Like most of y’all, we too are pissed off, here at ILOSM, and so is Beyonce’s moms, Tina Knowles Lawson. As the heartache and anger lingers over the non-guilty verdict of Philando Castile’s murderer, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez – Momma Tina has taken to social media to voice her frustration.
Philando Castile’s mother, Valerie Castile, went completely off in a Facebook video she painfully captioned, “F— the police,” the day after her son’s killer was acquitted of all charges seemingly because he wore a uniform and badge.
As Ms. Castile, continues to grieve and deal with the lack of respect the system clearly has for her child, Tina Lawson expressed her grief, in unity with her, in a lengthy Instagram message the day after the non-guilty verdict was read on Saturday, June 17, 2017.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVdAPKkBZ8c/
As the mother of two beautiful Black women and the grandmother of four beautiful Black grandbabies, Tina’s pain- like all African American mothers- cuts deep. She connects with the blatant disregard of another innocent Black life taken at the hands of a trigger happy police officer who seems to see Black skin as target practice and not simply as a race.
Tina didn’t stop there though, she also posted this about Philando…
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVblDSbhLs9/
And Mrs. Lawson also posted this today (June 20th) about the NRA’s interesting silence on Philando being murdered while possessing a firearm he had a legal license to own/carry…
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVkxlaLBEe0/
We agree with Tina on all levels. It was great seeing the wide array of races and cultures standing together in the wake of Philando’s killer’s acquittal. And any human being who watched the Facebook live video of Officer Jeronimo Yanez’s heartless and unwarranted slaughtering of Philando, but turned a blind eye to it, is either racist, soul-less, moral-less, or a combination of all three, just saying.
Rest in peace Philando Castile- a father, a son, a boyfriend to his child’s mother…and in his last hours, he was a fully complying, innocent victim of ‘riding while Black.’ It’s a damn travesty that in 217 we’re still asking Marvin Gaye’s 1971 question: “What’s Going On?”
