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Meg Wagner NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Today, 5:40 PM ET
Black Lives Matter Activist MarShawn McCarrel Fatally Shoots Himself NY Daily News Video/ 01:01 A Black Lives Matter activist killed himself on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, authorities said. MarShawn McCarrel's family said his emotionally draining work may well have taken a toll on him. The 23-yearold shot himself in front of the Columbus building Monday night, Lt. Craig Cvetan of the State Highway Patrol told the Columbus Dispatch. “My demons won today. I'm sorry,” the activist, who recently attended the NAACP Image Awards, posted on his Facebook page about 3 p.m., just hours before his body was found near the Statehouse. BLACK LIVES MATTER LEADER RUNNING FOR BALTIMORE MAYOR His last tweet read: “Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before " No one witnessed the shooting, Cvetan said. McCarrel was pronounced dead at the scene. His mother Leatha Wellington and twin brother MarQuan McCarrel later told the Dispatch he put his causes before himself. They suspect the never-ending and disturbing nature of his activist and charity work left him mentally and physically exhausted in a way they didn't realize, they said. "He impacted so many people, touched so many lives," Wellington said. MarShawn McCarrel, 23, committed suicide on the steps of Ohio's Statehouse Monday, authorities said. via Facebook MarShawn McCarrel, 23, committed suicide on the steps of Ohio's Statehouse Monday, authorities said. "He was just so creative," said McCarrel. "He just wanted to serve people." McCarrel, who had recently worked with Black Lives Matter, helped organize protests in Ohio after a Missouri cop shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in 2014. He also founded youth mentorship program Pursuing Our Dreams, which launched Feed the Streets, a project to help Ohio's homeless. He attended the NAACP’s Image Awards on Friday, Pursuing Our Dreams wrote 'My demons won today,' the 23-year-old posted on Facebook Monday. The 23-year-old community organizer was named one of Radio One’s Hometown Champions, an award for community activists and volunteers, earlier this year and earned a trip to the California awards show. He took his mom to the Friday night ceremony. "He is selfless and will give his last in order to make sure others don't go without,” read a nomination page for the Hometown Champions Award. “MarShawn has come so far in life and has inspired so many people to help others” McCarrel was homeless for three months after he graduated from high school — an experience that inspired him to help others, according to his nomination. “When MarShawn got back on his feet, he felt the need to give back because so many people helped him when he was down,” it read. “MarShawn stresses the importance of having conversations with the people we feed because they'll get hungry in 2 hours but a good conversation will carry them over for a lifetime.” “All everyone needs is love,” he told 614 Columbus in 2014, referring to his work with the Feed the Streets. “That’s a human being. That’s a pulse. We’re feeding everyone, we’re sending the message — today I got you; tomorrow, I could be right there.” Tags: black lives matter , ohio , suicides , naacp http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/activist-marshawn-mccarrel-kills-ohio-statehouse-article-1.2525393/ * Pics, Embedded links & video* ----------------------------------------- Black Lives Matter leader running for Baltimore mayor Christopher Brennan NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: 02/04/2016 12:35 PM ET http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-lives-matter-leader-running-baltimore-mayor-article-1.251966/ * Embedded links * |
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#BlackLivesDontMatter?
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#BlackLivesDontMatter? And with a GUN NO witnesses Was going to be Mayor & change the world. We have a martyr |
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Rica2
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Tue 02/09/16 06:19 PM
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Breaks my heart to hear of this news. A talented mind, a passionate heart but a tormented soul. Unfortunately these three tend to go together when the passionate make a conscious decision to be stand up against apathy and fight for change.
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? |
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Condolences to Marshawn's family.
