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SEEMS LIKE TO MUCH OF THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON. HAS ANYBODY WATCHED THIS WHOLE VIDEO???
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Remember, remember, the 5th of November.
Ummmm makes plenty of sense
US Attorney General was 'Not Aware' of Ferguson Media Restrictions
Attorney General Eric Holder says he was not aware that airspace was limited over Ferguson to prevent press access. AP report raises questions of press freedoms in the United States.
The U.S. Attorney General was “not aware” of any attempts by the government to limit media coverage of riots in Ferguson, Missouri this August, following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, according to reports from a press conference, Monday.
Johnson tweeted the remarks by the attorney general, following an Associated Press in-depth report Sunday evidencing that the U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict airspace surrounding Ferguson.
Allegedly for “safety” reasons, 37 square miles of airspace was restricted during the riots. The audio recordings exposed by AP prove local authorities' real motive was to prevent news helicopters from gathering footage of the riots.
One Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) manager admitted to the AP in a series of recorded telephone conversations: "They finally admitted it really was to keep the media out."
Holder also said at the conference that he does not know enough about the decision to close the airspace to say whether there will be an investigation.
“The American people need to understand what is happening in Ferguson, and anything that would artificially inhibit the ability of newsgathererers to do what they do I think is something that needs to be avoided” Johnson tweeted, directly quoting Holder.
The information gathered by the AP comes from FAA recordings obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. It raises the question of freedom of the press, as well as constitutional rights for journalists.
Attorney General Eric Holder says he was not aware that airspace was limited over Ferguson to prevent press access. AP report raises questions of press freedoms in the United States.
The U.S. Attorney General was “not aware” of any attempts by the government to limit media coverage of riots in Ferguson, Missouri this August, following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, according to reports from a press conference, Monday.
Johnson tweeted the remarks by the attorney general, following an Associated Press in-depth report Sunday evidencing that the U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict airspace surrounding Ferguson.
Allegedly for “safety” reasons, 37 square miles of airspace was restricted during the riots. The audio recordings exposed by AP prove local authorities' real motive was to prevent news helicopters from gathering footage of the riots.
One Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) manager admitted to the AP in a series of recorded telephone conversations: "They finally admitted it really was to keep the media out."
Holder also said at the conference that he does not know enough about the decision to close the airspace to say whether there will be an investigation.
“The American people need to understand what is happening in Ferguson, and anything that would artificially inhibit the ability of newsgathererers to do what they do I think is something that needs to be avoided” Johnson tweeted, directly quoting Holder.
The information gathered by the AP comes from FAA recordings obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. It raises the question of freedom of the press, as well as constitutional rights for journalists.
He's tellin' a goddamn lie. ^^^^^^^
Why does the media continually refer to the protests in Ferguson as RIOTS???
There were no riots. You had a group of maybe 20 or so people acting out the first weekend and that's it. No other reports of rioting, looting, or any other violent behavior.
The cameras would have shown what people on the ground were saying, which is they were being boxed in by police, sent in circles due to the police's poor positioning and lack of crowd dispersal experience, and their overall aggressive nature in dealing with protesters. You also would have seen from the beginning the distance between Brown's body and Wilson's SUV.
Yet still they paint the black protesters as rioters making us less than human and taking away our constitutional rights to protest civilly.
See how they shape the narrative?
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
There were no riots. You had a group of maybe 20 or so people acting out the first weekend and that's it. No other reports of rioting, looting, or any other violent behavior.
The cameras would have shown what people on the ground were saying, which is they were being boxed in by police, sent in circles due to the police's poor positioning and lack of crowd dispersal experience, and their overall aggressive nature in dealing with protesters. You also would have seen from the beginning the distance between Brown's body and Wilson's SUV.
Yet still they paint the black protesters as rioters making us less than human and taking away our constitutional rights to protest civilly.
See how they shape the narrative?
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
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okay you may not agree with everything this man has done but calling him a coon is unwarranted.
Everyone ia entitled to their opinions.
such destructive descriptions need to be factually based.
I like this. There are so many people that misuse words to put people down, but won't clarify how that person fits that mold.And/or vomit the repeat misuse of said words without a fucking clue.
But who are any of y'all to where folks gotta clarify sum'n to you??? I don't agree or disagree w/his statment but err'body os entitled to their own opinions whether y'all like it or not, clarification or no clarification.
But who are any of y'all to where folks gotta clarify sum'n to you??? I don't agree or disagree w/his statment but err'body os entitled to their own opinions whether y'all like it or not, clarification or no clarification.
As an intelligent adult, you should be able to explain your opinion and how you came to that conclusion. An emotional response to a logical question doesn't help either of us grow smarter and understand each other. If we are having a discussion, why wouldn't you WANT to explain yourself so we can't take your thoughts out of context.
But who are any of y'all to where folks gotta clarify sum'n to you??? I don't agree or disagree w/his statment but err'body os entitled to their own opinions whether y'all like it or not, clarification or no clarification.
an opinion should be defended, or its just some ignorance parading as high thought.
i called it out, he hasnt explained it yet, so it is what it is: bullshit.
Damn shame they can't be real
St. Louis County scrambles to print more paper ballots after election day shortage
St. Louis County election officials say one election-day glitch today came early when some polling places began running out of paper ballots.
Rita Days, the Democratic director of election for St. Louis County, said her office usually plans for 15 percent of the voters taking paper ballots. The rest would use the electronic voting machines.
But for some reason Tuesday, she said, "we've had an extra large run of paper ballots."
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"It seems more and more people are taking paper ballots," Days said. "They are kind of bucking the trend. Previously, 15 percent was sufficient. In the future, we may look at 20 to 25 percent."
A few polling places have run out, including a school in Clayton and a couple sites in west St. Louis County.
In Florissant, one man said he went to cast his ballot at the John Knox Presbyterian Church when they ran out of paper ballots. He said he and several other people were upset because they didn't know how to use the electronic voting machines. The voter said he was told to come back after 1 p.m.
Supervisor Charles Meador said poll workers there realized immediately this morning they only had five of one of the paper ballots when they typically need about 300 of that version. He thinks there was a mix-up at headquarters. He called immediately to alert them of the problem, but more paper ballots didn't arrive until about 9:30 a.m.
There were about 25 to 30 voters who didn't want to use the electronic ballots, he said. Nearly all waited or came back when there were paper ballots, but a few were "irate" about the situation, Meador said.
Days said no poll workers should be telling people to come back after 1 p.m., as one voter claimed.
Days said there were no other problems countywide by 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
"We were geared up for whatever in Ferguson, but we've had no problems," she said.
Days was predicting turnout of about 45 percent today. But with rain this morning and forecast for the afternoon as well, she said she expects turnout to be even lower.
Meanwhile in the city of St. Louis, some voters reported troubles.
