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Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)

Looks like they are laying the ground work for the justification of that cop.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_e9b5412f-2283-512e-8636-0d2bbe958c5c.html

Shooting an unarmed suspect could be justified, according to the law

ST. LOUIS • The fact that Michael Brown was unarmed and possibly fleeing when a Ferguson police officer shot him does not necessarily mean the use of force was unjustified in the eyes of the law.

As federal and local authorities begin investigating the case, the key question will be whether the officer had reason to believe Brown, 18, posed a threat — gun or no gun.

The courts, out of concern for public safety and recognizing the dangers of an officer’s job, have traditionally given police a lot of latitude on that front, experts say.

“The federal courts are very clear that there are times and places where officers are allowed to shoot people in the back when they are running away, even if they are unarmed,” said David Klinger, a criminal justice professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and expert on police shootings.

Klinger, a former police officer, pointed to the 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case, Tennessee vs. Garner.

In that case, two police officers responding to a burglary encountered a fleeing suspect and shot him dead as he tried to climb over a fence. The officer who fired had no reason to believe the suspect was armed.

In a 6-3 opinion, the court held that “deadly force may not be used unless it is necessary to prevent the escape and the officer had probable cause to believe that the suspect posed a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.”

While the court ruled that the officer was wrong to shoot, because he was dealing with a nonviolent felon, the decision set out the circumstances by which deadly force is justified: when dealing with a violent felon who could harm the officer or others, Klinger said.

Language from that case, in some variation, now appears in police manuals across the country.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said in a news conference Sunday that Brown first pushed the Ferguson officer into his car and “assaulted him.”

Belmar said one shot was fired from the officer’s gun inside the car during the struggle, hitting no one, and that the officer then fired multiple times. Officials have refused to provide a more detailed account, pending further investigation.

Klinger said that if an investigation shows the earlier struggle did occur as described, even if Brown was fleeing, it could be grounds for justifying the shooting.

Belmar has promised a thorough investigation into the shooting. Ed Magee, a spokesman for Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, said the office will be reviewing the case — as it does with all officer-involved shootings — for any potential criminal charges.

On Monday, County Executive Charlie Dooley announced that the FBI will conduct its own investigation.

The FBI would be looking to see whether there was evidence the officer violated federal civil rights laws in his use of deadly force.

Klinger said deadly force reviews differ across the country.

Prosecutors may be brought in from the start, or only at the request of the police department after its own review is finished. Some states have coroner’s inquests. He said involvement from the FBI is rarer.

Last year, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson asked the FBI to review his officers’ actions in the case of Cary Ball, 25, who was shot 21 times by police after a car chase on Sept. 27, 2012.

Witness accounts had differed on whether Ball had a gun in his hand, and whether he was throwing it aside and surrendering when the shots were fired, or pointing it at officers as they said.

Both the department and the FBI cleared the officers in that case.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...hael-brown-shooting-the-war-on-whites-and-me/

Also has embedded links @sourcelink.
The Michael Brown shooting, the ‘war on whites’ and me

You’re well aware that I have serious issues with the concept of a “war on whites,” as espoused repeatedly of late by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.). The very idea, this notion that whites are under siege particularly by black and brown takers, as I have written before, is worthy of a thousand side eyes. But Brooks’s contention feels especially offensive in light of recent events.

On Saturday afternoon in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb outside St. Louis, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown. There are conflicting stories about what happened. One witness told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she saw police try to put the unarmed Brown in a squad car. Brown’s mother said her 18-year-old son was walking to his grandmother’s house a few homes away. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said there was a struggle over the cop’s gun. An investigation into what happened is underway, and the civil rights division of the Justice Department is monitoring the case.

Brown’s death came two days after Theodore Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Renisha McBride. The 19-year-old African American woman reportedly banged on his suburban Detroit door and windows in the middle of the night last November seeking help after a car accident. Wafer, who said he feared a home invasion, opened his front door and shot McBride dead.

Wafer’s conviction came two days after John Crawford, a father of two, ventured over to the toy department of a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio. There he reportedly picked up a toy gun and walked with it while talking on the phone with LeeCee Johnson, the mother of his children. According to the Dayton Daily News, two other shoppers became alarmed and called police. Johnson told the paper she heard Crawford say “It’s not real” before he was shot and killed by police.