Suicide, is an extremely selfish act. By ending his own life, he himself, has made a mockery of his own cause. #blacklivesdon'tmattertomarshawn |
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Meg Wagner NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Today, 5:40 PM ET Black Lives Matter Activist MarShawn McCarrel Fatally Shoots Himself NY Daily News Video/ 01:01 A Black Lives Matter activist killed himself on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, authorities said. MarShawn McCarrel's family said his emotionally draining work may well have taken a toll on him. The 23-yearold shot himself in front of the Columbus building Monday night, Lt. Craig Cvetan of the State Highway Patrol told the Columbus Dispatch. “My demons won today. I'm sorry,” the activist, who recently attended the NAACP Image Awards, posted on his Facebook page about 3 p.m., just hours before his body was found near the Statehouse. BLACK LIVES MATTER LEADER RUNNING FOR BALTIMORE MAYOR His last tweet read: “Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before " No one witnessed the shooting, Cvetan said. McCarrel was pronounced dead at the scene. His mother Leatha Wellington and twin brother MarQuan McCarrel later told the Dispatch he put his causes before himself. They suspect the never-ending and disturbing nature of his activist and charity work left him mentally and physically exhausted in a way they didn't realize, they said. "He impacted so many people, touched so many lives," Wellington said. MarShawn McCarrel, 23, committed suicide on the steps of Ohio's Statehouse Monday, authorities said. via Facebook MarShawn McCarrel, 23, committed suicide on the steps of Ohio's Statehouse Monday, authorities said. "He was just so creative," said McCarrel. "He just wanted to serve people." McCarrel, who had recently worked with Black Lives Matter, helped organize protests in Ohio after a Missouri cop shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in 2014. He also founded youth mentorship program Pursuing Our Dreams, which launched Feed the Streets, a project to help Ohio's homeless. He attended the NAACP’s Image Awards on Friday, Pursuing Our Dreams wrote 'My demons won today,' the 23-year-old posted on Facebook Monday. The 23-year-old community organizer was named one of Radio One’s Hometown Champions, an award for community activists and volunteers, earlier this year and earned a trip to the California awards show. He took his mom to the Friday night ceremony. "He is selfless and will give his last in order to make sure others don't go without,” read a nomination page for the Hometown Champions Award. “MarShawn has come so far in life and has inspired so many people to help others” McCarrel was homeless for three months after he graduated from high school — an experience that inspired him to help others, according to his nomination. “When MarShawn got back on his feet, he felt the need to give back because so many people helped him when he was down,” it read. “MarShawn stresses the importance of having conversations with the people we feed because they'll get hungry in 2 hours but a good conversation will carry them over for a lifetime.” “All everyone needs is love,” he told 614 Columbus in 2014, referring to his work with the Feed the Streets. “That’s a human being. That’s a pulse. We’re feeding everyone, we’re sending the message — today I got you; tomorrow, I could be right there.” Tags: black lives matter , ohio , suicides , naacp http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/activist-marshawn-mccarrel-kills-ohio-statehouse-article-1.2525393/ * Pics, Embedded links & video* ----------------------------------------- Black Lives Matter leader running for Baltimore mayor Christopher Brennan NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: 02/04/2016 12:35 PM ET http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-lives-matter-leader-running-baltimore-mayor-article-1.251966/ * Embedded links * One less thug in the world. This POS isn't even worth the airtime. F'ing POS taking a piss on a public building, definitely a sign of a true Sex Offender. |
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? NEOSEGREGATIONIST movement. |
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It's not a issue of setting yourself apart from others it's about developing a voice for the masses that continue to be ignored. The movements you mentioned above are a reflection of these voices. And in all honesty these groups would not even exist if the popular or dominant cultures made a conscious decision to address the real issues of the lack of equality in our society. Until this happens there will continue to be organizations like #blacklivesmatter, LGBT and La Raza that continue to give a voice to the people that are ignored and the injustices against individuals that are justified by our society with victim blaming.
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It's not a issue of setting yourself apart from others it's about developing a voice for the masses that continue to be ignored. The movements you mentioned above are a reflection of these voices. And in all honesty these groups would not even exist if the popular or dominant cultures made a conscious decision to address the real issues of the lack of equality in our society. Until this happens there will continue to be organizations like #blacklivesmatter, LGBT and La Raza that continue to give a voice to the people that are ignored and the injustices against individuals that are justified by our society with victim blaming. yep,especially in Chicago! Funny that in Chi-Town BLM is nixed! If BLM had any damn sense they would match on the WH,there are the Culprits who have set back the Race-relations in the US fifty years! |
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There should be an investigation, I'm sure there had to be a white cop involved in this somehow.
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? just like the gays,it's not equality they want...otherwise, you or anyone else wouldn't be asking those questions.... |
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? I think the confusion lies in the belief that blacks separated THEMSELVES 'blacks just got tired of being separated, waiting to be included, and turned to each other instead simple |
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Conrad_73
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? I think the confusion lies in the belief that blacks separated THEMSELVES 'blacks just got tired of being separated, waiting to be included, and turned to each other instead simple |
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? I think the confusion lies in the belief that blacks separated THEMSELVES 'blacks just got tired of being separated, waiting to be included, and turned to each other instead simple You mean like the black panthers and the KKK? |
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Regardless of what this guys views were. It is sad to see anyone kill themselves. For anyone to think that the only choice they have is death.. is sad Over 100 military active duty and veteran suicides every day, but 1 from the BLM movement and it makes national press? Go figure! |
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Regardless of what this guys views were. It is sad to see anyone kill themselves. For anyone to think that the only choice they have is death.. is sad Over 100 military active duty and veteran suicides every day, but 1 from the BLM movement and it makes national press? Go figure! wasn't Bernie Chairman of the Senate's Veteran's Affairs Committee? |
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msharmony
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One question that tends to confuse me..... For a race of people who claim to want equality why do they always tend to set themselves apart from others? For instance.... NAACP, Black Lives Matter, The National Black Caucus (this one especially.... they are a group within a govt supposedly representing ALL people!) How can you claim equality to be a goal you wish to accomplish when you set yourself apart from it in the 1st place? I think the confusion lies in the belief that blacks separated THEMSELVES 'blacks just got tired of being separated, waiting to be included, and turned to each other instead simple You mean like the black panthers and the KKK? were kkk members and their families being systemically excluded and oppressed? NO? did the black panthers ride around in disguises burning folks property and hanging them? no? no comparison |
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Regardless of what this guys views were. It is sad to see anyone kill themselves. For anyone to think that the only choice they have is death.. is sad I totally agree, every human life has potential and value death is a part of living, but the circumstances can sometimes seem quite tragic and pointless |
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