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Retired NBA Player, Syracuse Alumni, Author, Motivational Speaker, Senior Writer/Podcaster The Rematch

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Etan Thomas
5 months
The iolani prep classic made a highlight reel of DeMatha High School’s 6’8 Forward Malcolm Thomas from their tournament in Hawaii. He was also awarded a spot on the the All Tournament team. Keep working young fella
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4 years
“Removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified and reanimated” -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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2 years
The fact that Jameis Winston stealing $32.72 worth of crab legs while in college got 100xs more media coverage than Brett Farve embezzling 5 million dollars from a welfare fund should tell you all you need to know
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Dear white people: Please stop asking us about the “royal family” we don’t have the same admiration for them as you do.
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1 year
They know Kyrie Irving doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving and they know exactly why because he has explained his connection to his Native American heritage and the celebrated slaughter of his people. The media is being very intentional right now with Kyrie
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KYRIE: "I don’t particularly celebrate Thanksgiving but anybody getting together with their families, blessings to all you guys. Enjoy the holiday, not a holiday for me, but please enjoy the food for me.”
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1 year
Much Respect 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
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“No wonder we don’t want to teach the truth, because we would have to look our children in the face and say our forefathers were the worst human beings in the history of mankind”
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Love how these comedians all came together and showed Sinbad their love and support 🙏🏾
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4 years
“Michael Vick served more time in jail for killing dogs than the last 493 cops combined did for killing unarmed Black Men”
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4 years
“The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice” ~Malcolm X
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1 year
America wants you to believe that all of these people just magically disappeared
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4 years
Am I trippin ? Or does this tomato look like Larry Bird ?
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The tomato of confusion has arrived. #lockdownextension
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4 years
“Cop who shot #RayshardBrooks bodycam shows Rayshard talking politely and cooperating with the officers seconds before he was killed. Things took a turn when they tried to arrest him for being too impaired to drive. The problem here is, he was not driving, he was parked”
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Tom Hanks discusses never being taught about the Tulsa Massacre
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2 years
Shareef O’Neal battled back from open heart surgery and is now working and grinding on the summer league team for the Los Angeles Lakers and people out here who wouldn’t get picked up at the YMCA are clowning him on social media because of his last name ? Smh
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3 years
If this is disrespecting Then what do the Troops you call this ?
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“I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist” ~mhfksafa
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6 years
Isn’t it interesting seeing all of the #nfl teams who didn’t hire @Kaepernick7 tweet quotes of Dr Martin Luther King about non violent protest ? #MLKDay
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6 years
3 years ago today, 12 year old #TamirRice was murdered by Cleveland Police officer Timothy Loehmann while playing with a toy gun. He should be turning 15 today, but instead his parents spend another Thanksgiving without their son. This is why the players are kneeling!!!
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Donald J. Trump
6 years
The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!.....
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The media smh
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2 years
I hope they share this video clip as much as they did the other one. Much Respect to Juwan Howard for consoling Kennedy Chandler the way he did. Real class act
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2 years
I hope everyone shares this like they shared the initial story of #EmoniBates
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You mean except for them ?
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23 days
Nobody ever gets canceled for saying anything too woke.
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9 months
Love this
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1 year
Haven’t heard any of the media talking heads reporting about this. And sadly, all of the Black media and Black journalists who were literally running to bash Kyrie Irving a few weeks ago haven’t said a word about any of this either. Like not a peep. Not even a whisper smh
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She said where’s that from ? Lol Good Lord Candace lol
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4 years
Ok I’m just gonna say it. Naomi Osaka is everything many of us were hoping Tiger Woods would be. Proud of her full heritage, but fully embracing her Blackness
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4 years
Dear Southwest Airlines: I’d like to report a person on my flight for “looking suspicious” Violence has been a part of their belief system and expressed by their cult leader. His headdress, beard, and accent makes me feel very unsafe and I don’t trust the look in his eyes.
