‘Another myth is that people think Nirvana were an overnight success.’ ibid. biographer
The music press in Britain called Nirvana ‘the leading band of a movement that had been given the name Grunge.’ ibid.
Smells Like Teen Spirit became the anthem of a whole generation. ibid.
On Monday July 13th [2015: at 8:58 a.m. jailers went to cell 95 and observed Miss Bland hanging from the privacy partition in her cell. Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland ***** HBO/Sky Documentaries 2020
Sandra Bland Rest In Power. Arrested for Traffic Violation: Killed in Police Custody. ibid. protest banner
‘You just slammed me head into the ground. Don’t you even care about that?’ ibid. Bland arrest filmed after rozzers’ assault
Cell 95: ‘Where she was didn’t have cameras … You have a thirty-gallon trash can in the inmates’ cell that gives her access to a plastic bag. If she was in as much pain as she said she was in, I just don’t see how she could have tied that perfect – very perfect – noose.’ ibid. family
‘Step out or I will remove you … I’m gonna yank you outta here … You are under arrest … I’m gonna drag you outta there.’ ibid.
‘That man [arresting rozzer] slapped her. You can hear it.’ ibid. lawyer
‘You are about to break my wrist! Can you stop?’ ibid. on arrest
‘The destruction of evidence on this family when they [rozzers know they [family] were about to bury her. You don’t release a body if there’s more tests that you need on that body.’ ibid. lawyer
‘I don’t think there’s ever been an issue like this.’ ibid. mother
‘There are uneducated people who are hell-bent on self-extermination. I am not one of them. I am into building up my kings and queens. So for me, Black Lives Matter. ibid. Sandra’s activism
‘I am here to change history.’ ibid.
‘Say Her Name!’ ibid.
‘She had scrapes on her upper right side of her back.’ ibid. autopsy
‘Here is a guy who should clearly have been charged with assault. Battery … ’ ibid.
Trooper Encinia is fired. The Grand Jury begins to investigate the Walter Country Jail. ibid. caption
‘Evidence of deep bruising … someone has put their knee into her back.’ ibid. autopsy
‘We know that someone’s spirit can be broken.’ ibid. autopsy
‘Everyone was acquitted of wrong doing.’ ibid. television news
‘The jail were filled out in a way that should not have been filled out. They were turned in with false information.’ ibid. rozzer’s apologist’s admission
‘She was hung from a trash-bag. Well, the problem with that trash-bag is is that it didn’t have her fingerprints on it … In fact it didn’t have her DNA on it.’ ibid. lawyer
The family settles for $1.9 million and a prison or jail reform and police de-escalation training. ibid. caption
Police officers around the country you need to hear my voice – Tell the Fricking’ Truth. ibid. Charles Witherspoon, ex-rozzer
‘No, we didn’t go back there and tie a bag around her neck, but it is our responsibility to take care of her. ibid. R G Smith, sheriff
The Sandra Black Act is now law in Texas, mandating state-wide reforms to increase prison inmate safety. Police de-escalation training was removed from the bill. ibid. caption
Portsmouth, South Virginia: ‘1-5-1 shots fired suspect down … 1-5-1 I’m not getting a pulse; starting CPR …’ This World: Unarmed Black Male, BBC 2020
‘Deadly Officer-Involved Shooting: ‘An 18 year old male: he was allegedly …’ ibid. Wavy online television news
1,146 people were killed by police in America in 2015. 36 officers were charged over the deaths. 6 were convicted. ibid. caption
William Chapman was one of 306 African-Americans killed by police last year. ibid.
42 police officers were killed in America last year. ibid.
No charges were brought against Officer Rankin over Kirill’s [Denyakin] death. But he was put on desk duty for almost 3 years. ibid.
The judge has decided the jury won’t be told about Rankin’s previous shooting or William’s disciplinary record. ibid.
Assad decided to get the Americans out of the Middle East, and to do this he made an alliance with the new revolutionary force of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran … Khomeini told his followers that they could destroy themselves in order to save the revolution, providing that in the process they killed as many enemies around them as possible. Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation 2016
For men like Robin Douglas-Home the expectation of power had been deeply embedded inside their minds. But as the world had changed around them, real power ebbed away. They were left with a terrible melancholy. But in some would turn to despair. A year after filming, Robin Douglas-Home committed suicide. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head I: Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, BBCiplayer 2021
Edgar Mittelholzer had come to England in the 1950s from British Guyana. And he had become a best-selling novelist. What Mittelholzer wrote about was violence: the violence and the racism that had been at the heart of the European empires. Mittelholzer believed that it still haunted the minds of those who had ruled the empires … On night Mittelholzer walked up the hill by his house, poured paraffin over himself and set himself alight. He burned to death. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head II: Shooting and Fucking are the Same Thing
‘Jeffrey’s gonna get me. You guys realise that, right? He’s gonna figure this out and he’s gonna … I’m not safe now. You understand, I’m not safe.’ Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein? s1e1, victim to rozzer, DiscoveryPlus 2021
It’s the most twisted story of the decade … Who helped him commit these crimes? ibid.
‘A travesty of justice like people couldn’t imagine.’ ibid. John Connolly, journalist
On the night Jeffrey Epstein died, he didn’t have a cellmate, the guards didn’t check on him, and the cameras happened to fail. ibid.
Since Epstein was not held accountable in criminal court, some of his victims turned to the civil courts in search of justice. ibid.
The greatest loves of Hitler’s life were so corroded and diminished by him that they saw only one way out: his beloved niece turned lover shot herself with his pistol. A German film-star lover fell from a hotel balcony. And Nazi insiders gave jaw-dropping accounts of how and why these women died revealing Hitler as a controlling sexual psychopath. Was suicide their only way out? Hitler’s Secret Sex Life s1e4: Suicidal Maidens, History 2021
My son is talking suicide. So now I’m trapped here for ever. The Sopranos s6e17: Walk Like a Man, HBO 2006
How about suicide? The Ladykillers 1955 starring Alec Guinness & Peter Sellers & Cecil Parker & Herbert Lom & Danny Green & Jack Warner & Frankie Howerd & Katie Johnson et al, director Alexander Mackendrick, Sellers
Diego Garcia: There were so many cases of suicide. There were so many cases of children not receiving proper care and dying in hospital. Cassam Uteem