The circumstances surrounding Nex Benedict’s death are so frightening to me. Little kids getting bullied and murdered just for existing as their authentic selves is horrific on its own, but it’s even worse that this murder was instigated by that fascist terrorist Chaya Raichik and that this same fascist terrorist was appointed to an Oklahoma Board of Education library media advisory committee by an apparently equally fascist superintendent. On top of that, I heard that the school punished Nex, the *victim* of this vicious attack, rather than the perpetrators.
Now law enforcement is claiming Nex didn’t die of trauma from the assault, which is absolute horseshit because even if it turns out their head injury wasn’t the immediate cause of death, their death was still a direct and foreseeable result of being terrorized and assaulted by other kids and then being punished by the school for being victimized.
Nex’s death was especially jarring to me because they looked a lot like my youngest child, who is pansexual. My heart lurched when I saw their picture. I was already worried about my child’s safety at school because we live in a red area, because my child has been bullied before over being autistic, and because of our country’s absolute failure to address gun violence, but now that the fascists are ramping up their terrorism against LGBTQIA children, I’m absolutely terrified for my child.
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The family of a woman shot by an officer in Edmonton during a wellness check said her death was unnecessary, as the number of police shootings across Canada show little sign of relenting over the past four years.
"I see my daughter's death as being a result of a complete mishandling of the tools available to law enforcement in the application of dealing with mental health issues," the family of the woman, who has not been publicly identified, said in a statement from their lawyer, Tom Engel.
Edmonton police have said officers were called for a welfare check earlier this month. There were risks the woman may harm herself, so police say officers entered the apartment. There was a confrontation and the woman was shot.
The woman's family said that had the police approach been gradual and gentle, she would have understood the nature of the visit and would still be alive.
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**UPDATE**
Ivan Cantu was executed by lethal injection today, February 28th, 2024 in Huntsville, Texas at 6:47pm.
Thank you to everyone who signed and shared. There was so much advocacy on Ivan’s behalf, and yet none of it was enough to save his life.
But, really, there shouldn’t need to be any advocacy. Murder is wrong. State sanctioned murder is wrong. Aside from being inhumane, immoral, and unethical, it is also not a deterrent from committing crimes, nor does it provide closure to the families of victims, it’s an enormous waste of money, and even the slightest chance that an innocent person could be executed — all of these reasons should be more than enough to abolish the death penalty.
I don’t know if Ivan Cantu was innocent or not. It doesn’t matter. He didn’t deserve to die. The state doesn’t have the right to determine who lives or dies.
Another execution was scheduled today: Thomas Creech’s botched execution was halted after 8 failed attempts to find a vein for the lethal injection.
Absolutely sickening.
Keep fighting. I hope and pray that one day, we will rise above this stain on humanity.
IVAN CANTU WILL BE EXECUTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS ON 2/28/24 UNLESS GRANTED A STAY.
From Death Penalty Action:
It's down to THREE Days for Ivan Cantu. His legal team has five different sets of pleadings pending to challenge his scheduled February 28 execution in Texas. They include 3 matters in state court, a clemency petition, and a filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals seeking permission to litigate his innocence.
We must hope, pray (if you pray) and TAKE ACTION for the best possible outcome. We will post updates on our Facebook and Twitter (X) pages.
#TooMuchDoubt to Execute Ivan Cantu!
Even though Governor Abbott has said he will not halt this execution, we must urge him to change his mind, and "grant a stay so that Ivan can continue to seek opportunities in courts to present the evidence that calls his conviction into question. There is TOO MUCH DOUBT to execute Ivan Cantu!"
Call Gov. Abbott at 512-463-1782
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3 jurors call for a review of hidden evidence; Perjury by star witness; Recanted testimony by another; The pants don't fit. Once again, #TooMuchDoubt Halt the execution of #IvanCantu on 2/28/24. Petition: bit.ly/IvanCantu #StopExecutions @CousinsBloodPod
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ABOLISH STATE SANCTIONED MURDER.
