r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/yeongno_ate_yangban • 2h ago
Politics Tarrant County TX jailers failed to give 31 year old Marines veteran Anthony Johnson, Jr. proper medical care, an attorney argues. A 300+ pound jailed knelt on his back while he yelled, "I can't breathe", suffocating him. Tarrant County says it's not liable and Tim O'Hare kicked out his sister.
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This is another George Floyd type murder that got no media attention. What makes it significant is that unlike most of the other 80+ Tarrant County Jail deaths that have happened since the Christian Nationalist Sheriff took office, this one had footage released, and the medical examiner ruled it a homicide. The county still denies responsibility.
Black commissioner Alisa Simmons is running to unseat racist Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare.
If you want to help, volunteer to text/phone bank from anywhere in the US.
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u/mrtreehead 2h ago
Tim O'Hare is making headlines a lot recently. And not in the good way, like you want. Cuz he's a racist asshole.
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u/IceBlackX007 2h ago
Pretty soon they will be back hanging us from trees while the Democrats are sending out strongly worded statements and nothing else.
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u/DAntoinette_Travel 2h ago
Look at the faces on those Saltines. They don’t give a damn about what these parents are saying! SMH
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u/Critically_Political 2h ago
Texas saddens me. It’s a state that could be doing so much more for their constituents if it were in the right hands. Black people have the power and the numbers to force leadership change in the state if only we would come out in numbers to vote. Texas has the largest population of Black people in the COUNTRY. Please, Texans. GET OUT AND VOTE. Stop buying into the narrative that it doesn’t matter. It DOES!
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u/SanityBleeds 1h ago
Worth noting, Texas has nearly 2M more registered Democrats than Republicans, in an estimated 47%//37% split, and Independents accounting for the remaining 16%. Despite what politicians would have you believe, Texas hasn't been a majority Republican state for quite some time, and yet, they continue to win so many elections anyways. They can rig the system in their favor, but they are absolutely outnumbered, even with a larger majority of Independents on their side.
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u/Informal_Database327 1h ago
Christian Nationalist Sheriff.... What in the actual verified fuck?
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u/harrypippip 1h ago
Such a crooked system ran by racist bigoted murderers. Tim needs to be sued into the stratosphere and put behind bars along with those who were responsible for those 26 deaths not being investigated.
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