Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)
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YoMamaBlack
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How about justice for the people that had their business looted.
They can sue the City- State & Police for non protection
YoMamaBlack
Banned
ok but why should the state city have to spend money beyond their budget to prevent criminals from vandalizing property?
Not cool.........
Non-protection, you're assuming the cops didn't try to protect those businesses but just showed up late.
You cant sue the cops if i break your car
You cant sue the cops if i break your car
i'd rather break your fingers so you could only look at bgol but not be able to troll on it.
That little peckerwood would just peck his words on the keyboard with his pointy little cac nose...
Mike Brown Shooting - My Opinion on Police Brutality
The Faded Petunia 105 views
Published on Aug 15, 2014FILMED 8/12/14
My opinion of the Mike Brown shooting and police brutality in general. I am not white, black, brown, yellow, red, purple, or green, I am HUMAN. P.S. I apologize for promoting google, an evil company, in this video. I've done so because a lot of people know what it is. Remember google shares your information including what you search for. Youtube is owned by google. Look up "Search engines that respect your privacy" to get away from the google police.
Help stop police brutality, resources.
ANONYMOUS OpFerguson Video http://youtu.be/75WkEZK_f6g
DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH:
http://youtu.be/FqIew2DheCw | {PSYCHOPATHIC POLICE} If You See Something, Film it Recording Police is Dangerous but Necessary
http://youtu.be/SLmbyA6GC3A | HOMELAND IN-SECURITY: Rise Of The Global Police State
http://youtu.be/Xu5mwgkFX3U | Race & Police Brutality in the USA - 2012
NEWS STATIONS/PODCASTS TO FOLLOW:
http://blip.tv/democracy-now
https://www.youtube.com/user/MidweekPolitics
ORGANIZATIONS TO GET INVOLVED WITH:
http://NAACP.org
http://mxgm.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA071Pllf2wk-B8Rkwt47bQ
MUSIC TO LOOK INTO
Dead Prez http://youtu.be/EuKNhPelllk
The Faded Petunia 105 views
Published on Aug 15, 2014FILMED 8/12/14
My opinion of the Mike Brown shooting and police brutality in general. I am not white, black, brown, yellow, red, purple, or green, I am HUMAN. P.S. I apologize for promoting google, an evil company, in this video. I've done so because a lot of people know what it is. Remember google shares your information including what you search for. Youtube is owned by google. Look up "Search engines that respect your privacy" to get away from the google police.
Help stop police brutality, resources.
ANONYMOUS OpFerguson Video http://youtu.be/75WkEZK_f6g
DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH:
http://youtu.be/FqIew2DheCw | {PSYCHOPATHIC POLICE} If You See Something, Film it Recording Police is Dangerous but Necessary
http://youtu.be/SLmbyA6GC3A | HOMELAND IN-SECURITY: Rise Of The Global Police State
http://youtu.be/Xu5mwgkFX3U | Race & Police Brutality in the USA - 2012
NEWS STATIONS/PODCASTS TO FOLLOW:
http://blip.tv/democracy-now
https://www.youtube.com/user/MidweekPolitics
ORGANIZATIONS TO GET INVOLVED WITH:
http://NAACP.org
http://mxgm.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA071Pllf2wk-B8Rkwt47bQ
MUSIC TO LOOK INTO
Dead Prez http://youtu.be/EuKNhPelllk
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Gov. Nixon briefs Obama on Ferguson
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The White House on Friday emphasized its commitment to defusing continued tensions over the Ferguson police shooting.
The White House said President Barack Obama spoke Friday with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and Justice Department officials who stepped in after Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black.
President Barack Obama called Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Friday night to discuss the ongoing situation in Ferguson. Governor Nixon explained how the state has been working with leaders in Ferguson and the President promised federal assistance as needed.
Spencer Platt, Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama
In St. Louis, the department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services met with top commanders from Ferguson, the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the Missouri Highway Patrol at a two-day session that concluded Friday. It focused on how unintentional bias affects police work.
The voluntary reform effort is separate from a federal civil rights investigation into the Ferguson police shooting and a broader federal inquiry into the department's policing methods.
