Well, the Twinkie Diet HAS been used to excuse violence in the past…
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#sanfrancisco
#harveymilk
#mayormoscone
#diannefeinstein
Somehow I doubt this takedown would have helped 50 years ago…
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1978, former #SanFrancisco Supervisor #DanWhite assassinated Mayor #GeorgeMoscone and fellow Supervisor #HarveyMilk. White was convicted only of 'voluntary manslaughter', serving just five years, because eating junk food supposedly showed he was depressed.
American fireman, politician and felon Dan White, best known as the murderer of gay politician #HarveyMilk, was BOTD in 1946. Persistently rumoured to have been a closeted gay man, he served 5 years in prison for Milk’s murder, killing himself in 1985. #danwhite #bornonthisday #badgay #harveymilk
Milk (with mustache and plaid shirt), here with his sister-in-law in front of Castro Camera in 1973, had been changed by his experience with the counterculture of the 1960s. Dianne Feinstein, who first met him in 1973, did not recognize him when she met him again in 1978. By Unknown family member - Provided by Stuart Milk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5113141
Today in #LGBTQ History 5/22/1930: #HarveyMilk was born. Gay rights activist. 1st first openly gay Supervisor in #SanFrancisco. Former #police #DanWhite assassinated him & Mayor George Moscone. Only got a couple years in #prison, leading to the White Night #Riot in San Francisco.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1979, the #WhiteNightRiots occurred in #SanFrancisco. The #LGBTQ community was rightly furious that politician #DanWhite was convicted of manslaughter, not murder (and served just two years in prison) for assassinating #HarveyMilk and Mayor George Moscone.
Rioters outside San Francisco City Hall, May 21, 1979, reacting to the voluntary manslaughter verdict for Dan White. By Daniel Nicoletta - Provided by author Daniel Nicoletta, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5239846
Today in #LaborHistory 5/21/1979: White Night #Riot in #SanFrancisco after city supervisor #DanWhite was absolved of 1st degree murder of supervisor & #lgbtq activist #HarveyMilk & progressive mayor #GeorgeMoscone & after years of #police abuse of the lgbtq community.
#Peace #Love #Art #Activism #May21 #FreedomRiders trapped attacked 1961, #Weathermen #Weatherunderground declaration #BernadetteDohrn 1970, #LGBTQ #DanWhite convicted 1979, #RaymondMcCreesh #PatsyOHara #INLA died 1981, #Falklands #HMSArdent sunk plus more woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/05/21/m...
Panel of #podcasts #podcasting #leftcoastcrime #billgormley #terryshepherd #dannawilburg #mariesutro #danwhite #outwithdan
"Slayer Of Mayor Free On Parole Near L.A."
January 7, 1984
#History #OTD #HarveyMilk #DanWhite
#GeorgeMoscone
1/3: Nov 27, 1978, SF city mayor #GeorgeMoscone & openly gay city supervisor #HarveyMilk are assassinated by killer cop, anti-lgbtq bigot (& former city supervisor) #DanWhite who claimed he "ate too much sugar" & didn't realize he planned & executed the assassinations of his political rivals...
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1979, the #WhiteNight riots in #SanFrancisco saw 61 cops hospitalized and squad cars torched. It was sparked by weak sentencing of former cop #DanWhite, murderer of #HarveyMilk. Police responded by invading a gay bar, shouting slurs and beating people.