The Death of Timothy Caughman, and the DC Missing Girls, shows America cares little about vulnerable people- resulting in their deaths.
DEVILS STILL CALLING IT AN "ALLEGED RACIAL ATTACK"
Newsday
A Queens pastor on Saturday urged mourners at the funeral of a black Manhattan man, who was slain in an alleged racial attack by a white Army veteran, to honor God with compassion for the killer.
With the coffin of Timothy Caughman resting before the pews at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, worshippers likened the 66-year-old’s stabbing death by sword in midtown to the suffering of Christ 2,000 years ago.
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“Even on the white supremacist who did the crime, we still have to have compassion,” the Rev. Christopher Howard said from the pulpit of the Jamaica church, where Caughman had been baptized and where his father was once a minister.
Caughman’s funeral drew nearly 200 mourners, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, his wife Chirlane McCray, and the city’s public advocate, Letitia James.
“He was attacked because of who he was, plain and simple, and don’t think for a moment it was an attack on one stray man, because it was an attack on all of us,” de Blasio said in his eulogy.
Caughman’s accused killer, James Harris Jackson, 28, of Baltimore, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism and as a hate crime. He was denied bail and is jailed.
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According to the NYPD, Jackson stabbed Caughman — whom he randomly encountered on a midtown street — multiple times in the chest and back with a 26-inch sword before fleeing.
Jackson later walked into a police station and turned himself in. The NYPD’s head of detectives in Manhattan has said Jackson told police he had come to New York to kill black people.
De Blasio has blamed Caughman’s death on what he called the “dynamic of hatred” that he said had been whipped up by the rhetoric of Donald Trump and other candidates during the presidential campaign.
“We have to understand that forces of hate have been unleashed in recent months,” de Blasio said, although he did not mention Trump on Saturday.
Caughman’s friend Portia Clarke, who led mourners in a chant of “Tim, your life matters!” said she had to restrain herself from trying to hurt Jackson at his arraignment.
Vincent Pugh, another friend, said in a poem he read aloud that Caughman “was well loved in the hood.” The poem went on to predict that “inmates would beat and taunt” Jackson.
Mourners recalled Caughman’s humble roots growing up in public housing, and dozens of his childhood friends came to Mt. Zion to say goodbye Saturday.
Caughman’s friends called him “Hard Rocks,” his childhood nickname.
Mourner after mourner recalled a dapper raconteur who befriended strangers, politicians and famous people alike for photographs, and engaged them in discussions on racism, religion, philosophy, music and current events.
He often traveled to Washington, D.C., to witness hearings held in Congress, enjoying lunch in the House of Representatives’ office building cafeteria, where he could mix with both the nation’s elite and everyday people.
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He’d finance his trips by collecting discarded bottles and cans. Caughman had been mining for the recyclables near West 35th Street and 9th Avenue when he was stabbed.
“Even if you’re collecting cans,” Howard said, “you still got dignity.”
DC GIRLS BEING DISAPPEARED
Huffignton Post
Yasmin Vafa Co-authored by Neil Irvin, Executive Director, Men Can Stop Rape
Recently, the Metropolitan Police Department began using social media to help publicize information about individuals who go missing in the District of Columbia. As a result, there has been growing attention surrounding the number of children, particularly Black and Latinx girls, who have gone missing. In response to community outcry, the Mayor has launched a task force designed to address the needs of runaway youth, and to commit resources to support organizations serving vulnerable children in the District.
For those of us who work with and on issues impacting marginalized children every day, the increased attention on vulnerable girls, especially girls of color, has been a double-edged sword. While this newfound attention has certainly placed the safety of traditionally marginalized youth at the center of people’s focus, the tropes, myths, and misunderstandings about girls of color and the communities they come from has permeated the public narrative surrounding the missing children in D.C. For us, the narrative has never been that our girls were missing— it has been that our girls are being disappeared.
