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The president of Cincinnatis police union confirmed he received threats after posting a message on Facebook to Black Lives Matter, WXIX-TV reported.

Sgt. Dan Hils took the group to task in his Saturday post, pointing out that none of the citys 32 black homicide victims this year came at the hands of law enforcement: I wanted to let you know first how many of those black lives lost were in police interventions. Ok, get ready for ithold on and take a deep breathare you sure that you are ready?..Ok, thats right it is zero (0), not a one, zilch.

Hils posted his message just hours before a demonstration over a prosecutors decision to not seek a third trial in the case of a white University of Cincinnati police officer in the fatal shooting of a black motorist during a 2015 traffic stop, the station said.

The threatening and intimidating Facebook comments against Hils came between 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 a.m. Sunday, WXIX reported, citing a copy of the incident report.

It is very concerning when people feel the need to threaten someone when they post an opinion and statement on social media, Hils told the station.

The case is classified as telecommunications harassment, WXIX said.

I stand by my statement, Hils told the station. The threat felt very real. We are merely trying to protect those so they can protest and express their opinions this is a great concern. According to the report, there is a suspect whos a stranger to Hils.

The following is Hils full Facebook post. As of Tuesday afternoon, its received 581 shares and 1,300 likes:

Dear Black Lives Matter Protestors,

I wish to help your objective at the rally today protesting black lives lost. I have the list of the homicide victims in the city of Cincinnati in 2017. As of July 17th, there have been 39 homicides. Of those homicides, 32 of the 39 homicide victims were black.

Thirty-two black lives taken before their time. Thirty-two black lives taken violently. Due to your group name, I have omitted mention of the seven white murder victims. But, back to my point I wanted to let you know first how many of those black lives lost were in police interventions. Ok, get ready for ithold on and take a deep breathare you sure that you are ready?..Ok, thats right it is zero (0), not a one, zilch.

I know the names you will have on your signs, but may I suggest these names as well; Deandre Berry (killed 1/1/17), Deante Mattocks (killed 1/8/17), Terrence Woods (killed 1/12/17), Troy Smith (killed 1/13/17), Alexandrea Thompson (9 years old, killed 1/18/17), Corrye Barwick Jr. (killed 1/28/17), Twanda Alexander (killed 2/7/17), Donald Campbell (killed 2/14/17), Casey Roby (killed 2/16/17), Trevor Tiemann (killed 2/19/17), Michael Chichester (killed 3/13/17), Tyrone Frazier(killed 3/18/17), OBryan Spikes (killed 3/26/17), Tyler Lee (killed 4/2/17), Deondre Davis (killed 4/4/17), Jamar Hayes (killed 4/17/17), Kendall Perkins (killed 4/18/17), DeShawn Jenkins (killed 4/18/17), Omar Mohommad (killed 4/25/17), Judson Roper Jr. (killed 4/27/17), Jahmaria Cruz (killed 5/14/17), Anthony Gray (killed 5/16/17), Shawnice Johnson (killed 5/18/17), William Bell (killed 522/17), Troy Donald (killed 5/31/17), Boris Tolliver (killed 6/1/17), Jeremy Rohe (killed 6/14/17), Keonte Walker (killed 6/20/17), Jonathan Taylor (killed 7/1/17), William Thomas (killed 7/4/17), Dontae Whaley (killed 7/5/17), and Rafeal Harrison (killed 7/17/17).

Cincinnatis police officers responded to each of these homicide scenes exposing themselves to unknown physical risk. Our detectives have spent countless hours trying to find who is responsible for the homicides above along with the seven white victims that I did not list. Your CPD knows that all lives matter. How about a sign in support of police officers battling this violence?

Try to stay hydrated it is going to very warm.

Daniel J. Hils FOP #69, President

(H/T: The American Mirror)

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A kerfuffle between a patron of the Vortex restaurant and the boyfriend of a waiter has lit up Atlantas social media Tuesday.

A couple received what they considered substandard service at the Vortex restaurant in Little Five Points earlier this month. The waiter seemed as if he hated his job and or annoyed he was serving black guests, they told the websiteBlackLivesMatterGreaterAtlanta.com

The patron, Kristina White, decided to leave a zero tip, and explained her reasoning at the bottom of the check: treat everyone the same.

