Twitter On Fire Over Alton Sterling Case

The racial violence against black people worldwide has become more and more pronounced and the police shooting of a black man called Alton Sterling has really brought things to a head.

Sterling was shot while selling bootlegged CDs outside a shop. He was tased and tackled by the police and while he struggled he was shot dead.

The owner of the store Sterling was shot in front of,  Abdul Muflahi, said that while he didn’t see a gun on Sterling at the time, he noticed police pull one out of Sterling’s pocket later.

The video of the shooting has been making the rounds on social media with the story trending and many people outraged by it.

You can see the video and the comments made about it on twitter below.

 

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All we gone do is repost it & type "SMH" over & over again huh ?? Then we gone put #JusticeForAltonSterling & #BlackLivesMatter hashtags on Instagram & pretend that's us taking action huh ??? What happened to the generation of people who stood together, held hands & took to the streets peacefully or violently if it had to come to that & wouldn't move or be detoured from that stance until real results were handed over to us ?!?!? Huh ??? WTF is wrong with us these days that we will sit here & watch a video of yet another innocent man shot & killed in cold blood by police officers in this country ?!?!? WTF is wrong with ME, YOU & everyone else who will watch the video & read this caption & DO NOTHING until it happens again… Then what we gone do ?? The same shit we been doing… Hashtag #JUSTICEFOR[insert name here__________] & #BLACKLIVESMATTER when it really seems that they don't at all… & if #BLACKLIVES don't even matter to #BLACKPEOPLE why the fuck would they matter to anyone else ?!?!?!? What on earth is wrong with US ?!?!?!? But lemme stop so we can get back to turning up, dab'n & hittin "them folks" while this man lay dead in a county morgue for selling some fucking CD's & asking what he was being detained for ?!!?!?!?!? NAW, fuck this……. WE AINT HAVIN THIS SHIT NO MORE !!!!!!!!!!! #THETIMETOFIGHTBACKISNOW !!!!! #MartinLutherKing got shot on a fuckin balcony because he wasn't scared to stand up for our parents, grandparents & US…. The reason our black asses can even do 1/2 the shit we do is because that man sacrificed his life along with many others so we could….. & we ain't even got enough heart to stand together as a RACE & pay them back !!!! #IMNOTSCARED #FAKECARINGASSGENERATION #WHOELSEOUTTHEREGONEFAKECARE ??? #WEAINTGONEDOSHITBUTREPOSTANDHASHTAG #SCARYASSRACE #AMERICAREMOVED

A post shared by The Game (@losangelesconfidential) on Jul 5, 2016 at 11:10pm PDT