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Amanda M. Sakuma ✔ @iamsakuma
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The armored truck that drove through the crowd a few minutes ago was driving FAST while moving through PEOPLE
10:08 PM – 18 Aug 2014
PrestonMitchum @PrestonMitchum
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The cops have literally taken off their badges, but this means nothing? Oh. #Ferguson
10:47 PM – 18 Aug 2014
They should be wearing white hoods, in my opinion.
Brian Rie$ ✔ @moneyries
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“All members of the media please separate yourselves from the protesters,” police say in #Ferguson.
10:45 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Navy Mom @USNavyMomPA
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#Ferguson You’ve tried gas, smoke, pointing guns, military armor and you’re failing. Try engaging with dignity, respect and people skills.
10:32 PM – 18 Aug 2014
The Daily Beast ✔ @thedailybeast
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All 52 officers of the Ferguson Police Department could be outfitted with badge cameras for less than $20,800 http://thebea.st/Yqht8v
3:14 PM – 18 Aug 2014
That Damn Calvin. @phive0phor
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Too many of you are acting like you voted for Huey Freeman and not Barack Obama.
3:56 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Liberal Librarian @Lib_Librarian
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The riot cops are just cold ratfucking Capt. Johnson. #Ferguson
10:28 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Alycee @jazziz2
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.@GovJayNixon, you do realize @Amnesty has observers in #Ferguson. The whole world is watching. http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930 … cc: @CivilRights
10:09 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Harold Itzkowitz @HaroldItz
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Tanks. Tanks on the streets ready to fire upon Americans. This is terrorism by cops. #ferguson
10:10 PM – 18 Aug 2014
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/501568429040476161/photo/1
C. Álvarez-Aranyos @CAlvarezAranyos
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Dispersing the crowd is telling them that their protest is invalid. They have a RIGHT to express anger. You can’t take that away. #Ferguson
10:03 PM – 18 Aug 2014
YA THINK?
Zerlina Maxwell @ZerlinaMaxwell
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I honestly think some white people don’t think cops are ever wrong when killing black men. #Ferguson
6:45 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Agreed. They wait for the media to thuggify the black man and then they say he had it coming. Then they go back to whatever they were doing. White folks do not understand the cumulative effect of what has happened to black people or the native Americans over centuries. They don’t want to understand.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Context: What it means to be a black person in Ferguson, MO
My number one wish for this country is that white people across the land would fire up their “mirror neurons” and take a moment to think about what it means to be a black person living in Ferguson, MO.
That is the context in which folks experienced the gunning down of an unarmed teenager on their streets by a police officer. I won’t say it equals the atmosphere of Jim Crow. But its pretty damn close.
Did you see what they said? Marcus White has to find someone white to drive him home at night or sleep at work to avoid getting pulled over by the cops. When is the last time you had to weigh those options? I think I can pretty safely guess never.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/08/context-what-it-means-to-be-black.html
Tracy @taiping2
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In Ferguson white rules; exploit Blacks to pay the city bills. Not safe to drive while Black. Murder too. #Ferguson http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/08/context-what-it-means-to-be-black.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FlpjFg+%28Smartypants%29 …
10:06 PM – 18 Aug 2014
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Jamelle Bouie ✔ @jbouie
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Again, the police are the ones escalating here.
9:56 PM – 18 Aug 2014
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bacigalupe @bacigalupe
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My solidarity with everyone protesting in #Ferguson For those of you plesantly enjoying reality tv shows, tune into what reality is really.
9:05 PM – 18 Aug 2014
https://twitter.com/leseanthomas/status/501575469913755649
Store owners talk about surveillance video released
Posted 6:24 pm, August 15, 2014, by Jeff Bernthal, Updated at 06:23pm, August 15, 2014
FERGUSON, MO (KPLR) – The surveillance tapes allegedly showing
Michael Brown robbing a Ferguson market. Tonight for the first time,
the owners are speaking out through an attorney about the surveillance
video.
The owner of the store dispute the claim that they or an employee called 911, saying a customer inside the store made the call. They also
say St. Louis County issues the warrants for the hard drive of
surveillance video Friday.
