You have got to be kidding me. BUT YOU AREN'T. http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2016/04/tamir_rice_settlement_should_h.html …pic.twitter.com/Vj3LWc2ho0
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I imagine the Cleveland Police union president's thinking had to be something like, "Why does Piers Morgan get all the attention?"
I've been getting "trending" alerts all over the country due to my Cleveland police union tweet, incl. Cleveland:https://twitter.com/trendscleveland/status/724748460407267328 …
Seattle, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco ... it's remarkable how quickly this traveled all over.
If you doubt there is a ~powerful~ voice that has arisen out of #BlackLivesMatter
, you only need to see moments like that.
Only one other tweet of mine that I can recall taking off like this, and it was Beyoncé's "Formation" BLM moment:https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/696079693074849795 …
So, yeah, as a journalist ~constantly~ on Twitter, that really stands out to me.
Those are the only tweets I can recall since marriage decision day to have had such reverb. And that was a day that was ~my expertise~.
@chrisgeidner the police brass should all walk into traffic.
@chrisgeidner
Imagine PO w/this open vitriol towards you, policing your community. . .daily
I would say leave OH but where 2 go?#TamirRice
@chrisgeidner Really? I can. I certainly can. 
@chrisgeidner Why? A new year doesn't adjust for poor thought process, and asinine viewpoints.
@chrisgeidner These things happening 4 a long time r proof that this group of people need 2 keep speaking up no matter what comes their way.
@chrisgeidner want 2 get rid of all prisons-Get ###*** 4 wanting the death penalty 4 the perpetrators in their cases-Sadly, I could go on-
@chrisgeidner settlement @ all-Also get told 2 "move on" & "get over it" in regards 2 their tragedies-Get willfully ignored by some who
@chrisgeidner Welcome 2 the world of @ least some of the surviving family/friends of murder victims-Some get called "vultures" 4 wanting a
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