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Anonymous ID: 0e19f5 June 9, 2020, 6:04 a.m. No.9545376   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5390 >>5862

"Art" is a TOOL.

 

These artists are creating powerful portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor: 'Art is a tool for me to raise my voice'

 

The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have sparked worldwide protests and passionate demands for meaningful change. They’ve also driven artists around the globe — many of them people of color — to fuel their heartbreak, anger and pain into compelling works that honor and empower those black lives taken too soon. It’s a form of protest, a sign of respect and a powerful counterpoint to the graphic footage that, in the case of Floyd and Arbery, have shown them terrorized, not treasured.

 

As these works spread far and wide across social media, help amplify calls for justice and equality and usher in a wave of new followers seeking to support artists of color, three people behind some of the movement’s most recognizable images speak out about their creative contributions.

 

Temi Coker, a photographer and graphic designer who runs the Dallas-based multidisciplinary creative studio Coker Studio with his wife, Afritina, has long used his colorful, collage-style work to “uplift my African-American brothers and sisters” and embody “the fact that Black Lives Matter,” he tells Yahoo Life. But things took on a new personal complexity with the death of George Floyd — someone Coker knew from the Houston church he attended while in college.

 

“George was the one who would invite people to come to [a Resurrection Houston church event involving the city’s Third Ward community],” says Coker. “He was THE BRIDGE. He wanted to bring change to his community, and everyone who knew Floyd knew that and respected him for that. He took this same mindset to his death. He loved God and loved people. I wish I had gotten to know him more, but seeing him have passion to bring change to his community and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ told me all I needed to know about him. He was a gift to the community, one of a kind.”

 

Coker felt compelled to honor Floyd through his art, which helped him process his own sense of loss.

 

“This piece was made a day after hearing the news,” he notes. “I didn’t know how to grieve at the moment, so I went to what I knew best: art. It allowed me to say the things I didn’t have the words to say. It was healing for me and allowed me to picture 'Big Floyd' in a better light. He was vibrant, he was bold, he was courageous. I took the qualities I remember of him and put it into art.”

 

Coker has since turned his attention to Breonna Taylor, marking what would have been the late EMT worker’s 27th birthday with a powerful piece featuring her portrait alongside bold streaks of yellow, purple and orange. Both that piece and the Floyd tribute have been shared widely online, and while Coker says his creative mission hasn’t changed, he hopes the response to it does.

 

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Anonymous ID: 0e19f5 June 9, 2020, 6:14 a.m. No.9545450   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5478 >>5572 >>5658 >>5802 >>5892

Can we end this fuckery please? Cue the PODESTA BROS

 

German prosecutor says there is 'some evidence' Madeleine McCann was killed by new suspect

 

A German prosecutor has said there is “some evidence” that Madeleine McCann was killed by the new suspect but not enough to bring him to trial.

 

Hans Christian Wolters said police do not have enough “hard evidence” that Christian Brückner abducted Madeleine. He appealed for anyone with information about properties where the suspect previously lived to contact police to allow them to search for Madeleine’s body.

 

He told Sky News: "All indication we have got that I can't tell you points in the direction that Madeleine is dead.

 

"We got things we cannot communicate that speak for the theory that Madeleine is dead, even if I have to admit that we don't have the body."

 

Mr Wolters continued: "We expect that she is dead, but we don't have enough evidence that we can get a warrant for our suspect in Germany for the murder of Madeleine McCann.

 

"At the moment we also don't have enough proof for a trial at court, but we have some evidence that the suspect has done the deed.

 

"That's why we need more information from people, especially places he has lived so we can target these places especially and search there for Madeleine."

 

On Monday night it was reported that British and German police are looking to speak to a former girlfriend of Brückner, who they think may hold important information about the Madeleine case.

 

The German woman, who is believed to have dated the 43-year-old suspect for several years, is reportedly being sought by detectives over what she may know about Brückner’s past.

 

It was also claimed on Monday night that the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was investigated over the case four years ago and ruled out by Portuguese police.

