A few weeks ago I assisted the People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland in setting up and conducting an interview with Emanuel Franklin, father of Desmond Franklin.
On April 9, 2020, plainclothes Cleveland Police officer Jose Garcia, badge #2168 shot and killed Desmond. Garcia drove in an unmarked car, fired five shots into Franklin's moving vehicle, killing Franklin, whose car crashed into a cemetery wall. Special prosecutor Daniel Kasaris, from Ohio Attorney's General Dave Yost's office has taken the case and is currently considering whether to present to the Grand Jury. Meanwhile, Garcia remains on paid leave.
How You Can Help:
If you live in Ohio, call the Ohio Attorney General's office (1-800-282-0515), and urge them to take this case to the Grand Jury to seek indictment of Officer Garcia.
If you are a Cleveland resident, call City of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (216-664-2000) and demand the firing of Jose Garcia by Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams for the murder of Desmond Franklin.
Don't stop there, demand that Calvin Williams be removed, and in 2021 vote Mayor Jackson out of office.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtV8qwEcSzY
Uploaded for entertainment purposes because sometimes I do stupid things just so I can laugh at them.
Spoilers, but who cares.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elyCCNCTHYg
On January 5th, Vincent Belmonte was killed by Officer Larry McDonald of the East Cleveland Police. At this press conference, Belmonte family attorneys will discuss what they have learned from the recently released coroner's report.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovQPQKbI30
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make this moment in history a part of our story. I love you, Deb Zep.
I knew a ton of friends and family were gonna watch and probably repost, but I had no idea this would get picked up so fast by so many sites. Just wanna plug http://occupywallst.org and if anyone is hating on what's going on down there, then I doubt they've bothered to actually talk to anyone, or more importantly LISTEN.
Thank you to everyone who can stay down there and hold down the fort for all of us who have jobs and families to keep warm and fed each night. That's all for now. OCCUPY [YOUR TOWN HERE].
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzMT2u0nlE
My testimony and plea for more institutional pressure to address the problems that plagued the April 19th primary.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iP9iSbsEnA
My weekly rant and rally at the Open Mic Downstairs.
This week's episode:
The New York City's Board of Elections official position is that most New Yorkers are idiots. I call "Projection"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnC2dQAMQtA
This actually happened.
This is a montage of canned applause being pumped through the speakers at a Shontel Brown campaign event on July 25th. This is most trivial, obvious, and hilarious nonsense I can call out right quick, but this whole speech is as fake as the claps.
I can't say for certain that Brown's campaign instructed the DJ to do this, but she was aware it was being done.
At 1:10 She says the phrase "seven votes" over and over until the DJ plays the applause track. When he finally plays it, she actually says "Hey DJ!" very approvingly.
She does the same thing again at 1:42 with the line "bipartisan support" until she gets her canned applause.
The entire stump speech by has a lot that needs called out in it. Later this week I will be putting out a more substantive video about the many distortions, misrepresentations, omissions, and false insinuations about Nina Turner that this speech contains.
Full Stump Speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr1lJ6YIko0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8W1v47GF0