Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)
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MichaelBrown shooting: 'He held that boy and fired out of the car. He held his arm and fired'
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^^^^^^Man I so believe what that dude is saying about holding his arm....you know when cats are telling the truth......
"He held his arm......Pow!!!"
"He held his arm......Pow!!!"
The complete guide to every public eyewitness interview in the shooting death of Mike Brown
Oct 31, 2014 1:01pm PDT by Shaun King
Mike Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in broad daylight on a hot Saturday afternoon in Ferguson, Missouri. Consequently, eyewitnesses were standing at virtually every angle to observe exactly what happened that day. Seven have come forward publicly. Many gave interviews in the immediate aftermath of the shooting on Canfield Drive. Below is an annotated list of every public interview and video given by each eyewitness.
Dorian Johnson
Dorian Johnson is an essential eyewitness. He was walking with Mike Brown when they were first confronted by Officer Wilson and has given the only public account of what was said and done throughout the early stages of that confrontation.
• Here is the video interview with Johnson still on the scene soon after Brown was killed in which he describes everything he saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeni0qt8Vo
• Here is the same video from Johnson, but from a different camera angle.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/witness_to_michael_browns_killing_explains_what_he_saw.html
• A very detailed 12-minute interview with Johnson by Al Sharpton in which he recounts every detail he could remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wlDI6hg18
• Here Johnson does a video interview with the local press in which he recounts the story, the same as he said when he was on the scene. But he adds that it felt as if Brown was gunned down "like an animal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLB4zKKMHo
• Here is an interview Johnson did with Chris Hayes just days after Brown was killed.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?t=4m39s&v=PBjMsX8nyNs&feature=youtu.be
• Here Johnson does an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FIjma3CGDe0
• Here Johnson does an interview with CNN's Don Lemon after Brown's funeral.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bFqGYAHzizc
• Here Johnson gives an interview more two months later, on Oct. 30, again with CNN's Lemon, and stands by every aspect of his previous account.
Additional links to interviews can be found below the fold.
Tiffany Mitchell
Tiffany Mitchell does not live on Canfield Drive, but was driving there to pick up Piaget Crenshaw, a co-worker. She witnessed the shooting from the perspective of Canfield Drive.
• The very first interview Mitchell gave regarding what she saw. She was there for the initial confrontation and witnessed every gunshot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyNLVgvh9o
• Here Mitchell does an interview with Don Lemon just days after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpq29YjH3zo
• Here is a very thorough interview Mitchell gives to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssy_oPk-m8
• Here Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw do a video interview together on CNN just days after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=advkpZIuq2U
• Here are Tiffany Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw, months after the shooting, stating that they stand by their accounts and stating that they saw Mike Brown shot with his hands up, surrendering.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/11/03/ctn-piaget-tiffany.cnn.html
Piaget Crenshaw
• Piaget Crenshaw observed the shooting from her balcony on Canfield Drive and filmed the immediate aftermath just seconds after Brown was shot and killed.
• Here is the video Crenwshaw filmed just seconds after Brown was shot and killed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3L0XUZP4FDo
• Here is another video Crenshaw filmed an hour after Mike Brown was killed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ygMrunrO4l4
• Here Crenshaw gives an interview on the scene just hours after the shooting.
http://www.ksdk.com/videos/news/local/2014/08/13/14007133/
• Here is an interview Crenshaw gave CNN about a week after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImffBt6tyzY
• Here Crenshaw gives an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper a week after the shooting.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/...shaw-describes-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/
• A raw cellphone video of an unreleased interview Crenshaw did after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=za6pm37Ofwo
• Here are Tiffany Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw, months after the shooting, stating that they stand by their accounts and stating that they saw Mike Brown shot with his hands up, surrendering.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/11/03/ctn-piaget-tiffany.cnn.html
Michael Brady
Michael Brady lives in the apartments on Canfield Drive. After witnessing what he describes as a tussle between Brown and Wilson, he ran outside to take a closer look.