Treat everyone the same Kristina White wrote on the check she received at the Vortex, instead of offering a tip for what she considered bad service. Photo: courtesy Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The entire time Ms. White and her friend were at this restaurant they were treated with the utmost disrespect, and lack thereof, wrote Sir Maejor Page, president ofBlack Lives Matter Greater Atlanta, on the groups website.

Their waiters boyfriend, who was on hand at the restaurant, later left critical messages on Whites phone and on her Facebook page, according to the Black Lives Matter website.

According tothe Vortex website, the server, Gaven Greenberg, was terminated and his boyfriend, Patrick Wilkinson, was served with a notice that he is no longer allowed on the property.

The restaurant wrote that it offered her a gift certificate and added In no event will we ever tolerate our patrons being bullied or harassed by anyone, including friends or family of our staff.

The Vortex has perhaps the most distinctive front door of any restaurant in Atlanta. Patrons of the Little Five Points branch enter through the gaping mouth of a swirly-eyed skull sculpture. The restaurant also permits smoking (in designated areas) and adopts a stance that suggests those who dont like smoking shouldnt attend. While were happy to welcome smokers and non-smokers alike, we will never tolerate crybabies, they write on their website.

Though the Black Lives Matter item was titledWhy You Shouldnt Dine At The Vortex a commenter on the BLM site wroteThe Vortex handled this immediately & with class.

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In the early hours of Saturday morning, Rashan Charles died after being apprehended by police.

According to the BBC, the 20 year-old was pursued by a Metropolitan Police Officer on foot, after they attempted to stop a car that Rashan was a passenger of, on Kingsland Road, in Hackney, at 1.45am.

He ran into the local off license called 'Yours Locally' in Dalston, where he was seen 'trying to swallow an object'.

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The footage of what happens inside the shop is circulating widely on social media.

The CCTV footage shows a struggle as the officer takes down Rashan. Once on the floor the struggle continues for more than a minute, whilst another plain-clothed man sits on the young suspect.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) have released a statement saying they are going to investigate the officer's contact with Rashan.

They also explain that Rashan became unwell at the scene and first aid was given by a police officer as well as paramedics before he was taken to the Royal London Hospital where he subsequently died.

The IPCC state that they believe an object was removed from his throat at the scene.

It is yet unclear how Rashan actually died.

Since his death, social media, particularly Twitter, reacted with outrage.

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The hashtag #JusticeForRash quickly began trending.

Many people were angry at the lack of mainstream coverage, as well as commenting on the apparent force used in the video.

Yesterday afternoon people took to Kingsland Road to protest.

Holding Black Lives Matter posters they stopped traffic chanting 'No justice, no peace.'

Protestors made it clear they believed there is a systemic issue within the police regarding excessive used on people of colour.

Black Lives Matter is a movement stemming from the US that aims to publicise and ultimately end the disproportionate amount of people of colour killed by the police.

His friends left flowers outside the shop and spoke to reporters about his loving and protective nature, with one man telling the Independent, 'He was a brother to me'.

A spokesman from the Metropolitan Police said to the BBC: 'The man entered a shop in Kingsland Road, where he was seen to be trying to swallow an object. The officer intervened and sought to prevent the man from harming himself, but he was then taken ill.'

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Without the drummed-up fear that a black president would take guns away from law-abiding citizens, the National Rifle Association is turning toward vilifying and pillorying the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality in order to drum up gun sales. One of the platforms it now has at its disposal is NRATV. While the fledging network may not yet be among the choices in your cable television package, or available through existing streaming services, given the power of the gun lobbying organization, NRATV may soon be coming to screen near you.

Launched in October of last year, NRATV's declared mission is to provide "The most comprehensive video coverage of Second Amendment issues, events and culture anywhere in the world." The network offers such programing as NRANEWs, presented by Ruger, NRAWOMEN, presented by Smith & Wesson, NRACOUNTRY and NRAHUNTING, as well as an array of commentators.

Grant Stinchfield is a host of a program called Stinchfield. During a recent broadcast, Stinchfield let go a broadside against Black Lives Matter, claiming that "racist violence" in South Africa, "where white families are being tortured and killed almost every day in racist violence. is a warning for the United States." And because of the liberal media, "you will never hear [about this] from the mainstream media in this country."

