Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
ARPAIO MURDERED HER AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS.
“Powell, 48, died May 20, 2009, after being kept in a human cage in Goodyear’s Perryville Prison for at least four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. This, despite a prison policy limiting such outside confinement to a maximum of two hours.
The county medical examiner found the cause of death to be due to complications from heat exposure. Her core body temperature upon examination was 108 degrees Fahrenheit. She suffered burns and blisters all over her body.
Witnesses say she was repeatedly denied water by corrections officers, though the c.o.’s deny this. The weather the day she collapsed from the heat (May 19 – she died in the early morning hours of May 20) arched just above a 107 degree high.
According to a 3,000 page report released by the ADC, she pleaded to be taken back inside, but was ignored. Similarly, she was not allowed to use the restroom. When she was found unconscious, her body was covered with excrement from soiling herself.
Powell, who was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution, actually expired after being transported to West Valley Hospital, where acting ADC Director Charles Ryan made the decision to have her life support suspended.
(Ryan lacked the authority to do this, but that’s another story, which you can read about, here.)
Racism, white supremacy, and the confederacy have touched things you don’t even think about. For example, I had no idea that Six Flags was named as such because it’s named for the six flags that have flown over what is now Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States, and the Confederacy. Six Flags is only JUST announcing that they’ll be taking the Confederate flags down (in Texas and Georgia) in the wake of Charlottesville.
It’s wild to me that people don’t know that. I used to go on daily rants about how Six Flags in other states don’t make sense.
Amazing Grace was named after a slave ship
Slavery, in particular, has had a huge impact on American (and British, Spanish, etc) culture. In terms of medical advancement, though, I don’t think people fully grasp how much medical knowledge was discovered through slavery.
There were so many American, British, and Spanish doctors boarding slave ships to examine the bodies of living, dying, and dead slaves. Most medical knowledge of illnesses like smallpox, yellow fever, malaria and so many more; came from slaves who were examined constantly by doctors. The doctors experimented on ways to raise mortality rates and fertility, as a lot of the knowledge we know on fertility came from slaves as well. An epidimic of blindness on a french slave ship in 1819 is what provided majority of the medical knowledge on what is known as trachoma. The list really goes on, you’d be surprised by the amount of medical knowledge that can be attributed to slavery.
A lot of mental disorders and illnesses were not even identified or discussed in any sort of medical text until the symptoms were displayed by slaves. In a time where mental illness was said to have been caused by demons, doctors began relating psychological trauma to slaves. When doctors witnessed the psychological damage that’d been caused by being severely underfed and left to sit in complete darkness with hundreds of other people crying and screaming; this sparked use of words such as melancholia, nostalgia, and schism in psychological contexts.
Basically, putting an inumberable amount of humans through unthinkable physical and psychological trauma is how we have majority of our medical knowledge today. I used the word doctor a lot in this comment but by no means were they interested in the wellbeing of these slaves. It was common knowledge amongst medical professionals, even way after slavery, that black bodies were nothing more than cadavers. Doctors have been quoted in as late as the 1960s as saying, publicly, that black people’s only purpose is to serve the medical community, that it’d be cheaper and more beneficial to use us for medical purposes than to send us to school.
So how can someone say that we are not owed reparations, when this much medical knowledge has been quite literally learned through the torture and deaths of our ancestors.
brb gotta get some paper towels and sop up the gray matter thats leaking out of my ears
We can’t allow this to continue. A petition has also been launched by change.org and signed by tens of thousands of people.
It demands a full investigation of all the facts and unlawful repression in Chechnya of the LGBT population and calls for punishment for the ‘guilty parties’ and the end to the practice of extra-judicial violence.
The Morton County Sheriff Department feels so untouchable that they proudly are posting their torture techniques as well as their (so ridiculous it seems satirical) anti Native propaganda to demonize water protectors. Meanwhile this is the type of violence they are getting away with. Hooding, Zip tying, and water boarding water protectors. These police are not here to protect the people, they are abusing their power, encroaching upon all citizens constitutional rights and violating human rights, all because Natives are asking for clean water.
Morton county police department deleted thier initial post hoping to cover up what they did. Spread the screen cap far and wide and don’t allow the police to lie thier way out of this.
I’m not a Doctor and neither are you but I think putting things up people’s dookies is probably not the best way to feed them. Try that one on your first date. Cheney likes it though. He would do it again in a minute. What a man.
