Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)
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See all that "military type shit". Some Black folks actually requested that that type of shit come into their neighborhoods in order to protect them from "gang members".
....even tho the gang members were mainly shooting other gang members.
If they start picking some of those folks off......like some Gaza type shit....then it'll make international news. It'll be harder to convince folks overseas that you wanna save oppressed people, in areas that youre tryna colonize, while youre picking off oppressed people at home.
But yeah.....
lol@some of the comments in this thread.
I'll be back later.
....even tho the gang members were mainly shooting other gang members.
If they start picking some of those folks off......like some Gaza type shit....then it'll make international news. It'll be harder to convince folks overseas that you wanna save oppressed people, in areas that youre tryna colonize, while youre picking off oppressed people at home.
But yeah.....
lol@some of the comments in this thread.
I'll be back later.
I still have mixed feelings about groups behind anonymous and wikileaks etc, but I can't say anonymous is not doing the damn thing...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash">#Anonymous</a> has obtained audio files of police dispatch and EMS during the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> shooting. Will release ASAP. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499458771799015424">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>MORE: We will release these audio files to the public in the very near future. (Approx 6-8 hours from now). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AudioTapes?src=hash">#AudioTapes</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499460631515660288">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>WARNING RT: <a href="http://t.co/IsiKjyoQu8">http://t.co/IsiKjyoQu8</a> IS NOT A LEGITIMATE WEBSITE. HONEYPOT DETECTED AND GOVERNMENT WILL TRACE YOUR LOCATION. DO NOT CLICK.</p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499461650773450752">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash">#Anonymous</a> has obtained audio files of police dispatch and EMS during the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> shooting. Will release ASAP. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499458771799015424">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>MORE: We will release these audio files to the public in the very near future. (Approx 6-8 hours from now). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AudioTapes?src=hash">#AudioTapes</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499460631515660288">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>WARNING RT: <a href="http://t.co/IsiKjyoQu8">http://t.co/IsiKjyoQu8</a> IS NOT A LEGITIMATE WEBSITE. HONEYPOT DETECTED AND GOVERNMENT WILL TRACE YOUR LOCATION. DO NOT CLICK.</p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499461650773450752">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Yeah I intended to post an update to that earlier but I got lost in other info Lol.
Also, seems that I remember her being described as white initially.
That dude who's twitter you just posted has been a moral soldier since I first came across his tweets (might've been through you). Proud of that brother...
Check out the comments on this tweet. He doesn't want to go on camera, but anonymous said the police said the shooting took place @ 2 pm. The pic was taken at 12:05 local time:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The last photo was taken by <a href="https://twitter.com/TheePharoah">@TheePharoah</a> at 12:05 PM CDT.</p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499448912542183425">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Rise
The St. Louis County Chief did say about noon, not sure what the other chief may have said though.
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/crime/2014/08/10/ferguson-police-news-conference-michael-brown/13860601/
Either way, we now have a picture of that slimy cop as well as more testimony engraved in "cyber-stone" that documents the events real time.
Man we need to be on some dark knight rises type shit with bane and his army
His soldiers was beasts and took out cops like it was nothing
Rise
His soldiers was beasts and took out cops like it was nothing
Rise
Last post and then I'm going to bed:
From a few days ago:
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Nice article about Mike, may have been posted already so I'm just linking to it:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...7-8e0e-3139f472d130.html#.U-jlm_O96cI.twitter
From a few days ago:
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Nice article about Mike, may have been posted already so I'm just linking to it:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...7-8e0e-3139f472d130.html#.U-jlm_O96cI.twitter
Those pigs don't even realize they are waking up a collective and ancient beast.
We can even take some notes from others who have been in similar situations. Check this out:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>FOR THOSE DEALING WITH TEAR GAS WATCH THIS VIDEO <a href="https://t.co/gQH0HJvJlm">https://t.co/gQH0HJvJlm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FergusonProtests?src=hash">#FergusonProtests</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499442905065750529">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Me and kaya bout to get a charter bus to goo down there
Who need to get scooped?
Who need to get scooped?
This should go on the Whitehouse site. If it gathers enough signatures, someone would have to respond to it.
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My one wish in life: "I want to die and be reincarnated as a rich and famous athlete, because Finger and Jay threads have too many simp worthy hoes".
WOW!! Keep me informed please. Nobody is fucking talking about this any other place I'm on but BGOL. 
No news of this in Africa yet, they are too busy spreading lies about Ebola.
No news of this in Africa yet, they are too busy spreading lies about Ebola.
