Happening now in Charlottesville, a white cop is on trial for raping a Black woman. Yesterday, the judge ordered two Black women in the gallery to cover their Black Lives Matter shirts, claiming the statement could skew the jury.http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/alleged-victim-of-ex-city-police-officer-recounts-events/article_e8a18ecc-20e7-11e8-a439-5f2024cc3fac.html …
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The judge is the same judge who ordered the statues to remain and the tarps to come off. This is anti-Black antagonism coming from the bench, not justice.
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This trial is not connected per se to the hate events of the summer. But it's not not, either. Anti-Blackness is a disease that permeates the City of Charlottesville, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Nation of the United States.
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