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The Root Jams Weekly (8/28/2020): 'Walkout'
It’s been a week in America. After another shooting of a Black person at the hands of police—7 times in the back, no less—everybody reached a new level of over it. Athletes in several of the major sports either postponed, cancelled or walked out of games or contests. It’s the kind of week when the…
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Jacob Blake Is No Longer Handcuffed to His Hospital Bed, Attorney Says [Updated]
After being shot in the back multiple times by Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey, 29-year-old Jacob Blake is paralyzed from the waist down, says his family. Despite Blake’s incapacitation—and his clear need to continue to receive treatment—his father says Blake is currently handcuffed to his hospital bed. Blake’s father, also named Jacob Blake, shared the…
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After Bringing the Sports World to a Standstill, NBA Players Agree to Resume Playoffs
After refusing to play, and forcing the entire world to focus its attention on Sunday’s police shooting of Jacob Blake instead, NBA players have reversed course and now agree to resume the NBA playoffs. On Wednesday, The Root reported that something unprecedented occurred: fed up with the mistreatment of Black people in America, the Milwaukee…
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Kenosha Police Release Incomplete Report of Jacob Blake Shooting, Claims He Had a Knife in the Car; FBI to Investigate
Three days after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake multiple times in the back in front of his three children, the department finally has its version of events (or, as CNN aptly put it, “their first version”) of the police shooting. Released late Wednesday, the official police report says officers were responding to a domestic dispute…
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Without Riot Gear Clad-Police and Armed Militias, 4th Night of Kenosha Protests Is Peaceful
Despite a week of violent threats from police and armed militias, the residents of Kenosha, Wisc., turned out for a fourth straight night of protests in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot seven times in the back as he tried to enter his car on Sunday…
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Media and Law Enforcement Response to White Vigilante Shooter Proves There Are Two Americas
You know why conservative white America hates the Black Lives Matter movement so much? It’s because the movement undermines business-as-usual America. And by “business,” I mean this nation’s most profitable enterprise: racism and white supremacy. Why else would anyone—especially law enforcement or any media outlet—go out of their way to humanize and low-key throw on…
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This Is Patriotism
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
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You Can Count on One Hand the Number of Days the U.S. Has Gone Without a Police Killing Since George Floyd Died
There are certain figures that, for one reason or another, get seared in your brain. For instance: 53 percent, the number of white women who voted for Trump. Or 1619, the year that the first slave ships arrived in the United States. 8 minutes and 46 seconds: the length of time former Minneapolis police officer…