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URGENT CALL TO SOLVE  THE RACIST MURDER  OF Nighisti Mehari Semret - please REBLOG

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oumkalthoum:

This is a serious post so I ask that everyone take the time to read and reblog I would appreciate it very much.

On Tuesday, October 23rd, an Eritrean woman named Nighisti Mehari Semret was murdered in Toronto, Canada. At about 7 a.m she was stalked and stabbed to death by a white male as she walked east through the laneway from Bleecker St. toward Ontario St. The attack took place just 100 metres shy of her home in Cabbagetown.

Her murderer has yet to be caught.

A security camera captured both of their images shown below. Nighisti is seen holding an umbrella in the top two shots, while her murderer is just a few steps behind her. The same footage is shown on video above. Take a good look, try and remember his posture and style of walking.

He is a white male, between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot-2, 150 to 200 pounds with a medium build. Police believe he “lives, frequents and is known to the Cabbagetown and Regent Park area”.

He was wearing a dark, long coat with buttons and a white scarf or garment around his neck, along with a dark hat, pants and shoes.

Officers at 51 Division set up a community vehicle near the scene of the crime, where anyone with information could speak with investigators. If you recognize this man on the street please call the Toronto Police Service @ 416-808-2222. You can also call in anonymously @ 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook. My inbox is always open also. Thank you.

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TUESDAY APRIL 10th INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST FOR JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN EVEN MORE CRITICAL IN THE WAKE OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR’S “NO GRAND JURY” ANNOUNCEMENT

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST FOR JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN EVEN MORE CRITICAL IN THE WAKE OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR’S “NO GRAND JURY” ANNOUNCEMENT

Demand Justice for Trayvon Martin – Tuesday, April 10 – 6 P.M. Union Square NYC

All who are planning to participate in worldwide protests on April 9 and 10 to demand justice for Trayvon Martin should consider recent developments regarding the grand jury as an important reason to double their efforts to make the protests massive and determined.

The announcement by special prosecutor Angela Corey that a grand jury — that had originally been scheduled to take up Trayvon Martin’s case on April 10 but is now not going to do that — can only be viewed as confusing at best and troubling at worse.

This is not the news that people across the country, indeed across the world, had been waiting to hear. Justice demands an arrest for murder, not another excuse for a delay — which is what the special prosecutor’s announcement amounts to.

Justice delayed is justice denied. Six weeks have come and gone since Trayvon was murdered for being Black and young. The prosecutors and police have had plenty of time to reverse their clumsy efforts to sweep this murder under the rug and do what every rational freedom-loving person demands: arrest George Zimmerman.

Yet, as of this date, the only people who have been arrested in the Trayvon Martin case, have been six students protesting for justice by blocking the doors of the Sanford, Fla. police station.

The delay of justice is unacceptable. The unprecedented mass movement for Trayvon that has blossomed over the last three weeks, can only view more delays as a sign that the powers that be are not yet getting the message: No justice, No peace.

Moreover, if the delay of justice continues, or if the special prosecutor announces that Mr. Zimmerman will not be arrested and charged with murder, the incredible protest that have already taken place in reaction to Trayvon’s murder, will pale in comparison to the mass outrage that such an announcement would provoke.

 

too angry for words Justice for Trayvon “Trey” Martin & Troy Davis & CeCe Mcdonald!

I used be afraid of being shot by the police every time I locked up the church building that I worked in.  For 3 years, I lived with this fear that I would be shot down in this NOW gentrified historically BLACK neighborhood simply because I chose to work late that night. 

The cops would not care that was a community organizer.  They would not care that I am worker, trusted with keys and alarm codes to the building.  In fact, I could even be the custodial worker or office cleaner authorized to be there late and now leaving my shift.

All it would take was some neighbor calling to say there is someone “suspicious”  outside of the church.  Or they could just happen by, “patrolling” the area and all they would see is a Black man leaving or  breaking into this church in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn and shoot me down.

Ironically the church I worked in was a major stop on the underground railroad.  Would our ancestors who fought for “freedom” turn over in their graves to know that the beatings, lynchings and murders of Black people continue today.