WOW!! Keep me informed please. Nobody is fucking talking about this any other place I'm on but BGOL.
No news of this in Africa yet, they are too busy spreading lies about Ebola.
They are not talking about it and refuse to release the name of the officer who shot Mike Brown because the Ferguson Police Department is probably too busy trying to clean up all of that officer's 'posting history' on numerous social media sites... while concocting a story to cover his ass.
The Feds need to step in quickly.... to stop this whole coverup.
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Nobody cares tho
We need to Rise
Weed out the weak black folks too
I wish Harriet killed them slaves who didn't want to leave and told the master where we at
We need to Rise
Weed out the weak black folks too
I wish Harriet killed them slaves who didn't want to leave and told the master where we at
I think kaya posted this a few times
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...he-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf
And yet we're the animals......
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...he-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf
And yet we're the animals......
Police Fatally Shoot Man in South L.A.; Family Members Say He Was Lying Down When Shot
Family members said Tuesday that a 25-year-old man was complying with police orders when he was fatally shot by LAPD officers in the Florence neighborhood South Los Angeles.
Officers responded to a report of a possible officer-involved shooting at the intersection of West 65th Street and South Broadway (map) at 8:12 p.m. Monday, Lt. Ellis Imaizumi of the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday evening.
Patrol officers had “conducted an investigative stop” in the 200 block of 65th Street, and “during the stop a struggle ensued” and police opened fire, an LAPD news release issued midmorning Tuesday stated.
The man was transported to a hospital where he underwent surgery, according to Officer Sara Faden, spokeswoman for the LAPD. He later succumbed to his injuries, police confirmed.
Officers sustained minor scrapes during the altercation and did not require hospitalization, Imaizumi had said very early Tuesday. The news release stated no officers were injured.
Police were being tight-lipped with details about the incident because of a “gathering” at the scene of the shooting, Imaizumi said.
It was unknown if the “suspect” had any gang affiliations, police said in the news release.
A woman who said she was the deceased man’s mother identified him in a phone call to KTLA as Ezell Ford.
“My heart is so heavy,” Tritobia Ford said in an interview Tuesday evening. “My son was a good kid. He didn’t deserve to die the way he did.”
Her son was lying on the ground and complying with the officers’ commands when he was shot three times, Tritobia Ford said.
In the aftermath of the shooting, she said, police refused to inform her of where Ezell Ford was hospitalized.
An LAPD supervisor at the scene of the shooting was unaware of anyone being denied information, Faden said Tuesday.
The victim’s family members interviewed on camera at the scene of the shooting on Monday night supported Tritobia Ford’s account.
A man who did not give his name and identified himself only as a cousin of the victim described what he witnessed, saying he had been around the corner when the altercation first occurred.
“They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing mentally, he has complications. Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that — that this child has mental problems,” the man said.
“The excessive force … there was no purpose for it. The multiple shootings in the back while he’s laying down? No. Then when the mom comes, they don’t try to console her … they pull the billy clubs out.”
The victim’s grandmother, who did not give her name, told KTLA in a phone conversation that he was 24. Other relatives insisted he was 25 years old.
An investigation was ongoing into the shooting, which came two days after Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting in the St. Louis suburb sparked widespread anger, marches, confrontations with police and looting.
Reaction to the South Los Angeles shooting was spreading on social media Tuesday under the hashtag #EzellFord. A rally was being organized for 3 p.m. Sunday at LAPD headquarters, according to a Facebook invitation.
Civil rights leaders called for a meeting with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck over Ford’s shooting, according to Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
“The killing of Ezell Ford — coming on the heels of the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Missouri — again raises the issue and problem of tense police-community relations,” Hutchinson said in a statement. “This is the sole reason we have called for a meeting … to get all the facts in the shooting and for assurances that the shooting will be subject to the most rigorous review to determine if there was any wrongdoing in Ford’s death.”
The fatal incident was expected to be reviewed by Beck, the Office of the Inspector General and Board of Police Commissioners “for compliance with the department’s use-of-force policy, which states that an officer’s use-of-force actions must objectively reasonable,” the LAPD’s news release stated.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Justice System Integrity Division was also expected to review the shooting.
Anyone with information was asked to call the LAPD’s Force Investigation Division at 213-486-5230.
http://ktla.com/2014/08/12/man-hospitalized-after-being-shot-by-police-in-south-l-a/
video in the link
Family members said Tuesday that a 25-year-old man was complying with police orders when he was fatally shot by LAPD officers in the Florence neighborhood South Los Angeles.