When asked how Ferguson police ended up with the video that the
Ferguson police chief issued Friday morning. The attorney said during
the course of Ferguson’s investigation they came to the store and asked to review the tape. But it wasn’t until Friday that St. Louis County investigators issued a warrant for the video many of you have already seen.
The attorney for the owners of the store says the owners do not wish
to be wrapped up in the middle of this. They are simply complying with
police orders and again the attorney wanted to emphasize the 911 call
did not come from the owners or an employee.
http://kplr11.com/2014/08/15/store-owners-talk-about-surveillance-released/
Weave, weave, weave me the sunshine
Out of the falling rain
Weave me the hope of a new tomorrow
If only I could heal your sorrow
I’d help you to find your new tomorrow
http://youtu.be/2VOkORc8skg&rel=0
http://drewdellinger.org/pages/blog/802/speaking-truth-to-police-lies_rev.-sekou-corrects-the-record-on-msnbc-after-capt.-johnson-misleads-chris-hayes-and-all-of-us
And here you have it!
Thanks, Granny, for posting this VERY important article!!!
Sometimes you have to lookout for snake tracks in the road too, so that you don’t accidentally run into one’s path. Smh!
I’m not getting any good vibes from the Brown’s lawyers. Nope! Listening to his convo with Rachel Maddow.
Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism
CNN reporting white agitators from anarchist groups from outside StL causing problems, crowd tried to get cops to arrest them. #Ferguson
Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism
Ferguson PD just ripped press identifier off of Vice livestreamer, demanding credentials.
Bipartisan Report @Bipartisanism
Now, as I watch the National Guard point their guns… I must say it takes courage for citizens to fight for what they believe in.
Please release me, let me go
For I don’t love you anymore
BWD @theonlyadult
All this madness just to protect one cop who executed a black teen. #Ferguson9:18 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Crazy!
**************
http://youtu.be/a7_7-V7VjA8&rel=0
LOL!
:)
Police have thrown tear gas again.
Jamil Smith @JamilSmith · 7m
Your nightly reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon banned in foreign wars, and now being used in Ferguson: http://wapo.st/1sOr85k
harles Jaco @charlesjaco1 · 7s
Photog who was gassed tells CNN “people in Ferguson are awesome, helped me. Just reacting to decades of being discriminated against.”
ori @No_Xceptions · 6h
Chris Hayes-“Seeing what they have done in front of media I would hate to c what they would do without media present.”
KcVonNormandy:
… This man did nothing yet was gassed, people in homes who did nothing still got gassed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=720_l3dgbYA
Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN · 4h
.@mptpart @KcVonNormandy “Free speech zones” isn’t freedom. “Move or your arrested” isn’t freedom.
Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive · 4h
AUDIO: MSHP Capt. Johnson admits #Ferguson police will likely continue to arrest journalist at protests – http://bit.ly/1rjIp6B
Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN · 5h
.@mptpart @KcVonNormandy If the media cannot document what the government is doing, then the government gets to write their own story.
Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN · 5h
Tonight Amnesty International condemned the United States.
Let me repeat that.
Tonight Amnesty International condemned the United States.
AmnestyInternational @amnesty · 7h
US can’t tell other countries to improve their records on policing and peaceful assembly if it won’t clean up its own human rights record
Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN · 13h
Getty Images photographer Scott Olson, who was just arrested, has taken some of the most iconic photos of #Ferguson. pic.twitter.com/Z7EW3Vz0hJ
https://twitter.com/WillMcAvoyACN/status/501499720187904000/photo/1
The police are pushing it and just want trouble. I have never seen anything like this.
Great counselors helping the crowd.
Any unrest right now will be on the LE’s hands.
I have never seen such STUPIDITY on the part of LE.
They are itching for a fight!
Whoa!
Jake Tapper has seen the light.
Pray for Ferguson!
The police are needless putting pressure on the crowd.
I am praying for Ferguson. Lord protect these people from the police.
