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littleasianflower:

persephoneholly:

Anecdotes by medical practitioners

"A woman came in for a baby check with her 6-month-old and she had what looked like chocolate milk in the baby’s bottle. So he started explaining to her as kindly as he could that she shouldn’t be giving her baby chocolate milk. At which point she interrupts him and says, ‘Oh that isn’t chocolate milk. It’s coffee! He just loves it!”

"I had a patient come in for an STD check. She was very upset and continued to tell me that she only had one partner. Progressing through my assessment, she further divulged that even if he was sleeping with other people it shouldn’t matter ‘because he uses a condom every time and he makes sure to wash it thoroughly after every use’.”

"Had a lady who measured her baby’s temperature by pre-heating the oven and putting one hand in front of it while the other hand was on the baby’s forehead. She told the nurse her baby’s fever was about 250 degrees.”

"Lady has to have foot amputated and is given waiver forms to sign pre-op. Buddy asks if she needs time to think about it. She’s very nonchalant and doesn’t seem to care much what they do. He gets suspicious and probes a bit as to why she’s not more concerned. She says she gets that they have to operate and it’s OK because the foot will grow back.”

"I had a couple who had been trying to conceive for over two years. I asked all the usual questions, how often do you have sex, any previous pregnancy, etc etc. Something seemed off to me during the consult, so I continued to ask questions. Finally I asked if he ejaculated while inserted into the vagina. Both parties looked confused.Turns out the couple was not having insertional sex at all. I had to awkwardly explain to them how insertional sex works. Diagrams were required.”

"Patient comes in, she’s upset. She’s pregnant, and she doesn’t understand why. She’s on the pill. Upon talking to her at great length, I find out that she only takes the pills on the days that she is sexually active – no other time.”

"Patient comes in with her bf. They are indignant, as if somehow I could’ve prevented [the pregnancy]. The problem? Well, the pills were bothering the girl’s stomach, so, being a gallant bf, he decided to start taking them instead.”

“I was explaining the treatment to the husband of a patient about to be discharged. He kept nodding and agreeing with me, but I knew it was flying over his head. Turned out a fundamental problem was that I was describing the drugs as ‘tablets’ and he had no clue what those were.”

Reddit thread 

This literally

astounds.

this whole thread us fucking gold i’ll tell ya what

This is mostly what happens when funding for everything but “abstinence only” sex education gets cut in the country. I’m serious. When people are not taught about their bodies and how to interact with them, medical professionals (who are taught to assume a basic knowledge that no longer exists in the population) stop providing good care. Not intentionally, but because the instructions they give have gaps and assumptions.

nintendonut1:

bonnef:

piratelawyer:

nintendonut1:

The Brown Family Statement stresses a campaign to start getting body cameras on cops. Hit up whoismyrepresentative.com to find your senators and write to them.

Let’s get on this and make a difference, guys.

I feel we are at a turning point in the country. Body cameras on police officers is just the tip of the iceberg but it is a starting point and one specifically requested by Mike Brown’s family. I just contacted all of my representatives. You should too. Below is what I sent and I have no problem with others using it too. Feel free to copy and paste.

"In light of recent events, I am writing to request that you make it a priority to create a law requiring police officers working on the streets to wear tamper-proof body cameras. In addition to severely limiting unwarranted police brutality, they can also serve as evidence in fair trials against those who knowingly break the law.

 To those officers who complain about a lack of privacy or trust, I would like to point out that there have not been many incidents in our country in recent years to promote feelings of trust towards the police in many major cities.  Not only that but many people in America work in places where they are on camera 24/7. Millions of people who work in hotels, airports, offices, retail establishments and more are on camera more often than they are not.

Obviously much more needs to be done to close this rift in our country. We’ve been putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound for the past few decades. I believe we are starting to rip that Band-Aid off and are discovering what has been festering as we have been ignoring it. I hope that the growing awareness of injustices in our country leads us to cleaning out that wound from the bottom up.

The addition of body cameras as required equipment for officers is a very small step towards justice in our communities. But it is one that will help us move towards a better future for ALL citizens who are born in this country. I hope you share in my concerns and will work towards making America a safer place for its people.”

You done good, friend. I pasted this into an email to my representative.

This is a good add-on to this post so i’m boosting it again.

(Continued) could be the 1 good cop. Even white, male cops are entitled to innocent until proven guilty and the due process of a grand jury. He shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of others. And likewise, although there r many innocent black youth harmed by the police, this might not b one of those cases. Mike Brown just robbed a store, assaulted the clerk, and was high on drugs. The witnesses that testified to him attacking n charging the officer were also black. Plz hold off until more is known

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KNOW YOUR FACTS, KNOW THE TRUTH:

"MYTH: Wilson stopped Brown because he was a suspect in a robbery.

