Photo of the day: THREE FACES OF GRIEF – Three mothers, three dead sons. Today at the Justice For Eric Garner Rally on Staten Island, led by Rev. Al Sharpton, the mothers of three slain boys made a surprise and very powerful appearance. Ferguson, Missouri’s Michael Brown’s mother (right) barely able to speak through her tears, Kadiatou Diallo (center), the mother of 22-year-old Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo, who died in a hail of 41 NYPD bullets in 1999, and the mother of Ramarley Graham (left) an unarmed 18-year-old shot and killed by NYC police in 2012.
They spoke in support of Eric Garner and accountability the police must take for brutal unjustified shootings that have become common place in this country like the old Jim Crow south. Name after name from the last two decades, including Trayvon Martin and Eleanor Bumpers were read off, it sent a chill through me. These are gestapo Nazi racial murders like that of Berlin 1939. There are taser guns, tear gas and mace – none used, shooting point blank is out and out murder. (Whatever happened to ‘shoot to maim and stop’?) Yet no Teflon police (or George Zimmerman) are in jail.
Choke-hold victim Eric Garner’s entire family was present: Esaw Garner, Eric Garner’s widow and Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr and their children. To see so many faces of grief on one stage has left me shaken and is something I will not forget.
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August 23, 2014 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: "I can't breathe!", Amadou Diallo, chokehold victim, Eleanor Bumpers, Eric Garner, Esaw Garner, Ferguson, Ferguson Missouri, George Zimmerman, Gwenn Carr, Hans Von Rittern, Justice For Eric Garner Rally on Staten Island, Kadiatou Diallo, Michael Brown, Missouri's Michael Brown's mother, Nazi tactics, New York City, New York photo, Photo of the day, photography, police brutality, police shootings, Ramarley Graham, rev al sharpton, Staten Island, the old Jim Crow south, Trayvon Martin | Leave a comment
“WE BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN”
(Altered just slightly to fit the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case. Frightening how almost identical the two scenarios are. )
[REPORTERS]
Where’d you come from?
[OMARA (as George)]
Virginia
[REPORTERS]
And your parents?
[OMARA (as George)]
Middle class.
[REPORTERS]
Where are they now?
(OMARA (as George)]
Sanford, Florida.
[MARK OMARA]
But he was granted one more start
[OMARA (as George)]
Attending catholic school!
[REPORTERS]
When’d you get here?
[OMARA (as George)]
2003
[REPORTERS]
How old were you?
[OMARA (as George)]
Don’t remember
[REPORTERS]
Then what happened?
[OMARA (as George)]
I joined the neighborhood watch,
Convinced I would be a cop one day
[PRESS (spoken)]
A catholic boy! A cop wannabe!
oh, it’s too terrible. You poor, poor dear.
[REPORTERS]
Who’s Trayvon Martin?
[OMARA (as George)]
An unknown boy.
[REPORTERS]
Why’d you shoot him?
[OMARA (as George)]
I was suspicious.
[REPORTERS]
Was he angry?
[OMARA (as George)]
Like a madman
Still I said, “Trayvon, move along.”
[OMARA]
George knew that he was doin’ wrong.
[REPORTERS]
Then describe it.
[OMARA (as George)]
He came toward me.
[REPORTERS]
With a pistol?
[OMARA (as George)]
From my waistband.
[REPORTERS]
Did you fight him?
[OMARA (as George)]
Like a tiger.
[MARK OMARA]
Trayvon had strength and George had none.
[OMARA (as George)]
And yet we both reached for the gun
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes we both
Oh yes we both
Oh yes, we both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
Oh yes, we both reached for the gun
For the gun.
[OMARA AND REPORTERS]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun
For the gun.
[OMARA]
Understandable. understandable
Yes, it’s perfectly understandable
Defensible. Defensible
Not a bit reprehensible
It’s so defensible!
[REPORTERS]
How’re you feeling?
[OMARA (as George)]
Very frightened
[REPORTERS]
Are you sorry?
[GEORGE]
Are you kidding?
[REPORTERS]
What’s you’re statement?
[OMARA (as George)]
All I’d say is
Though my choo-choo jumped the track
I’d give my life to bring him back
[REPORTERS]
And?
[OMARA (as George)]
Stay away from
[REPORTERS]
What?
[OMARA (as George)]
Guns and skittles
[REPORTERS]
And?
[OMARA (as George)]
And the boys who
[REPORTERS]
What?
[OMARA (as George)]
Wear a hoodie who run
[REPORTERS]
And what?
[OMARA (as George)]
That’s the thought that
[REPORTERS]
Yeah?…
[OMARA (as George)]
Came upon me
[REPORTERS]
When?
