On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.
ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.
This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.
This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
I watch these videos ONLY when I plan to write about them in a way that I expect to be useful, *or* if I think it's necessary to inform my organizing work so I can help keep people safe.
I *do not* watch just to witness.
There is no ambiguity.
Agents dogpile a person, he is on the ground, one of them starts clubbing with a pistol and then fires repeatedly. Even after the body is still.
I watch these videos ONLY when I plan to write about them in a way that I expect to be useful, *or* if I think it's necessary to inform my organizing work so I can help keep people safe.
I *do not* watch just to witness.
Premeditated. The fucker decided to kill her wife to teach her a lesson, and made sure he was ready to shoot after a woman talked down to him.
Premeditated. The fucker decided to kill her wife to teach her a lesson, and made sure he was ready to shoot after a woman talked down to him.
Meanwhile this upholstery enthusiast thinks that simply revealing the identities of his goons is a crime.
Meanwhile this upholstery enthusiast thinks that simply revealing the identities of his goons is a crime.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
(If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)
(If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)