsa, Oklahoma police officials called a “mistake.” According to several news sources, On April 2nd, the victim had reportedly tried to sell a gun to undercover cops and fled on foot as they attempted to arrest him. A video camera captured him, wearing dark shorts and a t-shirt, running up a sidewalk. Harris was quickly caught and subdued. That’s when a 73-year-old volunteer patrolman, Robert Bates, “allegedly” reached for his Taser, but grabbed “accidentally” grabbed his gun instead. According to Tulsa World, Bates, who has donated thousands of dollars worth of items to the Sheriff’s Office since becoming a reserve deputy in 2008, is a Tulsa insurance company executive. He was working undercover as a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Task Force. The World reported that “Bates is classified as an ‘advanced reserve,’ which means he ‘can do anything a full-time deputy can do.’”
Rather than immediately render aid, the officers held Harris down by his neck as a deputy screamed, “Fuck You! You shouldn’t have f*cking ran!”
As Eric Harris lay mortally wounded, face down on the pavement, he begged for his life. “He shot me!” Harris shouted. “He shot me, man. Oh, my god. I’m losing my breath.”
“F*ck your breath!” the officer yelled.
Capt. Billy McKelvey said the officers were not aware the suspect had been shot, despite the unmistakable sound of the gunshot noise. Bates “made an inadvertent mistake,” he said.
The New York Daily News reported that no further investigation is planned, unless requested by the sheriff’s office.
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Anonymous asked: Can you shed any light on/talk about the very transphobic Funny or Die video you were in. I'm a big fan, but i was very dissapointed seeing it.
Hey Anonymous. I have been thinking about you for a long time, since you wrote this. It really took me by surprise, and it scared me that you perceived my piece as very transphobic. I wrote out responses and deleted them and rewrote them. I bought Janet Mock’s book “Redefining Realness” (which is phenomenal, by the way, and while exploring a trans woman of color’s identity, it speaks universally to developing identity), like I was applying a trans-positive Band-Aid. I’m reading it, and it *is* enlightening me – you can’t not be with this book – but it was a way to avoid responding. I thought I was gonna finish the book and then respond more intelligently, but the learning never ends, and I need for my soul to respond to you. You asked me to shed light, and that’s all I can do, so here it is.
I created the piece, and it was shot & edited by someone else, which was really where the writing came in, in the editing. But the idea was mine, and this writer/editor is a talented vision executor. I wasn’t in Funny Or Die’s video. I created the video, and they just picked it up.
I created it 5 years ago, and the comedy is now dated. “Trans” wasn’t as prominent a part of the zeitgeist vocabulary. People were still saying “tranny” – and as an insult. RuPaul’s Drag Race started in 2009, but that first season is considered a “lost” season, so it picked up steam 2010-2011. Janet Mock’s coming out story about telling her boyfriend her gender history was published at the end of 2011. Orange Is The New Black’s first season was in 2013. And the internet has sped up the rate of change, so I feel this 5 years is a longer 5 years than 5 years used to mean. If this video came out today, I feel it would be different than it coming out 5 years ago.
What does that mean, the difference in coming out 5 years ago vs. now? I don’t know – I’m really using this space to explore that, not to impart what I think is The Answer. At the time, it felt like: “This cartoonish representation of a trans person is what mainstream representation thinks trans people are." But now we have more references for trans people, so my video is left being shallow.
Part of the joke to me was that a trans person isn’t so obviously trans, whereas this character is. That visual isn’t realistic, intentionally. Part of the joke was my big boobs – I wanted to match my boobs with their equivalent penis and balls. I just wanted to embody this person. I still relate to that character’s gender. It’s almost the gender I feel inside. When editing Broad City and watching myself, I have gender identity conversations regularly with Abbi and Lilly, our producer, literally "What is my gender?” And we laugh because none of us know, and nobody says, “You’re a woman, Ilana!” I’m like weirdly Gene Wilder-y, I’m like an older gay Jewish man?? But then I’m also clearly a wo-man with a super womanly body. It’s a joke inside of me. Also, I wanted to parody American Apparel ads, which I swear weren’t as boringly common ‘back then’ as they are now, and show a 'model’ other than a widdwe baby girl suckin on her fingy. I *could* appear like one of them but then end up not being like them. And then that’s where it feels like the “joke” is the trans-ness – “this is how this character is different from those girls!” But I didn’t mean that to be the joke, and I don’t feel like it was at that time. But I see how it may have become that now.
It’s so weird, this is the first time this COULD even happen in my career – I’m hopefully so young in my career that this is only the first time I can look back and see it as being dated or stale. I just wanted to generally explore. Legit a huge part of it was just *being* that person, just to get to. It was freeing.
I’m seeing myself go back over the same things, so I think this post has reached its max productivity. I hope this *did* shed light, and I really, really hope you didn’t feel alienated by that video. If you did, I hope you feel less so now. Thanks for your thoughtful question, and I hope this response was in some way satisfying for you. Thanks again.
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abbijacobson asked: Hey dude, what are you doing tomorrow night? You wanna hang out and watch tv or something?
omg yeah! i’m watching Broad City on Comedy Central at 10:30 EST right after an all-new Workaholics. you could come over… : I …. idk or whateva u wanted.
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Anonymous asked: what life advice do you have for this 20 yr old gal who's just trying to get a paycheck so i can spot u bitch but also wanna get into comedy (as a career maybs?) all the while disappointing my parents by not going into a finance career. help me plz i love u
you tell me, first, the advice you think i’d give you.
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