FACT: Wilson did not know Brown was a suspect in a strong-arm robbery that happened moments before the shooting, according to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson. Wilson stopped Brown and his friend for walking in the middle of the street, Jackson said.

MYTH: Autopsies tell us EXACTLY what happened when Brown was shot.

FACT: Police say Brown struggled with Wilson inside his police car, then reached for Wilson’s weapon. Brown’s family and some witnesses say Wilson killed Brown as he raised his hands in surrender. Multiple pathologists say the autopsy performed by the St. Louis County medical examiner and the pathologist hired by Brown’s family could support either version.

Pathologists say forensic science alone can’t determine whether Wilson justifiably shot the teen.” [x]

Yes, Mike Brown had pot in his system BUT THAT DOESNT JUSTIFY HIS MURDER jesus. i have pot in my system right now, probably. do you have any idea how long pot stays in your system? if you’re a frequent user it can stay in your system for 7-30 days. even if he’d smoked an hour before he was shot, it doesn’t make a difference to me. 

saying he had “drugs in his system” are specific words used to vilify an 18 year old boy. 

^ “Reflective of the county’s racial make-up, which is 70 percent white, but not of Ferguson’s, which is about two-thirds black.” [x]

“For 104 days, the police have lied and said Mike Brown was killed 35 feet away from Darren Wilson’s SUV. It was actually 148 feet.

This distance is essential to the defense and how Darren Wilson must demonstrate that he “reasonably feared for his safety.” At the point in which Mike Brown ran half a football field away, how reasonable is it for an armed officer to fear anyone?” [x]

“Six different witnesses on the scene claimed that Mike Brown was shot at repeatedly from behind before he turned around, faced Darren Wilson, verbally surrendered, and put his hands in the air. Wilson, having already shot at Mike Brown at least six times while he fled, then fired off a barrage of four quick shots at the surrendered Brown he was looking at face to face, killing him on the spot.” [x]

The Prosecutor rigged the system (video)

“The Missouri prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown has deep family roots among police: his father, mother, brother, uncle and cousin all worked for St. Louis’ police department, and his father was killed while responding to a call involving a black suspect.” [x]

Ferguson grand jurors are not barred from following news about Ferguson but are only allowed to use evidence they’ve seen in session to reach a decision 

OTHER RELEVANT READINGS:

Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.

Michael Brown, Police Violence, And Why It’s So Hard For Victims To See Justice

When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims

Everything You Need to Know About the Ferguson Grand Jury

MY OPINION THAT IT’S INJUSTICE ISN’T UNFAIR. IT’S UNFAIR THAT MIKE BROWN WAS UNARMED AND YET STILL SHOT AND KILLED. 

that’s all.

ladyshinga:

You’re right, we should totally ignore peoples’ valid rage and anger and their case for justice if they happen to be destroying property while they protest. Destroying things to make a point is wrong. Next we know they’ll be throwing a lot of tea into the ocean or something.

“

What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who cried a lot, or texted too often, or had an eating disorder, or wanted too much/too little sex, or generally felt anything beyond the realm of emotionally undemanding agreement. That does not make these women crazy. That makes those women human beings, who have flaws, and emotional weak spots. However, deciding that any behavior that he does not like must be insane– well, that does make a man a jerk.

And when men do this on a regular basis, remember that, if you are a women, you are not the exception. You are not so cool and fabulous and levelheaded that they will totally get where you are coming from when you show emotions other than “pleasant agreement.”

When men say “most women are crazy, but not you, you’re so cool” the subtext is not, “I love you, be the mother to my children.” The subtext is “do not step out of line, here.” If you get close enough to the men who say things like this, eventually, you will do something that they do not find pleasant. They will decide you are crazy, because this is something they have already decided about women in general.

”

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Lady, You Really Aren’t “Crazy” (via sparkamovement)

Always reblog.

alunaes:

hardcoretrancetunes1993:

thinksquad:

A 12-year-old boy has been shot dead by police in the US as he played with a fake gun in a park.

Tamir Rice, who was black, died of his wounds yesterday in hospital after being shot twice in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday.

A member of the public had phoned police saying people in the playground were scared by someone brandishing what looked like a gun.

In a recording released by officials, the caller can be heard saying: “There’s a guy with a pistol…you know, it’s probably fake but he’s pointing it at everybody.

“I don’t know if it’s real or not.”

The 911 responder twice asked whether the boy was black or white before dispatching officers.

