Black Lives Matter Scores Political Victory As Chicago Ousts Its Top Prosecutor

[Fiyah]

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez has covered up police killings, condemned the innocent, and doomed children to the school-to-prison pipeline. But on Tuesday, Chicago area voters said that they’ve had enough.

Alvarez lost her bid for a third term to Kim Foxx, a former assistant state’s attorney and a candidate backed by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists turned the local race into a crucial battle to unseat the controversial top prosecutor who has mishandled cases involving police brutality and allowed miscarriages of justice against men and women of color in Chicago.

The controversy surrounding the shooting of Laquan McDonald was perhaps the most high-profile of Alvarez’s recent failures as state’s attorney. Despite evidence and dashcam footage that showed that the police officer shot McDonald 16 times, Alvarez covered up the incident for more than a year and did not bring charges until less than a day before the video was released to the public. And she still refuses to acknowledge her mistakes.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/15/3760660/bye-anita/

 

[2kool]

"But I thought BLM didn't know what they're doing. Surely these young people can't get anything done. They're just stupid thugs & gays making noise." - Pacified folks suffering from Stockholm Syndrome

 

[skyvolt2000]

"But I thought BLM didn't know what they're doing. Surely these young people can't get anything done. They're just stupid thugs & gays making noise." - Pacified folks suffering from Stockholm Syndrome

You do know you have to get rid of more than one. All they will do is cherry pick what cases she gets. And funny it's easy to go after these whites that screw us in office but when do we remove the blacks who do it? The ones who take bribes to keep business and jobs out of our communities. The one who set up folks for failure.

 

[2kool]

You do know you have to get rid of more than one. All they will do is cherry pick what cases she gets. And funny it's easy to go after these whites that screw us in office but when do we remove the blacks who do it? The ones who take bribes to keep business and jobs out of our communities. The one who set up folks for failure.

The hit dogs always holler first.

"But what about black-on-black crime?"

Get the fukk outta here with that mess.

And don't think these CBC type folks aren't on BLMs radar. Especially after what they did to Sharpton & Jesse.

 

[LS Syndicate]

The hit dogs always holler first.

"But what about black-on-black crime?"

Get the fukk outta here with that mess.

And don't think these CBC type folks aren't on BLMs radar. Especially after what they did to Sharpton & Jesse.

Right. BLM recently called out the 11 out of 23 Black Congressmen who voted in favor of The Crime Bill during The Clinton Administration. People need to read for information rather than affirmation.

 

[2kool]

Right. BLM recently called out the 11 out of 23 Black Congressmen who voted in favor of The Crime Bill during The Clinton Administration. People need to read for information rather than affirmation.

Some of us just want our foolish beliefs confirmed

 

[jag4life]

Some of us just want our foolish beliefs confirmed

That goes for the:
"Why don't they protest black on black crime?"
"Why don't the line up to vote like they do for Jordans?"
"I bet if someone were giving out jobs they wouldn't show up"

...People also

 

[Lenard]

You do know you have to get rid of more than one. All they will do is cherry pick what cases she gets. And funny it's easy to go after these whites that screw us in office but when do we remove the blacks who do it? The ones who take bribes to keep business and jobs out of our communities. The one who set up folks for failure.

Please, lets not bring north texas politics into this . I INSTANTLY thought of the circus that is dallas city politics lol.

 

[2kool]

That goes for the:
"Why don't they protest black on black crime?"
"Why don't the line up to vote like they do for Jordans?"
"I bet if someone were giving out jobs they wouldn't show up"

...People also

Gotta love house folks.

 

[LS Syndicate]

Gotta love house folk.

People just believe any little meme or message they see on the Internet. What they don't know is that half of that stuff is propoganda created by White, conservative media outlets. And then some Black person, steppin' & fetchin', goes and share it with the rest of the world. We have to start looking at the bigger picture. Where there is no vision, the people perish...

 

[2kool]

People just believe any little meme or message they see on the Internet. What they don't know is that half of that stuff is propoganda created by White, conservative media outlets. And then some Black person, steppin' & fetchin', goes and share it with the rest of the world. We have to start looking at the bigger picture. Where there is no vision, the people perish...

AMEN.

I keep telling folks to research the origin of their talking points.

 

[s phi s]