A voter at Unity Christ Church on North Skinker Boulevard said anyone who voted in August was showing up on the computer as having already voted Tuesday. They were using paper ballots to get around the glitch.
An election judge at the church confirmed there was a glitch, but said a technician helped fix that by 10:30 a.m. People leaving the polling place seemed to confirm the issue was over; they said two electronic machines were working and the workers had paper for those who didn't want to wait.
St. Louis County scrambles to print more paper ballots after election day shortage
St. Louis County election officials say one election-day glitch today came early when some polling places began running out of paper ballots.
Rita Days, the Democratic director of election for St. Louis County, said her office usually plans for 15 percent of the voters taking paper ballots. The rest would use the electronic voting machines.
But for some reason Tuesday, she said, "we've had an extra large run of paper ballots."
.
"It seems more and more people are taking paper ballots," Days said. "They are kind of bucking the trend. Previously, 15 percent was sufficient. In the future, we may look at 20 to 25 percent."
A few polling places have run out, including a school in Clayton and a couple sites in west St. Louis County.
In Florissant, one man said he went to cast his ballot at the John Knox Presbyterian Church when they ran out of paper ballots. He said he and several other people were upset because they didn't know how to use the electronic voting machines. The voter said he was told to come back after 1 p.m.
Supervisor Charles Meador said poll workers there realized immediately this morning they only had five of one of the paper ballots when they typically need about 300 of that version. He thinks there was a mix-up at headquarters. He called immediately to alert them of the problem, but more paper ballots didn't arrive until about 9:30 a.m.
There were about 25 to 30 voters who didn't want to use the electronic ballots, he said. Nearly all waited or came back when there were paper ballots, but a few were "irate" about the situation, Meador said.
Days said no poll workers should be telling people to come back after 1 p.m., as one voter claimed.
Days said there were no other problems countywide by 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
"We were geared up for whatever in Ferguson, but we've had no problems," she said.
Days was predicting turnout of about 45 percent today. But with rain this morning and forecast for the afternoon as well, she said she expects turnout to be even lower.
Meanwhile in the city of St. Louis, some voters reported troubles.
A voter at Unity Christ Church on North Skinker Boulevard said anyone who voted in August was showing up on the computer as having already voted Tuesday. They were using paper ballots to get around the glitch.
An election judge at the church confirmed there was a glitch, but said a technician helped fix that by 10:30 a.m. People leaving the polling place seemed to confirm the issue was over; they said two electronic machines were working and the workers had paper for those who didn't want to wait.
Ummmm maybe the family have been informed of the decision
Mike Brown’s Mom Is Taking Her Son’s Case to the UN in Geneva
Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about her son and other victims of police brutality in front of the United Nations.
Mike Brown's killing is still under investigation by federal officials, while a local grand jury tasked with deciding whether to charge officer Darren Wilson for his death is supposed to make an announcement any day — with few in Ferguson believing that an indictment is likely.
But with little faith in the justice her son will receive, McSpadden, accompanied by one of the family's lawyers and a handful of local activists and human rights advocates, is taking her son's case — and that of other victims of racial profiling and police violence — straight to the UN Committee Against Torture, the body tasked with preventing torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment around the world.
The trip — which was recently made public by organizers and promoted under the tagline "Ferguson to Geneva" — is meant to make a case, to as wide an audience as possible, that both Brown's killing and the militarized police response to protesters demanding justice for him, are a matter of human rights.
"It's actually covered by article one of the convention against torture," Justin Hansford, a law professor at Saint Louis University and co-author of a brief to the UN body filed by Brown's family and local activists, told VICE News. "When the government has all the guns, all the force, and when they can kill people with impunity and without fear of being found guilty of a crime, that's a classic example of state violence."
"You see this in dictatorships and regimes where they do this to their own citizens and they get away with it," he added.
Hansford compared Brown's killing to that of Emmet Till in the 1950s — a pivotal moment behind the civil rights movement of the following years.
"The murder of Michael Brown was a fresh cut in an old wound in the sense that it played on the legacy of lynching, when black people's bodies were on display for people as a form of intimidation," Hansford said, referring to Brown's body, which laid on the streets for more than four hours.
Brown's death, he added, "wasn't just a violation of people's civil rights, it was a violation of their human rights."
Amnesty International denounces human rights abuses in Ferguson as police gather riot gear ahead of grand jury decision. Read more here.
Following widespread protests, the US Department of Justice launched two separate investigations — one into Brown's death, and one into the Ferguson police department, to determine whether discrimination has played a role in officers' behavior there. But protesters and rights advocates have increasingly made the case that the response to protesters and Brown's death was not just a matter of discrimination but amounted to human rights abuse.
Framing both as human rights issues is an attempt to speak to people's empathy — Charles Wade, a protester and one of the organizers of the Ferguson to Geneva initiative, told VICE News.
"People are starting to understand that people of color often feel that they don't have the same rights as humans, that their humanity isn't being respected," he said. "A person may not have ever seen it that way so they may now think, 'Yeah, all lives do matter, I do care. How can I help?"
The Ferguson to Geneva organizers are not the first to appeal to human rights principles. In a report released last week, Amnesty International made that case in the strongest language yet, when it said that law enforcement's use of rubber bullets, tear gas, and military equipment violated international standards.
The UN delegation is yet another attempt to shift the terms of the conversation on Ferguson, and to appeal for the support of a broader community.
"As we started to think about what the situation was in the larger context, we started to link what's happening in the US in terms of police violence with human rights violations," Wade said. "Our mid- and long term work will be linking what happened in Ferguson and what's happening in other places where there's excessive police violence to the international struggle for human rights."
Wade said he first thought to take Ferguson's fight for justice to the UN after learning of a similar initiative by a group of youth of color in Chicago, who planned to also go to Geneva this fall to denounce their experience as targets of police violence — an initiative they dubbed, "We charge genocide."
Yes, tear gas being used in Ferguson is banned in warfare — but not in war zones. Read more here.
"A lot of us here have been looking for ways to extend the conversation and extend our work outside of just Ferguson, tear gas, and rubber bullets," Wade said. "We asked, what does that really mean, and where does that fit within a larger conversation people can have? Race is a big part of it, it's probably 90 percent of it, but so often people are not seeing what's happening to people of color in this country as human rights violations."
The Ferguson group has been raising funds to sponsor the trip, on November 12 and 13 — but is still short $11,000. In addition to McSpadden and attorney Daryl Parks, Hansford, Wade, and four local activists including Tef Poe will also be going. McSpadden was not immediately available for comment.
Taking the issue to the UN is largely "symbolic," organizers admit.
"It's about taking the conversation to the global community in general," Wade said. "It's for us to show that now even the UN is interested in what's happening in a real small city called Ferguson, and you should be interested as well. You should see this as an issue that isn't just one instance, one police officer, and one man. This is what's happening all over the country."
