Never forget... What started as a traffic stop over a turn signal ended with a 28-year-old woman dead in a Texas jail cell. So what happened to Sandra Bland? On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland was pulled over near Prairie View A&M University by Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia for failing to properly signal a lane change. The encounter quickly became heated. Dashcam footage showed Encinia ordering Bland out of her vehicle, reaching into the car and threatening to use a Taser when she refused to get out immediately. Bland was eventually arrested and taken to Waller County Jail on a charge of assaulting a public servant. Three days later, on July 13, Bland was found dead in her jail cell. The medical examiner ruled her death a suicide, although the circumstances surrounding her death immediately prompted questions about jail procedures and whether she had been properly monitored. Then investigators examined Encinia's arrest report. In the report, he claimed that he had asked Bland to exit the vehicle so he could continue a safe traffic investigation. But the dashboard-camera footage showed a much more confrontational encounter. In January 2016, a grand jury indicted Encinia on a perjury charge, concluding that his written account conflicted with what the video showed. The Texas Department of Public Safety then began the process of firing him. Encinia eventually agreed to surrender his law-enforcement license and never work in law enforcement again. The perjury charge was later dismissed at the prosecution's request. But what about Bland's death? A Waller County grand jury considered whether anyone should face criminal charges over her death. In December 2015, it declined to indict anyone in connection with her death. Bland's family later filed a wrongful-death lawsuit. In 2016, the family reached a $1.9 million settlement with Waller County and the Texas Department of Public Safety, along with changes to jail procedures. Sandra Bland had moved from Illinois to Texas to begin a new job at Prairie View A&M University. Instead, a routine traffic stop became the final chapter of her life. Her name was Sandra Bland. #sandrabland #sayhername #lawenforcement #police #policebrutality

𝐔𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐥a𝐜𝐤 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐞 | Times by a White sheriff’s deputy — now racist audio has surfaced, and prosecutors have declined to file charges.” Early morning, May 1, 2026. U.S. 50 near Pittsville, in unincorporated Johnson County, Missouri. Saveion McConnell was 19. Lee’s Summit. Unarmed when the shots came. Officers were already looking for him. He had been linked to an earlier shooting inside a vehicle. A girl from that car was taken to a hospital and released. The family’s lawyers have called that earlier shooting accidental. That is their account, not a court finding. On the search, Odessa officer Nathan Holmberg is on his own body camera, on the phone, around 3:30 a.m. “We’re just sitting here, staring at a wood line, trying to find a Black kid at night. That’s always fun. ”Odessa’s chief later confirmed Holmberg was still on the force. He had been a patrol officer since January 2026. Just before 4 a.m. they find McConnell on the highway. He backs up, then runs. Lafayette County Deputy Kenneth Lewie is there with a gun. The Kansas City Star’s viewing of the tape says Lewie ordered him to the ground. The family’s lawyers say the video does not capture a command to put his hands up. Holmberg, farther back, shouts “Taser.” McConnell’s hands go to his waist and his shirt comes up. Lewie fires nine times. The family’s lawyers say five of those shots came after he was on the ground. They say an autopsy found eight wounds. Lewie told investigators he thought McConnell was reaching for a gun. No gun was found on him. Lewie also struck him with the patrol car. The deputy said that contact was not intentional, that he was braking. On September 14, 2026, Johnson County Prosecutor Robert Russell declined charges. His memo says the shirt lift and the hand at the waistband made a reasonable fear of a weapon hard to disprove under Missouri’s criminal standard. The family called the decision devastating. On October 5 their lawyers, including Ben Crump, released the Holmberg excerpts. Civil questions are still open. The criminal case against the deputy is not. #nationalists🇨🇩 #BLM #sayhisname ##blacklivesmatters #saveionmcconnell