Officers responded to a report of a possible officer-involved shooting at the intersection of West 65th Street and South Broadway (map) at 8:12 p.m. Monday, Lt. Ellis Imaizumi of the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday evening.
Patrol officers had “conducted an investigative stop” in the 200 block of 65th Street, and “during the stop a struggle ensued” and police opened fire, an LAPD news release issued midmorning Tuesday stated.
The man was transported to a hospital where he underwent surgery, according to Officer Sara Faden, spokeswoman for the LAPD. He later succumbed to his injuries, police confirmed.
Officers sustained minor scrapes during the altercation and did not require hospitalization, Imaizumi had said very early Tuesday. The news release stated no officers were injured.
Police were being tight-lipped with details about the incident because of a “gathering” at the scene of the shooting, Imaizumi said.
It was unknown if the “suspect” had any gang affiliations, police said in the news release.
A woman who said she was the deceased man’s mother identified him in a phone call to KTLA as Ezell Ford.
“My heart is so heavy,” Tritobia Ford said in an interview Tuesday evening. “My son was a good kid. He didn’t deserve to die the way he did.”
Her son was lying on the ground and complying with the officers’ commands when he was shot three times, Tritobia Ford said.
In the aftermath of the shooting, she said, police refused to inform her of where Ezell Ford was hospitalized.
An LAPD supervisor at the scene of the shooting was unaware of anyone being denied information, Faden said Tuesday.
The victim’s family members interviewed on camera at the scene of the shooting on Monday night supported Tritobia Ford’s account.
A man who did not give his name and identified himself only as a cousin of the victim described what he witnessed, saying he had been around the corner when the altercation first occurred.
“They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing mentally, he has complications. Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that — that this child has mental problems,” the man said.
“The excessive force … there was no purpose for it. The multiple shootings in the back while he’s laying down? No. Then when the mom comes, they don’t try to console her … they pull the billy clubs out.”
The victim’s grandmother, who did not give her name, told KTLA in a phone conversation that he was 24. Other relatives insisted he was 25 years old.
An investigation was ongoing into the shooting, which came two days after Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting in the St. Louis suburb sparked widespread anger, marches, confrontations with police and looting.
Reaction to the South Los Angeles shooting was spreading on social media Tuesday under the hashtag #EzellFord. A rally was being organized for 3 p.m. Sunday at LAPD headquarters, according to a Facebook invitation.
Civil rights leaders called for a meeting with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck over Ford’s shooting, according to Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
“The killing of Ezell Ford — coming on the heels of the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Missouri — again raises the issue and problem of tense police-community relations,” Hutchinson said in a statement. “This is the sole reason we have called for a meeting … to get all the facts in the shooting and for assurances that the shooting will be subject to the most rigorous review to determine if there was any wrongdoing in Ford’s death.”
The fatal incident was expected to be reviewed by Beck, the Office of the Inspector General and Board of Police Commissioners “for compliance with the department’s use-of-force policy, which states that an officer’s use-of-force actions must objectively reasonable,” the LAPD’s news release stated.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Justice System Integrity Division was also expected to review the shooting.
Anyone with information was asked to call the LAPD’s Force Investigation Division at 213-486-5230.
http://ktla.com/2014/08/12/man-hospitalized-after-being-shot-by-police-in-south-l-a/
video in the link
The Little-Covered Aspect of the Unrest in Ferguson: The Alarming Militarization of Local Police (PHOTOS)
Following the police-involved shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, unrest has gripped a St. Louis suburb as protesters and police have clashed for two days straight. The looting and violence that occurred after the tragic shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, resulted not only in multiple arrests, but also a stronger police response.
That brings us to the seemingly glossed over aspect of the unrest in Ferguson: the startling militarization of local police forces.
Some of the photos coming out of Ferguson more closely resemble a war zone than a suburban community in Missouri.
Officers — some riding in military vehicles — responded to the unrest wearing full-camo riot gear, combat boots and armed with “short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles based on the military M4 carbine, with scopes that can accurately hit a target out to 500 meters,” according to Business Insider’s Paul Szoldra.
