In the past decade all these young boys & men were gunned down and killed by police. ALL UNARMED
TIMOTHY STANSBURY-BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
SEAN BELL QUEENS, NEW YORK
OSCAR GRANT-OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
AARON CAMPBEL-PORTLAND, OREGON
ALONZO ASHELY-DENVER,COLORADO
WENDEL ALLEN-NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
JONATHAN FERRELL-CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
ERIC GARNER- STATTEN ISLAND, NEW YORK
MICHAEL BROWN JR.-FERGUSON, MISSOURI
Rapper J Cole at the QT in #Ferguson right now. https://vine.co/v/M3vUled3BTz
Antonio French @AntonioFrench · 3h
Just spotted @JColeNC. Hear his new song inspired by #MikeBrown and #Ferguson here: https://soundcloud.com/dreamvillerecords/j-cole-be-free?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_content=https://soundcloud.com/dreamvillerecords/j-cole-be-free …
Is there any live streaming now?
https://twitter.com/LizPeinadoSTL/status/501115994983522304/photo/1
This photo gives me chills.
It is profound. Deeply profound.
My heart leaps for joy and I am deeply moved!
Sunday, August 17, 2014
What’s going on in Ferguson?
My head is a jumbled mess these days about what is going on in Ferguson, MO. That’s probably a result of spending too much time following the story on twitter. You get the news first there. But its mixed in with all the emotional reaction. So I decided its time for me to analyze what I think we do/don’t know.
First of all, I think its helpful to recognize that there are two separate issues to deal with. First there’s the shooting of Michael Brown. Secondly, there’s the police response to the protests.
An awful lot of people are assuming we know what happened in the altercation between Michael Brown and Officer Wilson. Those who have been paying attention have heard a couple of eye witness reports and a reported friend of Wilson tell his side of the story on a radio call-in show. I certainly hope that at some point we get a clear picture. But there’s a lot that is disputed or unknown right now.
I suspect that its very likely that there was a verbal altercation between the two when Wilson told Brown to get out of the middle of the street. It escalated and at some point Brown walked away. If the autopsy shows that even one of the 6-10 shots fired hit him in the back, it will be nearly impossible to see that as anything other than murder. End.of.story.
The disturbing part of all of this is how the local police handled the shooting:
Didn’t allow CPR on the scene
Left Brown’s body on the street for hours
Didn’t interview any witnesses
Allowed the officer to leave town
Withheld the officer’s name for 5 days
Still haven’t released the incident report on the shooting or the autopsy results
Against the advice of DOJ, released a video purporting to show Brown involved in an unarmed robbery and then admitted it had nothing to do with the shooting
Hence the protests. On Friday the Brown family’s lawyer confirmed that an autopsy had been performed by both local law enforcement and the family. So someone has answers to the question of whether or not Michael Brown was shot in the back. But they’re not telling the public.
All of the concern about the militarization of law enforcement has come as a result of the initial police response to the protests (not the shooting of Michael Brown). Its true that there has been some looting. And its right for people to call that out. But its been by a few and, for the most part, the community has done what they can to stop it. Overall, the situation was only inflamed by the over-response from police to the protesters and their lack of action in dealing with the shooting.
That summarizes what I’ve been able to suss out about what’s been happening. At this point its clear that we can’t trust local law enforcement to deal with either the shooting of Michael Brown or handling the protesters. The FBI has been sent in to rectify the former and Capt. Johnson is doing his dead level best to deal with the latter.
But I suspect there are serious power plays going on behind the scenes about all that. And the fact that things haven’t clarified yet shows they are likely pretty intense and still in play. Governor Nixon seems to be playing both sides of that isle – which is why things are still muddled.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/08/whats-going-on-in-ferguson.html?spref=tw
Now that Rev. Al and Company has gotten everyone all FIRED up and the rally is over, now what folks?
Get to stepping and register every one you can to vote, run for office or sposnor someone who want to, and then get to the polls in November.
Yes!
Now thanking President Barack Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder for what they have done this week.
DOJ is going to make this a civil rights violation investigation.
I believe so, and in this case, it’s for the best.
Liza, it really is the only thing they can do with this shitstorm right now.
Yeah, sadly. We’re just really lucky to have AG Holder who moved in swiftly on this. I believe the Feds will get to the truth, and hopefully, the cop will be brought to justice.
Judge Greg Mathis in the house!
Rev Al: “Let me give this offering. I don’t mess with you in the courtroom Crump, don’t mess with me I’m giving this offering.”
MSNBC: FBI agents interviewed several new witnesses on 8/16/2014 to the Michael Brown shooting.