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Isiah Thomas is the ONLY superstar who beat Magic, Bird, and MJ all in their prime #Facts #TheLastDance
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Former police officer Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael who murdered #AhmaudArbery for jogging while Black. No one has been charged and this case is being covered up. This is why #Kaepernick took a knee #justiceforahmaud #BlackLivesMatter
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3 years
The silence of the Evangelicals, the All lives Matter crowd, the Anti Kaepernick crowd, the Blue Lives Matter crowd, who called Black Lives Matter violent thugs. You all don’t have anything to say when insurrectionists attack the seat of American government in an attempted coup ?
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#JasonWhitlock it’s called retargeting. Meaning it shows you ads based on your search history. Meaning, your holier than thou self just told the entire world that you’ve been looking up filth flarn filth in your spare time
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1 year
I haven’t heard the ADL have any outrage about this. No upheaval of condemnation from Rabbis, comedians, media or accusations of Amazon being antisemitic ? No 6 steps for Amazon ? Nothing ? So was it really about fighting perceived antisemitism or was it about something else ?
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Amazon's CEO announced that they will not remove the film that Kyrie Irving shared on Twitter: “As a retailer of content to hundreds of millions of customers with a lot of different viewpoints, we have to allow access to those viewpoints, even if they are objectionable."
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As an adult, you can’t touch someone else’s kid. Especially when it’s over and the kid is walking away #AAU
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After attending Howard University, Chad Dillon moved to Atlanta and opened one of the fastest growing restaurants in the U.S. In his 1st year of opening, The Boiler Seafood & Crab Boil sold over 180,000 pounds of seafood grossing over $8,000,000 in sales
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After seeing how white women voted 68% for Herschel Walker, I think it’s a good time to revisit this brilliant truth telling wrapped in comedy by Bill Burr
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3 years
Dear white ppl: Stop lecturing us on the proper way to react to racism & police terrorism. That’s exactly what Dr King discussed in his Letter From A Birmingham Jail. You did it with Kaepernick, John Carlos & Tommie Smith, Ali & now #MaxineWaters That’s not how any of this works
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3 years
“So #KanyeWest spent the last few years buddying up to a white supremacist who tried to instigate a race war and y’all are still gonna hype his album like none of that happened ? Alright then”
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2 years
Wouldn’t have imagined any of that from Keenan Thompson Much Respect 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
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8 months
The hate that Coach Deion Sanders is receiving is the same hatred the Fab Five & Muhammad Ali received from Mainstream America for being too confident, too proud, too “uppity” too much out of “their place” So they were despised & ppl rejoiced when they lost & hated when they won
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4 months
This is how Shannon Sharpe will be pulling up to ESPN after that YouTube check from the Katt Williams interview hits his account
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3 years
It’s hard not to notice the blaring difference in coverage, description, tone, the absence of insults or accusations of being “stupid” or “dumb” in the coverage of these two unvaccinated athletes. Especially by Stephen A Smith….but we know why
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2 years
I’m won’t be sharing the video of #PatrickLyoya being shot in the BACK of the head by a Grand Rapids cop while he was on the ground facing away from the cop after a routine traffic stop. But I will share this photo of him. He was a 26yr old Congolese refugee who deserved better
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3 years
You’re so outraged But you were about this just fine with this ?
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“This is who Damar Hamlin is as a human being. Everyone will repost “the hit” but this is what should be going viral about who this man is.” ~Jay Williams
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No athlete deserves death threats no matter what takes place on the court. Whether it’s Angel Reese, Gabbie Marshall or anyone else. And anyone justifying this is just a disgusting human being period.
