#jackson police

[decolonize-the-left]

Imagine looking for your son and finding 215 bodies.

It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue. Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son. She pulled up to the gates of the Hinds County penal farm, her sister in the passenger seat. A sheriff’s deputy and two jumpsuited inmates in a pickup told her to follow them.

They bounced down the road and curved into the woods, crawling past clearings where rows of small signs jutted from the earth, each marked with a number.

“Girl, look at this,” Bettersten, 65, said to her sister. “Would you believe they would bury someone out here?” The caravan came to the end of the road, at another clearing with more markers. The deputy took one of Bettersten’s hands, her daughter the other, and they walked to the mounds of loosely packed dirt. They stopped at grave No. 672. “Really?” Bettersten said.

She bent over, hands on her knees. She cried out, her voice echoing off the surrounding trees. “I’m sorry, baby. I’m so sorry.”

Also I know Tumblr doesn't exist in a vacuum so I wanted to share this as well:

Dec.18.2023

Blame for these botched cases has fallen primarily on the Hinds County coroner’s office and the Jackson Police Department. Each agency points a finger at the other. Meanwhile, other families are left wondering if their missing loved ones were also given pauper’s burials in that desolate stretch of land, beyond a horse stable and scrapyard. In an effort to help families find answers, NBC News is publishing a list of pauper’s burials in Hinds County since 2016. The list was provided by the county coroner’s office in response to a public records request. The office said in an email that it did not have a list of those buried earlier: "Records before 2016 could not be located. "

#jackson #Missouri #justice #equality #police brutality #acab #jackson police #usa #police #The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center #cop city #police violence #state violence #abolish the police

[fenrislorsrai]

Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard. The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.  It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue. 

GEE I WONDER IF THESE ARE RELATED

The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.  Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing Jackson officers of excessive force and attempting to cover up their actions, and accusing the city of failing to properly train and supervise the officers. The city has denied the claims and said it isn’t liable for what happened. The officers’ lawyer said they acted responsibly and lawfully. A federal judge dismissed some of Bettersten’s claims; others remain pending in state court.  Bettersten said her mother advised her not to call the police about Dexter.

The whole thing is worth reading, its not that long. But other key points: the coroner IDed Dexter within a few days and gave the info to the police to notify the family. After months of no info, officer in charge of missing persons retired. Within two weeks, the replacement officer notified her of the death and took her to fetch the body from a paupers field where coroner buried unclaimed bodies.

#ACAB #Jackson Mississippi #manslaughter #police brutality #police misconduct

[palletical]

Thought I should put this here hehe, this was a lot of fun to paint

#sam and max #artbypalletical #digital art #artists on tumblr #procreate #sam and max fanart #sam and max freelance police #freelance husbands #michael jackson

[blackxones]

percy jackson hasn't stopped trending since the first two episodes dropped i fear we have found the crown jewel of the next decade of television

#old lady in the backseat of a police car: I PLANNED THIS #i'm sorry for those who do not watch like we're witnessing history being written over here!!! #i know miserable people are about to be realll sick of us #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #pjo tv #pjo #grover underwood #golden trio

[lowpolybread]

“Annabeth craned her neck to see the Gateway Arch, which looked to me like a huge shopping bag handle stuck on the city.” The Lightning Thief page 202

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS 1x04 + 1x05: A Typical Day in St. Louis

“The highway also cut off many residents���mainly poor and black—from the development around the arch, aggravating racial tensions still fresh from when construction unions barred African-Americans from working on the site. The displacement came to epitomize 20th-century ‘urban renewal’—a euphemism, James Baldwin quipped, for Negro removal.’” Fred Kaplan for The Smithsonian Magazine, The Twisted History of the Gateway Arch

#sliced bread #bread stuff #pjo #st louis #gateway arch #percy jackon and the olympians #police cw #pjoedit #pjo tv show #pjo series #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #disney #the lightning thief #pjosource #pjotvedit #percyjacksonedit #tvedit #eero saarinen #redlining #for the rest of my life i’m gonna be pointing at the fourth gif going ‘see that speck? that’s percy jackson falling from the gateway arch’ #and they’ll say ok grandpa let’s get you to bed #fuck slpd btw

[screenshotsonpinterest]

Seeing the Percy/Annabeth variations:

Book: ah yes my first love, my sweet, the nostalgia, the projecting, perfection the true love 10/10

Show: my babies I wanna put them in my pocket 10/10 no one’s ever percabeth-ed harder perfection no notes