Source:
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/11/07/nixon-briefs-obama-ferguson/18677079/
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The White House on Friday emphasized its commitment to defusing continued tensions over the Ferguson police shooting.
The White House said President Barack Obama spoke Friday with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and Justice Department officials who stepped in after Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black.
President Barack Obama called Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Friday night to discuss the ongoing situation in Ferguson. Governor Nixon explained how the state has been working with leaders in Ferguson and the President promised federal assistance as needed.
Spencer Platt, Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama
In St. Louis, the department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services met with top commanders from Ferguson, the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the Missouri Highway Patrol at a two-day session that concluded Friday. It focused on how unintentional bias affects police work.
The voluntary reform effort is separate from a federal civil rights investigation into the Ferguson police shooting and a broader federal inquiry into the department's policing methods.
Source:
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/11/07/nixon-briefs-obama-ferguson/18677079/
think like white people switch OFF [ON]
The President is calling to sway the decision and make sure they get a trial no matter what the facts say about this big hulking brute of a man attacking that poor innocent cop... It's disgusting that he's involved so heavily in this but not as concerned with fast n furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, or what his Obamacare is doing to our country
think like white people switch [OFF] ON
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
IN CASE U MISSED IT: Who is the mayor of #Ferguson referring to as "gremlins" in this article bit.ly/1tq7mI7 pic.twitter.com/tr2yigOnua
11:25am - 8 Nov 14
Ferguson Waits Uneasily for Grand Jury’s Decision
FERGUSON, Mo. — Walk down West Florissant Avenue, and the scars of the summer are still there. The door and display window of a beauty supply store remain covered with plywood; a glued-up poster, “Beauty Town Is Back,” is the one hopeful sign of the life inside. A cellphone store, too, still has the plywood up from when riots and confrontations with the police shook this neighborhood. And the Family of Faith Baptist Church uses its billboard to proclaim, “Join us as we pray for peace.”
But few are expecting peace as this St. Louis suburb prepares for a grand jury decision, expected in the next few weeks, on whether to indict the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in August, inciting months of protests and putting Ferguson at the center of a national debate over the police and race.
Here, where heavily fortified police officers faced the demonstrators and the nights sometimes turned violent, even those shopkeepers who put in new windows are boarding up again.
“I hate this,” said Dan McMullen, the president of Solo Insurance Services, as he sat behind his desk on Thursday. During the course of a 20-minute conversation, his phone did not ring; no customers walked through the door. “Business is terrible,” he lamented. “The customers don’t want to come here anymore. We all know the grand jury is going to come back in the next couple of weeks, and everyone knows there won’t be an indictment. This time around will be a lot more violent.”
Ferguson Waits Uneasily for Grand Jury’s Decision
FERGUSON, Mo. — Walk down West Florissant Avenue, and the scars of the summer are still there. The door and display window of a beauty supply store remain covered with plywood; a glued-up poster, “Beauty Town Is Back,” is the one hopeful sign of the life inside. A cellphone store, too, still has the plywood up from when riots and confrontations with the police shook this neighborhood. And the Family of Faith Baptist Church uses its billboard to proclaim, “Join us as we pray for peace.”
But few are expecting peace as this St. Louis suburb prepares for a grand jury decision, expected in the next few weeks, on whether to indict the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in August, inciting months of protests and putting Ferguson at the center of a national debate over the police and race.
Here, where heavily fortified police officers faced the demonstrators and the nights sometimes turned violent, even those shopkeepers who put in new windows are boarding up again.
“I hate this,” said Dan McMullen, the president of Solo Insurance Services, as he sat behind his desk on Thursday. During the course of a 20-minute conversation, his phone did not ring; no customers walked through the door. “Business is terrible,” he lamented. “The customers don’t want to come here anymore. We all know the grand jury is going to come back in the next couple of weeks, and everyone knows there won’t be an indictment. This time around will be a lot more violent.”
Graphic | What Happened in Ferguson?Why did the police shoot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb, and what has unfolded since then? Here’s what you need to know about the situation in Missouri.
Mr. McMullen, a former police officer who is white, opened his desk drawer to show the loaded revolver that he keeps there.
“I don’t anticipate having to use it,” he said, but added that he was prepared to do so if necessary to defend his business.