• Here is a very thorough interview Brady gave to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nWxMUX05k
• Here Brady does an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=4d0UC2aefRQ
• Here Brady gives an interview to CNN's Cooper.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqd2HxG5TAQ
Emanuel Freeman (@TheePharaoh on Twitter)
Emanuel Freeman lives in a basement level apartment on Canfield Drive that had a direct view of the crime scene. Freeman, known as @TheePharaoh on Twitter, live-tweeted the entire shooting and even took a picture of Darren Wilson standing over Brown's body. His tweets gave very helpful timestamps and verification to other accounts.
• Here is Freeman's live-tweets collected in one stream. It's unreal to see.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/15/live-tweet-michael-brown-killing-ferguson/
• Here's a video interview that Freeman did with Vice News.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TubkIgb7LkA
Two Construction Workers
Two (white) construction workers were on Canfield Drive working on a project when Wilson shot and killed Brown. Their immediate reactions to the shooting were recorded on video, and they have since spoken anonymously to the media. They are afraid of losing their jobs or being targeted if their identities are released.
• Here is the raw video of the construction workers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etDDT5IcCYc
• Here is the video of the construction workers on the scene and an analysis from CNN after a private interview with them.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/ferguson-michael-brown-shooting-witnesses/index.html
• One of the construction workers gave an interview to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the proviso that he not be named.
http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/cr...5deb-92fe-87fcee622c29.html?mobile_touch=true
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Ferguson protest organizers: ‘I sleep, eat and breathe this.’
It was 8:30 a.m., and DeRay Mckesson was at a McDonald’s here, the place humming with customers despite riots that left the businesses on both sides boarded up.
With two iPhones and a laptop glowing on the table before him, Mckesson began editing the slickly curated newsletter of articles, tweets and photographs that he and a friend have published almost every day since an unarmed 18-year-old, Michael Brown, was shot by a police officer just around the corner.
Mckesson’s readership has been mounting as tensions in Ferguson are again on the rise ahead of a grand jury’s decision, expected in the coming days, of whether to indict the officer, Darren Wilson.
The protest campaign, which emerged out of the riots that followed Brown’s killing, lacks a single charismatic leader or direction from a national organization. But at the front lines, an influential contingent of organizers including Mckesson is giving the movement a sense of identity and shaping how the American public sees it.
Regardless of whether the grand jury indicts Wilson, protest leaders say they plan to keep pricking the consciousness of whites and the political establishment, using confrontational tactics to make it clear that the lives of African Americans must be protected.
Activist Maxine Johnson, left, talks with other protesters maintaining a vigil at the Ferguson Police Department Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. (Sid Hastings/For The Washington Post)
“I want to believe there is a way to protest that is more than marching but not bloodshed,” Mckesson said.
The key figures in the campaign, representing more than a dozen groups, include a rapper, a law professor and a 15-year-old, and their tactics range from working within the political system to more militant action. The movement is plagued by infighting.
But a common thread runs through some of the most influential organizers. They are black, relatively new to civil rights activism and technologically savvy, masters of social media. Using Twitter, Vine and Instagram, they mobilize their peers, document every twist and turn, and annotate history in real time.
Charles Wade, 32, a fashion stylist from Austin, started a *Twitter hashtag, #Operation*HelporHush, the day after Brown’s killing, and overnight it raised about $5,000 to support protesters.
Shermale Humphrey, 21, had been working at a Subway restaurant in St. Louis when Brown was shot. She became so caught up in the protests that followed that she stopped going to work and started organizing marches, sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience.
Immersed in the cause
When the riots erupted in August, Mckesson, 29, was in Minneapolis working as a school administrator. Since then, he has spent his weekends and vacations in Ferguson, flying back and forth, participating in protests and developing his newsletter with a local partner. The readership just passed 5,000.
“If we allow black lives to be killed so effortlessly in Ferguson, then nothing I ever did before really mattered,” he said.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon outlined law enforcement plans Tuesday ahead of the announcement of a grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting case. (AP)
Mckesson, a slight man with close-shaven hair and a tidy goatee, has long been an advocate on education issues. But it was the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen killed in 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, that turned Mckesson’s attention to the perils faced by young African Americans. A Florida jury acquitted Zimmerman.
