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On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.
Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia’s first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode.
The children killed were named Katricia Dotson (Tree), Netta, Delitia, Phil, and Tomasa Africa and the adults were Rhonda, Teresa, Frank, CP, Conrad, and John Africa.
In April 2021, it was revealed that anthropologists at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania had the bones of one of the children, unbeknownst to the families.
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it’s weird when i step outside of my firmly anti-diet social circle and hear a person talking about doing some pretty severe calorie restriction as if that’s totally normal. like how the fuck do i even begin explaining to someone i barely know that eating only 1300 calories a day is extremely bad for you and that basically everything they think they know about nutrition is false.
the average thin person is so afraid of becoming fat that they’ll do things which are extremely bad for them on every level with zero upsides (calorie restriction is even likely to cause future weight gain!) and this is completely normalized in mainstream culture. anti-fat discrimination is so deeply ingrained in the systems of our society and it’s so fucked.
So apparently some people actually don’t know this, but the depp trial literally was not done to determine who abused who, and the verdict was not that Johnny Depp didn’t abuse Amber Heard. The judges determined that he committed domestic violence multiple times, the jury never disagreed with this, and their official stance was that both individuals committed forms of abuse. This didn’t matter, because it wasn’t the subject of the lawsuit.
It was ONLY a defamation lawsuit, so the trial was only about whether Heard committed defamation/slander by publicly stating that she has been abused, in an article that never even specified the abuser.Because the general public could “tell” the article was about Johnny Depp and it impacted his reputation, the jury’s verdict was that this fully constituted abuse allegations, and that abuse allegations legally constitute defamation. It didn’t have to be “false” allegations or not. ANY allegations.
This means - and this is the IMPORTANT part - that if Johnny Depp was in fact a pure innocent cinnamon babymuffin softboy who never laid a single finger on anyone while some evil witch tortured him for no reason at all, she could have sued him and won if he had been the first one to talk about it.
Let’s reiterate: this trial decided that –>NEITHER<– person should have been allowed to talk about their abuse in public without the risk of being sued. Neither of them.
If you don’t know how “legal precedent” works, it means that courts can be required to apply the same verdict to cases with the same facts as a previous trial.Every single person celebrating this as a “win” for “male abuse victims” is celebrating something that would only force more abused men (along with anyone else) into hiding it more than ever. Depp threw them all under the bus for the forseeable future just to punish his ex.