*praying*
Big build up on police line:
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930
If we get stopped by police and they ask for our ID, etc. How do we know if they’re cops? How do the people of Ferguson know the bullies roaming their streets sdressed in cop gear are POLICE, when they don’t wear name tags? Anyone can buy a fake badge.
Scary!
what is Johnson saying? No sound.
One thing is for sure, CNN does not stand with Ferguson. It figures though, is Rupert still on it’s Board of Directos?
No TEA-NN does not. They like all the networks are in it for the SPIN.
Sybrina’s letter to the Michael Brown family:
To The Brown Family,
I wish I had a word of automatic comfort but I don’t. I wish I could say that it will be alright on a certain or specific day but I can’t. I wish that all of the pain that I have endured could possibly ease some of yours but it won’t. What I can do for you is what has been done for me: pray for you then share my continuing journey as you begin yours.
I hate that you and your family must join this exclusive yet growing group of parents and relatives who have lost loved ones to senseless gun violence. Of particular concern is that so many of these gun violence cases involve children far too young. But Michael is much more than a police/gun violence case; Michael is your son. A son that barely had a chance to live. Our children are our future so whenever any of our children – black, white, brown, yellow, or red – are taken from us unnecessarily, it causes a never-ending pain that is unlike anything I could have imagined experiencing.
Further complicating the pain and loss in this tragedy is the fact that the killer of your son is alive, known, and currently free. In fact, he is on paid administrative leave. Your own feelings will bounce between sorrow and anger. Even when you don’t want to think about it because it is so much to bear, you will be forced to by merely turning on your television or answering your cell phone. You may find yourselves pulled in many different directions by strangers who may be well-wishers or detractors. Your circle will necessarily close tighter because the trust you once, if ever, you had in “the system” and their agents are forever changed. Your lives are forever changed.
However with those changes come new challenges and opportunities. You will experience a swell of support from all corners of the world. Many will express their sympathies and encourage you to keep fighting for Michael. You will also, unfortunately, hear character assassinations about Michael which I am certain you already have. This will incense and insult you. All of this will happen before and continue long after you have had the chance to lay your son to rest.
I know this because I lived and continue to live this. I have devoted my life to the comprehensive missions of The Trayvon Martin Foundation – including providing support to families that have lost a young child to senseless gun violence regardless of race, ethnicity or gender. I will support you and your efforts to seek justice for your Michael and the countless other Michaels & Trayvons of our country. The 20 Sandy Hook children. Jordan Davis. Oscar Grant. Kendrick Johnson. Sean Bell. Hadya Pendleton. The Aurora shooting victims. The list is too numerous to adequately mention them all. According to The Children’s Defense Fund, gun violence is the second leading cause of death for children ages 1-19. That is a horrible fact.
Facts, myths, and flat out lies are already out there in Michael’s case. Theories, regardless of how ridiculous, are being pondered by the pundits. My advice is to surround yourselves with proven and trusted support. Through it all, I never let go of my faith, my family, or my friends. Long after the overwhelming media attention is gone, you will need those three entities to find your ‘new normal.’ Honor your son and his life, not the circumstances of his alleged transgressions. I have always said that Trayvon was not perfect. But no one will ever convince me that my son deserved to be stalked and murdered. No one can convince you that Michael deserved to be executed.
But know this: neither of their lives shall be in vain. The galvanizations of our communities must be continued beyond the tragedies. While we fight injustice, we will also hold ourselves to an appropriate level of intelligent advocacy. If they refuse to hear us, we will make them feel us. Some will mistake that last statement as being negatively provocative. But feeling us means feeling our pain; imagining our plight as parents of slain children. We will no longer be ignored. We will bond, continue our fights for justice, and make them remember our children in an appropriate light. I would hate to think that our lawmakers and leaders would need to lose a child before protecting the rest of them and making the necessary changes NOW…
With Heartfelt Support,
Sybrina D. Fulton
http://time.com/3136685/travyon-sybrina-fulton-ferguson/
Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid · 44m
While everyone is focused on Ferguson, John Crawford’s family fights for the video of his shooting in WalMart: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/family-man-killed-cops-walmart-demands-surveillance-video …
Amazing, isn’t it?