The point of taking Ferguson's plight to an international forum is not so much to embarrass US officials, Wade said, though Hansford said the group hopes to connect with a delegation of administration officials who will be in Geneva at the same time. "While we're out there it would be great to talk to the US government," he said. "They'll be there, it would be wonderful it they talked to us."
But there's a more practical purpose to the delegation as well — to get the world's eyes back on Ferguson and St. Louis as residents prepare for an imminent grand jury announcement many fear will spark new clashes. Police have also been preparing for likely protests — stocking up on tear gas and riot gear and sending out emergency preparation plans for local schools.
Still scarred from the outsized police response to the summer protests, demonstrators have said they fear more force used against them, and they want to make sure that whatever happens next doesn't go unnoticed.
"They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on these tools of war, and stockpiling guns," Hansford said. "I think the international community and human rights community should turn their eyes towards Ferguson and see this in a human rights context."
The world's attention, he added, "could very well save some lives." "If it convinces them that the world is going to be watching and they will be held accountable, it could change their behavior and their reaction to protesters," he said.
Law enforcement officials have defended themselves against the accusations of human rights abuse.
"The St. Louis County Police Department and the Unified Command had one mission, and that was the preservation of life," St. Louis Police Sgt. Brian Schellman told VICE News following the Amnesty report, adding that police have been gearing up for more protests. "We are going to be prepared regardless of what the grand jury returns."
'I've never seen anything like what I saw in Ferguson': VICE News speaks with a member of the Amnesty delegation to Missouri. Read more here.
For their part, protesters plan to return to the streets should the grand jury decide not to indict Wilson. But there's a lot more than rallies to the movement for justice they have built in Ferguson, and the UN delegation is just one example of its broadening scope and growing ambitions.
"A lot of people have had this impression that just marching is happening, just demonstrations," Wade said. "That's not the only thing that's been going on."
Follow Alice Speri on Twitter: @alicesperi
Mike Brown’s Mom Is Taking Her Son’s Case to the UN in Geneva
Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about her son and other victims of police brutality in front of the United Nations.
Mike Brown's killing is still under investigation by federal officials, while a local grand jury tasked with deciding whether to charge officer Darren Wilson for his death is supposed to make an announcement any day — with few in Ferguson believing that an indictment is likely.
But with little faith in the justice her son will receive, McSpadden, accompanied by one of the family's lawyers and a handful of local activists and human rights advocates, is taking her son's case — and that of other victims of racial profiling and police violence — straight to the UN Committee Against Torture, the body tasked with preventing torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment around the world.
The trip — which was recently made public by organizers and promoted under the tagline "Ferguson to Geneva" — is meant to make a case, to as wide an audience as possible, that both Brown's killing and the militarized police response to protesters demanding justice for him, are a matter of human rights.
"It's actually covered by article one of the convention against torture," Justin Hansford, a law professor at Saint Louis University and co-author of a brief to the UN body filed by Brown's family and local activists, told VICE News. "When the government has all the guns, all the force, and when they can kill people with impunity and without fear of being found guilty of a crime, that's a classic example of state violence."
"You see this in dictatorships and regimes where they do this to their own citizens and they get away with it," he added.
Hansford compared Brown's killing to that of Emmet Till in the 1950s — a pivotal moment behind the civil rights movement of the following years.
"The murder of Michael Brown was a fresh cut in an old wound in the sense that it played on the legacy of lynching, when black people's bodies were on display for people as a form of intimidation," Hansford said, referring to Brown's body, which laid on the streets for more than four hours.
Brown's death, he added, "wasn't just a violation of people's civil rights, it was a violation of their human rights."
Amnesty International denounces human rights abuses in Ferguson as police gather riot gear ahead of grand jury decision. Read more here.
Following widespread protests, the US Department of Justice launched two separate investigations — one into Brown's death, and one into the Ferguson police department, to determine whether discrimination has played a role in officers' behavior there. But protesters and rights advocates have increasingly made the case that the response to protesters and Brown's death was not just a matter of discrimination but amounted to human rights abuse.
Framing both as human rights issues is an attempt to speak to people's empathy — Charles Wade, a protester and one of the organizers of the Ferguson to Geneva initiative, told VICE News.
"People are starting to understand that people of color often feel that they don't have the same rights as humans, that their humanity isn't being respected," he said. "A person may not have ever seen it that way so they may now think, 'Yeah, all lives do matter, I do care. How can I help?"
The Ferguson to Geneva organizers are not the first to appeal to human rights principles. In a report released last week, Amnesty International made that case in the strongest language yet, when it said that law enforcement's use of rubber bullets, tear gas, and military equipment violated international standards.
The UN delegation is yet another attempt to shift the terms of the conversation on Ferguson, and to appeal for the support of a broader community.
"As we started to think about what the situation was in the larger context, we started to link what's happening in the US in terms of police violence with human rights violations," Wade said. "Our mid- and long term work will be linking what happened in Ferguson and what's happening in other places where there's excessive police violence to the international struggle for human rights."
Wade said he first thought to take Ferguson's fight for justice to the UN after learning of a similar initiative by a group of youth of color in Chicago, who planned to also go to Geneva this fall to denounce their experience as targets of police violence — an initiative they dubbed, "We charge genocide."
Yes, tear gas being used in Ferguson is banned in warfare — but not in war zones. Read more here.
"A lot of us here have been looking for ways to extend the conversation and extend our work outside of just Ferguson, tear gas, and rubber bullets," Wade said. "We asked, what does that really mean, and where does that fit within a larger conversation people can have? Race is a big part of it, it's probably 90 percent of it, but so often people are not seeing what's happening to people of color in this country as human rights violations."
The Ferguson group has been raising funds to sponsor the trip, on November 12 and 13 — but is still short $11,000. In addition to McSpadden and attorney Daryl Parks, Hansford, Wade, and four local activists including Tef Poe will also be going. McSpadden was not immediately available for comment.
Taking the issue to the UN is largely "symbolic," organizers admit.
"It's about taking the conversation to the global community in general," Wade said. "It's for us to show that now even the UN is interested in what's happening in a real small city called Ferguson, and you should be interested as well. You should see this as an issue that isn't just one instance, one police officer, and one man. This is what's happening all over the country."
The point of taking Ferguson's plight to an international forum is not so much to embarrass US officials, Wade said, though Hansford said the group hopes to connect with a delegation of administration officials who will be in Geneva at the same time. "While we're out there it would be great to talk to the US government," he said. "They'll be there, it would be wonderful it they talked to us."
But there's a more practical purpose to the delegation as well — to get the world's eyes back on Ferguson and St. Louis as residents prepare for an imminent grand jury announcement many fear will spark new clashes. Police have also been preparing for likely protests — stocking up on tear gas and riot gear and sending out emergency preparation plans for local schools.
Still scarred from the outsized police response to the summer protests, demonstrators have said they fear more force used against them, and they want to make sure that whatever happens next doesn't go unnoticed.