Police wearing riot gear try to disperse a crowd Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. The FBI opened an investigation Monday into the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who police said was shot multiple times Saturday after being confronted by an officer in Ferguson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Police wearing riot gear point their weapons at a car as it pulls away after tear gas was used by authorities Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Tactical officers fire tear gas on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)
Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities have made several arrests in Ferguson, where crowds have looted and burned stores, vandalized vehicles and taunted police after a vigil for an unarmed black man who was killed by police. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Tactical officers fire tear gas on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)
FERGUSON, MO – AUGUST 11: Tear gas hangs in the air as police force protestors from the business district into nearby neighborhoods on August 11, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets as residents and their supporters protested the shooting by police of an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown who was killed Saturday in this suburban St. Louis community. Yesterday 32 arrests were made after protests turned into rioting and looting in Ferguson. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Szoldra, who served on a U.S. Marine on patrol in Afghanistan, brings a unique perspective to the police situation in Ferguson:
While serving as a U.S. Marine on patrol in Afghanistan, we wore desert camouflage to blend in with our surroundings, carried rifles to shoot back when under enemy attack, and drove around in armored vehicles to ward off roadside bombs.
We looked intimidating, but all of our vehicles and equipment had a clear purpose for combat against enemy forces. So why is this same gear being used on our city streets?
Their uniform would be mistaken for a soldier’s if it weren’t for their “Police” patches. They wear green tops, and pants fashioned after the U.S. Marine Corps MARPAT camouflage pattern. And they stand in front of a massive uparmored truck called a Bearcat, similar in look to a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or as the troops who rode in them call it, the MRAP.
“Why do these cops need MARPAT camo pants again,” I asked on Twitter this morning. One of the most interesting responses came from a follower who says he served in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division: “We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...arming-militarization-of-local-police-photos/
Following the police-involved shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, unrest has gripped a St. Louis suburb as protesters and police have clashed for two days straight. The looting and violence that occurred after the tragic shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, resulted not only in multiple arrests, but also a stronger police response.
That brings us to the seemingly glossed over aspect of the unrest in Ferguson: the startling militarization of local police forces.
Some of the photos coming out of Ferguson more closely resemble a war zone than a suburban community in Missouri.
Officers — some riding in military vehicles — responded to the unrest wearing full-camo riot gear, combat boots and armed with “short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles based on the military M4 carbine, with scopes that can accurately hit a target out to 500 meters,” according to Business Insider’s Paul Szoldra.
Police wearing riot gear try to disperse a crowd Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. The FBI opened an investigation Monday into the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who police said was shot multiple times Saturday after being confronted by an officer in Ferguson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Police wearing riot gear point their weapons at a car as it pulls away after tear gas was used by authorities Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Tactical officers fire tear gas on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)
Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities have made several arrests in Ferguson, where crowds have looted and burned stores, vandalized vehicles and taunted police after a vigil for an unarmed black man who was killed by police. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Tactical officers fire tear gas on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)
FERGUSON, MO – AUGUST 11: Tear gas hangs in the air as police force protestors from the business district into nearby neighborhoods on August 11, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets as residents and their supporters protested the shooting by police of an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown who was killed Saturday in this suburban St. Louis community. Yesterday 32 arrests were made after protests turned into rioting and looting in Ferguson. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Szoldra, who served on a U.S. Marine on patrol in Afghanistan, brings a unique perspective to the police situation in Ferguson:
While serving as a U.S. Marine on patrol in Afghanistan, we wore desert camouflage to blend in with our surroundings, carried rifles to shoot back when under enemy attack, and drove around in armored vehicles to ward off roadside bombs.
We looked intimidating, but all of our vehicles and equipment had a clear purpose for combat against enemy forces. So why is this same gear being used on our city streets?
Their uniform would be mistaken for a soldier’s if it weren’t for their “Police” patches. They wear green tops, and pants fashioned after the U.S. Marine Corps MARPAT camouflage pattern. And they stand in front of a massive uparmored truck called a Bearcat, similar in look to a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or as the troops who rode in them call it, the MRAP.
“Why do these cops need MARPAT camo pants again,” I asked on Twitter this morning. One of the most interesting responses came from a follower who says he served in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division: “We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...arming-militarization-of-local-police-photos/
We need a Bane
Eyewitness to Michael Brown shooting recounts his friend’s death
FERGUSON, Missouri — The last moments of Michael Brown’s life were filled with shock, fear and terror, says a witness who stood just feet away as a police officer shot and killed the unarmed teen.
“I saw the barrel of the gun pointed at my friend,” said Dorian Johnson, 22. “Then I saw the fire come out of the barrel.”
Johnson, in an exclusive interview with msnbc, said what began as an order by a police officer to ‘get the f— onto the sidewalk’ quickly escalated into a physical altercation and then, gunfire.
“I could see so vividly what was going on because I was so close,” said Johnson, who said he was within arm’s reach of both Brown and the officer when the first of several shots was fired at the teen. Johnson says he feared for his life as he watched the officer squeezing off shot after shot.
