An audio recording of police scanner traffic appears to capture the moments leading up the death of Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed last week by police in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota.
“I’m going to check IDs,” the officer says in the audio. “I have reason to pull it over. The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery.”
“The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide-set nose,” the officer continues.
About a minute and a half later, according to local news outlet KARE, the officer reports to dispatch that shots have been fired at the intersection of Larpenteur and Fry.
For every black person that declares his or her life matters, there are at least a dozen hurt white people shouting “all lives matter” at them instead of trying to understand why saying #BlackLivesMatter is necessary in the first place.
Tweeting the hashtag #AllLivesDidntMatter, black, Latino and other users of color shared some historical and present-day facts about race that suggested that all lives, in fact, haven’t mattered when it came to systematic oppression in the U.S.
Take a look at these on-point tweets that get real about why it can be argued that historically all lives really haven’t mattered in America.
A photo of a protester at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has become a powerful image of the ongoing struggle between law enforcement and black Americans.
The woman in the image above, which was taken by Reuters photographer Jonathan Bachman, was among those arrested for refusing to leave an area highway. Emblematic of Tiananmen Square’s infamous and unknown “Tank Man,” neither Reuters or the Associated Press were able to identify the woman, who was later detained.
Citing friends and family on social media, multiple outlets have identified her as Leshia Evans, a 28-year-old mom and nurse from Brooklyn.
She was released from police custody late Sunday evening, according to New York Daily News reporter Shaun King.
Preston Gilstrap, 64, was a Dallas police officer for over 41 years before he retired in 2013. Earlier this week, he saw the two brutal videos of police officers killing black men ― Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ― that shook the nation.
And Friday morning, Gilstrap, who is black, woke up to news of the horror that had visited his hometown: at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest Thursday night over the killing of Castile and Sterling, a lone gunman opened fire, killing five Dallas police officers and wounding nine other people.
“My heart has been totally torn out of my chest by both violence perpetrated on officers and violence perpetrated by officers,” Gilstrap told The Huffington Post.
“Our hearts are very heavy,” he said. “The citizens here have shown so much love and support.”
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