Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Subject: #JusticeForBre
Hi,

Breonna Taylor was an award-winning EMT and first responder in Louisville, KY, who loved helping her patients and her community. "She was an essential worker. She had to go to work," her mother, Tamika Palmer said of her dedication to standing on the frontlines of this pandemic. "She didn't have a problem with that."

On the night of March 13th, the Louisville Metro Police executed a warrant, looking for drugs they never found, reportedly trafficked by a person who did not live with Breonna or in her complex-and whom they already had in custody.

They sprayed her home with 20 rounds, shooting Breonna 8 times, killing her in her bed.

Neither the Louisville Metro Police nor Mayor Greg Fischer have given her mother any answers. "Not one person has talked to me. Not one person has explained anything to me," Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, said in an interview. "I want justice for her. I want them to say her name. There’s no reason Breonna should be dead at all."

Will you join me in signing the petition demanding justice for Breonna?

https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/BreonnaWasEssential/?referring_akid=.3410927.TfPhss&source=taf

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Rich Bowen
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The President is publicly stating that the police are within their rights to assault a 75 year old man if they suspect that he has anti-Trump feelings.

Set aside the crazy conspiracy lunacy for a moment. The PRESIDENT is saying that due process is not terribly important.
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Donald J. Trump
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Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?

Ok so on that basis if we don't need due process, rather than messing around trying to impeach the president could the senate / congress just sack him.

I know the answer is going to be NO but it's the thought that counts.

@freemo @Elfie @stux @penny

So off at a slight tangent, this is from the Princes Trust in the Uk, this course is for 16-30 year olds.

By placing age limits on courses, what sort of example does it set, > could it send the wrong message(s) ?

I can do a course with Free code camp, udemy, coursera and many others, regardless of my background. age, gender, race, colour, religion, ask a question on the forum, someone will answer.

Maybe it is me, but I just see the course age as discriminatory and it says discrimination is fine in some cases.

@Elfie @stux @penny @freemo

Surely coming up with solutions to problems, requires ideas, both good and bad, you take what is good and keep and enhance, look at the bad ideas to see if there are any good points and then formulate a plan of action based on good, well debated ideas.

Work with all members of the community on this, sometimes people need that starting point.

We can change the narrative is education discriminates then maybe we need to look at online learning such as FreeCodeCamp,

@TomFitton
There is a difference between defund and disband, so what is the plan here, reduce funding for the police, and put that funding else where, then also hold police more accountable for their actions;

@freemo @stux yeah,

@freemo @stux Looks like the Democrates are serious about disbanding the police.

Not sure how that will work without funding and setting up alternatives first or as you go.

@freemo Sounds like everyone is so angry now rationality has just gone out the Window.

And to think Philadelphia was once the nations capital, which If understand things where the constitution was signed.

@freemo Yeah watching the 8 days a week documentary there is a shot of public wash rooms

Men, Women and the more run down one at the end of the row maked Blacks,

I am sure we have moved on since then, I actually like the movie 'Remember the titans, ' about the School football team.

@freemo @design_RG This is why i like the fediverse, intelligent conversation. views that make you think but ideas can be expressed and challenged.

@freemo Well they ripped down the statue as apparently no one was listening to them, but the issue of the statue was debated within the council, they just didn't get their way with it in terms of it being removed,

so during this protest decided to rip down the statue, roll it 1km and chuck it in the canal

They need to learn they are not always going to get THEIR way.

End of the day you can't erast history, so going back to Thomas Jefferson if you remove his statue, you don't remove him from history, good education is learn both sides,

Give it 25 years, schools need to teach about the racial inequality as being part of a slow road to better equality (assuming in 25 years we have that of course)

So going back to Churchill story, Auschwitz still stands as a monument and reminder as to what happened.

@freemo I am like that on here well friendica too, some of the conversations end up quite intense but we come out of having learnt something e. g i learnt doctors are still using the NAZI anatomy guide book, in 2020,

@freemo Both sides hate each other so much you end up with good policies being blocked by the other side, a recipe for backward moving progress. Sometmes you need both parties to agree on a way forward.

@freemo Yeah, not really sure what to suggest, for either side, all i can seem to observe is while the west is falling in to the Abyss China, and other countries are rising, to take their place.

@freemo People seem to never see the whole picture,. I guess this is almost like the #MeTo movement again, if you breathed on someone in the wrong way 10+ years go, we are going out get you kicked out.

Lots of Lynching and not much actual solving of problems.

But yea a statue in Bristol of a Slave owner was pushed in to teh canal, sure he owned slaves and was rich but he gave a lot of that money to the right causes, so probably like jefferson, but the fact he owned slaves made him Mr bad guy .

@freemo Over here Churchills statue was defaced over the weekend with the addition of the words 'was a racist', so apparently, according to the person that did it (via Daily Mail of course) Churchill fought WWII not for people of colour or anyone else but for colonialism.

Says a lot about the Education system if people think that,. Sure maybe he wasn't perfect but he saved this country, Europe and much more besides that, And yes the US and UK stood side by side as allies.

@freemo Yeah, not really much better over here in the UK, Kier starmer is proabably batter than Jeremy corbyn was though,

Thing is alst time labour were in , we ended up in Iraq on lies, adn the country ended up bankrupt, labour wanted to re nationalise everything, which would have cost billions.

@freemo I think in essence the USA Is FUBAR