Daily reminder Tamir Rice was killed by police for playing with his toy gun in a public park. Neither officer who murdered him has spent a day inside a cell.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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That case fucks me up big time.
It pisses me off, too. Tamir is now another body added to the heap of inmocent dead people murdered by cops with zero consequences.
Darrient Hunt was killed by police for cosplaying a Mugen from Samurai Champloo because he was carrying around a katana... in his incredibly obvious anime cosplay
I wish a very 
on ICE.
About an hour ago some Bluesky libs were consternated that swear words aren't adequate enough to describe what Trump and ICE are doing. For what it's worth - I thought them "[redacted]". I wonder if a few of them googled it and/or or they thought I was a nut.
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Color me surprised. I got a like. And that's a lot for me especially down in a thread. I have ~35 followers. Also most of the people following saw me as a number. They followed me so they could get to 10,001 followers from 10,000 or whatever.
I hate that we're going to have to keep reading about more and more kids getting sent to some black site in El Salvador for no reason.
I'm glad he was prevented from being deported for now though. Poor kid, man.
Normally when the see a kid with a real gun, they hide
New gun tracker just dropped.
These fuckers don't actually think it's a gun when they murder and arrest children for playing.