"They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on these tools of war, and stockpiling guns," Hansford said. "I think the international community and human rights community should turn their eyes towards Ferguson and see this in a human rights context."
The world's attention, he added, "could very well save some lives." "If it convinces them that the world is going to be watching and they will be held accountable, it could change their behavior and their reaction to protesters," he said.
Law enforcement officials have defended themselves against the accusations of human rights abuse.
"The St. Louis County Police Department and the Unified Command had one mission, and that was the preservation of life," St. Louis Police Sgt. Brian Schellman told VICE News following the Amnesty report, adding that police have been gearing up for more protests. "We are going to be prepared regardless of what the grand jury returns."
'I've never seen anything like what I saw in Ferguson': VICE News speaks with a member of the Amnesty delegation to Missouri. Read more here.
For their part, protesters plan to return to the streets should the grand jury decide not to indict Wilson. But there's a lot more than rallies to the movement for justice they have built in Ferguson, and the UN delegation is just one example of its broadening scope and growing ambitions.
"A lot of people have had this impression that just marching is happening, just demonstrations," Wade said. "That's not the only thing that's been going on."
Follow Alice Speri on Twitter: @alicesperi
They story that keeps giving....
Ferguson protester: No one can find the bullet police say they didn’t fire into my head
A Florissant, Missouri woman says that police in Ferguson shot her in the head while she was leaving a rally supporting slain teen Michael Brown.
However, according to the Riverfront Times, the bullet that doctors removed from Mya Aaten-White’s head in August has vanished and police claim she was gunned down by unknown assailants in a drive-by shooting.
On the night of August 12, Aaten-White says she was leaving an event in Ferguson in support of Michael Brown and remembers a group of people walking in front of her, then everyone diving for the ground as shots rang out.
When she sat up, she knew something was wrong.
“Oh my God, you’re shot in the head,” she remembers someone saying. A group of young men carried her to a house where they called 911.
“Those young men carried me and saved my life,” she said of the group who rescued her.
Now, Ferguson police are trying to blame those men for shooting her, calling the incident a drive-by shooting in which Aaten-White — a great-granddaughter of jazz legend Mae Wheeler — was caught in the crossfire. Witnesses, however, claim that the volley of bullets came from Ferguson police.
Aaten-White was conscious in the ambulance, taking a selfie that went viral. Then in the hospital, doctors debated about whether it was safe to remove the bullet from her skull, which had stopped a bare millimeter from her brain.
When Aaten-White woke up from surgery, she repeatedly asked medical personnel when the police were going to come and interview her about the incident. No one came.
When she asked who has custody of the key piece of evidence in her case, the bullet, no one could tell her what happened to the slug they pulled from her forehead.
“Someone has the bullet. Someone has the bullet, and it was an officer,” said her attorney Marwan Porter to the Times. Porter specializes in cases of police misconduct. He said, “We want to find out who and what agency took possession of the bullet. We want to identify who was responsible for firing the weapon that ended up with a bullet being lodged in the front of Mya’s head.”
“I’ve talked to both the St. Louis County Police Department and Ferguson…they have no record…no file number, no report,” he said. “They don’t have anything.”
A month after the incident, police finally released a report.
However, when the blog submitted a sunshine request about any ballistics reports or evidence related to the case, the police department replied, “This is an active investigation by law enforcement. No investigative records, such as ballistic records, are subject to disclosure in accordance with Section 610.100 R.S.Mo. The investigative records will be closed records until such time as dictated by Section 610.100 et seq.”
Aaten-White says she still has not spoken to the police about the incident, nearly three months later. A detective came to her house once to take a statement, but when she would not speak to him without an attorney present, the detective left and since then, she said, police have been ducking her attorney’s calls.
“I’ve left numerous messages for them,” Porter confirmed.
Part of her reluctance to deal with the department without legal the benefit of legal counsel, said Aaten-Smith, is that the incident report about the shooting is inaccurate.
“It’s an inaccurate report that we believe, my attorneys believe was produced as a result of the media pressure,” she said, but would not say specifically which sections weren’t true.
Read the Ferguson Police Department’s incident report about the shooting, embedded below:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/240730489...olice-Report-1
Source:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/f...ZUtfY0.twitter
Ferguson protester: No one can find the bullet police say they didn’t fire into my head
A Florissant, Missouri woman says that police in Ferguson shot her in the head while she was leaving a rally supporting slain teen Michael Brown.
However, according to the Riverfront Times, the bullet that doctors removed from Mya Aaten-White’s head in August has vanished and police claim she was gunned down by unknown assailants in a drive-by shooting.
On the night of August 12, Aaten-White says she was leaving an event in Ferguson in support of Michael Brown and remembers a group of people walking in front of her, then everyone diving for the ground as shots rang out.
When she sat up, she knew something was wrong.
“Oh my God, you’re shot in the head,” she remembers someone saying. A group of young men carried her to a house where they called 911.
“Those young men carried me and saved my life,” she said of the group who rescued her.
Now, Ferguson police are trying to blame those men for shooting her, calling the incident a drive-by shooting in which Aaten-White — a great-granddaughter of jazz legend Mae Wheeler — was caught in the crossfire. Witnesses, however, claim that the volley of bullets came from Ferguson police.
Aaten-White was conscious in the ambulance, taking a selfie that went viral. Then in the hospital, doctors debated about whether it was safe to remove the bullet from her skull, which had stopped a bare millimeter from her brain.
When Aaten-White woke up from surgery, she repeatedly asked medical personnel when the police were going to come and interview her about the incident. No one came.
When she asked who has custody of the key piece of evidence in her case, the bullet, no one could tell her what happened to the slug they pulled from her forehead.
“Someone has the bullet. Someone has the bullet, and it was an officer,” said her attorney Marwan Porter to the Times. Porter specializes in cases of police misconduct. He said, “We want to find out who and what agency took possession of the bullet. We want to identify who was responsible for firing the weapon that ended up with a bullet being lodged in the front of Mya’s head.”
“I’ve talked to both the St. Louis County Police Department and Ferguson…they have no record…no file number, no report,” he said. “They don’t have anything.”
A month after the incident, police finally released a report.
However, when the blog submitted a sunshine request about any ballistics reports or evidence related to the case, the police department replied, “This is an active investigation by law enforcement. No investigative records, such as ballistic records, are subject to disclosure in accordance with Section 610.100 R.S.Mo. The investigative records will be closed records until such time as dictated by Section 610.100 et seq.”
Aaten-White says she still has not spoken to the police about the incident, nearly three months later. A detective came to her house once to take a statement, but when she would not speak to him without an attorney present, the detective left and since then, she said, police have been ducking her attorney’s calls.
“I’ve left numerous messages for them,” Porter confirmed.
Part of her reluctance to deal with the department without legal the benefit of legal counsel, said Aaten-Smith, is that the incident report about the shooting is inaccurate.