All around this small suburb, people are bracing for the grand jury’s decision, with the wide expectation that the officer, Darren Wilson, will not face serious charges for shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown six times.
Government officials have said that forensics tests showed Mr. Brown’s blood on Officer Wilson’s gun, giving credence to the officer’s account that at one point he was pinned in his vehicle and engaged in a struggle over his gun with Mr. Brown. He told investigators that he had feared for his life, and police officers are typically given wide latitude to defend themselves if they feel their safety is threatened.
Nor are civil rights charges expected. Federal officials have said that while their investigation is continuing, the evidence so far does not support such a case against Officer Wilson.
But people protesting police tactics, who have continued to hold marches here since the shooting on Aug. 9, say they envision larger, angrier demonstrations should Officer Wilson not be charged. Fearing renewed unrest, the police in the region have bought new riot gear, called meetings with nearby departments and held special training seminars.
School leaders are reviewing emergency contingency plans and urging officials to announce the grand jury finding outside of school hours — perhaps on a Sunday, so that children returning home are not caught in a melee.
On Friday, President Obama spoke by phone with Gov. Jay Nixon to get an update on the situation. Earlier in the day, he was briefed by the Justice Department on efforts to assist state and local governments as needed.
Behind the scenes, government officials at various levels have been struggling with how to orchestrate and blunt the effects of the grand jury announcement. Investigators in Missouri want the Justice Department to announce the results of its civil rights investigation at the same time, according to several people briefed on the case, who insisted on anonymity to discuss confidential conversations. Yet Justice Department officials, who have promised that their investigation will be independent, do not want to coordinate announcements.
Other government officials have been privately discussing whether they can pressure the Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson, to step down, or somehow substitute the St. Louis County police for the local force. The county prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, has said that if the grand jury does not indict Officer Wilson, he will take the unusual step of releasing the evidence for public scrutiny if a judge approves.
Mr. Brown’s parents are preparing to call on the people of Ferguson not to react violently to the grand jury’s decision, even though they have little faith in the prosecutor, according to their lawyer, Benjamin L. Crump. “We want people to pray that the system will work, but the family doesn’t have much confidence at all,” Mr. Crump said. Nor, he added, are they confident that the local police will deal properly even with peaceful protesters.
Regardless of what the grand jury decides, Mr. Crump said the Browns would dedicate themselves to pressuring the federal government and states to pass “Michael Brown laws” that would require officers to wear video cameras.
“The real change they want is for people to use their frustration and turn it into legislation,” he said. “If you get the Mike Brown law passed, nobody will have to deal with something like this and the insult to injury afterwards.”
Some protest groups have said that they are urging demonstrators to be peaceful. The Don’t Shoot Coalition, which formed in the aftermath of the shooting, is pressing local officials for coordination in advance of the grand jury’s return so that members can adequately prepare for the announcement. The coalition, which represents about 50 groups, said this week that it was promoting “a peaceful response” from demonstrators.
The group also asked the police to do their part. Michael T. McPhearson, a co-chairman, said in a statement that the police should provide protesters “adequate space.” The police should also shun the use of tear gas and armored vehicles, the group said, and allow protesters to retreat to predetermined “sanctuary safe spaces.”
Elected officials have tried to soothe nerves in recent days, even as some police departments have bought more pepper-spray balls, flexible handcuffs and batons, and, in the case of at least one department, decided to delay repairing police vehicles until any unrest is over.
Anxious business owners filled part of a banquet hall here the other night, brimming with worries.
At the meeting, billed as a “disaster preparedness seminar,” they peppered city officials with questions: If Officer Wilson faces no charges, will Ferguson be able to manage the ensuing protests? Should they be stocking up on fire extinguishers, in case someone tries to burn down their stores? Should they arm themselves?
Yon Kim, a clerk at a beauty supply store, later described the growing tension. “I know it’s not going to be smooth,” she said. “The customers are already scared. And if something happens, we don’t know if insurance is going to cover it.”
“There’s going to be protests,” Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff, an assistant Ferguson police chief, told the business owners, while urging them to be careful how they respond. “Once you pull that trigger,” he warned, “you cannot pull that bullet back.”