Black History Heroes @HistoryHeroes
National Bar Association files lawsuit against the City of #Ferguson & its police department for documents #MikeBrown
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-18/ferguson-sued-by-national-bar-association-over-brown-documents …
Retweeted by Antonio French
TIME.com @TIME · 1m
Trayvon Martin’s mom to Michael Brown’s family: ‘If they refuse to hear us, we will make them feel us’ http://ti.me/1uPAM8v
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Yes!
HA HA HA HA.
Wow can you imagine what would happen to these protester if they rolled up into FOX’s lot?
CNN is a joke, just like FOX.
Power to the People!
This shows the greater problem in America……
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/501537787061874688/photo/1
This Civil Rights Movement in Ferguson needs to be taken to every city in American until the Whites “get it”
How do you rate “Pew” as far as being a good/bad survey company?
This chart was retweeted by
Retweeted by Charles Jaco
mia farrow @MiaFarrow · 3m
Clueless RT @voxdotcom: Poll: White people think the Michael Brown investigation is going fine http://bit.ly/1th1UJJ
https://twitter.com/TheATRegister/status/501476877060812802/photo/1
The above photo was retweeted by Ana Marie Cox saying this photo of support was from Turkey.
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox · 9m
Well now I’m just embarrassed. RT @ekonomist77: In solidarity with #Ferguson from #Turkey #HandsUpDontShoot
The police chief should have BEEN GONE along with the mayor and prosecutor.
Yeah, long gone!
Yep! Hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more, no more.
Some people “ain’t” getting in and sure won’t have any shoes or robes.
Livestreaming here:
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9035483/events/3271930
This is the new Civil Rights Movement!
Thank you, Yahtc
Nelly on the ground…
There is my leader! One of my favorites!
Cheering!! Yes, Yes, Yes!!!
Yes! go Rep. Lewis. I’m sure he thought he’d never have to see the day when 1960s gets repeated. WHERE ARE YOUNG ACTIVIST?
I love Rep John Lewis, a genuinely kind, good, unselfish person. Why are there so relatively few like him?
Okay, Captain Johnson said that the National Guard are under his command. Anyone who has served in the military knows that don’t sound right. Y’all can trust him if you want, but sorry, I don’t. The protesters are not being treated better, they’re being treated worse. Captain Johnson is a front and has no authority!
LOL Sorry, Granny. I was thinking the same from jump.
The only thing Ron Johnson said yesterday that I know to be true is: ‘” AM YOU.”
That’s right Officer Johnson, you are one of the black folks in Ferguson. And you do NOT have the power to dictate what the National Guard will be doing there.
Ametia, you and I are from the old school we know from experience how racism works. One I know and you know is how racist whites operate. They put their man out there to pacify those Black people. I wonder what’s in it for him.
The governor is not fooling me either. He wants them to squash the demonstrations and silence the voice of the people. I have and had too many kinfolks and friends in all branches of the military to know that the military is not under the command of anyone other than military commanders and the commander in chief. They can save that B.S. explanation. I guess the only ones that get on the law enforcement force down there are those who do the bidding of massa. SMH!
You know, I think the cops are keeping the crowd walking so that the elders will tire and then the police will have the younger protesters all to themselves.
Keep an eye on the LE officers that have their gloves on.
Granny, it is good that you are telling it like it is.
I am listening to you very carefully.
Yep, Yahtzee, they’re definitely trying to tire out the elderly people and do exactly what you said. Keep an eye on those without name tags and carrying baton with brass tips on the end of them.
I hadn’t noticed the brass tips…I feel a quaking in my arms as I am typing.
I would feel so intimidated knowing that cops with no id or badges don’t have to answer for their own misconduct……
Johnson was among his peeps @that rally. He knows what’s going on, but he is poweless, once he meets with the white leaders.
And, he wants to save the protesters from the hands of the vicious police of Ferguson and other areas.
Is this their version of the Bataan Death March or what?
This is a violation of their first amendment right.
