Salt Lake City police shooting victim identified as 17-year-old Adbi Mohamed #BLACKLIVESMATTER
A teenage boy has allegedly been shot by police while holding a broomstick in Salt Lake City, sparking angry protests.
Witnesses told local media the incident happened at around 8.15pm on Saturday evening (3.15am GMT) near a homeless shelter in the US city’s downtown area.
Selam Mohammad said his friend was 16 and had been shot in the chest and stomach.
Mohammad told that the teenager was holding part of a broomstick at his side when officers ran up.
“They told him to put it down, once, and started shooting him as soon as he turned around,”
he added, saying his friend was hit in the chest and stomach.
Authorities did not immediately confirm the boy’s condition or the circumstances of the reported shooting.
Obviously these pigs were in fear for their lives, or they “had no time for this shit” as we so often see these days. Police who shoot unarmed kids most likely operate “shoot first ask questions later” as a general policy, which is itself illegal and therefore criminal. It stands to reason that other criminals will adopt a similar policy towards the police, in self defense.
For anyone who lives in Salt Lake there’s going to be a protest tomorrow:
I think it’s funny that able bodied people think disability prejudice is gonna be solved by cyborg parts, like those of us who will have them aren’t gonna be bugged with constant “Yeah, but you know, you still aren’t human in the strictest sense of the term, I mean whole human, natural and organic, you know what I mean…”
And with capitalism still in existence getting implants or prosthesis will just be grafting planned obsolescence onto your actual body. People honestly think they won’t make limbs the same way they make other electronics?
These never occurred to me but you are right. I can think of worse things. Government control over what parts can not do for parts paid for with government money. You got eye implants while on “welfare”. Then they better not be used for “immoral” things like strip clubs. Gps locks take care of that.
Government legs? You better use them for at least X number of steps a day to prove they were needed.
New arm but unemployed? Better have a job or it turns off.
A big thing I’m also thinking about is cyborg parts that are so specialized for one job-related task that they get in the way of literally EVERYTHING else you might want to do, unless you buy more of them, especially in the early years:
An arm specialized for factory work that’s so heavy it causes spinal damage and chafing around the stump area(more so then even normal artificial limbs)
An mechanized exoskeleton so you can walk in an outdoor-type job, but nobody considered you might want to remove it to bathe or have sex because why would the cripples want to do a silly thing like that
This stuff is such a big deal and yet somehow a lot of transhumanists seem to have totally missed the fact that most cyberpunk authors are totally cognizant of what a nightmare hellscape future digital capitalism will be
And don’t forget the element of coercion/lack of bodily autonomy that will very absolutely come with having widespread mecha-upgrades that can “fix” us broken folks – because for sure, if disability can be solved with robot parts, do you think the able-bodied folk are going to trust us for long to make the decisions for ourselves as to whether or not we want those cyborg bits installed? They’ll be passing laws that say we have to get them or we don’t get accommodations we need anyway, jamming them into us as babies (whether they work fully well or not), using us to alpha test them, it’s going to be fun times.
I’m pretty sure we already do that last one with cochlear implants…
#like this is a thing i already see in the present? #when it comes to deafness and cochlear implants/hearing aids #and hearing people constantly sniping at us #like no i’m not getting a terp #why don’t you just put your hearing aids in #sorry it doesn’t work like that #i’d still need a terp even if i were wearing them #but even if i didn’t just seriously #wearing my hearing aids also aggravated my DEBILITATING MIGRAINES #to the point where i literally could not get through a day of work #without collapsing in pain #abled people just never trust us to make our own decisions about our health and our lives #like that is going to change in the least as technology advances #nope nope nope
Haha yeah that was my tags on that post. XD We are… already there with this on some of these things it’s just going to get moreso as technology progresses.
It’s already happening in the present with advanced prosthetics, as well. I would recommend the documentary film “FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement”.
You have to accept that some people are not made for deep conversations, or for holding you together when you’re about to fall apart, or for keeping you from unzipping your skin, or for talking you out of suicide, or to love you through the worst moments of your life. Some people are made for shallow exchanges, and ridiculous banter, and nothing more. And that’s okay. That doesn’t make them horrible people because they simply aren’t able to handle a storm like you. It doesn’t make you a bad person because you won’t divulge all the gritty details of your horror show. It makes you smart. You have to accept that there will be people that cannot give you what you need. It doesn’t mean they are not worth keeping in your life. You just have to figure out who these ones are before you’re disappointed. And you have to keep them at arm’s length. You cannot expect everyone in your life to understand, to be nonjudgmental, to get it. But that’s okay, because not everyone was made to impart wisdom, or wax-poetic, or speak on politics and the depravity of society, or discuss how crucial it is that the stigma of mental illness be abolished. There are times when you have to get away from all that heaviness. You have to. And you will need superficial conversation about Kim Kardashian’s arse, or a debate on the colour of The Dress. You will need those ones. So don’t go round cutting people off and dropping your friends. You need people for all your seasons. You need people or you won’t survive this.
What my therapist told me this morning (via dressrossa)
let’s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they’re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn’t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they’re mad we aren’t just money giving/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected us to be
like look at how much millennial hate articles are things like “millennials aren’t eating cereal and it’s hurting the cereal industry” or “millennials aren’t buying houses and that’s bad” or “millennials #1 utmost priority isn’t trying to make as much money as possible” and rich folks are mad about it, so just posturing our unpredictability/nontraditional values as “laziness” gets everyone else on board the hate train in some weird attempt to collectively subdue us
I still p much don’t wanna do anything but sleep today.
But earlier, when I was sleeping, I dreamed that I went to a store and they had Piglet tsum-tsums and I was SO EXCITED except that they were $15 so nope.
There was also a shooting just a couple of blocks from my work last night. And someone got raped in the parking garage across the street from my building a week ago. Plus the Vice President was staying in the hotel across the street on Friday so they closed all of the roads down and there were cops everywhere, which made a lot of people super mad (I was glad that they were taking security seriously).
Crazy. And people think that Utah is a super safe, crime-free place. c_c