Brown’s killing on Saturday afternoon has sparked protests and rioting in this small, hardscrabble suburb of St. Louis, where tensions continue to rise between the police and the largely black, mostly poor community. Brown’s shooting lifted the lid on a pot that had long been bubbling .
The police say the officer shot Brown after the teen shoved the officer and tried to wrestle the officer’s gun from him. But a number of witnesses, including Johnson, refute those claims. And in the wake of the shooting, the Ferguson Police Department has asked the St. Louis County police to step in and take over the investigation.
Meanwhile, the identity of the police officer involved in the shooting has not yet been identified. It is known, however, that the officer who shot Brown has been placed on paid administrative leave.
But as darkness fell over Ferguson on Monday, ongoing protests were stifled by rubber bullets and tear gas fired at protesters by officers, according to witnesses.
Related: Witness: Brown did not reach for officer’s weapon
Local branches of the NAACP have called on the Justice Department and federal and state law enforcement officials to take over the investigation from local police. The FBI has joined the investigation and the Justice Department has said it is keeping an eye on the case. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday said that the FBI will help local authorities undertake a “thorough, fair investigation.”
For its part, Brown’s family has hired local attorney Anthony Gray and Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney who represented the family of Trayvon Martin.
“That baby was executed in broad daylight,” Crump said during a press conference Monday afternoon, standing beside Brown’s mother and father. Crump told a crowd of several dozen that Brown was shot and left in the road like an animal.
“He was a good boy who didn’t deserve any of this,” said Michael Brown Sr., the teen’s father.
“I just wish I could have been there to help my son,” the boy’s mother, Leslie McSpadden said through tears.
On Monday, McSpadden and Brown’s father had planned to drop Brown off at a nearby technical college for the start of his freshman year. Instead, the family is making burial arrangements.
“We can’t even celebrate because we have to plan a funeral,” McSpadden said.
Johnson, who said he moved into the neighborhood about eight months ago, said he met Brown three months ago and the two became fast friends.
“Everyone else’s mentality be on some nonsense, silliness,” Johnson said. “But Mike had his mind set on more than that, helping others. I just got a good feeling from being around him.”
About 20 minutes before the shooting, Johnson said he saw Brown walking down the street and decided to catch up with him. The two walked and talked. That’s when Johnson says they saw the police car rolling up to them.
The officer demanded that the two “get the f—k on the sidewalk,” Johnson says. “His exact words were get the f—k on the sidewalk.”
After telling the officer that they were almost at their destination, Johnson’s house, the two continued walking. But as they did, Johnson says the officer slammed his brakes and threw his truck in reverse, nearly hitting them.
Now, in line with the officer’s driver’s side door, they could see the officer’s face. They heard him say something to the effect of, “what’d you say?” At the same time, Johnson says the officer attempted to thrust his door open but the door slammed into Brown and bounced closed. Johnson says the officer, with his left hand, grabbed Brown by the neck.
“I could see the muscles in his forearm,” Johnson said. “Mike was trying to get away from being choked.”
“They’re not wrestling so much as his arm went from his throat to now clenched on his shirt,” Johnson explained of the scene between Brown and the officer. “It’s like tug of war. He’s trying to pull him in. He’s pulling away, that’s when I heard, ‘I’m gonna shoot you.’”
At that moment, Johnson says he fixed his gaze on the officer to see if he was pulling a stun gun or a real gun. That’s when he saw the muzzle of the officer’s gun.
“I seen the barrel of the gun pointed at my friend,” he said. “He had it pointed at him and said ‘I’ll shoot,’ one more time.”
A second later Johnson said he heard the first shot go off.
“I seen the fire come out of the barrell,” he said. “I could see so vividly what was going on because I was so close.”
Johnson says he was within arm’s reach of both Brown and the officer. He looked over at Brown and saw blood pooling through his shirt on the right side of the body.
“The whole time [the officer] was holding my friend until the gun went off,” Johnson noted.
Brown and Johnson took off running together. There were three cars lined up along the side of the street. Johnson says he ducked behind the first car, whose two passengers were screaming. Crouching down a bit, he watched Brown run past.
“Keep running, bro!,” he said Brown yelled. Then Brown yelled it a second time. Those would be the last words Johnson’s friend, “Big Mike,” would ever say to him.
Brown made it past the third car. Then, “blam!” the officer took his second shot, striking Brown in the back. At that point, Johnson says Brown stopped, turned with his hands up and said “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!”
By that point, Johnson says the officer and Brown were face-to-face. The officer then fired several more shots. Johnson described watching Brown go from standing with his hands up to crumbling to the ground and curling into a fetal position.