Among the other bits of less-than-reassuring guidance for business owners: Empty your trash often, fire officials said, so it is not set aflame during protests. And Mayor James Knowles III suggested that people steer clear of the area in the evening if protests break out. “By 8, 9 o’clock, nothing good is going to happen out on the streets,” Mr. Knowles said. “When the gremlins come out, you’re just going to get caught in the crossfire.”
And the protests go on. Nearly every night, demonstrators gather in front of Police Headquarters on South Florissant Road, chanting and confronting police officers with expletive-laden cries and promises to shut the streets down.
On Wednesday evening, an unusually large crowd of more than 100 protesters was there, many with garish Guy Fawkes masks of white faces. The police, wearing riot gear and armed with plastic handcuffs, warned the protesters that if they continued to block the road, they would be arrested. The group defied the police, marching down the middle of the street and leaving a traffic jam behind them. Some pounded on cars whose drivers were trying to maneuver through. One driver, a white-haired older woman, turned onto South Florissant, saw the protesters and did a hasty U-turn to avoid being trapped by the crowd.
At times, officers appeared to struggle to remain calm in the face of insults. “You’re three-fifths of a person,” one woman taunted a black police officer, who turned his back and walked in the opposite direction.
The leaders of at least three police departments — the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the St. Louis County Police Department and the St. Louis Police Department — have held regular meetings as part of an effort at unified preparation. “We’re focused on the preservation of life and property,” Jon Belmar, the chief of the county police, said in an interview. His department spent $37,741 in October on helmets, shields, batons and shin guards.
A central goal, some law enforcement officials said, is to ensure that peaceful demonstrators are able to voice their views while also preventing violence.
The St. Louis Police Department has spent $325,000 on new equipment, including riot gear; sent 350 officers to training sessions on how to manage civil disobedience; and met with police chiefs from other communities around the nation that have dealt with unrest. Still under consideration are canceled days off for officers and 12-hour shifts. “We’ll be prepared to respond,” said D. Samuel Dotson III, the chief in St. Louis.
Capt. Ronald S. Johnson, the Missouri State Highway Patrol official who became the public face of law enforcement here after early clashes, said he had spoken to school groups and church panels about long-term changes needed in Ferguson. Still, the grand jury’s looming decision comes up regularly.
“I tell them that we’re going to make it through whatever happens,” Captain Johnson said in an interview. “I also tell them that it is my belief that whatever happens is not going to be as bad as we believe it’s going to be. I also tell them that I believe we’ll be better for it. But I tell them that I look at each day for each day.”
11:25am - 8 Nov 14
Ferguson Waits Uneasily for Grand Jury’s Decision
FERGUSON, Mo. — Walk down West Florissant Avenue, and the scars of the summer are still there. The door and display window of a beauty supply store remain covered with plywood; a glued-up poster, “Beauty Town Is Back,” is the one hopeful sign of the life inside. A cellphone store, too, still has the plywood up from when riots and confrontations with the police shook this neighborhood. And the Family of Faith Baptist Church uses its billboard to proclaim, “Join us as we pray for peace.”
But few are expecting peace as this St. Louis suburb prepares for a grand jury decision, expected in the next few weeks, on whether to indict the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in August, inciting months of protests and putting Ferguson at the center of a national debate over the police and race.
Here, where heavily fortified police officers faced the demonstrators and the nights sometimes turned violent, even those shopkeepers who put in new windows are boarding up again.
“I hate this,” said Dan McMullen, the president of Solo Insurance Services, as he sat behind his desk on Thursday. During the course of a 20-minute conversation, his phone did not ring; no customers walked through the door. “Business is terrible,” he lamented. “The customers don’t want to come here anymore. We all know the grand jury is going to come back in the next couple of weeks, and everyone knows there won’t be an indictment. This time around will be a lot more violent.”
Ferguson Waits Uneasily for Grand Jury’s Decision
FERGUSON, Mo. — Walk down West Florissant Avenue, and the scars of the summer are still there. The door and display window of a beauty supply store remain covered with plywood; a glued-up poster, “Beauty Town Is Back,” is the one hopeful sign of the life inside. A cellphone store, too, still has the plywood up from when riots and confrontations with the police shook this neighborhood. And the Family of Faith Baptist Church uses its billboard to proclaim, “Join us as we pray for peace.”