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1 year
A lot of people are coming to the defense of #JerryJones “It was a long time ago”, “He was just a teenager”, “People evolve”, “He doesn’t deserve this” etc etc. Chuck Modi puts it all into perspective. Great discussion
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Katt Williams is not perfect, nobody is but hearing Deon Cole speak about him and reading all the ppl’s comments under his IG post about how he looked out for them and he didn’t have to and he never mentioned it publicly speaks volumes
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4 years
“If the meeting to reopen schools takes place via ZOOM for the safety of the participants, maybe you shouldn’t be discussing reopening schools”
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2 years
16yr old Kalief Browder was sent to prison at Rikers Island for stealing a backpack he DID NOT steal & ended up committing suicide but Brett Favre is still walking around free after stealing MILLIONS from poor ppl. But you wanna say white privilege is a figment of our imagination
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As we all watched the Dallas Cowboys lose, we should be reminded that Jerry Jones still hasn’t denounced racism, no 6 step program, didn’t have to meet with any Black community leaders or donate to any Black organizations or anything. Funny how that works #JerryJones #KyrieIrving
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LeBron James questions why the media repeatedly asked him about Kyrie Irving sharing the documentary on his social media but hasn’t asked him once about his thoughts on the Jerry Jones photo. We know why but much respect to Lebron for making this point 👊🏾
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@Georgia_NAACP It’s amazing that this occurred in Feb and it took public outcry to get them arrested. Now let’s keep pushing for an actual conviction. George Zimmerman was arrested but he wasn’t convicted. Keep pushing 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
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So guess who owns over 100 Papa John’s Restaurants and is the biggest single stake holder of @PapaJohns besides the owner ? #JerryJones
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If Nicole Brown Simpson was Black, most white ppl wouldn’t care if OJ did it or not. The fact is, many white ppl wanted to lynch him in the town square like their grandparents used to if a Black Man was accused of even smiling at a white woman. Even after he was found NOT GUILTY
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You know the brotha is going to die soon in the movie once he starts talking about his dreams of getting out of the hood, having a family and living a better life. I’m gonna start preparing myself now #GameOfThrones
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This Is what our ancestors were doing on July 4th 1776. Wasn't no fireworks or celebrations #NeverForget
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Dear white pastors: When Black Churches are being set on fire by white supremacists, and you say nothing, just know that your silence speaks volumes
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So y’all are still mad at #Kaepernick & all the #NFL players for taking a knee during the National Anthem because you feel it was disrespectful to our military, but you’re perfectly fine with #Trump refusing to go to the cemetery to honor fallen soldiers because of a little rain?
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This is how the Dr King and Coretta Scott King statue should’ve looked if they weren’t deliberately attempting to display a deracialized, ambiguous, abstract image and purposely omit their faces to further white wash Dr King’s legacy
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6 yrs ago today #SandraBland was found hanged in a jail cell in Texas 3 days after being arrested during a “failing to signal” traffic stop. Although there were many holes in the stories of the sherif & jail staff, no officers were indicted & it was ruled a suicide #NeverForget
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Be very leery of Black People who criticize #JoeBiden and #KamalaHarris non stop and list all of the reasons why they “don’t deserve our vote” because of their past but say NOTHING about #DonaldTrump ’s present. They very well may be on the Trump payroll
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Thuggish Arrogance ? For having pictures of his family, teammates and highlights from his season embroidered on the inside of his jacket ? Just call him what you really want to call him
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Confidence is a necessary trait in a receiver, but this crossed a line. This is thuggish arrogance. One of the many reasons I don’t have a 1st round grade on Malik Nabers.
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So many people are shocked that the 5 cops who murdered #TryeNichols are Black. Do ppl not know how many Black ppl were historically (and presently) willing participants in white supremacy ? Evil comes in all colors
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So let me get this straight, a few yrs ago #MiriamCarey a Black Woman made a wrong turn at a White House checkpoint and is gunned down by police. But yesterday a white man threatened to blow up the Library Of Congress, is arrested unharmed and a Congressman sympathizes with him ?