Justice for Trayvon “Trey” Martin & Troy Davis &  CeCe Mcdonald!

Let’s be real clear. George Zimmerman is a goddamn murderer. A cold-blooded killer. He murdered that child. Murdered Trayvon Martin. Because he was Black. No other fucking reason. Zimmerman was only “suspicious” of him because he was Black, end of fucking story. This man is a murderer. He’s a fucking child killer. And he was never even fucking arrested. Fuck this. Fuck this fucking racist country and its racist fucking justice system that allows white people to kill Black people. If you support Zimmerman in anyway or think he was justified unfuckingfollow me right the fuck now. Also, GTFO and STFU in general.

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treebeardoffangorn: osobigbear: Unarmed Black Teen Gunned Down By Neighborhood Watch Leader After Being Deemed Suspicious Trayvon “Trey” Martin, 17, of Miami was visiting relatives living in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. He had just left a local 7-11 after buying a snack and was on his way home around 7:00 PM on February 26. George Zimmerman, a 26-year-old member of the local neighborhood watch, saw Martin and called police to report a suspicious man in the community. He tailed Martin in his car. He had a loaded pistol on him. The police told Zimmerman they would handle it. For some reason, Zimmerman didn’t obey. Minutes later, a number of local residents called police to report a fight. A gunshot was heard. Martin died 70 yards from the house he was staying in. Zimmerman was arrested and then released. He was carrying the pistol legally and has claimed that he was acting in self-defense. Said Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee Jr. in an interview with the Huffington Post, “For some reason he (Zimmerman) felt that Trayvon, the way that he was walking or appeared seemed suspicious to him.” Ah, yes. The way he was walking and his appearance were deemed “suspicious.” Oh, did I forget to mention that Martin is black? And that the gated community, called Retreat at Twin Lakes, is predominantly white? Martin’s parents are demanding the police make an arrest and release the 911 call. They are expected to file a suit in state court on Friday. “Zimmerman, an adult, had a gun. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old, had Skittles. No way you can say self-defense,” said the family’s attorney, Benjamin Crump. Dear George Zimmerman, go fuck yourself with a bat covered in barbed wire and lemon juice, because that’d be the start of the penance you should suffer through for murdering a fucking INNOCENT kid because he “looked suspicious” when in reality you shot him because he was black in a white gated community. Simple as that, you deserve to suffer for the rest of your days.
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Unarmed Black Teen Gunned Down By Neighborhood Watch Leader After Being Deemed Suspicious

Unarmed Black Teen Gunned Down By Neighborhood Watch Leader After Being Deemed Suspicious

Trayvon “Trey” Martin, 17, of Miami was visiting relatives living in a gated community in Sanford, Florida. He had just left a local 7-11 after buying a snack and was on his way home around 7:00 PM on February 26. George Zimmerman, a 26-year-old member of the local neighborhood watch, saw Martin and called police to report a suspicious man in the community. He tailed Martin in his car. He had a loaded pistol on him. The police told Zimmerman they would handle it.

For some reason, Zimmerman didn’t obey. Minutes later, a number of local residents called police to report a fight. A gunshot was heard. Martin died 70 yards from the house he was staying in. Zimmerman was arrested and then released. He was carrying the pistol legally and has claimed that he was acting in self-defense.

Said Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee Jr. in an interview with the Huffington Post, “For some reason he (Zimmerman) felt that Trayvon, the way that he was walking or appeared seemed suspicious to him.”

Ah, yes. The way he was walking and his appearance were deemed “suspicious.” Oh, did I forget to mention that Martin is black? And that the gated community, called Retreat at Twin Lakes, is predominantly white?

Martin’s parents are demanding the police make an arrest and release the 911 call. They are expected to file a suit in state court on Friday.

“Zimmerman, an adult, had a gun. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old, had Skittles. No way you can say self-defense,” said the family’s attorney, Benjamin Crump.

Dear George Zimmerman, go fuck yourself with a bat covered in barbed wire and lemon juice, because that’d be the start of the penance you should suffer through for murdering a fucking INNOCENT kid because he “looked suspicious” when in reality you shot him because he was black in a white gated community. Simple as that, you deserve to suffer for the rest of your days.

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