But few are expecting peace as this St. Louis suburb prepares for a grand jury decision, expected in the next few weeks, on whether to indict the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in August, inciting months of protests and putting Ferguson at the center of a national debate over the police and race.
Here, where heavily fortified police officers faced the demonstrators and the nights sometimes turned violent, even those shopkeepers who put in new windows are boarding up again.
“I hate this,” said Dan McMullen, the president of Solo Insurance Services, as he sat behind his desk on Thursday. During the course of a 20-minute conversation, his phone did not ring; no customers walked through the door. “Business is terrible,” he lamented. “The customers don’t want to come here anymore. We all know the grand jury is going to come back in the next couple of weeks, and everyone knows there won’t be an indictment. This time around will be a lot more violent.”
Graphic | What Happened in Ferguson?Why did the police shoot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb, and what has unfolded since then? Here’s what you need to know about the situation in Missouri.
Mr. McMullen, a former police officer who is white, opened his desk drawer to show the loaded revolver that he keeps there.
“I don’t anticipate having to use it,” he said, but added that he was prepared to do so if necessary to defend his business.
All around this small suburb, people are bracing for the grand jury’s decision, with the wide expectation that the officer, Darren Wilson, will not face serious charges for shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown six times.
Government officials have said that forensics tests showed Mr. Brown’s blood on Officer Wilson’s gun, giving credence to the officer’s account that at one point he was pinned in his vehicle and engaged in a struggle over his gun with Mr. Brown. He told investigators that he had feared for his life, and police officers are typically given wide latitude to defend themselves if they feel their safety is threatened.
Nor are civil rights charges expected. Federal officials have said that while their investigation is continuing, the evidence so far does not support such a case against Officer Wilson.
But people protesting police tactics, who have continued to hold marches here since the shooting on Aug. 9, say they envision larger, angrier demonstrations should Officer Wilson not be charged. Fearing renewed unrest, the police in the region have bought new riot gear, called meetings with nearby departments and held special training seminars.
School leaders are reviewing emergency contingency plans and urging officials to announce the grand jury finding outside of school hours — perhaps on a Sunday, so that children returning home are not caught in a melee.
On Friday, President Obama spoke by phone with Gov. Jay Nixon to get an update on the situation. Earlier in the day, he was briefed by the Justice Department on efforts to assist state and local governments as needed.
Behind the scenes, government officials at various levels have been struggling with how to orchestrate and blunt the effects of the grand jury announcement. Investigators in Missouri want the Justice Department to announce the results of its civil rights investigation at the same time, according to several people briefed on the case, who insisted on anonymity to discuss confidential conversations. Yet Justice Department officials, who have promised that their investigation will be independent, do not want to coordinate announcements.
Other government officials have been privately discussing whether they can pressure the Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson, to step down, or somehow substitute the St. Louis County police for the local force. The county prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, has said that if the grand jury does not indict Officer Wilson, he will take the unusual step of releasing the evidence for public scrutiny if a judge approves.
Mr. Brown’s parents are preparing to call on the people of Ferguson not to react violently to the grand jury’s decision, even though they have little faith in the prosecutor, according to their lawyer, Benjamin L. Crump. “We want people to pray that the system will work, but the family doesn’t have much confidence at all,” Mr. Crump said. Nor, he added, are they confident that the local police will deal properly even with peaceful protesters.
Regardless of what the grand jury decides, Mr. Crump said the Browns would dedicate themselves to pressuring the federal government and states to pass “Michael Brown laws” that would require officers to wear video cameras.
“The real change they want is for people to use their frustration and turn it into legislation,” he said. “If you get the Mike Brown law passed, nobody will have to deal with something like this and the insult to injury afterwards.”
Some protest groups have said that they are urging demonstrators to be peaceful. The Don’t Shoot Coalition, which formed in the aftermath of the shooting, is pressing local officials for coordination in advance of the grand jury’s return so that members can adequately prepare for the announcement. The coalition, which represents about 50 groups, said this week that it was promoting “a peaceful response” from demonstrators.