“After seeing my friend get gunned down, my body just ran,” he said. He ran to his apartment nearby. Out of breath, shocked and afraid, Johnson says he went into the bathroom and vomited. Then he checked to make sure that he hadn’t also been shot.
Five minutes later, Johnson emerged from his apartment to see his friend Mike dead and in the middle of the street. Neighbors were gathering, some shouting, some taking pictures with their cell phones.
Freeman Bosley, Johnson’s attorney, told msnbc that the police have yet to interview Johnson. Bosley said that he offered the police an opportunity to speak with Johnson, but they declined.
“They didn’t even want to talk to him,” said Bosley, a former mayor of St. Louis. “They don’t want the facts. What they want is to justify what happened … what they are trying to do now is justify what happened instead of trying to point out the wrong. Something is wrong here and that’s what it is.”
Related: Follow Trymaine Lee’s reporting on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri
Johnson says he understands why the tension has boiled over into violence. As the protests seeking justice in Brown’s death have grown larger and more volatile, Johnson says he has joined them.
“There are two crowds. An older crowd that wants justice but there’s anger. Then it’s the younger crowd that wants revenge but there’s anger there, too,” Johnson said. “What do you expect when something is steadily occurring and its hurting the community and nobody is speaking out or doing anything about it. I feel their anger, I feel their disgust.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/eyewitness-michael-brown-fatal-shooting-missouri
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FERGUSON, Missouri — The last moments of Michael Brown’s life were filled with shock, fear and terror, says a witness who stood just feet away as a police officer shot and killed the unarmed teen.
“I saw the barrel of the gun pointed at my friend,” said Dorian Johnson, 22. “Then I saw the fire come out of the barrel.”
Johnson, in an exclusive interview with msnbc, said what began as an order by a police officer to ‘get the f— onto the sidewalk’ quickly escalated into a physical altercation and then, gunfire.
“I could see so vividly what was going on because I was so close,” said Johnson, who said he was within arm’s reach of both Brown and the officer when the first of several shots was fired at the teen. Johnson says he feared for his life as he watched the officer squeezing off shot after shot.
Brown’s killing on Saturday afternoon has sparked protests and rioting in this small, hardscrabble suburb of St. Louis, where tensions continue to rise between the police and the largely black, mostly poor community. Brown’s shooting lifted the lid on a pot that had long been bubbling .
The police say the officer shot Brown after the teen shoved the officer and tried to wrestle the officer’s gun from him. But a number of witnesses, including Johnson, refute those claims. And in the wake of the shooting, the Ferguson Police Department has asked the St. Louis County police to step in and take over the investigation.
Meanwhile, the identity of the police officer involved in the shooting has not yet been identified. It is known, however, that the officer who shot Brown has been placed on paid administrative leave.
But as darkness fell over Ferguson on Monday, ongoing protests were stifled by rubber bullets and tear gas fired at protesters by officers, according to witnesses.
Related: Witness: Brown did not reach for officer’s weapon
Local branches of the NAACP have called on the Justice Department and federal and state law enforcement officials to take over the investigation from local police. The FBI has joined the investigation and the Justice Department has said it is keeping an eye on the case. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday said that the FBI will help local authorities undertake a “thorough, fair investigation.”
For its part, Brown’s family has hired local attorney Anthony Gray and Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney who represented the family of Trayvon Martin.
“That baby was executed in broad daylight,” Crump said during a press conference Monday afternoon, standing beside Brown’s mother and father. Crump told a crowd of several dozen that Brown was shot and left in the road like an animal.
“He was a good boy who didn’t deserve any of this,” said Michael Brown Sr., the teen’s father.
“I just wish I could have been there to help my son,” the boy’s mother, Leslie McSpadden said through tears.
On Monday, McSpadden and Brown’s father had planned to drop Brown off at a nearby technical college for the start of his freshman year. Instead, the family is making burial arrangements.
“We can’t even celebrate because we have to plan a funeral,” McSpadden said.
Johnson, who said he moved into the neighborhood about eight months ago, said he met Brown three months ago and the two became fast friends.
“Everyone else’s mentality be on some nonsense, silliness,” Johnson said. “But Mike had his mind set on more than that, helping others. I just got a good feeling from being around him.”
About 20 minutes before the shooting, Johnson said he saw Brown walking down the street and decided to catch up with him. The two walked and talked. That’s when Johnson says they saw the police car rolling up to them.
The officer demanded that the two “get the f—k on the sidewalk,” Johnson says. “His exact words were get the f—k on the sidewalk.”