“Ten Things White People Can Do About Ferguson Besides Tweet”
http://www.damemagazine.com/2014/08/14/ten-things-white-people-can-do-about-ferguson-besides-tweet
The Po Po will TELL you when you can exercise your 1st amendment rights. Until then….keep it moving….you trouble making nigras.
The people of Ferguson will not give up. They better not give up the protest. Their ancestors died to check this mofo shit that’s happening, and they need to fight now to get it in CHECK in the 21st centruy. One town at a time, folks. Clean up America’s racism!
I am glad the world and I are “being taught” finally what Blacks have always had to endure from the police.
I am so proud of Ferguson’s Black community for standing up and showing us at the same time what they, despite being peaceful protestors, are enduring from Feruguson’s police force.
And this…..after the 60’s civil rights era……..is happening OUTSIDE the deep South.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia · 8m
Cops are using stopping as an excuse to arrest because they know that no one can keep walking for hours. This is obscene #Ferguson
Yup!
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Charles Jaco @charlesjaco1 · 10m
Capt. Johnson of MSHP tells @ksdknews that some “gang members from outside Ferguson, outside of Missouri” are among violent insurgents.
Thought so, and don’t put it pass these violent insurgents being aided by FPD.
or being paid
Co-signing this too!
Hey you SELFISH Black looters and trouble makers:
Thank God your numbers are tiny!
You are a disgrace!
You have dishonored the memory of Michael Brown!
You don’t give a damn about Michael Brown, do you?!!
You are a stupid, ignorant CONTRAST to the thousands upon thousands of dignified, peaceful protestors who are seeking justice for Mike Brown.
Begone you fools! Your numbers are small and you have empty souls!
Amy K. Nelson @AmyKNelson · 2m
Getty photographer arrested #ferguson
http://instagram.com/p/r20Wfwssp8/
Look. No badges.
Can’t have badges with ID if you plan to abuse people and break the law and break PD guidelines.
Not wear badge ID = confession!
Petition now has 204,326 signatures.
“Please Enact New Federal Laws to Protect Citizens from Police Violence and Misconduct”
https://www.change.org/petitions/president-barack-obama-please-enact-new-federal-laws-to-protect-citizens-from-police-violence-and-misconduct
Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, who is now supervising Ferguson security, seemed to confirm the reports when asked about the issue today. From the Huffington Post:
“What happened is, some people are taking their names and going on the Internet and getting their identities and social security numbers, and so that’s been occurring,” Johnson said.
(THIS IS SOME REAL BULLSHIT HERE)
“I can’t set rules for another police department,” Johnson added, telling Reilly the Ferguson police chief would have to address the identification issues. Johnson also noted Missouri State Highway Patrol officers have removed their name tags “for their safety and security, but if you ask them their name they’ve been told to tell you.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/08/15/ferguson_police_nametags_reportedly_haven_t_been_worn.html
Throwing rocks and hiding their hands. Sneaky S.O.B.’s!
I betcha that they’re not really police and are volunteers.
Ferguson police chief and the governor don’t want their racist injustice exposed. No cameras wanted around to expose their lies,
All that ugly filthy racism is coming to light. It’s already been exposed.
AdamSerwer @AdamSerwer · 3m
I’m sure @ryanjreilly already mentioned this but the only other place I’ve ever seen armed authorities hide their names like that is Gitmo.
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
And what’s hilarious is watching ppl at lilly white institutions trying to check the President on his Blackness.
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
My question to y’all that are so upset and mad at the President for the statement you demanded. When do you start the revolution?
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
When are you going to cuss out YOUR white bosses, quit your jobs & sell your shit to devote all of your time and energy to fighting The Man?