An unsung hero. 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐭 𝐁𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 | While running back into the Las Vegas shooting to save strangers — his courage made him a symbol of heroism. October 1, 2017. Route 91 Harvest Festival. Las Vegas. Fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay. Jonathan Smith, then about 30, a copy-machine repairman from Orange County, was there with family for his brother’s birthday. He did not only run. Accounts from that week say he pushed people down, pulled them behind cars and barriers, and kept going back. Reporters put the number he helped near 30. When he stood to move two girls who were still exposed, a round hit the left side of his neck. Another hit his arm. Collarbone cracked. Rib cracked. Lung bruised. An off-duty San Diego officer, Tom McGrath, packed the wound and would not leave him. Smith later said that man saved his life. Surgeons left the fragment in. Too close to nerves. He still walks with it. The hospital photo — towel on the shoulder, bandage on the neck, phone in his hands — is the picture that went around the world. Smith told reporters he did not need a cape. He said anybody should have done it. He and McGrath met again on camera days later. That reunion is real. The caption that says Smith went back the next morning to ID the dead is not something this desk found in the 2017 hospital interviews. Treat that line as unverified. He was not the only person who ran toward people that night. He is one whose face the country actually saw. The shooting remains the deadliest modern mass killing in this country. Fifty-eight died on the grounds that night; the official toll later counted more. Smith lived with metal near the spine and said the pain did not make him special. This post is 2017. Not a new Las Vegas attack. A Black man who moved toward the lawn when the sound started, and a photograph that still has to carry his name so the night does not swallow it. #nationalists🇨🇩 #johnathansmith #sayhisname #hero #lasvegas

Before the investigations were complete, before all the evidence was in, before due process had run its course, white America somehow took the sides of… The white cop who murdered George Floyd. The white cop who murdered Botham Jean. The white cop who murdered Atatiana Jefferson. The white cops who killed Breonna Taylor. The white man who killed Jordan Neely. The white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery. The white cop who murdered Laquan McDonald. Susan Smith, who murdered her own children and blamed it on a Black man. Charles Stuart, who murdered his wife and blamed it on a Black man. The white friends of Nolan Wells. Again and again, whiteness gets the presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, the sympathetic explanation, and the rush to defend. But Black people asking questions, demanding answers, and refusing to accept a convenient narrative before the facts are known, are…“MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE.” The caucasity is breathtaking. You don’t get to make race matter when defending whiteness and then demand that Black people pretend race doesn’t exist when we demand accountability. #saytheirnames #blm #blacklivesmatter #georgefloyd #bothamjean #atatianajefferson #breonnataylor #jordanneely #ahmaudarbery #laquanmcdonald #nolanwells

Update on the Sonya Massey murder. #police #sayhername #sonyamassey #seangrayson #racism #murder

Local villagers said he was a 2 year old elephant. In his death he folded his legs as if he were still a baby. #BanTrophyHuntingNow

So why is that when white people disapprove something someone is doing or outperforming them who looks Black, the police is called? Things that make you go hmm. Stop! He's embarrassing all the white children. Call the police! LOL #jealousy #whitesupremacy #soccer #football #messi #sports

Elijah McClain should have been celebrating his 30th birthday yesterday. He should be alive today. Elijah McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died at the hands of police and paramedics on August 24, 2019, in Aurora, CO. He was walking home from a convenience store, wearing a ski mask because he had a condition that made him cold, and had not committed or been accused of any crime. After a 911 call reported a “suspicious person,” officers stopped him, put him in a chokehold, and forced him to the ground as he repeatedly said he was just trying to get home and had done nothing wrong. While he was restrained, paramedics injected him with 500 milligrams of ketamine, a dose later shown to have been calculated based on a significant overestimate of his weight and far higher than what would have been appropriate for his small frame. He went into cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital, was declared brain dead days later, and died on August 30, 2019. #racism #policebrutalityawareness #policebrutality #walkingwhileblack #NoJusticeNoPeaceProsecuteThePolice

We just discovered that since last year, our engagement on Twitter is higher than even the top news media organizations that are on Twitter. #CNN #FoxNews #msnbc #NYTimes #NBC #ABC #CBS

#saytheirnames #justiceforblackpeople #BLM #blacklivesmatter #blacklivesmatterstill

"i cant fucking believe i was in the middle of a mass shooting. ive felt safe at this parade for 18 years and today i got hit with a bullet and nothing will change in america this is ridiculous" #Illinois #massshooter #RobertCrimoIII #gunviolence #whiteterrorism #GunControlNow