Stinchfield interviewed Chuck Holton, a veteranArmyRanger, and co-host -- alongside Iran-Contra figure and NRA board member Oliver North -- of the NRATV series Frontlines. Holton who appears to be a master of alternative facts and seems to have a hate/hate relationship with African Americans, maintained that "the blatant racism and violence we're seeing from people like the Black Lives Matter crowd, from people like Louis Farrakhan and his minions,is happening in spades in South Africa."

The Daily Banter's Justin Rosario declared that Holton's words were not just "a racist dog whistle," they were "an open call to violence against Black Lives Matter."

"Pair this with the recent 'liberals are the enemy of freedom' ad that effectively calls on NRA members to get ready to kill anti-Trump protesters and you have a very stark picture of the NRA's agenda," Rosario noted. "No longer content to just sell guns and fear, the gun industry's mouthpiece is actively inciting violence against the left, using both political and racial tensions as a justification.

When Obama welcomed, and shook hands with, then-president-elect Donald Trump at the White House, Holton tweeted: "Photo finally surfaces of Trump grabbing a pussy." And two days after Trump's inauguration, Holton tweeted "Okay! Party's over. Let's get busy scrubbing Obama's mocacchino stain off of America!"

According to Media Matters for America, last August on the NRA's radio show Cam & Company, "Holton talked about gangs, absent fathers, and welfare, before saying, 'And you hear college students complain about white privilege. You know my definition of white privilege? It's just simply the culture that we have created, that our fathers and grandfathers have worked hard to create.' Holton went on describe white privilege as 'a culture of individual responsibility, where you take responsibility for your own actions, a culture that respects authority.' He also positively cited a video about 'white privilege' released by 'alt right' blogger Stefan Molyneux."

Immediately after the attack in Manchester, England, which left 22 dead and dozens injured, Holton told Stinchfield that England "has had this coming," due to the country's firearms regulations, open bordersfor refugees, "multiculturalism" and "gender-bending." At the end of the segment, Stinchfield stated that European countries have "disarmed their citizens, so terrorists operate with impunity."

After the January 21st Women's March on Washington, commentator Bill Whittle had Holton, who also works with Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, as his guest. Together they blamed the Women's March "for vandalism and property damage that took place on Inauguration Day, January 20," Raw Story reported. Whittle and Holton confidently predicted that a Women's March on the NRA scheduled for July 14 will "certainly not be peaceful."

"Well, they're certainly not peaceful. And they're certainly not even protests. What they are is sort of temper tantrums by spoiled children, is the best way I can describe them," Holton said.

The July 14 and 15 protests against the NRA which included a nearly 18-mile walk from NRA headquarters to the U.S. Department of Justice was carried out peacefully. The events were in part a response to an incendiary one-minute NRA recruitment video, which featured NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who in the video argues that demonstrators "bully and terrorize the law-abiding until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness."

"They use their media to assassinate real news," The Blaze's Dana Loesch said in the ad. "They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. They use their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again."

Women's March co-president Tamika Mallory called the ad is "direct endorsement of violence" against protesters. "We haven't taken a position that people shouldn't have guns, we don't want to prohibit folks from exercising their second amendment rights," Mallory told CNN ahead of the march. "But the NRA ad puts our First Amendment rights in jeopardy, it puts the lives of people who are exercising their right to protest in the middle of danger.We are looking for a change in NRA's behavior and its policies and practices."

The event's Facebook page urged the NRA to "take down the recent irresponsible and dangerous advertisement videos from all social platforms immediately; issue an apology to the American people for the video that suggests armed violence against communities of color, progressives and anyone who does not agree with this Administration's policies; and make a statement to defend Philando Castile's Second Amendment right to own a firearm and demand the Department of Justice indict the police officer who killed him for exercising his Second Amendment."

Attacks on Black Lives Matter are nothing new. Since the inception of the movement, conservatives have been gunning for the organization. Recently, Jacob Grandstaff, writing for the conservative Capital Research Center website, argued that the Women's March against the NRA "show that the group is primarily concerned withLeft-wing coalition-building and notwomen's issues."

Grandstaff added: "The Women's March characterizes itself as a feminist movement organized in opposition to President Donald Trump and his supposedly anti-women comments and political stances. The anti-NRA demonstration, however, appears to have little to do with women; andinstead meshes morewiththe greater Left's accusations of racism against the NRA."