[OMARA (as George)]
When we both reached for the gun!
[FLORIDA PRESS]
Understandable, understandable
[OMARA AND FLORIDA PRESS]
Yes, it’s perfectly understandable
Comprehensible, comprehensible
Not a bit reprehensible
It’s soooo defensible!
[OMARA (spoken)]
Let me
Hear it!
[REPORTERS]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun,
The gun
Oh yes, they both reached
For the gun
[OMARA (spoken)]
A little louder!
[REPORTERS]
For the Gun.
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached
For the gun, the gun,
[OMARA (spoken)]
Now you got it!
[REPORTERS]
The gun, the gun
Oh yes. They both reached
For the gun
For the gun.
[OMARA AND REPORTERS]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
Oh yes, they both reached for the gun.
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, they both
Oh yes, they both
Oh yes, reached for
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
[OMARA]
Both reached for the…gun
[REPORTERS]
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
Both reached for the gun.
WATCH THIS VIDEO, THE CASES ARE IDENTICAL !
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July 17, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: "We both reached for the gun", 9/11, altered Chicago lyrics, Billy Flynn, blind jury, Chicago and Florida the same, Chicago movie, Chicago stand your ground law, fixed case, George Zimmerman, Hans Von Rittern, hoodie, laywers, Mark Omara, Musical 'chicago' lyrics, New York City, Photo of the day, Press coverage, racist, racist Florida, racist jury, racist trial, reporters, Roxie Hart, Sanford Florida, skittle, Trayvon Martin, trial is a joke, trial is fixed, wannabe cop, you can get away with murder, Zimerman trial a farce, zimmerman case | Leave a comment
WHAT’S THE COLOR OF LOVE?
by KoolC
What’s the color of love, if you should ask?
Is it blue? Oh I thought you knew, is it black?
Red, brown, round or is it white, or quite right,
What’s the color of love?
Love has no color
Just ask the true lovers,
Love is timeless, love is kindness, endless, courteous,
a little bit of teasing and a lot of pleasing,
Love is like the rainbow,
Love is like a rose – with nourishment it will grow.
Love has no color no matter where you go,
Love is respect and affection, love is honor and protection,
Love is a symphony, a song with the most beautiful melody,
Love is freedom, like the river to the sea.
Love would always say come to me, like a harp in harmony,
Love is peace and unity, its that sparkle in your eyes,
its the glory of paradise,
Love is a tender moment of pleasure, it can’t be measured.
Love is an unquenchable thirst, a desire of passion, of fire
Love can break the spell of any curse, always put love first,
I couldn’t live in a world without love.
Love has no color, love is clear as crystal, naked as a new born,
Love is beyond the galaxy, its infinity,
Love can make a blind man see, love is a phenomena,
Love has no color
Love is the greatest gift of all,
Love is what we are and who we are
and what we can be,
but love has no color
because I am a fool for love.
Love has no color.
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July 16, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: 'What's the color of love?', American flag, Asian and black couple, biracial love, George Zimmerman, Hans Von Rittern, interacial love, KoolC, love has no color, love is colorblind, Love poem, Macy's Herald Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York photo, Photo of the day, poem of peace, Rachel Jeantal, teenagers in love, Trayvon Martin, young love | Leave a comment
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN’S “NOT GUILTY” VERDICT WAS BULLIED BY JUROR #B37 !
Go to CNN’S Anderson Cooper interview with her Monday 7-15-13 evening.
In only 1-½ days juror B37 has secured herself a book deal, claiming not because she “wants to profit from this”. . . and I am the pope! Her husband is a lawyer – HOW did she get on the jury?? She is also a right wing gun advocate and a proponent of the hideous Florida “stand your ground law.” One of the blind who firmly believes “race had nothing to do with it.” She claims she knows what happened that night. Listen to her words very, very carefully. The hesitations and voice say a lot more than what just her words say.
She is an older white woman, (very privileged white, doesn‘t need to work) to the point that she refers to blacks as “they” and “them” and felt sorry for the defense witness “poor Rachel Jeantel”. There was a huge racial and age gap: “She had just used ‘phrases’ I had never heard before.”
She told Anderson Cooper the jury entered the deliberation room 2 for manslaughter, 1 for second degree murder 2 likely guilty – but she was “convinced“ from the very beginning that “George” was innocent. “No doubt about it.” (It is also disturbingly cozy that she does not refer to the defendent as ‘the defendent’, ‘George Zimmerman’ or ‘Mr. Zimmerman’ – but as “George”). “We just couldn’t reach a verdict 3 to 3. So I worked so hard to go over the evidence again and again.” “Again and again“ translates as “bullied” for her right wing gun toting agenda! Remember she was the only one that was convinced from the start that ‘George’ was innocent. She was the alpha female in the group that swayed the jury to go her way, so she could write the book on how she fought to carry them to the light of the truth! BINGO = book deal 1-½ days later!
