re: Where is the national outrage & protests over the murder of 3 year old Mekhi James?

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It's amazing how they turn a blind eye to their biggest daily threats

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Officers have legal authorization to commit, what would otherwise be assault, to perform an arrest. The officer was performing a legal hold on a resisting arrestee that he, per code, should relieve once the resisting arrestee is secure. If that didn’t have anything to do with the arrestee’s death we don’t even know if there is a crime to charge much less if we should charge the cop.

It would be like arresting someone while you’re not sure whether or not the death was a suicide.

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We see ourselves as part of the global Black family, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black people who exist in different parts of the world. We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location. We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence. We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered. We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts. We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work. We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable. We foster a queer-affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

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It’s the cop’s fault, naturally

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