When police arrived at the Cudell Recreation Center park, they told Tamir to raise his hands, deputy police chief Ed Tomba said.

When he allegedly took the replica gun from his waistband, an officer fired twice despite the fact the suspected weapon was not pointed at them and no threats were made.

The gun was an “airsoft” type replica that resembled a semi-automatic handgun. Fake weapons normally have an orange safety indicator on the muzzle but it had been removed, police said.

Cleveland police are investigating the shooting and the two officers involved have been placed on administrative leave in accordance with procedure.

Tamir’s father, Gregory Henderson, told local newspaper the Cleveland Plain Dealer that his son was a “respectful” young man and said the police should have tasered him instead of using live ammunition if they felt threatened.

Referring to police, he added: “You shot him twice, not once, and at the end of the day you all don’t shoot for the legs, you shoot for the upper body.”

After reviewing the evidence, prosecutors will present the case to a grand jury, which will decide whether the officer was justified in using deadly force against the boy.

A lawyer for Tamir’s family, Timothy Kucharski, said he had gone to the park with friends as normal on Saturday afternoon but did not know the details of what led to the shooting.

“We’re ultimately going to find out what happened,” he added.

Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said the officers involved were not told the caller thought the gun might be fake.

Tamir’s death has sparked calls for new laws in Ohio to require all BB guns, air rifles and airsoft guns sold in the state to be brightly marked to show they are fake. A similar bill is being implemented in California.

It comes after another black man with an air rifle was shot dead in Ohio in August.

John Crawford III, 22, was killed after a man called 911 to report he was carrying a gun in a Wal-Mart supermarket.

Police said they believed the air rifle Crawford had picked up was a real rifle and that he didn’t respond to commands to drop it but his family said he had just picked it up from a shelf while shopping.

A special grand jury concluded police officers’ actions were justified and the US Department of Justice is investigating.

The latest fatal police shooting comes as a grand jury in Missouri decides whether to indict a white police officer for shooting dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.

His death in August sparked weeks of protests and unrest in Ferguson, St Louis, and a harsh crackdown by riot police with armoured vehicles and tear gas.

The case has drawn international attention to the treatment of young black men by police in the US, reigniting racial tensions in some communities.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cleveland-police-shooting-boy-with-fake-gun-dies-after-being-shot-by-ohio-officer-9878700.html

"The 911 responder twice asked whether the boy was black or white before dispatching officers."

there ya go
there it fucking is

^^^

"Tamir’s death has sparked calls for new laws in Ohio to require all BB guns, air rifles and airsoft guns sold in the state to be brightly marked to show they are fake."

…AS OPPOSED TO MAYBE PULLING THE GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE RACIST COPS?!?!

rhrealitycheck:

From the Repeal Hyde Art Project

gradientlair:

Whites Dehumanize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Into A Trope To Silence Black People

MLK is regularly evoked by Whites in a dehumanizing fashion in order to police Black vernacular (subversion/reclamation), police Black people’s response to continued State violence and anti-Blackness, and to control Black culture and life via the myth that the politics of respectability can “earn” us humanity; humanity denied us as the very foundation and current reality of this country, in fact. 

It is triggering, erasure, abusive, ahistorical and violent to remind Black people practically on the hour of the coordinated State violence (abuse, arrests, physical violence, FBI intimidation, surveillance/COINTELPRO, psychological warfare and eventually assassination) on MLK and other Black activists/ordinary Black citizens, and then suggest that us behaving like a White-washed version of MLK (one erasing his work and humanly flaws and replacing it with appeasing Whiteness and empty deification) now will “protect” us from the same State violence that Black people have always faced. (MLK’s “non-violent” actions were still classified as “extremist.”) Whites, who benefit from racism, think it is acceptable to tell Black people to “behave” like MLK, when he was murdered for the same reasons that we have to fight today. 

Darren Wilson has half a million dollars via donations from racists, had paid leave, a new wife, is viewed as a White hero and was not indicted (such a decision is apparently statistically rare); will not even face a trial for murdering Michael Brown, despite dehumanizing and killing him. (Not suggesting that his theoretical singular indictment or trial would be “justice” in this anti-Black country; the system itself is violence on us.) He called Michael’s expression of pain after being shot looking like a “demon” and his own strength like that of a child versus Michael as “Hulk Hogan” despite being close to the same size as Michael and had a gun while Michael did not. He claimed that he thought Michael’s punch could “kill” him though his hospital photographs are bruise-less. Clearly he is illogical because of anti-Blackness; the entire testimony is negligence, willful distortion and a racist farce. Whites benefit from violence on Black bodies yet have the audacity and cruelty to suggest how Black people should feel and respond to that violence, in which Whites use other Black people like MLK as dehumanized vessels to funnel those suggestions through.