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The fatal shooting of Justine Damond has created shock both in her homeland of Australia and across the U.S. While some members of the far-right have insisted that anti-racism groups have been silent since the shooting of the Australian white woman, diverse rallies including prominent black activists and families/friends of police brutality victims have proven that anti-racism groups are not only showing up for Justine Damond theyre setting race aside to do it. Shaun King, an avid police brutality and Black Lives Matter writer for New York Daily News implied that it doesnt surprise him that black activists protested in Minneapolis, because people are bothered by injustice and when they see this, it wasnt racial. Cathy Jones, who organized a vigil near the crime scene the day after Damonds death, claimed that its never been about race. Its been about police accountability. Even John Thompson, best friend of Philando Castille, said at a solidarity gathering, Its not about race. Its not about white. Its not about black. Its about the police chief killing us. As uncertainty continues and rage builds, people have put race on the back burner to justify their support for Damond and to get more people to acknowledge police brutality. This is courteous, and fighting for Justine is vital but race shouldnt have to be excluded from the picture for people to rally.

Though many have factored race out of the reasons behind the shooting of Justine Damond, this doesnt mean race can automatically be eliminated as a factor in previous police shootings of people of color. Damonds case showed people that police brutality can affect both blacks and whites, but it doesnt erase the fact that police brutality impacts blacks disproportionately: black Americans are nearly 2.5 times likelier than white Americans to be fatally shot by police officers. There are more white victims of police shootings than black victims, but this is due to the largeness of the white population in the U.S. There are almost 160 million more white people than black people in the United States (2016). White people make up 62% of the population in the U.S., but only 49% of the population of those fatally shot by police officers. Meanwhile, black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, but 24% of the population fatally shot by police officers. These ratios, according to the Washington Post, prove that black people are 2.5 times likelier than white Americans to be shot. Does this mean that cases like the shooting of Justine Damond arent a problem? Of course not. We need to highlight any case where someone is unfairly killed by police. Still, the racial disparity in the likeliness of being killed by police is a sign of racial bias.

People have set race aside out of respect for the Damond family, but reiterating police brutalitys disproportionate impact on black lives is not disrespectful. Its just telling the truth. Police brutality against all needs to end, and a large part of ending this brutality means focusing on the black communities that are the likeliest subjects of it. Ending police brutality for whites means encouraging officers not to be so trigger-happy. Ending police brutality for blacks takes an added level of consideration. It means ending a predetermined view of black people as criminals. By setting race aside, we are limiting our room for improvement. When we consider police brutality just a human issue, we allow law enforcement to ignore the data that has proven that police brutality and profiling has horribly impacted black communities and we allow officers to not improve their relationship with those communities. We leave room for police departments to approach improving their tactics in a shallow sense that wont adhere to the specific needs of communities of color.

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The traffic stop has become an example of a cop encounter that has increasingly turned deadly for black Americans. According to a 2011 Bureau of Justice study, 13% of black drivers were stopped by police in 2011 compared to 10% of white drivers. The same study states that 84% of white drivers stopped by police believed they were stopped for a legitimate reason compared to the mere 68% of black drivers stopped by police that believed this. Black drivers stopped by police are also more likely to be searched by police than white drivers. Studies over the next five years within large cities have only confirmed these racial disparities. A San Francisco report showed that in 2015, 13.3 percent of black people were searched following traffic stops, compared to just 1.7 percent of white people. The report also documents that SFPD officers exhibit racial bias in their arrests, citing instances of officers using racial slurs, acting in a sexually inappropriate manner towards Black women, and committing acts of violence against Black people. The Department of Justices investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, released in 2015, proved, among other violations, that FPD repeatedly engages in unconstitutional stops and arrests in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and that this misconduct disproportionately impacts African-Americans. Data from other big cities only falls in line with this disproportionate policing: a 2015 New York Times analysis found that since 2010, Greensboro officers searched black drivers more than twice as much as whites, and a 2016 report found that in Chicago, black and Hispanic drivers are four times as likely to be searched than white drivers. With so many high-profile fatal police shootings occurring after traffic stops, the racial aspect of traffic stop demeanor among officers cant just be swept under the rug.

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Police brutality has various causes and racial effects. These may make police brutality difficult to describe but this doesnt mean that they can be disregarded. Fighting against police brutality is about ensuring the safety of all races, but its also about ensuring that no one race is brutalized more than another.

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