Hey maybe direct action and voting aren’t mutually exclusive? Maybe you can plant a garden and take two minutes to fill out a form to ensure people don’t lose their rights? Maybe you’re feeding a very dangerous narrative by slapping an unnecessary binary onto political action with a “good” and “bad” option and making people feel they have to be limited to one or the other when both are necessary for change?
I can’t human rn and didn’t make plans with friends, so my first thing for solarpunk action week is, I pollinated my tomato plant by hand bc no bees : [
That’s not just a number those are people. love ones, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, kids, people that didn’t deserve to die. And trump gives himself an A+
“I just want to let y'all know that I was
scared and I feared for my life … and I just pray and just hope that it don’t
happen to nobody else,” Roderick Walker told reporters Friday during a
news conference.
Walker was detained last week by two Clayton County Sheriff’s Office
deputies during a traffic stop. The officers asked Walker, who was a
passenger in the car, for his ID and told him to exit the car, which led to the
confrontation, an attorney for Walker had said.
A social media video of the encounter shows
the deputies holding him on the ground and striking him in the face.
Clayton County is a suburban area just south
of the city of Atlanta.
One of the deputies has been fired for
excessive use of force, and the criminal investigation into the incident was
turned over to the Clayton County District Attorney’s Office, the sheriff’s
office said.
Since his encounter with law enforcement, Walker
has experienced multiple medical issues, including cognitive problems,
headaches and blurry vision, “all over a traffic stop that should never
have happened,” said Jane Lamberti, one of the attorneys representing
Walker.
She said Walker also had a mild traumatic
brain injury, a back injury, fractures around both eyes, and “knee
injuries that need full physical therapy.”
In a statement last Sunday, Clayton County
Sheriff Victor Hill said Walker received medical treatment “to include
X-rays (no fractures detected) of his head and is being monitored at the jail
hospital by a doctor.”
Walker and his attorneys held a news
conference on Friday, a day after he was released on bond from the Fulton
County Jail. He had been transferred there on unrelated charges after being
bonded out of the Clayton County Jail earlier this week.
Jail records show Walker was charged with two
counts of battery and two counts of obstructing or hindering law enforcement
officers.
Attorney Shean Williams said they are calling
for the firing of all the officers who were involved in the incident.
“You have an oath of office and a duty as
an officer to protect and serve, you can’t stand by, even if you are not the
one beating the citizen, to allow it to happen,” Williams said.
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