LOL Rev Al taking up offering for Micahel Brown’s family.
Come on, I want to see dollar bills, now!
LET’S STAND UP FOR JUSTICE AND VOTE!
Here’s the thing with all these folks ronting before the camera. They were not able to affect any change, because they WENT ALONG TO GET ALONG, so now they are making EXCUSES.
Former Mayor Fletcher carries the same tired old, racist narrative. “Dem negroes didn’t want postiions in the Ferguson police department. HMMM, WONDER WHY?
Rev Al is telling these folks what they should already know.
And they’d better get their asses to the poll in November.
Rev. Al: “We are not looters, we’re liberator. We are not burners, we’re buiders!”
Michael Brown gonna change this town!
ya’ll got to start voting and showing up. 12% turnout is an insult to your children.
Rev. Al can tell these folks the TRUTH, like this
Rev Al: No one can go to the WH without stopping by our house unless they talk about policing.
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HELLO!
*LOOKING@YOUHILLARYCLINTON*
Okay, I’m gonna watch the rally on MSNBC. I have a confession to make, I’m posting from my bed because haven’t been feeling well, so, after that I’m gonna take a nap and get some rest. BP 180/97. Will check back later.
I am sorry to hear that you are not feeling well, Granny. Hope you are up and around soon and get all of your energy back.
Granny, keep your BP in check. I know the stress of our black boy being murdered is taking its toll, just breathe and rest up, lady. We care about you!
Granny…get some rest.
take care of yourself!
I hope that you have medicine you are taking for high blood pressure, Granny.
Good afternoon guys.
I think this is my first time posting here. I’ll have to do so more often.
Hope you guys have a pleasant Sunday.
Thank you Iamh36, I pray that you have the same.
hey lamh!
hope you come back and post some more.
Nerdy Negress @NerdyNegress 55m
Fox & Friends Host: Robbery Video Shows #Ferguson ‘Officer Was Justified’ (CUZ ALL PPL WHO STEAL SHLD BE SHOT?)http://pulse.me/s/2h8g8H
Pluck Fox & Friends!
X’S 10
Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid 6m
The witness gets the store interaction right (“Rellos” are indeed sold behind the counter, and have to be asked for, etc.) Makes his account
Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid 9m
Two interesting Youtubes re Mike Brown case. This witness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfy5FiqzWHI#t=129 … & This surveillance video angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maA1FUJqhew&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop …
Brown paid for his Rellos. No wonder the police report is confusing and not signed. Corruption runs deep in the Ferguson police department, Fire all of them involved in cover-up
Granny, It’s crystal clear the FPD released their version of the video to taint the jury pool.
The entire department needs FUMIGATING.
x 2!
I’ve watched the video about five times and it doesn’t prove shoplifting or robbery that I can see. It shows shoving, for sure, but the rest of it could fit multiple narratives.
And it’s still irrelevant to the murder of the kid. Just shows that the cops don’t want to charge one of their own so they are trying to create outrage among the white folks via mainstream media.
Same sh!t, different day.
Rabid Badger @rabidbadger 5m
@YourAnonNews @OpFerguson Curfews are for kids. Call it what it is: House Arrest.
Gov, Nixon’s little sideshow yesterday was INSULTING & CONDESCENDING.
He says the curfew was for safety , but it was for securing and allaying white fears and to control and punish the black citizens of Ferguson for standing up to white power!
African Americans are entitled to untainted due process of law, not execution by police playing judge, jury, and executioner. What part of that does America’s police not understand?
Truth!
I am going to transcribe it and post it here.
Thank you, Yahtc. YOU ROCK!
Send me the invoice for your transcribing services. LOL
YW, Ametia.
I am honored to have the opportunity to transcribe TRUTH.
Transcript of video.
Jesse Williams:
Well, I think we also have to talk about the narrative and making sure we’re starting at the beginning.
You’ll find that the people doing the oppressing often want to start the narrative at a convenient point, always start the narrative in the middle.
This started with a kid getting shot and killed and left in the street for 4 hours. I’ve never seen a White body left in the street for 4 hours in the sweltering heat.
I’ve never…you know…the cop doesn’t call in the shooting. The body isn’t put in an ambulance. It’s shuttled away in some shady, unmarked SUV.
There’s a lot of bizarre behavior going on, and that is the story…that is where we need journalism. That is where we need that element of our society to kick into gear and not just keep playing a loop that gets discovered of what the kid may have done, or did apparently, in a convenience store.
