So much so that when he’d sometimes pass out on stage and fall into a seizure, there were moments where the audience wouldn’t be able to decipher if he was dancing, or in agony.
I believe that he was trying to please the crowd while battling his epilepsy. Then the audience already knowing about his epilepsy episodes and his “epilepsy dance” just imagine seeing him passed out on the stage being his fan and know deciphering if its his sickness or a “dance”.
People shared water. They brought grills and ate hot dogs together. They did what they needed to do to help each other make it down the road.
Heart-warming how people come close together in times of need where you can’t say much of it happens when tough times comes
20,000–30,000
Imagine this many people in one dome chaos is bound to happen
And somebody was going to have a parade.
No matter how long the week seemed the people were looking forward to sundays because they were having a parade
Finally, right as someone on the bus says something like, why do you all gotta beat up on this old man?
I believe Mr.Rahman was threatened, or at least feel threatened, he probably overheard the people saying why u guys gotta beat up the old man. Him hearing this is thinking the guys were going to sneak up on him and beat him up. I don’t agree with the shooting but i see why.
This one statistic really hit me. In 1974, there were around 17,000 local prosecutors dealing with around 300,000 felony prosecutions. By 2007, the number of prosecutors had jumped to about 32,000, so a significant increase. But they were dealing with nearly 3 million felony prosecutions. That's a ten-fold increase from 1974.
There are not enough felony prosecutors for all the felony cases bought up there. So as a tactic they just throw anyone in prison just to settle the case.
It'd been a year since he was arrested
Just imagine being in jail for something you didn’t do. Imagine the mental effect that would have on you?
He calling me a baby killer. He's calling me all type of baby killers and cowards, and just belittling me, all around the board. It was to the point that I just couldn't take it no more. I was cuffed up. I didn't know what was going on. I think they was trying to scare me to, like, tell on myself. But I—
This reminds me of the Central Park 5 kids who were interrogated for hours and being forced to confessed to a crime they didn’t commit. The belittling, the name calling.
A young guy named Da'Von Holmes. He'd just turned 19.
2 whole months later, you just find a young black kid who had no evidence of being there and no evidence of him being there.
The kicking, Erimius says, is what caused the damage to his face, broke his orbital bone. That's the bone around your eye. A public defender in Cleveland told me, eh, everyone's always whining about a broken orbital bone. But in Erimius's case, it was bad enough that the Euclid ER folks transferred him to a bigger hospital in Cleveland to make sure his eye would be OK.
How can you possibly get beat this bad for having an UNLIT BLUNTin your pocket ? And if they woulda killed him just like how they sat there and lied in court about how everything played out they would say he was getting aggressive with them and that they were well with in their rights to kill him.
And he's also asking, why are you arresting me? What did I do? No answer. No discussion.
Don’t you have the right to be told exactly why your being arrested or can a cop just arrest you now and ask questions later like how they do when they are killing black people.
The mayor appointed his own panel for a fourth investigation. None found that the officers broke the law.
All four ??????Nothing wrong ???
He'd been playing around with a fake gun in a city park. Someone called 911. The police drove up on him, shot him in the stomach within a couple of seconds.
It’s crazy how they see a very young boy playing with a gun and decide to diffuse the situation to go and kill him
A judge's job here, when it comes to sentencing, is, broadly speaking, to punish the offender and to protect the public.
Which in todays time is anything but that.
probation
I feel like when probation was mentioned in the text a good point was brought up and that is that probation is worse that a fine or actual jail time. Jail or a fine you do it and your done, but with probation comes a lot of variables
The white people in the elevator give each other looks
I wonder to myself why white people give black people the “look” when they play music out loud, but when another white persona does it they are “ expressing themselves” and “fun” and “care-free” ?