“I will never forget where I was when the Zimmerman verdict came in,” he said. “It was dark. I cried.”
So when he saw a commotion on Twitter and reports of a body lying on the street in Ferguson on the night of Aug. 9, Mckesson decided he needed to see for himself what was happening. He got in his car and drove nine hours from his apartment to the scene of the shooting. After being chased and tear-gassed by police along with other protesters, he said he decided to immerse himself in the cause.
It has meant getting up as early as 4 a.m. to scan headlines and scroll through e-mails and social-media postings to assemble the newsletter that he puts out with his partner, Johnetta Elzie, before going to his job as senior director for human capital at the Minneapolis school district. It has meant unleashing tweets that are passionate and perfectly on message at all hours.
Like: “We are 94 days in. This is a mature movement. This is organized struggle. We are on the right side of justice. Black lives matter. #Ferguson.”
And: “Silence will lure you with its promise of comfort. But silence will drain your spirit and weaken your soul. Silence corrupts. #Ferguson.”
Like others, he is preparing for another round of protests if Wilson is not indicted. Whether violence erupts, say Mckesson and other organizers, depends largely on the police response, and these leaders don’t pretend to influence, much less control, such a broad, disparate and emotion-driven movement.
He has set up a Web site to be a clearinghouse of information for protesters and plans to “bear witness,” as he has from the beginning, through Twitter. But there is not much else he can do. “Because,” he said, “how do you prepare for what could be the most difficult day of all this since Mike Brown’s death?”
‘Problem will get worse’
Some of the protest leaders, including traditional civil rights leaders and clergy, have a long history of fighting racism.
But then there are others, like Wade, the Austin stylist, who had not been particularly active in social causes before Ferguson. Wade’s life had been a whirlwind of fashion-magazine shoots and flights to Los Angeles. But he became concerned about the recent spate of African Americans shot by police and vigilantes, and the night of Brown’s shooting noticed a troubling deluge of tweets about Ferguson.
He decided it was time to drop everything and join this cause.
“At a certain point, this problem will get worse if I don’t step in and do something,” he recalls thinking.
Eager to help from his perch in Texas, he tried to raise some money through his following on Twitter. His fundraising pitch was retweeted by actress Amber Riley from the TV show “Glee” and by the singer Estelle, and within 10 days, he raised $25,000. Today, he spends much of his time in Ferguson, living out of a budget hotel by the airport and raising money to provide rations to the protesters.
Every Sunday, he co-hosts a dinner at the tire lot across from the Ferguson Police Department. On a recent evening, the menu was chicken-and-vegetable soup with a side of cornbread — enough for 75 people.
He said he thinks the movement will soldier on even if the police officer is not indicted. Groups are preparing for the fallout from a non-indictment, and Brown’s parents have started a campaign to push police departments to require officers to wear body cameras.
“People just want a crumb of justice right now, and an indictment would be a little something to tide us over,” he said. “Long term, this movement is much bigger.”
Humphrey, the former Subway worker, had been living with her uncle before she lost her job. She now bounces from couch to couch in her circle of protester friends — a sacrifice she said is worthwhile, because what is the point of working when she says she could be killed any day because of the color of her skin?
Now, she said, standing at the Rowan Community Center on a run-down block in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis, “I sleep, eat and breathe this.”
To her right, people touched up signs that said “F--- the Police” and “Shoot Back.” Behind her, others walked in and out of the building with steaming plates of barbecued chicken — a sort of fortification for the grand jury announcement. All around was fodder for her disaffection: abandoned buildings surrounded by overgrown lawns and litter.
Humphrey represents a more militant strain within this movement. She considers herself a “revolutionary,” and although she does not support violent protests, she believes burning down the QuikTrip gas station in Ferguson during the first days of the riots was an appropriate response by protesters, “because people have so much built-up anger at the system and they have a right to express themselves.”
Standing amid this hive of activity, she swapped tales with her fellow protesters like war stories — the time they were arrested on the front lines. The tear gas and the pepper spray. The long nights of strategizing and making signs. “The movement doesn’t sleep,” she said. “Why should we?”