“It’s an inaccurate report that we believe, my attorneys believe was produced as a result of the media pressure,” she said, but would not say specifically which sections weren’t true.
Read the Ferguson Police Department’s incident report about the shooting, embedded below:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/240730489...olice-Report-1
Source:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/f...ZUtfY0.twitter
I told someone this at work last week. The police shouldn't be intimidating citizens, and leaving a dead body on the street is classic lynch mob cowardice. I watched a video of the police prepping before confronting the prostestors, and some of them looked a little too happy to be there...almost like they were hoping something would happen so they could start cracking heads. That entire police force needs to go. To much corruption up top, and too many citizens employed by them that are hoping for a chance to hurt their fellow man.
Mask my good brother thank you for the work you (Camille you too!) have been doing with these posts. Lots of GREAT information.
Two things...
Whether she knows the verdict or not, going to Geneva is the right thing to do. The entire world is watching the hypocrisy of the US and we all know what's gonna happen here (no bill). Bringing it there puts pressure on the US to actually DO SOMETHING on a greater scale.
Secondly, is there ANY SURPRISE that the bullet went missing? They know that bitch was fired from a duty weapon and they're not about to let that information get out. I'm really at a loss as to what actions she can take because that bullet is probably melted down or at the bottom of some lake by now
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Two things...
Whether she knows the verdict or not, going to Geneva is the right thing to do. The entire world is watching the hypocrisy of the US and we all know what's gonna happen here (no bill). Bringing it there puts pressure on the US to actually DO SOMETHING on a greater scale.
Secondly, is there ANY SURPRISE that the bullet went missing? They know that bitch was fired from a duty weapon and they're not about to let that information get out. I'm really at a loss as to what actions she can take because that bullet is probably melted down or at the bottom of some lake by now
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Ferguson Police Emails Reveal 'Life is Very Rough' for Officers
In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, police officers in Ferguson, Missouri feared that people in the community were "gunning" for them, and officers were having a "rough" time dealing with the news media, according to an email written by Assistant Police Chief Al Eickhoff.
Eickhoff's email was one of only seven internal emails the City of Ferguson turned over to VICE News in response to an open-records request filed in late September for records pertaining to Brown's death and the protests that immediately followed. For those seven emails, the City of Ferguson charged VICE News a fee of more than $1,200.
In a written request, we asked for any emails that contained keywords including Michael Brown, curfew, protest, National Guard, and violence. But according to the City of Ferguson, in the nearly two months between August 9, the day the unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, and October 3, police and city officials did not write the name Michael Brown in a single email.
In his email, Eickhoff was responding to a series of questions sent to him and other police and city officials on October 3 by Devin James, who was contracted by the city for public relations services following the shooting. James had asked police officials for responses to a barrage of media queries he received about Brown's death, the Grand Jury investigation into the incident, the "rules" for protesting, police reports about the shooting, and the "stress" with which officers were contending.
"Who can assist us with answers to these ASAP? 2nd request and media is not being patient," James wrote in the email sent to Eickhoff, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, city attorney Stephanie Karr, and four other officials.
Based on the email chain obtained by VICE News, Eickhoff is the only official who responded to James. He sent James an email in response to a question about a use of force report and the overall investigation into Brown's death:
Devin, St. Louis County is handling report/warrant application. That is what the Grand Jury is doing. The Grand Jury is the use of force. If the shooting is unjustified then he [Wilson] will be charged. Life is very rough for the officers having recordings in their face all the time, worrying who is out there gunning for them…. Eap [Employee Assistance Program] and good wives help with the stress. I am sure public perception is negative from the news media BUT the residents in Ferguson support us.
City Clerk Megan Asikainen told VICE News she was "surprised" that "there were seven emails matching your search criteria." She thought there would be fewer.
"All emails from August 9 through October 3 were searched," Asikainen said after we inquired about the small number of emails containing those keywords in light of Brown's killing and the unrest that followed. "There were several days following August 9 that the City did not have email capability at all. And, even after that, email capability was not up to par for several more days. To be quite frank, city officials could not rely on and could not utilize email as a timely and effective method of communication for some time following the initial server and computer difficulties."
Asikainen was on vacation and could not elaborate further on the nature of the server outage. Lawrence Miskel, the city's human resources manager, told VICE News that almost three months after the apparent email outage, he still does not know what caused it.
'For several days after August 9, City employees could not receive or send emails at all. Email has not been entirely reliable even to this day.'
"For several days after August 9, City employees could not receive or send emails at all," he said Monday. "Email has not been entirely reliable even to this day. So, if you are asking about the date that the City had a system that was functioning in the same manner and with the same reliability as prior to August 9, we are still not there."
The City of Ferguson stipulated that VICE News first pay a $2,000 deposit before the city's outside contractor, St. Louis-based Acumen Consulting, would initiate an email search of the city's server.
Other news organizations that sought records from the city were also told they would have to pay a hefty deposit. Last month, the Associated Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and CNN filed complaints with Missouri's attorney general over the high fees related to the state's Sunshine Law requests, saying that the fees "clearly appear to be an effort by city officials to discourage or even eliminate efforts by the media to continue its investigation into this incident."
Nanci Godner, press secretary for the state's attorney general, confirmed to VICE News that the office received three complaints about the fees. "I can let you know when a next step happens," Godner said on October 14. She has not responded to follow-up requests for comment.
It took five hours for Acumen to search for and retrieve the seven emails, according to a three-page worksheet Acumen President Robert Wagnon turned over to the city after the firm completed the email search. Wagnon did not respond to requests for comment about the email search.
Asikainen said Acumen searched email accounts of City Council members and members of the police department who have the rank of sergeant and above.
"We searched for emails coming from all police 'officials' — those having some command or supervisory authority — in accordance with your request," she added. "We also took the extra step of searching Darren Wilson's email account given that he is a focal point."
One email the city turned over was sent by Ferguson City Manager John Shaw to Police Chief Thomas Jackson; James, the public relations consultant; Asikainen; and Ferguson Mayor James Knowles. It appears to be a critique of a September 30 St. Louis Post-Dispatch story.
"This is just stupid," Shaw wrote the same day the story was published. "The title says 'Clergy join peaceful but noisy protest in Ferguson,' but then inside it states 'At one point, the police line pulled back after gunfire was heard.' This is just crazy what the Post is doing."
Jackson responded: "The Post knows the difference between peaceful gunfire and non-peaceful gunfire."
Neither Jackson nor Shaw responded to requests for comment.
An email sent late in the evening on September 22 to Jackson, Knowles, and seven other city officials by Mike Salant, a former city council member, criticized the recipients for canceling Streetfest, scheduled for September 26 and 27 due to a planned protest in the community.
"I don't know what to say, you are ALL letting the THUGS win," Salant wrote. "And NONE of you deserve your positions. Everyone that worked so hard to put together streetfest and the residents that were looking forward to going. I do understand keeping everyone safe. And you all know 99% of the protester [sic] are not from Ferguson. What you going to do when the Grand Jury come back with a decision that the protesters don't like or Darren [Wilson] gets acquitted. You going to run and hide."
