Jessica’s car was pinned under a truck while she was trying free it. She wasn’t complying with orders, so the sergeant shot her once and killed her.
It doesn’t sound like she tried to run anyone over. She was trying to escape, drove recklessly, smashed into a truck, and then was killed trying to free it. There was no “threatening” or “imminent danger of death” or risk of “serious bodily injury”. It was an execution.
There was no immediate indication that the woman was armed or had been driving the car toward officers when she was shot.
People gathered Friday night on 3rd Street, main thoroughfare of the Bayview district, to honor and mourn Jessica (Nelson) Williams, another Black person gunned down by police.
“The city authorities have this twisted notion of white supremacy, so devious,” said one woman. “We need to take our community back. Everyone needs to find their place in this movement, and step into it.”
“Don’t be afraid of the police,” said another woman. “Speak up, take your stand, hold your ground.” Marla, young poet, delivered fiery, rapid-fire words of defiance. This is a young, caring, self-confident new movement we’re seeing, blossoming before our very eyes.
#JessicaWilliams #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter
#StayWoke
fightingmisogynoir
All of these sistas gunned down by law enforcement, Nobody can’t tell me that there isn’t a war on black women and girls. We see it everyday. #Jessica Wiliams #SayHerName
trans women of color are literally the reason we have a queer rights movement and have always been a major factor in all forms of social revolution. trans women of color are the most important people and nothing you say will change that.
i know OP wants to make a joke about it but this is actually a real problem in china where they will censor and hide everything from their people that will give even a slight hint of information that would lead to a rebellion. china’s treatment of their people barely even offer basic freedom human rights and i’m pretty sure why they blocked tumblr is much of the main topics talks about human equality and the LGBT+ community.
this article is from a writer who wanted to have one of his books translated in chinese
also this article that’s been getting some views, the abduction of employees from a hong kong bookstore that sold books critical towards mainland china
When Zayn Malik left One Direction in March 2015, honest-to-god tears
flowed across the globe. Just Google “Zayn leaving crying” and the
Internet will burst open with videos and tweets of young people all over
the world sharing their unfiltered sorrow, including his former
bandmate Harry Styles, who was caught wiping his eyes while on stage at
1D’s first post-Zayn show.
The biggest boy band in the world soldiered on without their missing
fifth, releasing another album before eventually announcing an extended
hiatus that started this past March. It’s not entirely clear whether the
hiatus is truly a breakup, but in the interim, Zayn has screeched off
into solo stardom with nary a speed bump in his way. His debut solo
album,
Mind of Mine, arrived at the end of March, and in the two
months since, Zayn has all but scorched the international radio
charts.The record is bursting with downtempo R&B and confessional
lyrics akin to artists like Miguel or Usher, each song thoughtfully
crafted around Zayn’s powerful falsetto. Over the 18 tracks, there are
the requisite head-bobbing earworms, like “BeFoUr,” as well as
heart-thumping ballads, like “iT’s YoU,” where his voice practically
spirals into outer space.
Smoldering and self-assured, Zayn 2.0 has joined the ranks of
mononymous artists – his name is now branded ZAYN – and he gets to
call one of the most beautiful women alive, model Gigi Hadid, his
girlfriend (there have recently been conflicting reports about whether
the two have split, but ahead of press time, comments in the media and
videos on Hadid’s Snapchat suggest the couple are still together). His
first single, “PILLOWTALK,” charted at number one in multiple countries,
including the US and UK, when it was released in January. The video for
the single trumpeted his new, sexually charged direction as it
oscillated between shots of Gigi and Zayn passionately kissing, sultry
shots of a nude woman with a blooming flower between her legs and
glowing red visuals. It’s currently sitting at over 521 million views on
YouTube. Overall, Zayn is not having a bad life. And on a crisp May
night in Los Angeles, this wildly successful 23-year-old – a
multimillionaire many times over – sat down to chat with PAPER inside
the low-lit recording studio where he’s already chipping away at his
second solo album.
Ushered in by a small team of hip English women from his record label,
Zayn is as low-key as can be. He’s brought in a sensible dinner of
grilled chicken and brown rice, noting that “I’ve not been feeling too
well recently because I’ve been partying too much and not looking after
myself and eating enough food. I’m just trying to take care of myself.”
But that’s also spaced with a few cigarettes, so you win some, you lose
some.
“It wasn’t a conscious decision to make [Mind of Mine] sexual or refer to sex…but I enjoyed singing about it, clearly.”
Zayn’s had time to hone this responsible, balanced approach to
mega-stardom. It’s been a whirlwind since he was discovered at just 17
on the UK version of
The X Factor, where, like his fellow One Direction members,
he’d auditioned as a solo singer but was grouped together to become part
of the powerhouse boy band. He came to the TV show a normal teenage boy
from the industrial English town of Bradford, the child of a
British-Pakistani father and British mother, raised in a Muslim
household along with three sisters. After the band came together, his
“normal teenage life” took a dramatic detour as 1D went on to shatter
chart records over the course of five albums, go on endless
international tours and cement their status as a pillar of popular
culture before starting to fracture in the lead-up to Zayn’s departure.
Based on the past few days he’s had in LA, his solo career seems to be
in a similar fast lane. It’s been a week of interviews and photo shoots,
plus a TV appearance on
The Voice, where he delivered a searing version of his newest
single,“LIKE I WOULD,” complete with an accompanying laser light show.
“It’s been pretty mad,” he says, adding that this frenetic pace has been
standard for him lately.
For his second album, he’s teaming up again with his LA-based
Mind of Mine producer Malay, born James Ho, who is best known
for his work with Alicia Keys and as the guiding hand on Frank Ocean’s
2012 masterpiece channel ORANGE. The two clicked last year when
writing Zayn’s debut, but, according to the singer, have only just
begun the process of figuring out what his follow-up will sound like.
“We’re just experimenting with different things,” he says.
One thing that is certain is that Zayn will continue veering away from
being seen as the teen with the “quiff,” as he calls it – that’s
British slang for the ducktail hairdo he had during his 1D days – who
used to sing and dance in unison with four other boys. He’s been
forthcoming in nearly every post-1D interview about the fact that this
record – and the beginning of his solo career – serves as a public
introduction to Zayn the grown man. So it’s no accident
Mind of Mine is saturated with sexual imagery and overt
phrases like “Be in the bed all day/ Fucking you and fighting on”
(“PILLOWTALK”) and “I’ll get her wetter than ever/ Four letters is never
the question/ She likes when I’m messy/ And I like when she’s
undressing” (“wRoNg”). “It wasn’t a conscious decision to make [the
album] sexual or refer to sex,” Zayn says. “But I just found out that a
lot of situations that I was in were quite sexual situations – all of
the time.” He adds, “I enjoyed singing about [sex], clearly.”
There are constant reminders that Zayn is still a young man who’s barely begun his twenties. Take, for instance, the giddy excitement he has when describing why he built and designed a Pirates of the Caribbean- themed pub at his London home: “I love the [movie’s] aesthetic and how well it’s done,” he says. “I feel like it’s really authentic to pirate times.” Then, with a laugh, “Like I know anything about ‘pirate times.’ I guess I just love it. I’m a big kid.”
