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Chuck Darwin

On April 12, 2015, lifelong Baltimore resident #Freddie #Gray was arrested, hogtied and thrown into the back of a police van by six officers.

When Gray was pulled from the van less than an hour later, he was in a coma.

A week later, he passed away from severe injuries to his cervical spinal cord.

The incident, and the revelations thereafter, set Baltimore and the entire country ablaze.

Details of the case alleged officers had taken Gray for a “rough ride,”
a police brutality practice
where individuals are intentionally left unrestrained in police vehicles during dangerous driving maneuvers.

After a coroner ruled Gray’s death a homicide,
the six officers involved in his arrest were charged with crimes ranging from false imprisonment to manslaughter.

But the damage was done, not only to Gray, but to his community,
which had endured decades of deprivations and abuse by Baltimore police.

The resulting #Baltimore #Uprising shook the city and the nation to its core,
fueling a fresh wave of Black Lives Matter protests building on the murders of #Trayvon #Martin, #Mike #Brown, and #Eric #Garner.

therealnews.com/freddie-gray-a

The Real News Network · Freddie Gray: A Decade of StruggleBy Taya Graham
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petersuber

Update. "#NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
science.org/content/article/ni
(#paywalled)

"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [#Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

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Toadlyturtle

Now #ICE is there, accosting anyone #brown. This family is in danger of being put on street. Temperature in car reaching 90s, which is deadly. It's illegal to be w/o shelter. IDs get revoked, if car insurance lapses.

$169 Minimum Needed ASAP (1 Day Hotel by 6 PM + Car Insurance withdraws today, time unknown)
$855 Minimum Needed for safety (Full Hotel + Car Insurance)
$924 Covers all Bills
$1174 All Needs

KOFI/PP SabiLewSounds
CA/VM toadlyturtle [Note: Sabi]

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