It was 8:30 a.m., and DeRay Mckesson was at a McDonald’s here, the place humming with customers despite riots that left the businesses on both sides boarded up.
With two iPhones and a laptop glowing on the table before him, Mckesson began editing the slickly curated newsletter of articles, tweets and photographs that he and a friend have published almost every day since an unarmed 18-year-old, Michael Brown, was shot by a police officer just around the corner.
Mckesson’s readership has been mounting as tensions in Ferguson are again on the rise ahead of a grand jury’s decision, expected in the coming days, of whether to indict the officer, Darren Wilson.
The protest campaign, which emerged out of the riots that followed Brown’s killing, lacks a single charismatic leader or direction from a national organization. But at the front lines, an influential contingent of organizers including Mckesson is giving the movement a sense of identity and shaping how the American public sees it.
Regardless of whether the grand jury indicts Wilson, protest leaders say they plan to keep pricking the consciousness of whites and the political establishment, using confrontational tactics to make it clear that the lives of African Americans must be protected.
Activist Maxine Johnson, left, talks with other protesters maintaining a vigil at the Ferguson Police Department Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. (Sid Hastings/For The Washington Post)
“I want to believe there is a way to protest that is more than marching but not bloodshed,” Mckesson said.
The key figures in the campaign, representing more than a dozen groups, include a rapper, a law professor and a 15-year-old, and their tactics range from working within the political system to more militant action. The movement is plagued by infighting.
But a common thread runs through some of the most influential organizers. They are black, relatively new to civil rights activism and technologically savvy, masters of social media. Using Twitter, Vine and Instagram, they mobilize their peers, document every twist and turn, and annotate history in real time.
Charles Wade, 32, a fashion stylist from Austin, started a *Twitter hashtag, #Operation*HelporHush, the day after Brown’s killing, and overnight it raised about $5,000 to support protesters.
Shermale Humphrey, 21, had been working at a Subway restaurant in St. Louis when Brown was shot. She became so caught up in the protests that followed that she stopped going to work and started organizing marches, sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience.
Immersed in the cause
When the riots erupted in August, Mckesson, 29, was in Minneapolis working as a school administrator. Since then, he has spent his weekends and vacations in Ferguson, flying back and forth, participating in protests and developing his newsletter with a local partner. The readership just passed 5,000.
“If we allow black lives to be killed so effortlessly in Ferguson, then nothing I ever did before really mattered,” he said.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon outlined law enforcement plans Tuesday ahead of the announcement of a grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting case. (AP)
Mckesson, a slight man with close-shaven hair and a tidy goatee, has long been an advocate on education issues. But it was the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen killed in 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, that turned Mckesson’s attention to the perils faced by young African Americans. A Florida jury acquitted Zimmerman.
“I will never forget where I was when the Zimmerman verdict came in,” he said. “It was dark. I cried.”
So when he saw a commotion on Twitter and reports of a body lying on the street in Ferguson on the night of Aug. 9, Mckesson decided he needed to see for himself what was happening. He got in his car and drove nine hours from his apartment to the scene of the shooting. After being chased and tear-gassed by police along with other protesters, he said he decided to immerse himself in the cause.
It has meant getting up as early as 4 a.m. to scan headlines and scroll through e-mails and social-media postings to assemble the newsletter that he puts out with his partner, Johnetta Elzie, before going to his job as senior director for human capital at the Minneapolis school district. It has meant unleashing tweets that are passionate and perfectly on message at all hours.
Like: “We are 94 days in. This is a mature movement. This is organized struggle. We are on the right side of justice. Black lives matter. #Ferguson.”
And: “Silence will lure you with its promise of comfort. But silence will drain your spirit and weaken your soul. Silence corrupts. #Ferguson.”
Like others, he is preparing for another round of protests if Wilson is not indicted. Whether violence erupts, say Mckesson and other organizers, depends largely on the police response, and these leaders don’t pretend to influence, much less control, such a broad, disparate and emotion-driven movement.