Of course towards the end of the interview, as all right wingers do, she threw in some required quivers in her voice and supposed tears. “I feel sorry for both of them.” BOTH. I say ‘supposed tears’ because her face was blacked out. When Anderson asked her why she didn‘t want to show her face, she said because wanted to be “cautious.” We know this about her: the woman has lived in the Sanford, Fla., area for 18 years and has two daughters – a 24-year-old pet groomer and a 27-year-old college student. During jury selection, she said she had been called for jury duty four times previously but never selected to sit on a case.
Never selected for a case – yet this one she seemingly was “perfect” for and swayed the whole case. If you are angry, if you feel this is as unjust and embarrassing as I do – direct your anger at her – JUROR #B37 !
PS – The case is also a sad confluence of bad things. Teenager Rachel Jeantel was interviewed on CNN’S Piers Morgan afterwards. To everyone’s surprise she IS a well spoken, intelligent (street smart) religious girl, respectful of her elders. Why sadly did Rachel not pull herself together and show herself as she was on Piers Morgan Monday night? Because she said she was angry, didn’t want to be incourt, couldn’t deal with Trayvon Martin’s death and is very afraid of death. How very, very sad that this young innocent boy lost his life due to such a “Chicago” (movie) like trial. The film, by the way, is based on a true 1924 story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan. In all this time, almost ninety years later, it still rings true in America, get a more clever lawyer and you CAN get away with murder.
Juror #B37’s book, ‘George Zimmerman Is Innocent’ written with the assistance of her lawyer husband,
will be out later this year.
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July 15, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: alpha female, Anderson Cooper, Belva Gaertner, Beulah Annan, book deal in 1-1/2 days, bully juror, CNN, Florida, George Zimmerman, Hans Von Rittern, Juror B37, movie "Chicago", not guilty verdict, Photo of the day, Pierce Morgan, Rachel Jeantal, racist Florida, rigged jury, right to carry guns, right wing, right wing agenda, Stand your ground law, travesty of justice, Trayvon Martin | Leave a comment
“Fucking punks!, these assholes, they always get away.”
Cop wanna-be Zimmerman’s said to a police dispatcher when he spotted doomed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
I am stunned, horrified but sadly not to too surprised at the ‘not guilty’ verdict of racist George Zimmerman. Myself being a white American with many international friends, I am embarrassed to be an American right now. Europe is looking at us in puzzlement at our gun obsessed racist society and politics. This is a throw back to the old south justice. How is it that everyone could see the facts, every logical, rational human being could see Zimmerman had hateful intent to not let the nigger get away – all except for six blind women on that jury?? Obviously in racist Florida, it’s open season on young black boys wearing a hoodie, walking home with a package of Skittles.
Open season on hoodies
Zimmerman’s brother Robert Jr. and blue-eyed wife Shellie are just the same, white-wannabe racists. Listen to his brother’s interviews on CNN’S Pierce Morgan show. The brother has an air of entitlement and arrogance, seemingly insulted the murder has even come to trial. Watch and look at his bleach-blonde wife’s face at trial. It is a face of haughty better-than-you supreme attitude. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Lest they forget, 50% of their DNA is a “minority” Latino DNA, but they feel themselves to be Aryan supremacists.
I am too drained from the exhaustive coverage of this disgusting outcome to go over every detail of the trial, you know them all – but one trial testimony sticks out and should stick in your mind. The local news interview of a woman who lives in the neighborhood was used in evidence against Trayvon:“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m black, OK?” the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”
So by default, Trayvon is black = Trayvon is an armed criminal. So it was heavily implied at trail. I suggest the defense stupidly did not make this following connection: Trayvon Martin is black = therefore he could be a great golf player like Tiger Woods, General Colin L. Powell secretary of state, Tyler Perry Hollywood actor and billionaire, Harry Belafonte singer or – president of the United States!
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July 14, 2013 | Categories: DAILY PHOTOS WITH STORIES OF NEW YORK CITY | Tags: all woman jury blind, Aryan racists, CNN Pierce Morgan, defense of Zimerman, George Zimmerman, Hans Von Rittern, hoodie, Manhattan, New York City, not guilty verdict, Photo of the day, prosecution of Zimmerman, racist Florida, Robert Zimmerman brother, Shellie Zimmerman wife, skittles, supremists, travisty of justice, Trayvon Martin, trial testimony | Leave a comment
NEW YORK CITY - IN THE WIT OF AN EYE 