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legitimately insane how to some people, "we should wipe out this ethnic group that we've violently constrained to a ghetto because they're just genetically more violent and dangerous" is a reasonable and justifiable statement but it's Nazi Rhetoric to say something like, "it's bad that Israeli civilians are being killed but acknowledging that as tragic includes acknowledging that the almost daily state-sanctioned murder of civilians by the Israeli government is also tragic and unacceptable"
btw guys speaking of Nazi shit - can we check in, alongside what's been done to Palestinians in the last 75 years, what's the Israeli government's take on the Azerbaijani government's newest round of ethnic cleansing of Armenians? oh are the Israeli government's actions maybe not determined by Jewish identity, but by a commitment to colonial supremacy which puts them on the same page as other violently genocidal states like Azerbaijan, the US, and the UK? god can you Even Imagine?
(framing speaking against Israeli war crimes as inherently antisemitic requires understanding the Israeli state as representing all Jewish people, when it doesn't even represent all Israelis.
framing Israeli war crimes as synonymous with Jewish identity is pretty fucked up if we're being honest. I don't think that controlling water and power and movement for a captive population and shooting children dead for throwing stones is an inherent value of Judaism, any more than I think the torture carried out at Guantanamo Bay is an inherent value of Christianity - in both cases they're atrocities carried out by a far right genocidal government using religious identity as a shield.
Calling statements like "Israel is committing genocide against the people it's displaced" inherently antisemitic is doing more to further the idea that all Jewish people are associated with Israel than saying "the Israeli government is doing war crimes," which is a statement of fact about a country that exists and does war crimes. Is criticism of Israel as a nation often used as cover for antisemitism? Absolutely. Does that mean the Israeli government isn't doing literal war crimes repeatedly, on record, while talking publicly about scrubbing an ethnic group off the map? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well in the last 48 hours they've definitely cut off water and power to almost 600,000 civilians and allegedly used white phosphorus against civilians so in an extremely factual and unambiguous way yeah man those are Literal War Crimes whoever does them.)
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Canada Engages In Eugenics
The MAID act is actually making it so that mentally and physically disabled people would be at risk for euthanasia via purposeful eugenics by a governmental body. The fact that I as a multiply disabled person have had to see multiple people defend eugenics under the guise of "it's fear mongering to talk about". I am sick and tired of people who are low support needs deciding because it doesn't affect them people like us with more severe issues deserve to be killed or left for dead.
Track Two MAID is an act that is meant to kill off people not seen as proper workers. This is totalitarian capitalism, and as a socialist there is nothing I hate more than people who support this. It is expanding to people with mental illnesses as well as including non-terminal illnesses. I should not be killed because my legs are shitty, nobody should be killed because their legs our shitty. Nobody should be killed for their mental illness, or deformity, or disability, or developmental disorder, or cognitive impairment. NOBODY SHOULD BE KILLED FOR NOT BEING A GOOD ENOUGH WORKER FOR THE CAPITALIST REGIME.
Here is one opinion piece by a counselor from Canada.
An article on teen vouge
Another opinion piece
And a final article on the subject
Do not talk about an ongoing socio-political issue if you refuse to do your research, holy fuck you people are ghoulish for defending this shit.
The groups pushing this legislation are also trying to kill off disabled children. This isn't about stopping from going through a long painful withering away from a terminal condition or illness- this is eugenics.
CANADIAN DISABLED LIVES ARE IN DANGER
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the thing about AU hunter not going behind luz's back to commit murder is that not doing murder is objectively the correct move, and it also Stresses Him The Fuck Out. literally their entire relationship is luz going "listen, my guy, if we want to make the empire better then we need to lead by example, we cannot keep doing this wildly corrupt bullshit" and hunter being like "okay. this is true and i respect it. i have enough emotional intelligence not to argue with you about this specifically. but do you have Any Idea how much better my mental health would be if i could just kill people--"
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