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“After taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick has been out of pro ball for 500+ days. Aaron Rodgers could be back next week.” ~Stephen King
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The hate that Angel Reese is receiving is the same hatred the Fab Five received from Mainstream America for being too confident, too proud, too “uppity” too much out of “their place” So they were despised and ppl rejoiced when they lost and hated when they won
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Seriously though, if Lamar Jackson, Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk, Rashee Rice, etc etc did what Kelce did to Andy Reid they would’ve been called a thug and a menace and embarrassments to the NFL as a whole and there would be panels on the negative influences on our youth etc etc
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Hold on now !!!! It was cute when Caitlin Clark did it. Y’all didn’t have any issues with it at all. So don’t be all outraged and talking about class and sportsmanship when Angel Reese does the same thing. We’re not doing double standards here #lsuvsiowa
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Every time Donald Trump and all his republican supporters used the phrase “America First” never forget they got that slogan directly from the KKK
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@BillOReilly Well Bill if you didn’t have to pay $32,000,000 for sexually harassing your own coworkers, you could’ve used that money to really make a difference in Chicago yourself
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@Ballislife They know Kyrie Irving doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving and they know exactly why because he has explained his connection to his Native American heritage and the celebrated slaughter of his people. The media is being very intentional right now with Kyrie
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Whew !!! #BillBurr ’s white women approval rating is going to plummet after this double dose of accuracy. I don’t know if #SaturdayNightLive was ready for all this
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@Complex Attention Black People: Do NOT try this “joke” anywhere in the United States Of America. I GUARANTEE it will not end well, there will be no jokes no smiles and absolutely no laughter
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“If #NaomiOsaka or #SerenaWilliams acted in the way #NovakDjokovic has acted in the past couple weeks- the tennis association would be sharpening their knives. They hung Osaka out to dry because she missed a couple pressers, meanwhile on Djokovic...(crickets).” ~Francis Maxwell
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#Kobe explaining why he traveled in private helicopters. People think they know so much, but many times have absolutely no idea what the truth really is #RestInPeaceKobe #Fatherhood
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3 years
So Kirk Franklin’s 33 year old son recorded a private conversation between him & his father in an attempt to “out him” only to have Black People all across the country now joining Kirk Franklin in cussing him out too lol
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This is dope!!!! Go out and support these ladies located at 2201 Channing street NE Washington DC 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
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So I got an e mail from Fox News asking if I would be a guest on one of their segments to discuss how athletes are having their “human rights violated” and they’re being “unjustly coerced” into taking the vaccine. So now y’all care what athletes think ? Y’all are something else
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Them: We need to get more Black people in positions of power. Then things will be a lot better Me: Yea but what if they turn out to be like these Black people ? That definitely doesn’t help us at all. We need the right Black ppl in positions of power. Big difference
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Much Respect Eli Harold (left) Colin Kaepernick (center) and Eric Reid (right) #SuperBowl
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So if Donald Trump has to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for defamatory statements he made against her, how much should he have to pay for taking out a full ad calling for the death penalty for the #CentralParkFive now the #ExoneratedFive ?
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This is what happens when you let …..some ppl get too comfortable with you. Skip Bayless is the type to drop the n word b/c he thinks he’s “Down With The Brothas” and listens to Lil Wayne and wears Jordan’s. This cat made 3 slapped in the mouth statements in a one minute clip
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@ComplexPop As my good friend @DavidDTSS said “white people will steal your stuff and be so committed to the crime that they forget they stole it and think they're gifting you something they shouldn't have had in the first place”
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They’re really mad Beyoncé is singing country music huh ? Good breakdown Keith Boykin 👊🏾
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@diamond83 You mean to tell me a police officer lied while everyone was “waiting for the facts to come out” and then was exposed once the video was made public ? That only happens .....all of the time
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This Is what our ancestors were doing on #July4th 1776. Wasn't no fireworks or celebrations #NeverForget
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"I freed 1,000 slaves I could've freed 1,000 more if only they knew they were slaves" ~Harriet Tubman
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I knew #AmberGuyger was going to pull this as soon as she got on the stand. Didn’t see any actual tears but now it’s all “I wish he was the one that took the gun and killed me." Hopefully the jury doesn’t fall for this and she ends up getting off for MURDER but we’ll see
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