VIDEO SHOWS HOW DANCING IN PUBLIC IN THE POLICE STATE IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH
Brendan Carter was on his way to see his sick uncle last week when he was detained by multiple security officers in the public RTS bus station in Rochester, subsequently assaulted by police and arrested — all over his dancing.
According to Carter, he was waiting for the bus to visit his uncle who is in the hospital. Apparently overcome by emotion, Carter said he put his headphones in and started dancing to avoid crying. This dancing got the attention of DHS employees and security officers at the station.
Carter had a bus pass and was breaking no law when the officers approached him. As he explained, when he was told to leave for no reason and the officers put hands on him, Carter became angry. However, as seen on the video, he never once became violent.
He was immediately accused of being drunk (which is not a crime, even if he was) and he was told to leave. A scene ensued after the initial confrontation as Carter refused to leave because all he wanted to do was get on the bus to visit his uncle.
Rochester police were quickly dispatched and the already tense situation would only explode from this point.
After he agreed to leave, Carter began walking out of the station. However, the officer was on an apparent mission to intensify the already-delicate situation.
When the officer arrives, instead of talking to the young man to get his side of the story, or letting him leave like he was doing, he immediately escalates to violence by grabbing Carter and then presenting his taser.
Within seconds, Carter is tasered, physically assaulted, slammed to the ground and arrested.
The entire scene was captured on video by NY Black Panther chapter member Daryl Appleberry. Had Appleberry not been there, this scene could have gotten far worse. Perhaps that is why we hear the RTS security officer’s radio go off, “Annie, get this guy out of there with the camera behind you. Get him out of there!”
Carter was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and trespassing. He was in a public space.
To liberals, to centrists, to color blind racists, to all the people who thinks silence or laughing about it, or fake satire are harmless, just an opinion, or a bit of nothing in a cycle that started with little things, this is for you.
name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not
ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think
needing native representation in media, education and government are not decoy issues, the commercialization and appropriation of native cultures are not decoy issues, the lack of native representation is institutional oppression at work
White people specifically need to reblog this, I don’t CARE if it makes you uncomfortable–that’s the point. Listen to Native voices about Native issues PLEASE
Seriously.
Frfr pretending we don’t exist any longer so you don’t have to deal with your internalized fucked up racism isn’t okay. Listen when we Natives ask you to treat us like living humans
Imagine getting locked out of a building because you got your face scanned 2 blocks away and it decided you didn’t belong (not white enough).
Imagine some white person getting angry because the software has deemed them not European enough.
Imagine the irony of having to actually draw cyberpunk crap on your face. Like extra eyes and stuff on your cheeks. Trying to look as inhuman as possible to the cameras in order to be treated like a human should.
Today in Racist Fuckery (5.11.18): Sarah Braasch, the racist who reported Yale graduate student Lolade Siyonbola for sleeping in a dorm common room has a LONG history of bullshit. Not only has she called the police on Black students before, simply for existing, she takes pride in winning pro-slavery debates, shaming Muslim women, and being vehemently pro-hate speech. The fact that Yale has yet to take action on a student that habitually threatens the safety of Black students shows their lack of commitment in creating a safe and equitable learning environment. Moreso, Braasch’s self-proclaimed feminism and pro-human rights bona fides make a farce of all too many “white allies” who offer only their conditional and situational solidarity. I can’t even say anything about demanding justice at this point. All I can say is be wary and weary of oppressors claiming to be “allies” for your liberation. #trustissues
Still waiting on the Yale response. Words aren’t enough here.
I think it’s worth acknowledging that this chick has multiple degrees, including at least two advanced degrees and working on a doctorate. Academia has validated, and encouraged her white supremacist views for more than a decade now. Trust that regardless of Yale’s response, it and institutions like it will continue to make a home for people with this kind of thinking in the highest spaces of “education.”
I applied to so many schools (not 20 but a LOT) because you assume that while you’re a competitive candidate – you’re still not “good enough”
Did you see the look on his face? The disbelief and joy? That is exactly the feeling. But of course this newscaster doesn’t know how it feels so she wants to take the hottest college admissions take of the year and argue this bullshit.
It makes me sad that people get paid to get on TV and say this shit.
Like how much do you have to hate black children? To be mad that one person went on a waitlist because of them? The two schools I was rejected to I didn’t have to have a “sad conversation” with my parents (she argues this in the video) I just was glad I got into the others cause y’all convinced me I wasn’t good enough for them either.
She automatically assumes he didn’t work hard. Despite 20 applications. She thinks he “stole” it from someone more deserving. She assumes it was just handed to him. And why? BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.
She didn’t even try to hide her racism.
Racial bias is so deep that the mere image of a black teenager getting accepted to college elicits so much animus inside white people that they just make up nonsensical reasons for their anger as oppose to confronting their bias.
This isn’t going to be the first time this student is going to receive sneer and hostility for daring to achieve. No matter how much proof he has that he was able to meet the collegiate standard of “merit” – there will always be that “he doesn’t deserve this” and “it’s just because he’s black”
The hatred this country has for people of color is staggering.
Remember that this was aimed at Native American women and sterilization of indiginous communities.
This has happened recently in Canada, in Saskatoon. Native American women were coerced into signing agreements for tubal ligation by doctors and nurses after giving birth to their children.
After I had my daughter, when I was 19, I had a Saskatchewan health nurse come into my hospital room, while my family was out, with a bunch of papers that I needed to sign. There was the birth registry papers, releases forms and information papers. But there was also a consent form for a tubal ligation in with all the others. When I asked the nurse about it she told me that if I choose to have a tubal ligation it could be reversed whenever I wanted and that I would never need to take birth control again unless I choose to have it reversed. I asked if they give this form to all women, she said no, just to women they believed would benefit from it. She really tried to get me to sign this paper. Until my family came back she then took the paper with her and never mentioned it again for the rest of my stay in the hospital. That was the only paper she took with her when my family returned.
I was 19, hasn’t slept in 48 hours, my family and support were away and I was dealing with a newborn baby. I was exhausted, frustrated and very very vulnerable and this nurse deliberately choose this time to come to me to sign a form that I should not of been signing in that condition. I didn’t sign because my mother had a tubal ligation after my youngest sister and knew that tubal ligations are very difficult/non reversible.
Water Witches 