He has set up a Web site to be a clearinghouse of information for protesters and plans to “bear witness,” as he has from the beginning, through Twitter. But there is not much else he can do. “Because,” he said, “how do you prepare for what could be the most difficult day of all this since Mike Brown’s death?”
‘Problem will get worse’
Some of the protest leaders, including traditional civil rights leaders and clergy, have a long history of fighting racism.
But then there are others, like Wade, the Austin stylist, who had not been particularly active in social causes before Ferguson. Wade’s life had been a whirlwind of fashion-magazine shoots and flights to Los Angeles. But he became concerned about the recent spate of African Americans shot by police and vigilantes, and the night of Brown’s shooting noticed a troubling deluge of tweets about Ferguson.
He decided it was time to drop everything and join this cause.
“At a certain point, this problem will get worse if I don’t step in and do something,” he recalls thinking.
Eager to help from his perch in Texas, he tried to raise some money through his following on Twitter. His fundraising pitch was retweeted by actress Amber Riley from the TV show “Glee” and by the singer Estelle, and within 10 days, he raised $25,000. Today, he spends much of his time in Ferguson, living out of a budget hotel by the airport and raising money to provide rations to the protesters.
Every Sunday, he co-hosts a dinner at the tire lot across from the Ferguson Police Department. On a recent evening, the menu was chicken-and-vegetable soup with a side of cornbread — enough for 75 people.
He said he thinks the movement will soldier on even if the police officer is not indicted. Groups are preparing for the fallout from a non-indictment, and Brown’s parents have started a campaign to push police departments to require officers to wear body cameras.
“People just want a crumb of justice right now, and an indictment would be a little something to tide us over,” he said. “Long term, this movement is much bigger.”
Humphrey, the former Subway worker, had been living with her uncle before she lost her job. She now bounces from couch to couch in her circle of protester friends — a sacrifice she said is worthwhile, because what is the point of working when she says she could be killed any day because of the color of her skin?
Now, she said, standing at the Rowan Community Center on a run-down block in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis, “I sleep, eat and breathe this.”
To her right, people touched up signs that said “F--- the Police” and “Shoot Back.” Behind her, others walked in and out of the building with steaming plates of barbecued chicken — a sort of fortification for the grand jury announcement. All around was fodder for her disaffection: abandoned buildings surrounded by overgrown lawns and litter.
Humphrey represents a more militant strain within this movement. She considers herself a “revolutionary,” and although she does not support violent protests, she believes burning down the QuikTrip gas station in Ferguson during the first days of the riots was an appropriate response by protesters, “because people have so much built-up anger at the system and they have a right to express themselves.”
Standing amid this hive of activity, she swapped tales with her fellow protesters like war stories — the time they were arrested on the front lines. The tear gas and the pepper spray. The long nights of strategizing and making signs. “The movement doesn’t sleep,” she said. “Why should we?”
The newest video of murderer Wilson's dispatch audio, and video walking in and out of the police station, put out now to prove Wilson had probable cause for stopping Brown and Johnson . . . it's just so obvious how they are attempting to manipulate public perception of this situation in the murderer's favor.
Ummm this pretty interesting....thanks for the tackling officer because she was about to get popped...
https://vine.co/v/OmWerMBUuue
https://vine.co/v/OmWerMBUuue
They made that audio dispatch after the event......I would bet money on that.....
If we attempt to be completely honest with ourselves that this timeline(below) is the truth,
releasing it now is fuck shit. The audio being presented now, means it was available seconds after the shooting.
• If I may recall the police chief said, Wilson didn't know anything about the store robbery.
(Likely changed that shit)
•Wilson reversed his truck because Brown and Johnson didn't get out the street, not because he realized they fitted the description.
Darren Wilson's radio calls show fatal encounter was brief
FERGUSON • The Aug. 9 fatal shooting here that sparked three months of protests and calls for change from around the world happened in less than 90 seconds, interviews and an analysis of police and EMS records shows.
The records, obtained by the Post-Dispatch via Missouri's Sunshine Law, provide the best timeline yet for the events surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown Jr., 18. Also released were police station surveillance videos that provide the most recent images of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who has stayed out of the public eye since the shooting. Wilson left the police station for the hospital two hours after the shooting, accompanied by other officers and his union lawyer.