Mr. NFTG @Kennymack1971
This especially applies to the Blackademics and Negro Concern Trolls….when can we expect you to leave those cushy ivory towers?
ragmaticObotsUnite @PragObots
Dear Cop who shoved Don Lemon, We understand. Sincerely, #BlackTwitter
https://twitter.com/stevenjhsieh/status/501492139197759488/photo/1
Video on the Holocaust survivor (91 y/o) arrested in #Ferguson. She has spent years working for Palestinian justice
Only4RM @Only4RM
Because unprecedented deployment of DOJ/FBI to to get ACTUAL justice for #MikeBrown is #JustLike attending a #DarrenWilson rally. #GTFOHWTBS
Malcolm Johnson @admiralmpj
Y’all can insult me all you want. If you think President Obama somehow needs to do more than he has, you do need to take a Civics class.
Charlamagne Tha God ✔ @cthagod
Barack said The DOJ has opened an independent federal civil rights investigation into the death of Michael Brown. Y’all didn’t hear that?
Charlamagne Tha God ✔ @cthagod
President Obama said no excuse for excessive force by police and he didn’t cosign the militarization of police. Y’all didn’t hear that?
Charlamagne Tha God ✔ @cthagod
President even talked about his “My Brothers Keeper” initiative working to get people to stop looking at blackmen as something to fear.
Charlamagne Tha God ✔ @cthagod
When Barack says the DOJ is investigating that’s the equivalent of saying “I’m about to put a case on all you bitches.”
LMBAO I know that’s right.
meta @metaquest
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The Attorney General of the United States of America is going to Ferguson Wed. The Department of Justice & FBI are already there. #DotheMath
4:05 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Kayla @KayDubzHU
The fact that the nation’s top cop — AG Eric Holder — will be visiting Ferguson should tell you everything.
aspirational12 @aspirational12
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@KayDubzHU But some black pundits are telling me that Obama didn’t fuss and cuss enough about racism on the podium….
4:14 PM – 18 Aug 2014
“The fact that the nation’s top cop — AG Eric Holder — will be visiting Ferguson should tell you everything.”
That’s what I’ve been saying. AGH must be feeling the fierce urgency of now. This problem (the killing of black men) is escalating and it can’t go on. It just can’t.
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/501473744423256065/photo/1
ladies, can you post this?
from TOD:
HOPE44
August 18, 2014 at 4:22 pm
Rev AL was the opening segment on Alex Wagner show. He was FANTASTIC. He nailed all the right points precisely with a scalpel.
He even called out HRC and others about their silence on the MO issues.
Please try to watch replay if u can. Or if one of the BT’s could post this segment. Loved how Rev Al defended our President.
We posted a similar video yesterday with Rev. Al on MHP show laying the paddle on HRC and the rest of the silent Dems.
https://twitter.com/jazziz2/status/501453073198612481/photo/1
Ha! Printing this one for my daughter.
https://twitter.com/jazziz2/status/501454608804638720/photo/1
Is this a JOKE? Please tell me this pic is a joke.
I read the article and cannot believe the indifference of the tourists to this artist’s statement as he lay there in that pose.
Kriss Fett @insanityreport
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by the end of today we’ll have 3 statements from Obama and a grand total of 0 from the white person who will be the next POTUS
2:35 PM – 18 Aug 2014
zizi2
@zizii2
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Dear #Blackademics y’all need to RESTART CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & do grunt work. PBO is Prez not mvt leader. He’s doing his job, do urs
these folks are just a DISTRACTION, andnothing more.
from Aleth at POU:
aleth • a minute ago
A. The town did not show up to vote…12 percent did, ended up with white err thing including a republican mayor…. But hey don’t vote again because you didn’t hear what you want.
B. DOJ and FBI on case, first time ever…black folk complain.
C. Obama say so,etching on race…what specifically..why so concerned about whites…they are not going to change. Still not realized obama became the issue in trayvon case and Zimmerman was acquitted.
D. The complexity of being black and president…white is the default absolutely no expectation from the citizens on changing anything.
E. Obama is going in two years…whites coming back to power. More so, Nixon and the pd still be there… No pressure on Nixon to change the pd or anything. Just screaming obama.
F. Civics is lacking in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osjnGkft9Lc
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/501472203796275200
Figures. And Obama administration orchestrated the slave trade too.
THAT’S IT!