 

A senior Portuguese police chief, speaking to a Spanish newspaper on condition of anonymity said of Christian Brückner: “We never found strong enough reasons to charge him.”

 

The revelation coincided with news from Germany that authorities were distancing Brückner from two cold cases he had been linked to, including the disappearance of a six-year-old boy from a beach in Portugal.

 

The Telegraph can also reveal that forensic evidence from Portugal 2007 may have been destroyed or contaminated because the van owned by the German paedophile was used as a party bus for four years after he last used it and before it was seized by police.

 

Detectives in France, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Belgium are sifting through cold case files involving youngsters, but there have been no major breakthroughs that link them to Brückner.

 

Speaking to Spanish daily newspaper ABC, the unnamed Portuguese official, who claims to still be a serving officer, but is not working on the case said: “People talk about surprises in the Madeleine McCann case with the capture of this German man, but for me it's no surprise.

 

“This individual was already investigated around four years ago. There's no evidence Christian Brückner is involved in her disappearance.”

 

German officials are still looking for a forensic breakthrough that could implicate Brückner in the disappearance, but hopes of finding anything in his old white and yellow VW T3 Westfalia campervan appeared to be dashed last night as the Telegraph discovered that more than 50 people have been in the vehicle since he last used it.

 

The son of a scrapyard owner, who bought the van off Brückner, used it to ferry his friends and family around the Algarve, hosting parties, drinking, smoking and sleeping in the “top of the range” vehicle.

 

Officers only seized it in 2019, some 12 years after it was seen around Praia da Luz when Madeleine went missing.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-prosecutor-says-evidence-madeleine-175626948.html

Anonymous ID: 0e19f5 June 9, 2020, 6:46 a.m. No.9545697   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5712 >>5802

Army to consider changing names of forts named after Confederate generals

 

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy signaled their willingness to discuss scrapping Confederate names on forts across the country, Army Col. Sunset Belinsky said Monday evening.

 

They are open to having a bi-partisan dialogue on the renaming bases, according to Belinsky. The Army has 10 posts named after Confederate generals across the south, including major installations at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Benning in Georgia and Fort Hood in Texas.

 

McCarthy, a former Army Ranger, indicated his willingness to discuss the change after weeks of protests that have spread across the country following the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who pleaded for his life as a white police officer knelt on his neck.

 

The Army has resisted calls in the past to change names on the installations named after officers who rebelled and fought against the United States in the Civil War.

 

But times and attitudes are swiftly evolving as the nation heads into its second week of protests following Floyd's death, calls for police reforms grow and locations across the country announce plans to take down or remove Confederate memorials.

 

McCarthy himself and the military as a whole became embroiled in controversy surrounding police and National Guard response to protesters last week in Washington, DC. McCarthy oversees National Guard units in Washington because it does not have a governor.

 

McCarthy acknowledged Sunday that National Guard soldiers were involved in the eviction of mostly peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square prior to President Trump's appearance at a nearby church. Esper and Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompanied Trump.

 

No Guardsmen used force on the protesters, McCarthy said. Another incident involving National Guard helicopters buzzing protesters in another part of Washington is under investigation, he said. The Pentagon came close to ordering federal troops to confront protesters, according to McCarthy.

 

The incident prompted several former high-ranking Pentagon officials to warn that the military was being drawn into a politics, risking a constitutional crisis. Former Defense Secretary James Mattis blasted Trump, saying he sought to divide not unite Americans.

 

Within days, senior military officials acknowledged racial inequities in the military. Before the Lafayette Square incident, USA Today reported that young black airmen were twice as likely to face punishment their white counterparts.

 

McCarthy acknowledged the racial division in a letter to soldiers and civilians on June 3.

 

"Our ability to defend this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic, is founded

 

upon a sacred trust with the American people," McCarthy said. "Racial division erodes that trust."

 

Last week, the Marine Corps banned the display of the Confederate Battle Flag.

 

The Navy operates a guided-missile cruiser, the USS Chancellorsville, named after a battle the Confederates won over the United States.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-consider-changing-names-forts-012404219.html