They returned about two and one-half hours later.
Shortly after Brown's death, a grand jury began hearing evidence to determine whether Wilson should be indicted in the killing. The grand jury's decision is expected any day.
http://m.stltoday.com/news/multimed...4d-ba32-bad908056790.html?1&mobile_touch=true
A FATAL ENCOUNTER
At 11:29 a.m. on Aug. 9, a dispatcher asked Wilson to help other officers search for a man who had reportedly threatened to kill a woman. At 11:47 a.m., Wilson said he would respond to a call for a 2-month-old with breathing problems. Wilson drove his police SUV from the west side of West Florissant Avenue to Glenark Drive, east of Canfield Drive and Copper Creek Court, where the fatal encounter would soon occur.
At 11:53 a.m., a dispatcher reported a "stealing in progress" at the Ferguson Market. The 911 operator was still talking to the caller in the background. In a second broadcast, 19 seconds later, the dispatcher says the suspect is a black male in a white T-shirt running toward QuikTrip, and had stolen a box of Swisher cigars.
About four minutes later, there's more detail: the suspect is wearing a red Cardinals hat, a white T-shirt, yellow socks and khaki shorts, and is accompanied by another man.
At noon, Wilson reports that he’s back in service from the sick-baby call. He then asks the officers searching for the thieves -- units 25 and 22 -- if they need him. Seven seconds later, an unidentified officer broadcasts that the suspects had disappeared.
At 12:02 p.m., Wilson says, "21. Put me on Canfield with two. And send me another car." His call triggered at least two officers to head his way, including one who said he was close to Wilson.
Sources have told the Post-Dispatch that Wilson has told authorities that before the radio call he had stopped to tell Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, 22, to quit walking down the middle of the street. They kept walking, and he then realized that Brown matched the description of the suspect in the stealing call.
Wilson then asked dispatch for backup and backed up his SUV next to Brown and Johnson.
Wilson said Brown attacked him, sources said, and that they struggled over the officer's gun before Wilson was able to fire twice, hitting Brown once. Brown ran away.
Wilson has told authorities that he called, "Shots fired, send all cars," on his radio, but during the struggle his radio had been jarred and the channel changed.
The Post-Dispatch reviewed radio calls made during that period on all St. Louis County police channels, the fire channel used by Ferguson and other channels publicly archived online and could not locate the call. At least one channel on the Ferguson police radio is "receive-only," meaning that the call may not have been broadcast.
After the call, Wilson pursued Brown on foot.
According to sources, Wilson has said that Brown turned and charged, and that Wilson then fired once, paused when Brown appeared to flinch and fired again, multiple times. He said he then radioed for an ambulance.
Witnesses' accounts vary widely. Most saw only part of the encounter. Johnson said that Wilson grabbed Brown by the throat, and, later, tried to pull him into the SUV. Johnson also said that Wilson's fatal shot came after Brown turned around and was getting to the ground with his hands in the air.
Other witnesses have said that Brown stood still or walked, staggered, stumbled or fell toward Wilson before he was killed. Some witnesses said Brown's hands were up; others said they were not.
HELP ARRIVES
Forty-one seconds after Wilson's call, unit 25 reported that he was about to arrive at Wilson's location, saying he was "going out on Canfield" and accompanied by the sound of his racing engine.
Forty-eight seconds later, another officer had arrived or was about to, announcing, "22's out."
At 12:03 p.m., an eyewitness to the shooting Tweeted:
I JUST SAW SOMEONE DIE OMFG
— Thee$avageEP (@TheePharoah) August 9, 2014
If his smartphone's clock, or Twitter's, agreed with the clock on dispatch records, Brown was killed less than 61 seconds after the dispatcher acknowledged that Wilson had stopped two men.
At one minute, 13 seconds after Wilson's call, an unidentified officer has arrived and asks, “Where's the other one?” referring to Johnson.