A Trio of Leadership In 2013
Posted on January 16, 2013 by Ametia
THIS, here is the reason for the NRA’s DERANGEMENT. Should add white supremacist too http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/01/16/a-trio-of-leadership-in-2013/
The msm said Dorin Johnson wasn’t credible b/c he’s a friend of Mike Brown but the msm is reporting Darren Wilson’s version of what happened through a friend. Huh?
I do hope Twitter is lighting up the msm asses for this nonsense.
Indeed! Just think, if it wasn’t for black Twitter, Darren Wilson would have gotten away with murder. Black Twitter blew the story up.
Major applause to Black Twitter!
There you go! Now what is Chief Jackson’s response. You gonna get the Po Po to fire tear gas at AG Holder too?
Yes!
NO EXCUSE!
I hate these effing Gestapo cops.
I despise them.
Those are good kids. Do you see the officer’s neck grip on the young man in the foreground and then the black pants of the officer to the right of the young man in the background looking like the officer is going to trip him down to the ground?
Totally unnecessary. They want to intimidate and hurt.
Police are abusing the hell out of black citizens. Police told protester you will exercise your first amendment right when I TELL you.
This is the white confederacy’s last hurrah, before they are handled. they know Ferguson will never be the same, after one of their own executed a black teenaged boy in BROAD DAY LIGHT.
The world is watching Ferguson and it doesn’t like what it sees.
What we are witnessing in Ferguson is twofold.
1. Racist power structure digging in to maintain status quo- control of the negroes.
2. Blatant disregard, disrespect for President Obama, AG Eric Holder, and Todd B. Jones- These powerful black men are a TRIPLE THREAT to the white supremacy mindset of the leaders in power and those out of power.
Eyewitness Says Officer Darren Wilson Chased After Michael Brown While Shooting Him
Another consistent eyewitness report with new details
By Charles Johnson
Read more at http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43745_Eyewitness_Says_Officer_Darren_Wilson_Chased_After_Michael_Brown_While_Shooting_Him#RRqq5BmELKQaDJEC.99
https://twitter.com/kansasalps/status/501424457547018241/photo/1
Awwww, now isn’t this special? What do you reckon these people can do to improve the image of Ferguson through public relations?
We’re way past public relations, I would say. That police chief needs his ass fired. That’s a good start. Then they need to find the murderer and arrest him.
Must be the city council that thought hiring a public relations firm would be a good idea. Seriously, what can these people possible do except try to make as much money as possible?
MY EYES! WTF
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/501436057796476930/photo/1
LOL Like we really need Pew! We’ve been smelling racial disparity for 400 years & country and it stinks PHEW!
JB20005 • an hour ago
One thing I haven’t seen thus far:
Any of the 3 black Ferguson PD officers coming out to say what a great guy Darren Wilson is.
You’d think if that was the case, Chief “Stonewall” Jackson would be parading them around everywhere.
Goldie Taylor @goldietaylor
Baden says chest wounds are top-down exits from head shots, not direct as county contends.
Bobfr @Our4thEstate
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@goldietaylor Quite fortunate that AG Holder has ordered Federal forensics experts to perform an additional autopsy. #ArrestDarrenWilson
12:37 PM – 18 Aug 2014
Indeed. The Feds autopsy will prevail, supported by Baden’s work. The county can’t be trusted trying to save that cop.
One white racist cops value over the citizens of Ferguson. Yes; this is America in the 21st century folks!
#Ferguson : My Thoughts on an American Flashpoint
Posted on August 18, 2014 by michaelwtwitty
“…It was the corroboration of their worth and their power that they wanted, and not the corpse, still less the staining blood.” James Baldwin, “To Be Baptized,” from No Name in the Street, 1972
I have been asked by many people to take a close look at the Michael Brown shooting case in Ferguson, Missouri and offer my opinion. I felt it best to take a step back and really absorb all the circulating currents of opinion and matters of fact before I made any personal pronouncements. This is my best attempt to answer that call, hopefully soberly, responsibly and with as much restraint as I can muster in the face of this deeply American tragedy. This is inherently a blog about food and food culture, but anyone who regularly reads this blog understands that it also is a blog about social and cultural justice. It is clear to anyone who knows the African American experience and tradition—to speak on it demands the celebration of the best of our cultural and historical legacy, scholarly excellence, and absolute commitment to social and cultural responsibility. This is a raw piece—it’s not meant to be perfect—far from it. It’s just how I feel. My condolences to the Brown family. There is profanity in this blog post.