That’s unfortunate. That’s…you know if that happened, where that’s going to get factored in, like it or not, but we need journalism that’s going to start telling the story from beginning. This is about a kid…finding justice for a kid that was shot. An 18-year-old that was shot. PERIOD.
And this idea that because he stole a handful of cheap cigars…that were five bucks?…from a convenience store? I lived in…I’ve lived in White suburbs of this country for a long time. I know plenty of White kids that steal stuff from this convenient store. There’s plenty….this idea that every time a Black person does something, they automatically become a thug worthy of their own death..
We don’t own drug crimes. We’re not the only ones that sell and do drugs all the time. We’re not the only ones that steal, we’re not the only ones that talk crazy to cops.
You know, there is a complete double standard….a complete different experience that a certain element of this country gets the privilege of being treated like human beings, and the rest of us are not treated like human beings. PERIOD.
And that needs to be discussed, that is the story. Alright, that’s what gets very frustrating for people because you don’t know five Black folks, five Black men in particular that have not been harassed and felt threatened by police officers. You can’t throw a rock and find five of them. We’re not making this up.
Wait for it, the folks will be screaming for a boycott of ABC and Grey’s Anatomy.
Now if Jesse magically disappears from the Grey’s script due to some untimely death, I’m giving Shonda Rhimes the SIDE-EYE.
And there it is an example of inequality and injustice.
And that needs to be discussed, that is the story. Alright, that’s what gets very frustrating for people because you don’t know five Black folks, five Black men in particular that have not been harassed and felt threatened by police officers. You can’t throw a rock and find five of them. We’re not making this up.
TELL IT
TELL IT
TELL IT
NOTHING BUT TRUTH
Jesse went OOPS! upside everybody’s head this morning, especially Candy Crowly and that black conservative lady.
What we hear about, what gets into the news, is just the tip of the ‘berg.
This can’t go on. There is no one solution, the solution is complex. And, quite frankly, I’ve given up a long time ago on “hearts and minds” types of answers.
What is clearly lacking here, and what has never been a part of the American culture, is that one person’s life is as valuable as another’s.
These cops who kill sleep at night because they believe that the life they snuffed out was not as valuable as their own, and in all of these cases because their victim was black.
This has to end.
QUIZ
What do all these items/actions have in common?
Shoplifting, wearing hoodies, loud music, wearing low-riding pants, backwards baseball caps, walking on sidewalks,smoking crack & marijuana, snorting cocaine, walking on streets, driving luxury cars…..
There’s no time limit on giving the answers.
They look like things that Whites do but are not stereotyped by.
CORRECT! …nor CRIMALIZED.
“nor CRIMALIZED.”
Yes.
All are related to the black man thug persona as perceived by conservative white folks.
According to this mindset, Trayvon Martin was not wearing a hoodie because it is an inexpensive, functional garment and he didn’t have the hood up because it was raining. He was just simply dressed like a thug.
CORRECT! All are related to the black man thug persona as perceived by conservative white folks.
White America wake up and speak out against these atrocities! Those White Americans who remain silent and do not demand an end to these atrocities and injustices are responsible for it continuing!
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
‘No rights which the white man was bound to respect’
Exactly what we are seeing today!
Speak up White Americans against this heinous mindset of evil.
If you don’t speak up, you are part of the evil!
I have now written and posted elsewhere the following and want to posted it here because I transcribed part of Melissa Harris Perry’s words in the video:
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I posted a link to this above….it is now on Youtube:
Melissa Harris Perry Delivers Heartbreaking Tribute to Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police – MSNBC
http://youtu.be/DSzezCO01fU&rel=0
White America wake up and speak out against these atrocities! Those White Americans who remain silent and do not demand an end to these atrocities and injustices are responsible for it continuing!
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melissa Harris Perry in the video informs us that
Ferguson is just outside St. Louis, Missouri the place where historian Blair Kelly reminded us this week in “The Root”, Dred Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that he and his wife had for 3 years…had for many years lived in a free state.
His case eventually went to the Supreme Court, and in 1857 Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that Scott had no right to sue because as a Black man, he was never intended to be an American.
Speaking on the clause in the Declaration of Independence that “All men are created EQUAL Taney wrote quote: ‘It is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration.”
And, he went on to say that Black men “Had no rights which the White man was bound to respect.”
Tragically, we are still seeing this mindset against our fellow Black Americans today.
Speak up White Americans (and I mean RIGHT NOW!) against this heinous mindset of evil that says and was asserted by in 1857 by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that Black Americans have “no rights which the White man was bound to respect”
If you don’t speak up and if you choose to remain silent, you are part of the problem, and your silence can only be taken as approval of this evil mindset that still exists today.