Alissa Kokkins
(ANTIMEDIA) Los Angeles, CA — As rain poured in Los Angeles on Sunday night, outraged community members packed the steps of Pershing Square. General Jeff, from Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) declared to those gathered:
If you notice, the heavens are crying right now. Another senseless murder at the hands of Los Angeles Police Department.
Joined by Black Lives Matter, Los Angeles, LA CAN addressed the somber crowd gathered in response to LAPD’s execution of an unarmed man from the Skid Row community earlier that afternoon. A killing that went viral after a video of the incident was posted to Facebook by eyewitness, Anthony Blackburn. Although the execution caught the attention of the masses and media, locals were outraged that LAPD had been speaking to the press while simultaneously refusing to talk to Skid Row residents about the execution; the very people LAPD’s actions impact the most.
Alissa Kokkins
With the House set to debate a Department of Homeland Security funding bill to avert the looming DHS shutdown today, mainstream media is doing its usual thing with the DHS narrative. Story after story about the DHS shutdown from mainstream media is angled with doom and drama. Gasp! If DHS shuts down, whatever shall we do? Who is to blame? Democrats or Republicans? As usual, the most important point is being overlooked by MSM:
A DHS shutdown would be fucking awesome! Let’s face it, there has been nothing but ++fascism and civil liberty abuses since DHS was founded on November 25, 2002. Packaged on the heels of the Patriot Act and Bush’s weapons of mass destruction lies about Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security is a central hub for some of America’s most inadequate and tyrannical government agencies.
So let’s indulge and take a look at why the looming DHS shutdown is the best thing that will never happen (at least not voluntarily), shall we?