I received a nasty tweet last night; a tweet with a food theme in fact. Michael Brown’s bleeding corpse with pictures of food transposed around it—fried chicken, bananas, watermelon, with Kool-Aid to wash it down. My chest hurt and then I stared into space and before I knew it, I vomited. It was not nausea—it was anger mixed with revulsion and memories from lives only my cells know.
I want you to understand something—I’ve been on multiple plantations and urban sites dealing with slavery. I’ve felt the Ancestors in the fields. I’ve seen the auction block and the whipping post and the hanging tree. I embrace it, I own it, and I live it through food so I can say “Never Again,” with confidence. I do the work that I do to educate people about the genesis of America’s original sin—I consider myself steeled. This however, was different—this was personal; that body could have been me.
Swirling around us are accusations, whispers and rumors about a “gentle giant,” named Michael Brown. Michael Brown cannot be defined by the politics of respectability or the politics of backlash. He cannot be dismissed with smirks and allegations he was just a “thug.” Michel Brown is dead. He was on his knees, with his hands up in a gesture of surrender and he was shot six times and then left in the street, his blood merging with asphalt, his life draining out with his future, the dreams of his parents and the hope of his ancestors. That’s what surrounded him—not racialized food icons.
http://afroculinaria.com/2014/08/18/ferguson-my-thoughts-on-an-american-flashpoint/
Powerful… and the photo- shopped food images surrounding Michael’s dead body, who does that? THE SOULESS
Minna Hong
@asiangrrlMN
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St. Louis County has released their own autopsy report now that Dr. Baden released his. Imagine that.
Powerful pic : Call us by our names
http://loveandjealousy.tumblr.com/post/95109978812
Trymaine Lee @trymainelee 5m
Rev. Sharpton just arrived. Tried to shake officer’s hand. Officer declined, told Rev. to keep moving.
Trymaine Lee @trymainelee 7m
Ordered to leave QT. Officers abrasive. For some reason CNN crew allowed to stay. Everyone else not so kindly told to leave or face arrest.
These cops think they are at war. Bad, bad situation.
This is a side effect of those “states rights,” Liza.
Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs
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Remember when St. Louis County said that tox report would take 6 to 8 weeks? Well, never mind – MARIJUANA! http://lgf.bz/1As8tgP
Ha, ha. I can’t wait for marijuana to be legal everywhere in this country.
Wonder what Darren Wilson’s tox report would reveal. Shooting Michael Brown 6 times .. METH?
You read my mind, Ametia. The white folks prefer meth.
Town • an hour ago
Barack Obama = weak punk who needs to be held accountable for what’s going on in Ferguson
Jay Nixon = tender spring bud who’s not used to be spoken to harshly and who needs to be left alone.
Get the picture?
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Bobby Scmedium Shirt
@Vandalyzm
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U can’t be stationary anymore, can’t go to the QT, curfew lifted, and the National Guard is here. This is a set up.
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Andrea Peterson
@kansasalps
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City of #Ferguson just hired a PR firm.Their entire team appears to be white: http://www.commongroundpr.com/… …
April @ReignOfApril
Note the timing of this #MikeBrown had weed in his system leak. Same day as the Baden autopsy results which make #Ferguson PD look bad. Oh.
aspirational12 @aspirational12
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@ReignOfApril Exactly. A poorly sourced leak, but still no full official report.
11:58 AM – 18 Aug 2014
thank you ladies for keeping on top of this. I appreciate it. Got to continue to get the news out.
Ferguson racist police department are not going quietly into that good night. they’re not going to turn their boy in for EXECUTING the BLACK boy Michael Brown Jr.
We’ve got a long road ahead of us. We ain’t no ways tired