It is basically White people so utterly willfully ahistorical and intellectually dishonest that they engage in cognitive dissonance with why MLK had to exist as he did in the first place and why we fight now. They use his body as a vessel for their own racism, since their own bodies and lies are never enough. Always the use and consumption of a Black body. Even celebration of the lack of indictment isn’t enough for them; so many of them are trolling Black people online right now because even the State’s affirmation of our dehumanization cannot satiate their appetite for harming Black people. They always want us to accept their version of reality, at the price of our humanity.

ishwari-ghale:

Reminder that James Eagan Holmes, a grown man who entered a public movie theatre in full tactical clothing, carrying seven different fire arms and grenades, did not have a single shot fired at him by police when he walked out of the building after he finished killing 12 people, and he was arrested peacefully. But Mike Brown, an unarmed teenage boy in plain clothing, was shot multiple times after he got down on his knees and begged for mercy.

anarchyandacupofcoffee:

I actually think this has merit.

be-blackstar:

daniellemertina:

frantzfandom:

"like it was making him mad that I’m shooting him"

darren wilson is both an idiot and a fucking monster 

The way he makes Mike Brown sound like a real life hulk or something is so disturbing. The way he described him it’s like he’s not even human.

A boy who was scared and in pain and pleading for his life has been transformed to some impervious monster that can’t even be contained by bullets.

That’s racist white imagination for you.

This is why the super magical negro is racist as shit. Mike Brown was supposed to NOT be mad he was being shot. He was “bulking up?” 

aydol:

prodigalpen:

RIP Mike Brown. His momma said she didn’t want anymore pics of him laying dead on the street so she shared pics of him as she knew him. This is one…

And I swear if it’s the last thing I do on this bloody website we are gunna make sure this doesn’t get forgotten. If we can’t get justice we’ll get change. The event in ferguson show that things have to fucking change

msjwilly:

darbystanchfields:

Jessica Williams responding to #NoIndictment for murderer Darren Wilson.

I stand by this.

“This is a structural problem, meaning that you can replace the people who represent the system and the system will remain the same, until and unless we organize to change it. And so when we say that Black lives matter, that is a political demand. It is a declaration.”

-

Charlene Carruthers (@CharleneCac)

Quote is from a recent video of her speaking out as the National Coordinator for Black Youth Project (@BYP_100).

the-goddamazon:

People need to stop pointing out rioting as the reason why our people are being murdered and going largely ignored.

Businesses can be rebuilt.

Cars can be replaced.

Insurance covers that damage.

But Mike Brown is still buried and his parents were told on national television that his killer will walk free and paid and that there was nothing they could do about it.

Stop talking about rioting when you know that isn’t the reason this country is in the shitter.

v-eck:

teenboypopstar:

thanksgiving is coming up, i bet you’re gonna hear some fucked up shit about this issue at your dinner table. CALL. IT. OUT. this is what i mean when i say that we need to check our own community. it is not the responsibility of black people to deal with your racist uncle and his bullshit opinions! here is a golden opportunity to stamp it out as is your responsibility!!!

Why is right to assume all white people have a racist uncle or relative?

Because we literally all do, and if you think family doesn’t, then congrats, you’re the trash-spewing racist family member in your family.

Have a happy genocide-of-indigenous-peoples-day, enjoy the turkey, you defensive special snowflake.

iwriteaboutfeminism:

Protect this child.

echoboots:

I have heard several people express the sentiment that the recent Ferguson decision was the system working exactly as intended.  While I understand the power in such a chilling statement, it belies the utter procedural travesty that just occurred.  Though I am not a Missouri attorney, I am a licensed attorney in my own jurisdiction, and I want to take a few minutes to unpack what just occurred—though understanding the legal implications does not make them less horrifying, it does illustrate exactly why federal prosecution should occur.

The fact that McCulloch was allowed to prosecute this case is staggering.

There are numerous reasons why McCulloch had a conflict of interest around prosecuting this case, which is exactly why Brown’s family and several civil rights groups repeatedly moved for a special prosecutor.  That request was more than reasonable, given the circumstances, and it should have been granted.  McCulloch responded to this call by telling the Governor to “man up” and oust him if he was supposed to be recused, because he wasn’t going to recuse himself.  McCulloch’s prosecution strategy, as I’ll discuss below, illustrates exactly why the governor should have done just that.

The fact that the grand jury contained exactly one black man is staggering.