There are many more untold stories of this nature. On April 4, 2015, 50-year-old Walter Scott was driving through North Charleston, South Carolina, when Officer Michael Slager pulled him over because of a malfunctioning brake light. The beginning was captured on Slager’s dash camera. It looked like an ordinary traffic stop. Then Scott ran. Slager chased him roughly 200 yards into a grassy area and tried to stop him with his Taser. And somewhere nearby, 23-year-old Feidin Santana was simply walking to work at a barbershop. Santana noticed the chase. Then he heard the distinctive clicking of a Taser and Scott yelling. He ended the phone call he was on and began following them. What Santana witnessed disturbed him enough that he pulled out his cellphone and started recording. A chain-link fence separated Santana from much of what was happening. But his camera had a clear enough view. And Officer Slager apparently had no idea he was being recorded. Santana said that when he saw them, Slager appeared to have control of Scott. According to Santana, Scott wasn’t attacking the officer. He was trying to escape the Taser. Santana later said he never saw Scott take control of the weapon and use it against Slager. Eventually, Scott managed to get up. Then he ran. That’s when Santana’s camera captured the moment that would define this case. Slager stopped pursuing him. He drew his handgun. And fired. Eight times. Scott was nearly 15 feet away when the shooting began. By the eighth shot, he was nearly 40 feet away. He never turned around. Five bullets struck him, all entering from behind. Walter Scott collapsed. He was unarmed. But Santana didn’t stop recording. And that decision became incredibly important. Seconds after firing, Slager radioed that shots had been fired and claimed Scott had taken his Taser. But Santana’s camera was still running. The footage showed Slager approaching Scott and handcuffing him. Then Slager walked back toward the location of the earlier struggle. His Taser was lying on the ground. He picked it up, then returned toward Scott and dropped the Taser beside his body, walked away, then returned to retrieve it again. Federal prosecutors would later describe Slager’s actions as an attempt to tamper with the crime scene by moving the Taser next to Scott. And Slager’s account was already taking shape. He claimed Scott had gotten control of his Taser and that Scott was coming toward him when he fired. But the federal court would ultimately find that Scott never had control of the Taser, never attacked Slager and was running away when he was shot. And Slager still didn’t know that everything that happened was caught on camera by Santana. Santana was terrified. He understood what he had recorded, but handing a video implicating a police officer directly to police frightened him. He actually considered deleting the footage and leaving Charleston altogether. He briefly went to a police station but left after being asked to wait. Then he began hearing the official account of what had happened. Scott had supposedly taken the officer’s Taser. Slager had supposedly feared for his life. Santana knew that wasn’t what he had witnessed. So the following day, he returned to the area and eventually made contact with Walter Scott’s family. At a vigil, Santana approached Scott’s brother, Anthony. He told him he had something to show him. Then he played the video. Walter’s family watched the final moments of his life on a stranger’s cellphone. Santana later remembered how emotional they became. The family gave the footage to their attorney, and it was also provided to state investigators. On Tuesday night, three days after the shooting, the recording was released to The Post and Courier and The New York Times. And suddenly, millions of people could see what happened. This is one of the most important details of the entire case. See the complete story on our Facebook page.

It never stops. Never. #sayhername #sayhisname #beingblack #nojusticenopeace #NoJusticeNoPeaceProsecuteThePolice

He was minding his own business, in the privacy of his home. #bothamjean #racism #sayhisnane #blm #blacklivesmatter

The security guard who died trying to stop the white supremacist who murdered those people at TOPS is named Aaron Salter Jr. Because I know the media isn't going to memorialize this man as a hero, I'm asking all of you to remember who he is and remember his sacrifice. #racism

JUSTICE FOR TASIA FORTUNE 🕊️ A 29-year-old mother of four, Tasia Fortune, was found hanging from a tree behind an apparently vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 3, 2026. Her death has devastated her family and raised serious questions about the circumstances surrounding her final moments. 📌 LATEST UPDATE: As of September 28, three men had been arrested and charged with murder in connection with her death. The charges are allegations, and the legal process is ongoing. Four children have lost their mother. 💔🕊️ May Tasia Fortune be remembered, and may her family receive answers and justice. 🙏🏽 Keep her loved ones in your prayers. #TasiaFortune #JusticeForTasia #JacksonMississippi #Sayhername #BLM