Jackson responded to Salant the following day saying Salant's email was "disgusting."
"Our officers and officers from many other agencies have been facing daily protests and everything from insults to gunfire and fire bombs since August 9," he wrote. "And now you want to bring them back to face certain violence and possible injury to residents, protesters and police officers because you were looking forward to a PARTY??? You clearly do not understand 'keeping everyone safe'. I'm waiting for a single day without this nightmare."
In another email, dated September 29, James is providing talking points to Jackson who was scheduled for three separate interviews with CNN correspondents that day.
"Topic: Let's have him calmly explain his feeling about the other night (night officer was shot and last night), let's talk about his real intention in going out in the crowd the night of the apology there, what went a little off (even if not his doing) and have a calm discussion bringing that moment into perspective," James wrote.
Some of the emails were redacted because they contained "operational guidelines" and "policies," the disclosure of which "would impair the ability to protect safety and security," according to Ferguson's city attorney. She charged VICE News $17.50 for the 10 minutes she spent reviewing and redacting the emails.
In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, police officers in Ferguson, Missouri feared that people in the community were "gunning" for them, and officers were having a "rough" time dealing with the news media, according to an email written by Assistant Police Chief Al Eickhoff.
Eickhoff's email was one of only seven internal emails the City of Ferguson turned over to VICE News in response to an open-records request filed in late September for records pertaining to Brown's death and the protests that immediately followed. For those seven emails, the City of Ferguson charged VICE News a fee of more than $1,200.
In a written request, we asked for any emails that contained keywords including Michael Brown, curfew, protest, National Guard, and violence. But according to the City of Ferguson, in the nearly two months between August 9, the day the unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, and October 3, police and city officials did not write the name Michael Brown in a single email.
In his email, Eickhoff was responding to a series of questions sent to him and other police and city officials on October 3 by Devin James, who was contracted by the city for public relations services following the shooting. James had asked police officials for responses to a barrage of media queries he received about Brown's death, the Grand Jury investigation into the incident, the "rules" for protesting, police reports about the shooting, and the "stress" with which officers were contending.
"Who can assist us with answers to these ASAP? 2nd request and media is not being patient," James wrote in the email sent to Eickhoff, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, city attorney Stephanie Karr, and four other officials.
Based on the email chain obtained by VICE News, Eickhoff is the only official who responded to James. He sent James an email in response to a question about a use of force report and the overall investigation into Brown's death:
Devin, St. Louis County is handling report/warrant application. That is what the Grand Jury is doing. The Grand Jury is the use of force. If the shooting is unjustified then he [Wilson] will be charged. Life is very rough for the officers having recordings in their face all the time, worrying who is out there gunning for them…. Eap [Employee Assistance Program] and good wives help with the stress. I am sure public perception is negative from the news media BUT the residents in Ferguson support us.
City Clerk Megan Asikainen told VICE News she was "surprised" that "there were seven emails matching your search criteria." She thought there would be fewer.
"All emails from August 9 through October 3 were searched," Asikainen said after we inquired about the small number of emails containing those keywords in light of Brown's killing and the unrest that followed. "There were several days following August 9 that the City did not have email capability at all. And, even after that, email capability was not up to par for several more days. To be quite frank, city officials could not rely on and could not utilize email as a timely and effective method of communication for some time following the initial server and computer difficulties."
Asikainen was on vacation and could not elaborate further on the nature of the server outage. Lawrence Miskel, the city's human resources manager, told VICE News that almost three months after the apparent email outage, he still does not know what caused it.
'For several days after August 9, City employees could not receive or send emails at all. Email has not been entirely reliable even to this day.'
"For several days after August 9, City employees could not receive or send emails at all," he said Monday. "Email has not been entirely reliable even to this day. So, if you are asking about the date that the City had a system that was functioning in the same manner and with the same reliability as prior to August 9, we are still not there."
The City of Ferguson stipulated that VICE News first pay a $2,000 deposit before the city's outside contractor, St. Louis-based Acumen Consulting, would initiate an email search of the city's server.
Other news organizations that sought records from the city were also told they would have to pay a hefty deposit. Last month, the Associated Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and CNN filed complaints with Missouri's attorney general over the high fees related to the state's Sunshine Law requests, saying that the fees "clearly appear to be an effort by city officials to discourage or even eliminate efforts by the media to continue its investigation into this incident."
Nanci Godner, press secretary for the state's attorney general, confirmed to VICE News that the office received three complaints about the fees. "I can let you know when a next step happens," Godner said on October 14. She has not responded to follow-up requests for comment.
It took five hours for Acumen to search for and retrieve the seven emails, according to a three-page worksheet Acumen President Robert Wagnon turned over to the city after the firm completed the email search. Wagnon did not respond to requests for comment about the email search.
Asikainen said Acumen searched email accounts of City Council members and members of the police department who have the rank of sergeant and above.
"We searched for emails coming from all police 'officials' — those having some command or supervisory authority — in accordance with your request," she added. "We also took the extra step of searching Darren Wilson's email account given that he is a focal point."
One email the city turned over was sent by Ferguson City Manager John Shaw to Police Chief Thomas Jackson; James, the public relations consultant; Asikainen; and Ferguson Mayor James Knowles. It appears to be a critique of a September 30 St. Louis Post-Dispatch story.
"This is just stupid," Shaw wrote the same day the story was published. "The title says 'Clergy join peaceful but noisy protest in Ferguson,' but then inside it states 'At one point, the police line pulled back after gunfire was heard.' This is just crazy what the Post is doing."
Jackson responded: "The Post knows the difference between peaceful gunfire and non-peaceful gunfire."
Neither Jackson nor Shaw responded to requests for comment.
An email sent late in the evening on September 22 to Jackson, Knowles, and seven other city officials by Mike Salant, a former city council member, criticized the recipients for canceling Streetfest, scheduled for September 26 and 27 due to a planned protest in the community.
"I don't know what to say, you are ALL letting the THUGS win," Salant wrote. "And NONE of you deserve your positions. Everyone that worked so hard to put together streetfest and the residents that were looking forward to going. I do understand keeping everyone safe. And you all know 99% of the protester [sic] are not from Ferguson. What you going to do when the Grand Jury come back with a decision that the protesters don't like or Darren [Wilson] gets acquitted. You going to run and hide."
Jackson responded to Salant the following day saying Salant's email was "disgusting."
"Our officers and officers from many other agencies have been facing daily protests and everything from insults to gunfire and fire bombs since August 9," he wrote. "And now you want to bring them back to face certain violence and possible injury to residents, protesters and police officers because you were looking forward to a PARTY??? You clearly do not understand 'keeping everyone safe'. I'm waiting for a single day without this nightmare."
