YOUNG UNARMED BLACK MAN SHOT AND PARALYZED IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD BY FAKE COP FOR TALKING TO WHITE GIRL IN HIS CAR
On February 4, sitting in his own car in his own neighborhood, talking to a female passenger, Monroe Bird was shot in the neck by a security guard, Ricky Stone, a 52-year-old white man. The bullet pierced the C3 vertebrae in his neck. Standing 6 feet, 8 inches, Bird, a gifted athlete, is now unable to move his arms or legs and relies on a ventilator to breathe.
Heres what you need to know:
- The security guard who shot Bird possessed marijuana at the time of the shooting. He told the Tulsa police that he hadn’t smoked it in a few weeks, and they didn’t even give him a citation. This is the definition of white privilege. Mind you, Tulsa was quick to test Eric Harris for drugs after they killed him and then released the results widely—even though he never acted violently toward officers.
- The security guard went to the tired, age-old excuse and claimed that he saw Bird reach into his glove compartment. According to the police report, no weapons were found in or near the car, and no items that even seemed to belong in the glove compartment were found out or about in the car.
- The security guard claimed he thought Monroe and his female passenger were having sex in the car and that he only approached them because of this. She’s white. Bird is black. Both denied doing anything of the sort.
The security guard has claimed that Bird, who has no criminal record, attempted to run him over and basically kill him there on the spot.
Both the female passenger and Bird denied the guard’s account and stated that they were driving away when Stone began recklessly firing his gun into the car.
- The security guard who shot Bird worked for Benjy D. Smith, who owns Smith & Son Security Company. This important to know because Smith is a reserve deputy for the same Tulsa Sheriff’s Office that is currently under national scrutiny for its unethical practices with Reserve Deputy Bob Bates, who shot and killed Eric Harris earlier this year.
- The insurance company is denying him coverage because they claim “it was his own fault that he got shot.”
PLEASE HELP HIM!!
you can either Donate (doesnt have to be alot it can be as small as $5) or Call the healthcare group and demand they give coverage with the number listed above.
This really hurt my heart.
I just cannot with the world anymore. I avoid the news sometimes cause it is so hurtful. But I also need to be woke.
SIGNAL BOOST
Avengers Throwbacks
I redrew the Avengers: Age Of Ultron character posters in the style of their first appearances (doing my best impressions of Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Don Heck, and John Buscema).
Unfortunately, Tumblr has no way to embed the photo slider functionality that lets you compare the illustrations to the photo posters, so you’ll have to view them on this page to get the full effect.
Created for Shirts.com.
(This is the real source of the artwork attached to that bloody post going around, where someone has nicked this artwork in order to bullshit people about Marvel ‘basing’ their movie posters on this ‘original artwork’. I guess the fact people buy it (despite it being a far-fetched notion that Marvel would do duch a thing to please a handful of obsessive fans) just goes to show that Kat Willeard did an amazing job of mimicking the style of these artists. But while that’s currently garnered 30,000+ notes, the actual artist has been cheated out of any recognition!
No but this scene is extremely important and it’s why I’m angry at people who say that Steve’s characterization sucked.
Steve is the only one who understands where these two kids come from. Hill is trying to distant Steve from them because right after he says this line she says: ‘’We’re not at war anymore.’’. She’s trying to prove that Steve did the right thing because when the country is at war we all make some hard choices that we are not proud of. In war everything is permitted, and Steve did the right thing because he was doing it for the right cause. Hill is basically saying ‘You did it to protect your country and to save people and to make a difference, but these kids have no excuse for volunteering to these scientists.’
But how does Steve reply to that? To her ‘’We’re not at war anymore’’?
He says ‘’They are.’’
And it is SO important because Steve sees the big picture. For most Americans the war is something ugly that their grandparents had to deal with, something in the distant past that left mark but is also way behind them. But just because there wasn’t a war in America for over 70 years doesn’t mean that other countries have been so lucky. And Steve GETS IT. It doesn’t mean that he’s not mad. It doesn’t mean that he will not fight them if they’re on the opposing sides. But he knows where they come from. And he won’t let them be reduced to some monsters who let German scientists experiment on them.
Because if Steve was anything but American during WW2, if he wasn’t on the ‘winning team’, he wouldn’t be labeled as hero.
I had a lot of criticisms of the movie but I will say this: This bit was SPOT ON for Steve. He’s always big on compassion and putting himself in other people’s shoes and in many depictions has a very complex and nuanced view of the world (such as understanding that blind jingoism /= real patriotism and that a real American patriot would question their country when it goes against it’s better values). ult! Steve was kinda a blindly nationalistic jackass but this is very IC for a Steve based more on 616 Steve.
“Hail to the King”
To be honest, I just look for any excuse to draw a crazy-faced Ice King, ‘cause it’s certainly a lot of fun to do. Detail shot
(Again, the crown, robe, and throne are based on Jenjoink’s designs.)