The group also asked the police to do their part. Michael T. McPhearson, a co-chairman, said in a statement that the police should provide protesters “adequate space.” The police should also shun the use of tear gas and armored vehicles, the group said, and allow protesters to retreat to predetermined “sanctuary safe spaces.”
Elected officials have tried to soothe nerves in recent days, even as some police departments have bought more pepper-spray balls, flexible handcuffs and batons, and, in the case of at least one department, decided to delay repairing police vehicles until any unrest is over.
Anxious business owners filled part of a banquet hall here the other night, brimming with worries.
At the meeting, billed as a “disaster preparedness seminar,” they peppered city officials with questions: If Officer Wilson faces no charges, will Ferguson be able to manage the ensuing protests? Should they be stocking up on fire extinguishers, in case someone tries to burn down their stores? Should they arm themselves?
Yon Kim, a clerk at a beauty supply store, later described the growing tension. “I know it’s not going to be smooth,” she said. “The customers are already scared. And if something happens, we don’t know if insurance is going to cover it.”
“There’s going to be protests,” Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff, an assistant Ferguson police chief, told the business owners, while urging them to be careful how they respond. “Once you pull that trigger,” he warned, “you cannot pull that bullet back.”
Among the other bits of less-than-reassuring guidance for business owners: Empty your trash often, fire officials said, so it is not set aflame during protests. And Mayor James Knowles III suggested that people steer clear of the area in the evening if protests break out. “By 8, 9 o’clock, nothing good is going to happen out on the streets,” Mr. Knowles said. “When the gremlins come out, you’re just going to get caught in the crossfire.”
And the protests go on. Nearly every night, demonstrators gather in front of Police Headquarters on South Florissant Road, chanting and confronting police officers with expletive-laden cries and promises to shut the streets down.
On Wednesday evening, an unusually large crowd of more than 100 protesters was there, many with garish Guy Fawkes masks of white faces. The police, wearing riot gear and armed with plastic handcuffs, warned the protesters that if they continued to block the road, they would be arrested. The group defied the police, marching down the middle of the street and leaving a traffic jam behind them. Some pounded on cars whose drivers were trying to maneuver through. One driver, a white-haired older woman, turned onto South Florissant, saw the protesters and did a hasty U-turn to avoid being trapped by the crowd.
At times, officers appeared to struggle to remain calm in the face of insults. “You’re three-fifths of a person,” one woman taunted a black police officer, who turned his back and walked in the opposite direction.
The leaders of at least three police departments — the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the St. Louis County Police Department and the St. Louis Police Department — have held regular meetings as part of an effort at unified preparation. “We’re focused on the preservation of life and property,” Jon Belmar, the chief of the county police, said in an interview. His department spent $37,741 in October on helmets, shields, batons and shin guards.
A central goal, some law enforcement officials said, is to ensure that peaceful demonstrators are able to voice their views while also preventing violence.
The St. Louis Police Department has spent $325,000 on new equipment, including riot gear; sent 350 officers to training sessions on how to manage civil disobedience; and met with police chiefs from other communities around the nation that have dealt with unrest. Still under consideration are canceled days off for officers and 12-hour shifts. “We’ll be prepared to respond,” said D. Samuel Dotson III, the chief in St. Louis.
Capt. Ronald S. Johnson, the Missouri State Highway Patrol official who became the public face of law enforcement here after early clashes, said he had spoken to school groups and church panels about long-term changes needed in Ferguson. Still, the grand jury’s looming decision comes up regularly.
“I tell them that we’re going to make it through whatever happens,” Captain Johnson said in an interview. “I also tell them that it is my belief that whatever happens is not going to be as bad as we believe it’s going to be. I also tell them that I believe we’ll be better for it. But I tell them that I look at each day for each day.”
That why I would surprise them and fall back and chill for a while.
I would have very calculated/timed protest and demonstrations.