After telling the officer that they were almost at their destination, Johnson’s house, the two continued walking. But as they did, Johnson says the officer slammed his brakes and threw his truck in reverse, nearly hitting them.
Now, in line with the officer’s driver’s side door, they could see the officer’s face. They heard him say something to the effect of, “what’d you say?” At the same time, Johnson says the officer attempted to thrust his door open but the door slammed into Brown and bounced closed. Johnson says the officer, with his left hand, grabbed Brown by the neck.
“I could see the muscles in his forearm,” Johnson said. “Mike was trying to get away from being choked.”
“They’re not wrestling so much as his arm went from his throat to now clenched on his shirt,” Johnson explained of the scene between Brown and the officer. “It’s like tug of war. He’s trying to pull him in. He’s pulling away, that’s when I heard, ‘I’m gonna shoot you.’”
At that moment, Johnson says he fixed his gaze on the officer to see if he was pulling a stun gun or a real gun. That’s when he saw the muzzle of the officer’s gun.
“I seen the barrel of the gun pointed at my friend,” he said. “He had it pointed at him and said ‘I’ll shoot,’ one more time.”
A second later Johnson said he heard the first shot go off.
“I seen the fire come out of the barrell,” he said. “I could see so vividly what was going on because I was so close.”
Johnson says he was within arm’s reach of both Brown and the officer. He looked over at Brown and saw blood pooling through his shirt on the right side of the body.
“The whole time [the officer] was holding my friend until the gun went off,” Johnson noted.
Brown and Johnson took off running together. There were three cars lined up along the side of the street. Johnson says he ducked behind the first car, whose two passengers were screaming. Crouching down a bit, he watched Brown run past.
“Keep running, bro!,” he said Brown yelled. Then Brown yelled it a second time. Those would be the last words Johnson’s friend, “Big Mike,” would ever say to him.
Brown made it past the third car. Then, “blam!” the officer took his second shot, striking Brown in the back. At that point, Johnson says Brown stopped, turned with his hands up and said “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!”
By that point, Johnson says the officer and Brown were face-to-face. The officer then fired several more shots. Johnson described watching Brown go from standing with his hands up to crumbling to the ground and curling into a fetal position.
“After seeing my friend get gunned down, my body just ran,” he said. He ran to his apartment nearby. Out of breath, shocked and afraid, Johnson says he went into the bathroom and vomited. Then he checked to make sure that he hadn’t also been shot.
Five minutes later, Johnson emerged from his apartment to see his friend Mike dead and in the middle of the street. Neighbors were gathering, some shouting, some taking pictures with their cell phones.
Freeman Bosley, Johnson’s attorney, told msnbc that the police have yet to interview Johnson. Bosley said that he offered the police an opportunity to speak with Johnson, but they declined.
“They didn’t even want to talk to him,” said Bosley, a former mayor of St. Louis. “They don’t want the facts. What they want is to justify what happened … what they are trying to do now is justify what happened instead of trying to point out the wrong. Something is wrong here and that’s what it is.”
Related: Follow Trymaine Lee’s reporting on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri
Johnson says he understands why the tension has boiled over into violence. As the protests seeking justice in Brown’s death have grown larger and more volatile, Johnson says he has joined them.
“There are two crowds. An older crowd that wants justice but there’s anger. Then it’s the younger crowd that wants revenge but there’s anger there, too,” Johnson said. “What do you expect when something is steadily occurring and its hurting the community and nobody is speaking out or doing anything about it. I feel their anger, I feel their disgust.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/eyewitness-michael-brown-fatal-shooting-missouri
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Second Police-Involved Shooting Reported In Ferguson, Missouri
Amid the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., a second police-involved shooting was reported overnight, Fox 2 Now reported.
Around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, St. Louis County police responded to reports of shots being fired and four or five armed suspects, wearing ski masks, running near the intersection of Chambers Road and Sheffingdel Court in Ferguson, Valerie Schremp Hahn, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported.
Officers arrived on the scene, saw "multiple subjects running" and gave chase, police spokesman Officer Brian Schellman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Upon approaching one of the suspects, the man allegedly pointed a handgun at the officer, police said. In response, the officer opened fire.
A gun was reportedly recovered at the scene.
The suspect, who was critically wounded, was taken to an area hospital. The officer was not injured.
There is no word yet on the location of the other suspects.
Since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen, over the weekend, Ferguson has seen large protests, clashes and looting.
St. Louis County Police told KMOV journalist Mike Colombo that this latest shooting was separate from the "Ferguson detail."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ml?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047&ir=Black+Voices
Amid the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., a second police-involved shooting was reported overnight, Fox 2 Now reported.