For girls of color, girls who experience and witness violence, girls in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems, and LBT/GNC girls, there are few spaces where they can be safe and free. Girls of color, particularly Black girls, are pushed out of school through suspensions, expulsions, and unfair disciplinary practices as a result of stereotypes and implicit racial and gender biases. Girls in the child welfare system often experience abuse, neglect, and sexual violence at the hands of foster care providers who are charged with their protection. Girls of color and LBT/GNC girls are also more likely to be funneled through an “Abuse to Prison Pipeline” that criminalizes them for suffering violence rather than understanding their behavior as a response to layered and complex trauma. We cannot talk about missing girls without talking about the conditions that render our girls unsafe in their homes, their schools, and their communities.
As advocates and providers who work to end gender-based violence, we cringe when we read news reports that suggest that girls who are “chronic runaways” or who “voluntarily” leave their homes are somehow less deserving of empathy and compassion than girls who are kidnapped. In our work, we know that when girls run, they are often running from something or running to something. Many girls run away from home because they are experiencing abuse, they are unwelcome, or they are running to meet basic needs denied them due to poverty or neglect. Girls in the child welfare system often run to escape group homes or foster care placements that are violent or unsafe. Victims of domestic child sex trafficking often run because they are threatened or under the psychological control of a trafficker. For girls, running away has become a form of self-preservation and a natural response to coping with situations of abuse or trauma.
These false distinctions between youth who seemingly run voluntarily versus those who are kidnapped trivialize and erase the extraordinary violence so many of these children have experienced. Where the narrative has also been remiss is in addressing the demand for commercial sex that renders girls and runaway and homeless youth exceptionally vulnerable to sexual exploitation and trafficking. As Phylicia Henry of Courtney’s House, a local, survivor-led anti-trafficking provider stated at a recent town hall, “If we are going to do something about missing children and sex trafficking in D.C., we have to go after demand. The reality is that there are men who want to buy sex from children.”
Despite the fact that there is no such thing as a “child prostitute” because children cannot legally consent to sex, too many states fail to recognize exploited children as victims of trafficking. It’s also critical to note that child sex trafficking can occur in the absence of a trafficker or other third-party exploiter. Under federal law, any child engaged in a sexual act in exchange for anything of value is a victim of human trafficking—that includes runaway or homeless youth who trade sex with adults for basic needs like food or shelter. Our collective failure to recognize these children as survivors of exploitation and trafficking means that they are denied opportunities for healing and that their abusers are shielded from accountability for what would in any other case constitute statutory rape or child abuse.
In Jasher Chapter 19 it talks about how the Cities on the Plain of Sodom had made Homelessness illegal, and feeding the Homeless a crime. For Lot's Daughter Paltith- that was death.
We are headed to becoming a Society so corrupt where Men Prefer to Rape Men than Women, and the Best most Upright man sleeps with his daughters.
A society that evil of course wouldn't care about missing girls. Unlike the upright House of Israel who refused to have their Sister Dinah defiled (Genesis 34), by purging the city of such men who put devil penises inside of her.
Sirach Chapter 4 talks about protecting vulnerable groups.
THE PENALTY FOR A SOCIETY NOT TAKING CARE OF THE VULNERABLE IS DEATH!
This was Clear Pill EP #8
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IN THE DRUG INDUSTRY, CLEAR PILLS ARE USUALLY EITHER VITAMINS OR WATER PILLS - SIGNIFYING THE LIVING WATER A RAINBOW AS THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH IT. IT IS THE LIVING WATER OF THE WORD. THE VITAMINS AND MINERALS CLEAR PILLS PROVIDE ARE IN THE FRUITS OF LIVING THE WORD.
THIS IS YOUR SPIRITUAL NUTRITION.
JUMP AND LIVE THE CLEAR PILL!
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DECLARE YOU'RE A SINNER, AND BE ABLE TO ACCEPT THE LOVE OF YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, AND HIS SON- KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS THE CHRIST, WHO CAME TO FULFILL THE LAW!
Clear Pill Ep #8 With Pastor Cinque, Rise Up and Come Out Church
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