And that horrible incident occurred one year and one month after George Zimmerman was acquitted of the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. The neighborhood watch volunteer called the Sanford, Fla., police department because he thought the unarmed black teen walking in the neighborhood was a “real suspicious guy.” The 17-year-old was returning to the apartment where he was staying after going to a convenience store.

When I wrote first wrote about Martin’s killing, I said that one of the burdens of being a black male was bearing the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. The McBride murder shows that such suspicion knows no gender. I also wrote about the lessons my mother taught me growing up. How I shouldn’t run in public, lest I arouse undue suspicion. How I most definitely should not run with anything in my hands, lest anyone think I stole something. The lesson included not talking back to the police, lest you give them a reason to take you to jail — or worse. And I was taught to never, ever leave home without identification. The reason was not only a precaution in case something happened, such as an accident, but also in case I’m stopped by police for whatever reason. To this day, whether I’m going on a run or just running to get something out of my car nearby, I never step out of my home without my driver’s license, insurance card and my Washington Post business card with my partner’s cellphone number written on it.

When you’re black and especially male — in the United States — you have to go to these seemingly overboard, extra lengths in the off-chance they might save your life. But none of those things would have helped me if I were in the shoes of Michael Brown or Renisha McBride or Trayvon Martin. We don’t know yet if Brown was asked for identification, but we know the other two weren’t. Perhaps their assailants saw all they needed to know.

What frightens me more than anything in the world is that the chances are very high that one day I might be in their shoes and might meet their tragic end. The so-called victims of the nonexistent “war on whites” have absolutely NO idea what living under that kind of siege, that kind of very real threat, is like.
 
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So maybe sagging pants and hoodies have nothing to do with it. Maybe folks just hate headwear.
 
Camille said:
Here is a petition that can be used as a starting point for ideas:

https://www.change.org/petitions/pr...-citizens-from-police-violence-and-misconduct


I love good police officers. I have them in my immediate family. Like all civil servants they are underpaid and under-resourced for a difficult job.

However, a long and completely avoidable history of violence by police officers has killed too many innocent civilians, caused a destructive level of mistrust in the community, and is causing a rising tide of anger, frustration, and despair among millions of good people.

This petition is for Amadou Diallo - shot at 41 times. An innocent, hardworking man simply reaching for his wallet, Diallo should be alive today.

This petition is for Sean Bell - shot at over 50 times and killed on his wedding day.

This petition is for Oscar Grant - handcuffed with his hands behind his back for breaking a fight on the subway - Oscar was shot in the back and killed by a police officer while sitting down.

This petition is for Chavis Carter - arrested for marijuana, searched, handcuffed with his hands behind his back, and put into the back of a police car. Chavis is then said to have somehow killed himself with a gun.

This petition is for Wendell Allen - just 20 years old - police busted into a house and shot him in the heart - killing him. He wasn't who they were looking for.

This petition is for Eric Garner - choked to death on YouTube for the entire world to see. While the coroner has deemed his death a homicide, we must change the laws to prevent this from ever happening again.

This petition is for these men, and for many other unarmed men and women who have been killed by the police. It is unacceptable for the police to serve as JUDGE, JURY, and EXECUTIONER. The recent murders of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and John Crawford this past month at the hands of police have so inflamed communities across the country that we believe we are reaching a tipping point of anger.

It is our hope to channel this collective anger into effective policy solutions that will not only make life safer for citizens, but will restore confidence in police, and bring hope to hopeless families and communities devastated by these egregious acts of violence.

Our 5 Policy Solutions Are As Follows:

1. The shooting and killing of an unarmed citizen who does not have an outstanding warrant for a violent crime should be a federal offense.

2. Choke holds and chest compressions by police (what the coroner lists as the official cause of death for Eric Garner) should be federally banned.

3. All police officers must wear forward-facing body cameras while on duty. They cost just $99 and are having a signficant, positive impact in several cities around the United States and the world.

4. Suspensions for violations of any of the above offenses should be UNPAID.

5. Convictions for the above offenses should have their own set of mandatory minimum penalties. The men who killed Diallo, Bell, Grant, Carter, Garner, and others all walk free while over 1,000,000 non violent offenders are currently incarcerated in American prisons.

