Barbara Dew Rupert
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Lifelong Oklahoman. Still happily married, mom of 3 sons, hostmom of 10 exchange students. #ProtectDREAMers BOOMER SOONER!!!
Joined May 2008
“We have really seen what it’s like when the entire force of the government and the military and the state come out against religious" -Rev. Melanie Mullin https://t.co/mWxlGx4jeB
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St. John’s Church, where the president posed with a Bible, announced in an open letter that it will show banners to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Just checking @JDVance: if these ICE officers were vindicated in their actions, why did they all jump in their car and flee the scene after an officer involved fatal shooting? There isn’t a law enforcement manual in America that calls that standard protocol.
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If you wanna know how much can change in 5 years, back In 2019 these guys said they couldn’t breathe in a mask, but now they can’t shoot a woman in the head 3 times without one!
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Jesse Ventura shared his thoughts about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis and a confrontation between ICE officers and staff at Roosevelt High School on Wednesday.
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A 25 year career federal agent who oversaw use of force investigations for homeland security gives his opinion, which is more valuable than the infinite random takes of morons on the Internet.
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I love cops. but they sometimes fuck up. New cell phone footage from the tragic incident in Minneapolis does nothing to change my mind. The killing of Renee Good was entirely unnecessary. Two middle-aged ladies, talking smack were not the one with a loaded handgun, and a hair
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“F*ckin’ bitch.” After shooting a woman in the head who had just smiled and greeted you. After failing to de-escalate. After moving directly into the path of the vehicle. Then killing her as she turned to leave. No one like that should ever have had a badge and a gun.
Watch this, as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn't hit by a car, wasn't being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman. The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense. https://t.co/IfXAAxi9Ql
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I cannot express how deeply disturbing it is to me that Molly is correct here. Like, I absolutely know this shit inside out. I warn about it all the time — and it’s still so utterly barbaric that my mind just knee-jerk wants to deny it.
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Tina Smith: "I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of
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The right wants us to believe that a teen who showed up at a Wisconsin rally with an AR-15 and shot three people is a peacekeeper who deserves to be celebrated, but an unarmed mom driving away from a Minnesota rally was a domestic terrorist who deserved to die.
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My thoughts about the tragic shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis — and why this is what happens under authoritarian regimes that socializes its agents to wage war on the public.
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A former 25 year career federal agent whose entire job was dealing with gun incidents involving federal agents details all the ways Ross messed up on CBS. It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @RDispatches
https://t.co/ZN4otGVV7q
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On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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Okay MAGA folks, here we go: 1. If you want to defend the first shot he fired, how do you defend the second and third shots into the driver side window? 2. If you want to defend all three shots, how do you defend them blocking medics from getting to her as she bled out? 3. If
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So, CBS News decided not to air this 25 yr veteran federal agent pointing out all the ways the ICE agent was in the wrong for shooting Renee Good, on its broadcast (I wonder why🤨). At least it’s online. Reshare. https://t.co/DXins5vks7
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Neighbors just released a new angle of the ICE shooting and it settles any debate on what actually happened. This was a mother doing something completely ordinary: Dropping somebody off, then trying to leave. She goes to pull out, stops for one car to pass, then waves the agents
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If you think a single mother whose car is filled with stuffed animals is trying to murder ice agents you are a brainwashed fucking idiot.
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This is coming from a place of love and support, but… It’s ‘shoo-in,’ not ‘shoe-in.’ It’s ‘case in point,’ not ‘case and point.’ It’s ‘moot point,’ not ‘mute point.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘jibe with,' not 'jive with.'
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J.D. Vance just now, while calling Renee Good a terrorist: "You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator. Nobody debates that." In fact many people debate this, since it's false. Good did not "aim" her car at the officer. He was
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Many people believe the legal threshold for self-defense is lower for government officers than for ordinary citizens. It’s not. There’s one simple test for evaluating whether an officer’s use of force was unlawful or justified as self-defense. Ask yourself: If you, an ordinary
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