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TRIGGER WARNING: RACISM, VIOLENCE, DEATH
isitscary | squintyoureyes | 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.
what the fuck do you mean they’re calling for his arrest. the fact that Zimmerman isn’t right now in custody is all the proof anyone needs of what is still happening in this country.
What irks me the most about this situation is that Zimmerman is trying to claim self defense. How in the hell are you going to plead self defense against a 17-year-old boy when he had nothing but Skittles in one pocket and a damn iced tea in the other?
Is it possibly THAT hard to just be a decent human being and admit that the basis of your “suspicion” came from the fact that he was black?
Some reports are stating that when police arrived on the scene Zimmerman’s back was wet, his nose was bloodied, and he was yelling about how he cried for help and no one came. So “‘There is some physical evidence and some testimony that would corroborate [his claim of self defense].” Which is fucking ridiculous.
He was a twenty six year old man in a car following a seventeen year old kid at night. He has all the power in this situation. He is older, he is more familiar with the area, he is armed, and he is inside a goddamn car. The only way an altercation occurs is if he gets out of his car. If it’s night and I’m walking alone and a car begins to follow me, I am going to be terrified of that car and it’s driver. I can completely understand a young kid reacting aggressively in that situation because that’s a terrifying situation to find yourself in. The only person who should be held responsible for any alteracation that occured is the grown ass man who thought it appropriate to follow a young kid around in the dark after the police dispatch explicitly told him not to do so and then GOT OUT OF HIS CAR.
Zimmerman is clearly and undeniably the aggressor here and the fact that he has not been arrested is disgusting.
I don’t even know what to say.
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Reblog if you think YOU should be the Doctor’s next companion
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This is reblogged from Neil Gaiman. I can’t do a native reblog because it was a question post, so I’m reformatting it here to make it easier for all of us to spread this around and effect a change:
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All.the.time.
Thanks to doyoubelieveinnargles for this fabulous submission!
Ugh this is the most annoying problem ever.
All the time. And then I collapse into humiliated freakouts because of it.
COMPROMISE. ALL. THE. DANG. TIME.
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Head hurts like a bitch; Turn music up louder
(Source: earth-phoenix)
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Series One (First Doctor: William Hartnell):
- “An Unearthly Child”
- “The Daleks”
- “The Edge of Destruction”
- “Marco Polo” (Missing)
- “The Keys of Marinus”
- “The Aztecs”
- “The Sensorites”
- “The Reign of Terror” (Not complete)
Series Two
- “Planet of Giants”
- “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”
- “The Rescue”
- “The Romans”
- “The Web Planet”
- “The Space Museum”
- “The Chase”
- “The Time Meddler”
Series Three
- “Galaxy 4” (Missing)
- “Mission to the Unknown” (Missing)
- The Myth Makers (Missing)
- “The Daleks’ Master Plan” (Not complete)
- “The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve” (Missing)
- “The Ark”
- “The Celestial Toymaker” (Not complete)
- “The Gunfighters”
- “The Savages” (Missing)
- “The War Machines”
Series Four (First Doctor and Second Doctor):
- “The Smugglers” (Missing)
- “The Tenth Planet” (Not complete - One regenerates into Two)
- “The Power of the Daleks” (Missing)
- “The Highlanders” (Missing)
- “The Underwater Menace” (Not complete)
- “The Moonbase” (Not complete)
- “The Macra Terror” (Missing)
- “The Faceless Ones” (Not complete)
- “The Evil of the Daleks” (Not complete)
Series Five {Second Doctor: Patrick Troughton}
- “The Tomb of the Cybermen”
- “The Abominable Snowmen” (Not complete)
- “The Ice Warriors” (Not complete)
- “The Enemy of the World” (Not complete)
- “The Web of Fear” (Not complete)
- “Fury from the Deep” (Missing)
- “The Wheel in Space” (Not complete)
Series Six
- “The Dominators”
- “The Mind Robber”
- “The Invasion” (Not complete)
- “The Krotons”
- “The Seeds of Death”
- “The Space Pirates” (Not complete)
- “The War Games” (Two regenerates into Three)
Series Seven (Third Doctor: Jon Pertwee):
Series Eight
Series Nine
Series Ten
- “The Three Doctors” (Features One, Two and Three together)
- “Carnival of Monsters”
- “Frontier in Space”
- “Planet of the Daleks”
- “The Green Death”
Series Eleven
- “The Time Warrior”
- “Invasion of the Dinosaurs”
- “Death to the Daleks”
- “The Monster of Peladon”
- “Planet of the Spiders” (Three regenerates into Four)
Series Twelve (Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker):
- “Robot”
- “The Ark in Space”
- “The Sontaran Experiment”
- “Genesis of the Daleks”
- “Revenge of the Cybermen”
Series Thirteen:
- “Terror of Zygons”
- “Planet of Evil”
- “Pyramids of Mars”
- “The Android Invasion”
- “The Brain of Morbius”
- “The Seeds of Doom”
Series Fourteen:
- “The Masque of Mandragora”
- “The Hand of Fear”
- “The Deadly Assassin”
- “The Face of Evil”
- “The Robots of Death”
- “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”
Series Fifteen:
- “Horror of Fang Rock”
- “The Invisible Enemy”
- “Image of the Fendahl”
- “The Sun Makers”
- “Underworld”
- “The Invasion of Time”
Series Sixteen
- (The Key to Time):
- “The Ribos Operation”
- “The Pirate Planet”
- “The Stones of Blood”
- “The Androids of Tara”
- “The Power of Kroll”
- “The Armageddon Factor”
Series Seventeen:
- “Destiny of the Daleks”
- “City of Death”
- “The Creature from the Pit”
- “Nightmare of Eden”
- “The Horns of Nimon”
- “Shada”
Series Eighteen:
- “The Leisure Hive”
- “Meglos”
- “Full Circle”
- “State of Decay”
- “Warriros’ Gate”
- “The Keeper of Traken”
- “Logopolis” (Four regenerates into Five)
Series Nineteen (Fifth Doctor: Peter Davison):
Series Twenty
- “Arc of Infinity”
- “Snakedance”
- “Mawdryn Undead”
- “Terminus”
- “Enlightenment”
- “The King’s Demons”
- “The Five Doctors” (20th Anniversary: Features One, Two, Three, Four and Five)
Series Twenty-One
- “Warriors of the Deep”
- “The Awakening”
- “Frontios”
- “The Resurrection of the Daleks”
- “Planet of Fire”
- “The Caves of Androzani” (Five regenerates into Six)
- “The Twin Dilemma”
Series Twenty-Two (Sixth Doctor: Colin Baker):
- “Attack of the Cybermen”
- “Vengeance of Varos”
- “Mark of the Rani”
- “The Two Doctors” (Features Two and Six)
- “Timelash”
- “Revelation of the Daleks”
Series Twenty-Three:
- The Trial of a Time Lord
- “The Mysterious Planet”
- “Mindwarp”
- “Terror of the Vervoids”
- “The Ultimate Foe” (Six regenerates into Seven)
Series Twenty-Four (Seventh Doctor: Sylvester McCoy):
Series Twenty-Five
- “Remembrance of the Daleks”
- “The Happiness Patrol”
- “Silver Nemesis”
- “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”
Series Twenty-Six
Film (Eighth Doctor: Paul McGann)
(via theillustriousmissjo)
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beautifuldoctorkinglupintaguro:
Who Is Your Savior?
lol
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