In another email, dated September 29, James is providing talking points to Jackson who was scheduled for three separate interviews with CNN correspondents that day.
"Topic: Let's have him calmly explain his feeling about the other night (night officer was shot and last night), let's talk about his real intention in going out in the crowd the night of the apology there, what went a little off (even if not his doing) and have a calm discussion bringing that moment into perspective," James wrote.
Some of the emails were redacted because they contained "operational guidelines" and "policies," the disclosure of which "would impair the ability to protect safety and security," according to Ferguson's city attorney. She charged VICE News $17.50 for the 10 minutes she spent reviewing and redacting the emails.
What are the local elections looking like in the Ferguson area?
12:47 AM.
BREAKING NEWS: Demonstrators gather outside Stenger Election HG in Clayton!!! WOW!
Clayton is the county seat, they just busted up the newly elected county executives celebration party!
BREAKING NEWS: Demonstrators gather outside Stenger Election HG in Clayton!!! WOW!
Clayton is the county seat, they just busted up the newly elected county executives celebration party!
Protesters arrested while Stenger gives St. Louis County Executive acceptance speech
Posted 12:36 am, November 5, 2014, by Joe Millitzer
http://fox2now.com/2014/11/05/prote...-st-louis-county-executive-acceptance-speech/
Posted 12:36 am, November 5, 2014, by Joe Millitzer
http://fox2now.com/2014/11/05/prote...-st-louis-county-executive-acceptance-speech/
Ferguson Police Emails Reveal 'Life is Very Rough' for Officers
In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, police officers in Ferguson, Missouri feared that people in the community were "gunning" for them, and officers were having a "rough" time dealing with the news media, according to an email written by Assistant Police Chief Al Eickhoff.
Eickhoff's email was one of only seven internal emails the City of Ferguson turned over to VICE News in response to an open-records request filed in late September for records pertaining to Brown's death and the protests that immediately followed. For those seven emails, the City of Ferguson charged VICE News a fee of more than $1,200.
In a written request, we asked for any emails that contained keywords including Michael Brown, curfew, protest, National Guard, and violence. But according to the City of Ferguson, in the nearly two months between August 9, the day the unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, and October 3, police and city officials did not write the name Michael Brown in a single email.
In his email, Eickhoff was responding to a series of questions sent to him and other police and city officials on October 3 by Devin James, who was contracted by the city for public relations services following the shooting. James had asked police officials for responses to a barrage of media queries he received about Brown's death, the Grand Jury investigation into the incident, the "rules" for protesting, police reports about the shooting, and the "stress" with which officers were contending.
"Who can assist us with answers to these ASAP? 2nd request and media is not being patient," James wrote in the email sent to Eickhoff, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, city attorney Stephanie Karr, and four other officials.
Based on the email chain obtained by VICE News, Eickhoff is the only official who responded to James. He sent James an email in response to a question about a use of force report and the overall investigation into Brown's death:
Devin, St. Louis County is handling report/warrant application. That is what the Grand Jury is doing. The Grand Jury is the use of force. If the shooting is unjustified then he [Wilson] will be charged. Life is very rough for the officers having recordings in their face all the time, worrying who is out there gunning for them…. Eap [Employee Assistance Program] and good wives help with the stress. I am sure public perception is negative from the news media BUT the residents in Ferguson support us.
City Clerk Megan Asikainen told VICE News she was "surprised" that "there were seven emails matching your search criteria." She thought there would be fewer.
"All emails from August 9 through October 3 were searched," Asikainen said after we inquired about the small number of emails containing those keywords in light of Brown's killing and the unrest that followed. "There were several days following August 9 that the City did not have email capability at all. And, even after that, email capability was not up to par for several more days. To be quite frank, city officials could not rely on and could not utilize email as a timely and effective method of communication for some time following the initial server and computer difficulties."
Asikainen was on vacation and could not elaborate further on the nature of the server outage. Lawrence Miskel, the city's human resources manager, told VICE News that almost three months after the apparent email outage, he still does not know what caused it.
'For several days after August 9, City employees could not receive or send emails at all. Email has not been entirely reliable even to this day.'
"For several days after August 9, City employees could not receive or send emails at all," he said Monday. "Email has not been entirely reliable even to this day. So, if you are asking about the date that the City had a system that was functioning in the same manner and with the same reliability as prior to August 9, we are still not there."
The City of Ferguson stipulated that VICE News first pay a $2,000 deposit before the city's outside contractor, St. Louis-based Acumen Consulting, would initiate an email search of the city's server.
Other news organizations that sought records from the city were also told they would have to pay a hefty deposit. Last month, the Associated Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and CNN filed complaints with Missouri's attorney general over the high fees related to the state's Sunshine Law requests, saying that the fees "clearly appear to be an effort by city officials to discourage or even eliminate efforts by the media to continue its investigation into this incident."
Nanci Godner, press secretary for the state's attorney general, confirmed to VICE News that the office received three complaints about the fees. "I can let you know when a next step happens," Godner said on October 14. She has not responded to follow-up requests for comment.
It took five hours for Acumen to search for and retrieve the seven emails, according to a three-page worksheet Acumen President Robert Wagnon turned over to the city after the firm completed the email search. Wagnon did not respond to requests for comment about the email search.
Asikainen said Acumen searched email accounts of City Council members and members of the police department who have the rank of sergeant and above.
"We searched for emails coming from all police 'officials' — those having some command or supervisory authority — in accordance with your request," she added. "We also took the extra step of searching Darren Wilson's email account given that he is a focal point."
One email the city turned over was sent by Ferguson City Manager John Shaw to Police Chief Thomas Jackson; James, the public relations consultant; Asikainen; and Ferguson Mayor James Knowles. It appears to be a critique of a September 30 St. Louis Post-Dispatch story.
"This is just stupid," Shaw wrote the same day the story was published. "The title says 'Clergy join peaceful but noisy protest in Ferguson,' but then inside it states 'At one point, the police line pulled back after gunfire was heard.' This is just crazy what the Post is doing."
Jackson responded: "The Post knows the difference between peaceful gunfire and non-peaceful gunfire."
Neither Jackson nor Shaw responded to requests for comment.
An email sent late in the evening on September 22 to Jackson, Knowles, and seven other city officials by Mike Salant, a former city council member, criticized the recipients for canceling Streetfest, scheduled for September 26 and 27 due to a planned protest in the community.
"I don't know what to say, you are ALL letting the THUGS win," Salant wrote. "And NONE of you deserve your positions. Everyone that worked so hard to put together streetfest and the residents that were looking forward to going. I do understand keeping everyone safe. And you all know 99% of the protester [sic] are not from Ferguson. What you going to do when the Grand Jury come back with a decision that the protesters don't like or Darren [Wilson] gets acquitted. You going to run and hide."
Jackson responded to Salant the following day saying Salant's email was "disgusting."