I swear we think alike. I said the same thing. I would disappear for several days, total radio silence, not even tweet about Ferguson, then show up for a demonstration. They are expecting people to show out as soon as the verdict is announced, they have the armored trucks and national guard on standby. If I had my way, they would be spending all sorts of money keeping people on OT and making them scramble once they did emerge. Thanksgiving Eve, I'd have them show up. None of the cops would be having Thanksgiving with their fam. The protesters might surprise us like they did last month, with targeted demonstrations, they had the cops running back and forth all over the place because they did it in waves. I don't expect the protesters to be violent, Ferguson PD is just using that narrative to justify violence toward them. If there is any actual rioting, it will be from outsiders, not the people who have been protesting week after week.
That needs to happen here. Stop being idiots and destroying our own stores and houses. Go burn up the government's shit. Mexican police are cartel enforcers so saying their cops ain't like ours is no excuse. Their cops kidnap and behead people. Time to start acting like the rest of the world and go after the governmenr.
Mexican cops work for the cartels. I watched a documentary where they let the cartel run up in the police station to get their comrades back.
Burning up shit in your own community because you are angry makes no sense. The lady that owns the breakfast shop didn't do shit, so don't make her lose her business because the people disagree with the outcome of the case. The municipal buildings need to be targeted for protest...I can't advocate burning shit down because I don't know if I have the heart to do it, but if you are going to destroy some property...make sure if affects the people that had something to do with this case THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER WENT TO A GRAND JURY.
So while browsing today, I saw this "response" from Missouri State PD.
I'm sure this isn't a representation of the entire police force :rollseyes:
but the fact that someone decided to take the time and respond the way they did... Well.... Like I said (DTOWN ALSO) if you don't have any weight behind those statements this is the response you can expect to be made
http://www.callthecops.net/missouri...-leaderships-ground-rules/#comment-1687965522
Protest leaders from Ferguson have created a 19 point set of ground rules they expect police to follow. These rules are for when they re-start the riots after the Grand Jury makes a decision about charging officer Wilson in the death of Michael Brown.
In response Missouri police have released 9 point set of rules for protestors
1. The first priority will be for protestors to remember “don’t break the law”
2. Protest leaders will communicate to all protesters the need for non-violence. Leaders will accept responsibility for any acts of violence any protesters engage in.
3. Protesters shall give police a 48 hour notice if they plan to have looting as part of protest operations.
4. Protesters shall give the public advanced information as to the locations of riots and looting so average citizens can be safe and avoid potential violence.
5. Every attempt should be made by protest leadership to communicate with known trouble makers they are not part of the peaceful protest movement and not welcome to come.
6. Clear standards of professionalism and sound community friendly protesting will be maintained and adhered to at all times by protestors.
7. Police will wear whatever attire they need to feel safe.
8. If peaceful protests turn violent the protesters shall expect tear gas and rubber bullets to be used, so keep it peaceful… the decision to use this equipment will be made based on your actions, thus you are making the decision to be gassed.
9. Protestors acknowledge that even so called “minor attacks on police” (i.e. throwing water bottles at police) are still physical attacks. Expect all attacks on police to be addressed, please see point #8 above.
**I PARTICULARLY like points number 3 and 4......
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
They made it to the United Nations!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/us/ferguson-brown-parents-u-n-/
The parents of Michael Brown, a Missouri teen killed by police, testified before a U.N. committee Tuesday because they want the world to know "what's going on in Ferguson."
Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. spoke to the United Nations Committee Against Torture -- which also works against cruel or degrading treatment or punishment by government authorities.
"We need the world to know what's going on in Ferguson and we need justice," McSpadden told CNN in Geneva, Switzerland.
"We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what's going on in small town Ferguson."
Accounts differ as to what led to the August shooting of Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer.
While their testimony to the committee took place behind closed doors, the delegation that organized their trip said the couple would read from a statement submitted by the Brown family and organizations called HandsUpUnited, the Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment.
The document says Brown's killing and force used by police officers during protests that followed the killing "represent violations of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment."
It requests that the U.N. panel recommend the immediate arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Brown, as well as an end to "racial profiling and racially-biased police harassment across the jurisdictions surrounding Ferguson."
Ferguson authorities have repeatedly denied similar accusations in the past.
The statement also calls for recommendations that would apply to the entire United States, including that the attorney general and Department of Justice "must conduct a nationwide investigation of systematic police brutality and harassment in black and brown communities, and youth in particular. Methodology and findings of this investigation must be made publicly available."