In Missouri, as in many other states, 12 grand jurors are selected from a larger pool by the presiding judge, and 9 must vote in favor of indictment in order for it to occur.  Not coincidentally, there were 9 white jurors and 3 black jurors on the jury, and only one of the latter was male.  Statistical studies show that white jurors perceive police officers differently than black jurors.  Though the jury is supposed to be Wilson’s peers, rather than Brown’s, the small and selected jury pool is chilling at best.

McCulloch’s prosecution strategy was staggering.

As this article helpfully notes, a grand jury proceeding does not work like a regular trial—there is no opportunity for defense counsel to bring witnesses or cross-examine witnesses the prosecutor brings forward; forms of evidence that would be inadmissible at trial are permitted; and prosecutors are free to select which charges they want the jury to deliberate upon.  A grand jury proceeding is so much the prosecutor’s show that New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities that “a grand jury would ‘indict a ham sandwich’ [if the prosecutor so desired].”  The Washington Post politely calls McCulloch’s approach ‘atypical,’ but I personally have no problem stressing that it was outright bizarre.  

 He didn’t even wait to finish investigation before he launched a grand jury trial, and central to his case was four hours of testimony from Wilson himself.  It is very rare for defendants to testify at grand jury proceedings, because prosecutors cannot compel them to be brought as witnesses for their own charges—but perhaps Wilson was unconcerned because McCulloch did not even give the jurors charges to consider.  In fact, he stated that he would be “presenting absolutely everything to this grand jury … [e]very statement that a witness made, every witness, every photograph, every piece of physical evidence. Absolutely nothing will be left out, so the grand jury is making their decision based upon absolutely everything and we’ll go from there.”  And that appears to be exactly what he did.

Leaving aside, for the moment, the question of how he could show the jurors everything when he hadn’t even finished investigation yet, a grand jury proceeding is not a trial.  By showing the jurors “absolutely everything,” when the defense isn’t even supposed to be permitted to bring a case, McCulloch essentially turned the jurors into a de facto fact-finding body.  In other words, they were performing the role of a trial jury, but without jury instructions, a presiding judge, a defense attorney, or proper rules of evidence for a trial.  As several articles note, the actual facts of this case were murky at best.  The time and place for fact-finding was at trial—it was not McCulloch’s job to show the jurors “absolutely everything;” it was his job to prosecute the damn case.

In short, there was no way to avoid yesterday’s result, because this was in no way a proper legal proceeding.  If we want to see an actual unbiased legal proceeding take place at this point, we need to see action from the federal system.

revitiligo:

standardreview:

magnacarterholygrail:

durgapolashi:

Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

let it be known that on January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.

She was blacklisted, but she defended every word she said that day. 

gifs via

Black women continue to be great

drakefromthe6ix:

IM IN TEARS REALSHIT #JusticeForMikeBrown

kyssthis16:

sun-fleur:

I wish I could copy + paste this to every ‘love is the greatest weapon’ ‘turn the other cheek’ conversation I’m seeing

That went exactly where it needed to go.

“Why did Michael Brown, an 18-year-old kid headed to college, refuse to move from the middle of the street to the sidewalk? Why would he curse out a police officer? Why would he attack a police officer? Why would he dare a police officer to shoot him? Why would he charge a police officer holding a gun? Why would he put his hand in his waistband while charging, even though he was unarmed?
 
None of this fits with what we know of Michael Brown. Brown wasn’t a hardened felon. He didn’t have a death wish. And while he might have been stoned, this isn’t how stoned people act. The toxicology report did not indicate he was on PCP or something that would’ve led to suicidal aggression.
 
Which doesn’t mean Wilson is a liar. Unbelievable things happen every day. The fact that his story raises more questions than it answers doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
 
But the point of a trial would have been to try to answer these questions. We would have either found out if everything we thought we knew about Brown was wrong, or if Wilson’s story was flawed in important ways. But now we’re not going to get that chance. We’re just left with Wilson’s unbelievable story.”

- Officer Darren Wilson’s story is unbelievable. Literally.

“Black people are dying and it’s not your personal fault that black people are dying because you’re white, but if you don’t make a purposeful choice to become a white ally and actively work to dismantle the racist system running America then it becomes your shame because you are white and black lives matter. And if you live your whole life and then die without making a purposeful choice to become a white ally then American racism becomes your legacy. The choice is yours.”

- 12 things white people can do now

gifthetv:

"@ShaunKing: I’m sharing these horrific cases to press into your mind that a legal & practical precedent is being created for the ease of black death."

iwriteaboutfeminism:

This is ridiculous.

(hides eyes: it feels all too true)