Gugu Mbatha-Raw posts tribute to George Floyd

[ms_mmelissa]

https://instagram.com/p/CAw5VyJg8cT

• British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw showed a time lapse of the portrait she made of murder victim George Floyd
• Floyd was brutally murdered on May 25th by the police. Footage of his murder was captured by an eye witness and has since gone viral
• Derek Chauvin, the officer directly responsible for his death was arrested

Comments

[scaredsquee]

officials are trying to say that the autopsy shows no strangulation or asphyxiation happened, it was underlying health issues that caused it. my heart hurts

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2677889289156062&id=1934496936828638&ref=content_filter

[syntheses]

a sham of an autopsy tbh. All of these health issues and yet somehow someone kneeling on their neck for minutes on end is considered negligible to the cause of death?

burn down the coroner's office too

[flyingpigs_live]

Here is where the cover-up starts.

[jellycar]

there’s literally video evidence of the murder WHAT THE FUCK

[adb7]

He reminds me so much of uncle and it just breaks my heart.

[syntheses]

The public response (especially on twitter) is something that has to be seen to be believed. Seeing electronic musicians who never rly step in to talk about politics (in 2017 Jai Wolf and Ghastly got into it bc Ghastly's feelings got ass pained when Jai Wolf said ppl who stan trump were undeniably racist or something like that) donate and match each other's 1,000$ donations when they haven't been touring and making money for months now is amazing. Even fucking Ghastly donated 1K$ and has been vocal about things (although the way he got dragged last time probably woke something up in him too)

On that note, the minnesota bail fund said they had enough money and were trying to encourage ppl to donate to different organizations! I was going to donate to them today, but then I saw ppl in Louisville also asking for funds and relief for their protests for Breana Taylor so I donated to them too which you can do here (beneath is my donation just in case anyone on ONTD can match or needed to be inspired)

[analievelyn]

yes!! loiusville needs coins, too, right?

and arizona, too!

[syntheses]

i actually haven't heard of arizona but yeah, Louisville needs funds especially since 7 protesters were shot. I saw tweets passing around that MN freedom fund was requesting things go to towards other organizations in need. They didn't have the Louisville one up, but someone else posted a link to it!

[doubtmars]

Thank you for sharing this. Just donated.

[analievelyn]

Black celebs tag, plz

Active vs. Passive voice

[analievelyn]

I could always make the distinction between the two, but struggled to incorporate it into my writing.

I feel like if english teachers used headlines related to sex assault cases and lynchings/genocides where people just ~die~ or ~become ~ victims, it would make so much more sense.

Mr. Floyd didn't mysteriously die. He was brutally fucking murdered.