Black Annabeth and dark haired Percy: ah this the remix we love, they look so good, power couple 10/10 art evolves and imitates life

Blonde Annabeth and blond Percy: what the fuck is this shit

#two blonde people aren’t allowed to date #call the police #THIS IS NOT ABOUT ARIST QUALITY MOST OF YALL ARE INCREDIBLE #…some of you tho…I’m onto you #my personal fav is blonde Annabeth and Hispanic Percy #the implication is that both blonde Annabeth and blond Percy are white and I’m trusting yall to get that #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo tv show #percabeth #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percabeth fanart #fanart #pjo fanart #black annabeth #show percabeth #book percabeth

[best-overplayed-song]

fun facts

Sting started writing "Every Breath You Take" after his divorce. meant to be emotional, he soon realized how creepy it sounded, and decided to lean into it

about the song, Sting said: "I don’t think it’s a sad song. I think it’s a nasty little song, really rather evil. It’s about jealousy and surveillance and ownership... One couple told me ‘Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!’ I thought, ‘Well, good luck.'"

in his autobiography, Michael Jackson wrote that "There never was a real Billie Jean. The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years. I could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone’s child when it wasn’t true"

One peculiar case where this happened to Jackson himself was in 1981 when a woman wrote him letters claiming he was the father of ONE of her twins

#best overplayed song bracket #tumblr bracket #tournament poll #the police #michael jackson

[lucylessons]

Lucy Chen + values ⤷ Officer Lucy Chen has a conversation with Training Officer Tim Bradford about unfair protections for another White Training Officer abusing his power to terrorize her best friend and fellow rookie, Officer Jackson West—a Black man.

#30DAYSOFLUCY for PRIDE 2023 THE ROOKIE (2018) – 3x04 "Sabotage"

#the rookie #therookieedit #chenford #chenfordedit #the rookie s3 #the rookie 3x04 #lucy chen #tim bradford #jackson west #melissa o'neil #lucy x jackson #chenford x jackson #30DAYSOFLUCY #lucylessons #abolish police unions expeditiously #it's also bc ur a woman but that's a convo for another time lol

[commiepinkofag]

A gay “kiss-in” demonstration Yonge and Bloor streets, Toronto, 17 July 1976

L to R: David Foreman, Tim McCaskell, Ed Jackson, Merv Walker, David Gibson, Michael Riordon. Credit: Gerald Hannon, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, accession 1986-032/08P(35).

On February 9, 1976, gay activists Tom Field and Bill Holloway were arrested at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto for kissing in public. They were charged with obstructing the sidewalk and committing an indecent act. Ironically, the men had been posing for photographs for an article on homophobia to be published in the now-defunct newspaper Alternative to Alienation. …

Field and Holloway were found guilty of committing an indecent act by Judge Charles Drukarsh on July 13, 1976, and were each fined $50. The ruling infuriated Gay Alliance Toward Equality [GATE], the Body Politic, and members of the community. The need for protest was in the air, but only a very special kind of protest would do. 

A few days later, on July 17, GATE and the Body Politic sponsored a kiss-in to support the right for gay people to publicly show affection. About twenty people paraded in same-sex couples at Yonge and Bloor streets, kissing as they walked. Policemen watched from the sidelines, but did not intervene. The protesters had made their point. — Donald W. McLeod

#kiss in #protest #demonstration #clga #canadian lesbian and gay archives #david foreman #tim mccaskell #ed jackson #merv walker #david gibson #michael riordon #gerald hannon #toronto #canada #1976 #1970s #70s #gay #queer #arrest #police #morals #alternative to alienation #body politic #homosexual #gay alliance toward equality #gate #tom field #bill holloway

[fuforthought]

Michelle Yeoh, Samuel L. Jackson and Jackie Chan at the US premier of Supercop aka Police Story III (1992)

#Michelle Yeoh #Jackie Chan #Samuel L. Jackson #Supercop #Police Story III #Kung fu #Kung fu cinema

[bright-eyes-strawberry-lies]

If this show had come out ten years earlier everyone would be shipping lukercy. Especially after that finale.