Attorneys: Time for 'global intervention'
In a statement, the Browns' attorney's office said the couple planned to "testify on behalf of many supporters who join in the appeal for global intervention in the way policing currently functions in America."
Their trip to Geneva marked the first time out of the United States for the couple, CNN affiliate KSDK reported.
"We've been received very well," McSpadden told CNN. "They've given us a lot of love and support since we've been here. Everything seems to be positive. It's a great experience."
Michael Brown Sr. said he and his wife were offering "an outlook on what's going on in the United States and all over the world with the police, police brutality, no justice."
Speaking of what life has been like since the killing, he said, "It's a situation where I'm surprised we haven't even lost our mind yet over this. But we're being strong. Hopefully, justice will prevail."
The trip came as the parents, and many people throughout the United States,*brace for the results of grand jury deliberations*-- which will determine whether Wilson, 28, is indicted.
The trip was organized by the U.S. Human Rights Network, which is based in New York and Atlanta, KSDK reported.
"Traditionally, if you look at the history of the Convention Against Torture, this is the correct location for claims of police violence," St. Louis University Assistant Professor Justin Hansford, one of the co-authors of the brief,*told KSDK.
The Committee Against Torture "is the body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its State parties," the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights*says on its website.
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/us/ferguson-brown-parents-u-n-/
The parents of Michael Brown, a Missouri teen killed by police, testified before a U.N. committee Tuesday because they want the world to know "what's going on in Ferguson."
Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. spoke to the United Nations Committee Against Torture -- which also works against cruel or degrading treatment or punishment by government authorities.
"We need the world to know what's going on in Ferguson and we need justice," McSpadden told CNN in Geneva, Switzerland.
"We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what's going on in small town Ferguson."
Accounts differ as to what led to the August shooting of Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer.
While their testimony to the committee took place behind closed doors, the delegation that organized their trip said the couple would read from a statement submitted by the Brown family and organizations called HandsUpUnited, the Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment.
The document says Brown's killing and force used by police officers during protests that followed the killing "represent violations of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment."
It requests that the U.N. panel recommend the immediate arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Brown, as well as an end to "racial profiling and racially-biased police harassment across the jurisdictions surrounding Ferguson."
Ferguson authorities have repeatedly denied similar accusations in the past.
The statement also calls for recommendations that would apply to the entire United States, including that the attorney general and Department of Justice "must conduct a nationwide investigation of systematic police brutality and harassment in black and brown communities, and youth in particular. Methodology and findings of this investigation must be made publicly available."
Attorneys: Time for 'global intervention'
In a statement, the Browns' attorney's office said the couple planned to "testify on behalf of many supporters who join in the appeal for global intervention in the way policing currently functions in America."
Their trip to Geneva marked the first time out of the United States for the couple, CNN affiliate KSDK reported.
"We've been received very well," McSpadden told CNN. "They've given us a lot of love and support since we've been here. Everything seems to be positive. It's a great experience."
Michael Brown Sr. said he and his wife were offering "an outlook on what's going on in the United States and all over the world with the police, police brutality, no justice."
Speaking of what life has been like since the killing, he said, "It's a situation where I'm surprised we haven't even lost our mind yet over this. But we're being strong. Hopefully, justice will prevail."
The trip came as the parents, and many people throughout the United States,*brace for the results of grand jury deliberations*-- which will determine whether Wilson, 28, is indicted.
The trip was organized by the U.S. Human Rights Network, which is based in New York and Atlanta, KSDK reported.
"Traditionally, if you look at the history of the Convention Against Torture, this is the correct location for claims of police violence," St. Louis University Assistant Professor Justin Hansford, one of the co-authors of the brief,*told KSDK.
The Committee Against Torture "is the body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its State parties," the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights*says on its website.
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
So Obama sent the military?
YoMamaBlack
Banned
should have learned from hurricane kattrina if you loot businesses the national guard will be at your door.
Even running a social media campaign to raise awareness is something a lot of us can do.
We have to keep things like these visible.
We have to feed these images to the world, where America is trying to be the moral standard
These things have foreign policy implications but the world is not getting a full picture of what is happening.
This is a human rights issue..... straight talk
About time!