Around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, St. Louis County police responded to reports of shots being fired and four or five armed suspects, wearing ski masks, running near the intersection of Chambers Road and Sheffingdel Court in Ferguson, Valerie Schremp Hahn, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported.
Officers arrived on the scene, saw "multiple subjects running" and gave chase, police spokesman Officer Brian Schellman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Upon approaching one of the suspects, the man allegedly pointed a handgun at the officer, police said. In response, the officer opened fire.
A gun was reportedly recovered at the scene.
The suspect, who was critically wounded, was taken to an area hospital. The officer was not injured.
There is no word yet on the location of the other suspects.
Since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen, over the weekend, Ferguson has seen large protests, clashes and looting.
St. Louis County Police told KMOV journalist Mike Colombo that this latest shooting was separate from the "Ferguson detail."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...ml?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047&ir=Black+Voices
As easily angered as I am, I think it's best I just avoid the comments section of these newspapers today when reading about this stuff
It's just unreal; the ignorance of some people.
And I'm SO GLAD that someone else wrote about the militarization of the police. That is a BIG sticking point for me. They've essentially instituted marital law and no one gives a fuck because it's happening in a predominately black community. They don't want the media in. They're running around in equipment better suited for Afghanistan and Iraq vs a United States neighborhood. They're taking away our rights to peaceably assemble and protest by threatening citizens with arrest. Withholding information, not talking to eye witnesses....that community and it's members are living in a pseudo prison state yet very few media outlets have the balls to discuss it. This is a BIG PROBLEM. Yet during all of this, the media is choosing to focus on the actions of a few knuckleheads in the community vs the actions of the majority of the community in their protests and civil disobedience.
These mufuccas are more concerned with justifying this shooting vs trying to find out what really happened.
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
It's just unreal; the ignorance of some people.
And I'm SO GLAD that someone else wrote about the militarization of the police. That is a BIG sticking point for me. They've essentially instituted marital law and no one gives a fuck because it's happening in a predominately black community. They don't want the media in. They're running around in equipment better suited for Afghanistan and Iraq vs a United States neighborhood. They're taking away our rights to peaceably assemble and protest by threatening citizens with arrest. Withholding information, not talking to eye witnesses....that community and it's members are living in a pseudo prison state yet very few media outlets have the balls to discuss it. This is a BIG PROBLEM. Yet during all of this, the media is choosing to focus on the actions of a few knuckleheads in the community vs the actions of the majority of the community in their protests and civil disobedience.
These mufuccas are more concerned with justifying this shooting vs trying to find out what really happened.
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Its like this in a lot of places.....places where you have a large amount of blacks....even if they aren t the majority....you will find don t have any political power....
the mentality has to change in a lot of areas like this.....
Chilling.
Reading what Dorian Johnson witnessed. FUCK!!!! 
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WOW!! Keep me informed please. Nobody is fucking talking about this any other place I'm on but BGOL.
No news of this in Africa yet, they are too busy spreading lies about Ebola.
C/S
Them filthy pigs couldn't wait ta' wear all that gear & test out their new toys (bringin' to light da militarization of police forces in US cities). And I get da feeling that alleged reports of looting/rioting are propaganda & grossly exaggerated.
I meant to add this earlier:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> police chief will be on <a href="https://twitter.com/KMOV">@kmov</a> tonight for our round table discussion about what's happened in N. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/STLCo?src=hash">#STLCo</a>. Airs 8-9 on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/News4?src=hash">#News4</a></p>— Laura Hettiger KMOV (@LauraKHettiger) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraKHettiger/statuses/499549551905476609">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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and also this:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> police chief tells me officer who killed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> was injured in altercation, side of his face swollen after being "hit" <a href="https://twitter.com/KMOV">@kmov</a></p>— Laura Hettiger KMOV (@LauraKHettiger) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraKHettiger/statuses/499550243596562432">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> police chief will be on <a href="https://twitter.com/KMOV">@kmov</a> tonight for our round table discussion about what's happened in N. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/STLCo?src=hash">#STLCo</a>. Airs 8-9 on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/News4?src=hash">#News4</a></p>— Laura Hettiger KMOV (@LauraKHettiger) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraKHettiger/statuses/499549551905476609">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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and also this:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> police chief tells me officer who killed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> was injured in altercation, side of his face swollen after being "hit" <a href="https://twitter.com/KMOV">@kmov</a></p>— Laura Hettiger KMOV (@LauraKHettiger) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraKHettiger/statuses/499550243596562432">August 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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