#lukercy #pjo tv show #percy jackson #luke castellan #i miss dealing with homophobes instead of the morality police ngl #now the girlies are gonna go into “stealth mode” and write shit like #[detailed description of percy jackson masquerading as a “reader” x luke castellan] #which already happens but like #ugh 😒😒😒 #just write lukercy instead of trying to be sneaky

[feelingtheaster99]

Oooooooo don’t call Annabeth a little girl, sir

#damn Leah’s delivery on that was 🔥 #it simply was Annabeth #also the fact that this is a completely believable situation to happen with the police makes me so mad #like sir they are 12 #also they have zero parents present #you should not be able to question them and also why on earth are you taking a tone with them #gosh #percy jackson #Annabeth chase #grover underwood #pjo #pjo tv series #pjo tv #pjo tv spoilers #pjo tv adaptation #pjotv #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackson tv series #percy jackson tv spoilers #percy jackson tv adaptation #i plunge to my death #I plunge to my death spoilers #live reaction

[minimal-pulse]

Best Albums of the Decade: 80’s

Created by Minimal-Pulse-Art (minimal-pulse.tumblr.com)

#minimal pulse art #minimal-pulse #1980’s #80s #music #michael jackson #prince #bruce springsteen #U2 #metallica #slayer #paul simon #the police #madonna #janet jackson #guns n roses #ac/dc #the smiths #sonic youth #the pixies #n.w.a. #beastie boys #public enemy #eric b and rakim #talking heads #minimal #graphic design #minimalist #art #albums

[fangomusic]

Brilliant '80s albums on cassette.

#great album #cassettes #cassette #tapes #cassette tapes #80s music #the police #the go go's #david bowie #the the #altered images #joe jackson #new order #def leppard #the cult #everything but the girl #de la soul #music #hard rock #pop #hip hop #electropop

[hotteoki]

daily reminder that if you support jackson wang you support a pro-communist, pro-police brutality man

#skits speaks 🐈 #i just saw a jackson wang appreciation post on my tiktok fyp and i gagged #get that man out of my screen… musty asf… #‘but he’s so hot’ any man who supports police brutality is worse than jyp’s seduction skills #any objections or arguments take it up to the inbox bae <3 #important info from skits #jackson wang #got7

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #34: 1983

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: The Police, Michael Jackson, Irene Cara, Men at Work, Michael Jackson, Bonnie Tyler, Hall & Oates, Patti Austin and James Ingram, Michael Sembello, Eurythmics. End description]

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Today's poll includes multiple songs off the soundtrack for the movie, Flashdance. We've seen songs from soundtracks featured on these polls, with You Light Up My Life and Evergreen coming to mind (plus songs from actual musicals). But instead of just diegetic ballads and showtunes, now we're seeing more songs marketing themselves around their connection to the films they were written for. As music videos are being shot more like movies and movies are being shot more like music videos, the meeting of these two worlds makes sense. Especially when music videos start to include actual clips from the movies, MTV was the place to get a wide audience for your music.

But not everyone could see the benefits right away. While MTV kicked off with a bang, their initial video rotation infamously featured no Black acts. The network's explanation was to insist that the exclusion wasn't based on race, but rather MTV's status as a "rock station".

1983 also marks the 25th anniversary of Motown Records and a television special (Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever) was broadcasted to mark the occasion. While the night is marked by more legends than I can list off, the notable performance for this blurb was Michael Jackson. After performing with the Jackson 5 for the first time since the 70's, Michael Jackson performed his new solo hit, Billie Jean. This number marks the public debut of the moonwalk, the musician's signature dance move that arguably cemented his status as a pop culture icon.

In hindsight, it feels ludicrous that an artist like Michael Jackson was initially unable to get on MTV. Fortunately, people at the time thought it was ludicrous as well. Both Rick James and David Bowie called out the network years before (with James being especially vocal in critiquing MTV for its exclusion of Black artists). But allegedly, Michael Jackson's record company found a way to get Billie Jean on the channel. To quote Walter Yetnikoff, the president of CBS Records at the time:

“I said to MTV, ‘I’m pulling everything we have off the air, all our product. I’m not going to give you any more videos. And I’m going to go public and fucking tell them about the fact you don’t want to play music by a black guy.’” (x)

Whether in response to Yetnikoff or not, Billie Jean aired on MTV March 10th, 1983, making it the first music video by a Black artist to be featured in heavy rotation on the channel. Later this year, the cinematic possibilities of the music video would be pushed further with the 13 minute video for Thriller. Michael was already a star without the push from MTV, and with how popular his videos were, it could be argued that MTV needed Michael as much if not more than he needed them. But while MTV's problems with race and representation were far from over, this moment helped pave the way for many other Black artists who will become iconic figures on the channel.

#billboard poll #billboard music #tumblr poll #1980s #1980s music #1983 #the police #michael jackson #irene cara #men at work #bonnie tyler #hall and oates #patti austin #james ingram #michael sembello #eurythmics