Posted on 07/23/2019 10:45:11 AM PDT by Steely Tom
Shaun King, an influential social-justice activist in the national Black Lives Matter movement, has endorsed Jody Owens in the race for Hinds County district attorney.
King and his political action committee, Real Justice PAC, join a number of local officials and community leaders in supporting Owens, including Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba.
King's activist work includes organizing a social-media campaign for attackers in the assault of Deandre Harris, whom six men attacked in a parking garage during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.
King raised $60,000 for Tamir Rice's family. Rice was a 12-year-old black boy whom police officers shot and killed in a Cleveland, Ohio, park in 2014. A neighbor called to report that a young man was drawing a gun on people but told the dispatcher the gun might be fake. Following the incident, the neighbor's assumption turned out to be true.
King also used his social media to spread awareness of the shooting death of Jazmine Barnes. In December 2018, Barnes was riding in the car with her mother when Larry D. Woodruffe shot and killed her in a drive-by shooting in Houston, Texas. The getaway driver, Eric Black Jr., was also charged in Barnes' murder. As a journalist, King has written for The Intercept, Daily Kos, New York Daily News and Harvard Law School's Justice Collaborative.
In 2018, he founded the Real Justice PAC which supports city- and state-level prosecutors working to reform the criminal-justice system. He announced his endorsement of Owens on social media.
"Hinds County is ready for a change, and Jody is the right person for the job," King said on social media.
How much money does he give to black families who have a family member murdered by a black person? If black lives really matter to him, he would likely be destitute soon if he covered those murders too.
Talcum X
Bit by bit Step by step......
Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba. OMG!
Every dollar he gives away is a dollar he doesn’t get to keep.
So, Talcum X is a ‘kingmaker’?..............
Thurgood Marshmallow
Yeah.
Sure.
I'm giggling so hard I can't type.
A faux-black, doing social justice work...influential?...and in the Black Lives Matter movement?
So much wrong there.
Their governing style was likely very similar.
Talcum X. Guess white boy influences somebody.
W.E.B. DuBlanc
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