"Our officers and officers from many other agencies have been facing daily protests and everything from insults to gunfire and fire bombs since August 9," he wrote. "And now you want to bring them back to face certain violence and possible injury to residents, protesters and police officers because you were looking forward to a PARTY??? You clearly do not understand 'keeping everyone safe'. I'm waiting for a single day without this nightmare."
In another email, dated September 29, James is providing talking points to Jackson who was scheduled for three separate interviews with CNN correspondents that day.
"Topic: Let's have him calmly explain his feeling about the other night (night officer was shot and last night), let's talk about his real intention in going out in the crowd the night of the apology there, what went a little off (even if not his doing) and have a calm discussion bringing that moment into perspective," James wrote.
Some of the emails were redacted because they contained "operational guidelines" and "policies," the disclosure of which "would impair the ability to protect safety and security," according to Ferguson's city attorney. She charged VICE News $17.50 for the 10 minutes she spent reviewing and redacting the emails.
Here's one of the #Ferguson protestors being arrested at the Stenger party. pic.twitter.com/oYC4wKm4qQ
12:27am - 5 Nov 14
"Over 6,500 write-ins against Robert McCulloch. McCulloch is the prosecutor in the Mike Brown case.
He has a long history with holding evidence in order to get guilty cops no indictment charges."
In light of all the turmoil taking place in St. Louis / Ferguson, Missouri with the Justice System, all should know what we went through for nearly nine years and the terrorist acts waged against us by the Missouri Justice System. All, should also know the ILLEGAL, INCOMPETENT, UNETHICAL, and UNPROFESSIONAL behavior by the St. Louis County Missouri / Robert McCulloch's office that we have been terrorized by.
The journalists that were harrassed and arrested, etc. in Ferguson Missouri are very lucky they were not shot like they did to journalist, Jeffrey Weinhaus, a.k.a. Bulletinman. Please read more info. about journalist, Jeffrey Weinhaus (Bulletinman) that was shot by the Missouri State Highway Patrol-Sargeant Folsom (under the supervision of Chief Ron Johnson) on this websiite and the other links listed on this website, under the heading, Bulletinman-Jeff Weinhaus.
The main stream media wants to portray the Ferguson Missouri ordeal as a racial issue, but in all reality it is not about race. It is about equal justice for all!
Below is a copy of a court transcript which involves the St. Louis County, Missouri / Robert McCulloch's office who was appointed as special prosecutors due to a conflict of interest with the Jefferson County Missouri's Prosecuting Attorney / Forrest Wegge's office.
This transcript clearly proves beyond any reasonable doubt the St. Louis County, Missouri / Robert McCulloch's office will intentionally withhold exculpatory evidence, which is a blatant Brady violation.
The defendant's lawyers, Kevin Roberts, Lynette Petruska, and Chet Pleban were so incompetent, they failed to follow up with any sort of accountability (for example, sanctions, etc.) for the blatant violation of their client's rights.
The transcript below documents several examples of the ILLEGAL, UNETHICAL, AND UNPROFESSIONAL behavior from the St. Louis County, Missouri / Robert McCulloch's office. I have other examples of their inexcusable behavior which I will try to find and upload to this site. Please keep checking back for more information.
Issues addressed in transcript:
1. St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's office's failure to give notice about hearsay statements they wished to present as evidence at the trial and the failure of Robert McCulloch's office to follow the law by providing the defendants with sufficient notice and the particulars of the statements. (See pgs. 4, 5, 6, 7, & 25).
2. St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's office dumped two hundred and seventy-one (271) pages of additional discovery in the defense attorney's lap just days before the trial was scheduled to begin. This was exculpatory evidence which was proven to be in St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's possession for more than a year and was not turned over to the defense until just days before the trial was scheduled to begin. (See pgs. 6-10, 14,15, 19-22, 24, 25, 27, 28, & 29)
3. St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's office lied about a filing with the Court. (See pgs. 10-13)
4. The Judge confirms the St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's office did not comply with the requirements of the statute. (See pgs. 13 & 14)
5. The alleged victim (Stephanie Steinfeld) and the reporting party (Paul Steinfeld) made allegations of being poisoned by the defendants during their depositions. Paul Steinfeld went as far to say that they went to the doctor to be tested, and that they tested positive for high levels of magnesium in both of their systems. Defense attorneys requested a copy of the medical records associated with this alleged poisoning, but when the Judge questioned St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's office about refusing to produce this evidence, their reply was, "I don't see that as relevant to our presentation of the case.'. (See pgs. 16-22)
6. The Judge explained to the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney / Robert McCulloch's office the relevant nature of the poison allegations and testing. The defense lawyer explained to the Judge that St. Louis County / Robert McCulloch's office stated his co-counsel was told, "...not that they didn't have the information,....but that they wouldn't give it to us." (See pgs. 23-24)
7. Defense lawyer pointed out to the Judge that the St. Louis County Prosecutors / Robert McCulloch's office made two (2) lawyers wait for approximately one and a half (1 & 1/2) hours while they prepared their witness for the deposition. Intentionally running up the legal fees for the defendants, not to mention, very unprofessional, and definitely UNETHICAL. (See pg. 24)
8. Defense lawyer pointed out to the Judge that the St. Louis County Prosecutor / Robert McCulloch's office asked his co-counsel during one of the depositions (on the record) associated with this case whether or not she had taken her medication that day. (See pgs. 25 & 26)
9. The Judge scolds the St. Louis County Prosecutor / Robert McCulloch's office, but the incompetent lawyers, Kevin Roberts, Lynette Petruska, and Chet Pleban failed to follow up and ask the Court for accountability (sanctions, etc.) for their blatant abuse of our rights. The Judge specifically stated the St. Louis County Prosecutors / Robert McCulloch's office was guilty of unethical behavior by withholding this exculpatory evidence. (See pgs. 26 & 27)
Here is another example of the St. Louis County Prosecutor / Robert McCulloch's Office WITHHOLDING EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE.
On 8/21/2005 there were one hundred and sixty nine (169) VHS tapes seized from my home. On 6/17/2008 one hundred and sixty five (165) VHS tapes were returned to me. It only takes simple math skills to come to the conclusion the State of Missouri would still be in possession of four (4) VHS tapes. Last time I checked one hundred and sixty nine (169) minus one hundred and sixty five (165) equals four (4).
169
- 165
4
@deray
Jeff Roorda, he who led the Darren Wilson support fund, lost his election tonight. #Ferguson
That mufucca ran as a DEMOCRAT???
I mean they both evil but Jesus Christ! You just know that was a political ruse, banking on the ignorance of those straight ticket voters
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
That mufucca ran as a DEMOCRAT???
I mean they both evil but Jesus Christ! You just know that was a political ruse, banking on the ignorance of those straight ticket voters
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
Yea that shit had me bugging, but it goes to show you that Dem or Rep is just the front.
Them fuckers are rotten to the core.
I'm honestly surprised this doesn't happen more....
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
