On January 12, 2010, one day after his 18th birthday, CAPA High School honors student Jordan Trent Miles was ambushed by three plain clothes Pittsburgh police officers, who failed to identify themselves and approached him aggressively. The officers did not say “Stop! Police!”, they jumped out of an unmarked vehicle, one of them yelling “Where’s your money? Where’s the drugs? Where’s the gun?” Miles, never before in trouble with the police and thinking he was being robbed, began to run, and slipped on the icy sidewalk. The officers overtook Miles and administered a brutal beating that left him unrecognizable, ripping dreadlocks out of his head, and continuing to beat him as he lay on the ground after their initial assault, stammering the Lord’s Prayer. There can be no explaining away or excusing what was done to Miles.
The police officers lied about what happened, claiming there was a bulge in his pocket they assumed was a gun but “turned out to be a Mountain Dew bottle”. No bottle was ever entered into evidence, and Jordan and his friends will tell you he doesn’t even drink the soda. The officers also attempted to claim a neighbor reported him as a prowler and attempted to bring assault charges against Miles, which were tossed out of court when the neighbor said she did no such thing. Despite all this, the City of Pittsburgh went on to reward these violent officers with a commendation and, during their suspension, paid them more than they earned while working. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh DA has not brought charges and the Justice Department announced on May 4th, 2011 that it would not prosecute the three officers. The mayor and police chief announced on May 5th that the three officers would be returning to work.
“I feel that my son was racially profiled,” Terez Miles said. “It’s a rough neighborhood; it was after dark. … They assumed he was up to no good because he’s black. My son, he knows nothing about the streets at all. He’s had a very sheltered life, he’s very quiet, he doesn’t know police officers sit in cars and stalk people like that.”
this is exactly what i’m talking about.
look at the pathetic amount of notes on this. why can’t this get coverage? i don’t give a shit about another missing white girl.
Omg :-/
It’s a sad fact, but for every Trayvon Martin, where the nation rises up and cries for justice, there a dozens of Jordan Miles and Marissa Alexanders. Jordan needs justice, but we can’t stop with having the police officers who assaulted him jailed. Our society needs to change. We need to stop seeing black men and thinking “criminal,” we need to stop seeing black women and thinking “it was her own fault.”
……fucking pigs
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in 2011, over 36,000 people committed suicide for various reasons. Reblog this if your followers can ALWAYS come vent to you.
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This past week
his past week has been the worst week of my life i never thought our raltionship would have reached this point and i know a few people say that i should just leave him and find something better he dont deserve me and so on and so on. people wanna know why i stay well why i did stay so long we not together no more as of yesterday. but the reason i stayed was because what we had i couldnt find with anyone else outside of the arguments and fighting and him cheating and me doing what i did which i did more than most people know about even him he truy is the best boyfriend in the world yes i wish somethings were different but those tiings that i wish were different are the same things that i fell in love with yea somethings have changed that i want back and if we do decide to get back together im gonna let him know that i want that old thing back. i stayed because i wanted to spend the rest of my life with him there probably is someone ou there thats better than him and can do better than him but i dont want it he is better for me he fits my lifestyle and my personality and the way i am he has done more for me than anyone has ever done and he may not have a lot to offer finacially but he provides everything else that matter to me no he is not a romantic and he may not be like the guys in the movies but i like that about him he shows it when he wants to. he may not show a lot of emotion but i know how he feels and i see it all the time now these past few months have been a little rocky but so what that comes with nay relationship i didnt have to stay afetr what he did and he didnt have to stay after what i did or take me back the 1st time we broke up i cant stand. and becasue i started listening to what others have been saying and letting it influence my thinking we have been arguing more lately im gonna stop letting people in the middle of me and his problems what ever goes on between us is between us and if i do go talk to someone then its just to venti dont need any judgement or any thing i just simply want someone to listen. only if i ask will i wnat someone to tell me something or give me advice and before anyone can come and tell me about my relationship i really need them to look at their relationship and TRULY look at the problems they had and why they chose to stay then maybe they can understand why i chose to stay. i dont wnat to find someone else he is my mr perfect becasue he is perfect for me he understands that it will take some time to trust him again but im working on it. i want us to be a happy famly like we talked about and i was happy with him i was enjoying this realtionship yea he does shit that pisses me off and i know i do things that pisses him off but everybody that has a significant other doesnt like something about that person. people keep telling me he a nigga its getting hot and he wanna go and play and have fun if that was the case he would have broke up with me long time ago and if he is getting tired of me then i guess it really was never meant to be but i know thats not it either and people telling me that he trying to cop out what ever that means i dont think its that either i would have thought about leaving him too if we were arguing a lot actually to be honest i have but i only told him twice so why is it that when i tell him its not a problem but whe he tells me the samething it a big deal no i didnt do anything wrong but hell if you thought that the trust will never be there again then why not break it off maybbe its for the best and just because dont do what others think i should do and get mad at me thats your problem im gonna do what i feel i need to do. already i want him back but i wont tell him that just yet but im pretty sure he knows that already but i wont make it knwon im gonna try not to anyway. but yallhave to understand why it was so hard for me, he is truly my 1st love, the father of my child and the best father i know he is great with the baby, he has truly beenn there for me when i had no one else in my corner he has kept me sane he has provied for me when i had nothing he has done so much that out weighs the bad thats why i stayed because he truly he really good to me. and i love him with all my heart and nothing he does will ever change that……..
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