These federal actions are in the best interest of our country. We will direct our anger, our dollars, our votes, and our voice to seeing them happen all across the country.
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Very nice...signed and shared :)
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...i_n_5671891.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000051

Stark Racial Disparities In Ferguson, Missouri, The Town Where Michael Brown Was Shot

Ferguson, Missouri erupted in anger after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot to death by a police officer on Saturday.

Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis -- as of the 2000 census, the ninth most segregated city in America -- was mostly white until school desegregation, when white families moved further out.

Today, the town of 21,000 people is two-thirds black, yet the town's leadership and police force are mostly white.

The Los Angeles Times surfaced some alarming statistics about racial divisions in the town that help to put that anger in context:

Ferguson’s police chief and mayor are white. Of the six City Council members, one is black. The local school board has six white members and one Latino. Of the 53 commissioned officers on the police force, three are black, said Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson.

Blacks in Ferguson are twice as likely to be stopped by police as whites, according to an annual report on racial profiling by the Missouri attorney general. Last year, 93% of arrests following car stops in Ferguson were of blacks. Ninety-two percent of searches and 80% of car stops involved blacks, the report said.

That report also showed that police were less likely to find contraband on the black drivers they stopped. (Police found contraband on 22 percent of black residents they stopped, compared to 34 percent of white residents.)

Residents told the LA Times that these dynamics contribute to the "racial powder keg" that's developed in Ferguson. (Read the full report here).

There have been conflicting accounts of what happened the night Brown was shot. A witness reports that when an officer opened his car door, it hit Brown and then bounced back on the officer, enraging him. He grabbed Brown and shot him. Brown and a friend ran and the officer then shot Brown in the back. Brown stopped, turned around and put his hands up, before the officer shot him an additional several times at close range, killing him.
The police account differs dramatically, though the department has provided few details other than saying that someone tried to take the officer's gun.
 
militantmidget said:
Ok. The N word isn't used at all from blk people anymore starting NOW.

How does that stop brothers from being killed by police unjustly?
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#1 we look at each other with respect vs negativity.

Calling someone brother, Black man, sister, God etc. Resonantes towards the soul far greater than n...a, no matter if the tone/context is

#2 our women and children can look up to their fathers with pride and respect.

#3 just maybe we can get our families together, educate our kids and adults and create a cultural trust amongst us so we do this have all the self hate and economic dis-unity.

If we don't look at each other with love and respect, you sure as hell won't have anyone else respect you.

RIP to the young man in LA, just posted.
 
militantmidget said:
Ok. The N word isn't used at all from blk people anymore starting NOW.

How does that stop brothers from being killed by police unjustly?
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The moment anyone-anywhere uses that word around me
I let them know,,To STOP that around ME ! !
To many have DIED because of that word
Slave Ship Thrown over board, hangings, Burnings, Cutting etc
Do Not use around me
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> Turn your anger into action. We must conduct a campaign for justice nonviolently!</p>&mdash; NAACP (@NAACP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP/statuses/498974222988107776">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Man real talk this is the first time in years I havent payed attention to the Nfl. Fuck them niggas anyways. They probably think massa loves them. Just wait till they hurt themselves or are no longer usefull. Look at Vince Young!:smh::smh::smh:
 
durham said:
#1 we look at each other with respect vs negativity.

Calling someone brother, Black man, sister, God etc. Resonantes towards the soul far greater than n...a, no matter if the tone/context is

#2 our women and children can look up to their fathers with pride and respect.

#3 just maybe we can get our families together, educate our kids and adults and create a cultural trust amongst us so we do this have all the self hate and economic dis-unity.

If we don't look at each other with love and respect, you sure as hell won't have anyone else respect you.

RIP to the young man in LA, just posted.
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Sooooooooo, how does that stop cops from killing innocent black men...

Racist cop: they all respect themselves now, guess we can't prey on them


:hmm:
 
Jay-Vill said:
clown organization since inception. i, me personally, wouldn't be surprised by their antics. those guys have sucker running through their charter.

it's hard to find a true organization.
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The NAACP has and always will be an organization only about money.....they will lay down with the highest bidder....just like a true whore does.
 

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