Eleven seconds later, there's a brief burst of static and an unintelligible bit of speech. A dispatcher responds, “10-4 on Canfield.”
Twenty seconds later, unit 25 called in to ask if the dispatcher could send a supervisor to Canfield and Copper Creek Court.
At 12:05, a dispatcher called for an ambulance, erroneously reporting that someone had been hit with a Taser.
By 12:07 p.m., a woman wailed in the background as an officer called over his radio: “Get us several more units over here. There's gonna be a problem.”
Christine Byers of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
I mean what else can we come up with
I've been saying the whole time...if this killing of Mike Brown was righteous, every dashcam video, dispatch audio, and press conference stating the event would have happened immediately after the incident. You don't drag something out this long if there was some honesty to it. That convenience store video was out the day after, but the dashcam and radio transmissions were unavailable to the public? If it is crucial to the investigation, why release one and not the other?
Ferguson case raises question: Where's the data on officer-involved killings?
CNN) -- As a Missouri grand jury nears a decision on whether to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, some people seethe with suspicion that, in the end, nothing will happen.
On the street where Wilson killed teenager Michael Brown and in surrounding neighborhoods, many say the officer won't be indicted because, they contend, cops rarely are.
"After what I witnessed from the 40 years I've been in St Louis, I would say I don't think there will be an indictment," protester Larry Miller said. "I consider the killing of Michael Brown a modern-day lynching."
Photos: Emotions run high in Ferguson Photos: Emotions run high in Ferguson
New media flourishes in Ferguson protests Mom: Cops killed mentally ill son Ferguson residents are on edge Ferguson fights media over public records
Conventional wisdom says it's unusual for an officer to be charged in a suspect's killing. In reality, it's hard to get to the bottom of the issue because no official survey tracks officer-involved killings and why an officer is or isn't charged in the aftermath.
"Nobody has that data," said criminologist Philip Stinson of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who studies allegations of crimes by police. "It's not on any form that's required."
Information on how frequently a department uses force -- deadly or otherwise -- is deemed by experts as key in building public trust, and such data could help defuse suspicions seen in communities such as Ferguson.
The tensions in that city are heightened by the fact that Wilson, who is white, shot an unarmed black teen, Brown. Wilson's defenders say he acted in self-defense. They wear the legend "I am Darren Wilson" on T-shirts and wristbands.
Brown's backers cite witness accounts contending Brown had his hands up when the fatal bullets hit him. "The whole damn system is guilty as hell!" protesters chanted in a recent faceoff with shield-toting officers.
Missing check box
Cold, hard stats will hardly assuage the pain of families whose loved ones were killed when police used force.
Whatever the total number may be, just one killing can devastate a community and its police force, as in Ferguson.
At its core, the issue highlights the most powerful act that an officer, or anyone else, can do: To end someone's life.
From the officer's side of the gun, numbers may not paint the complete picture of how cops put themselves in harm's way daily on behalf of the public. They, too, get killed in the line of duty.
Some police departments do provide figures on the use of force, but the sample does not constitute a national portrait, experts say.
The problem begins with police reports: They don't contain a check box to indicate whether someone who has been arrested is an officer, for example.
"There's nothing in any of those systems where you would put down that a cop got arrested," Stinson said.
This void exists despite the federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. It requires the government to keep "data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers" and "an annual summary of the data."
If you send a survey to a police department, we're not sure they're going to tell the truth.
Criminologist Philip Stinson
Federal study: No excessive force in 99.6% of calls
Such a database was deemed unfeasible, according to researchers of a pilot study that the federal government funded after the law's passage.
The pilot study also found that police rarely used excessive force between 1991 and 2000, despite the severe 1991 beating by Los Angeles police of Rodney King, which was captured on video and played and replayed on television screens across the United States.
Unlike the teen in the Ferguson case, King recovered from his injuries. The grand jury in King's case indicted four officers in the beating, but three were acquitted and the fourth officer's case ended in mistrial in 1992 -- which incited riots in Los Angeles far more severe than Ferguson's violent protests. The riots left more than 50 people dead.
Now the nation wonders whether Ferguson will erupt in chaos, too, if the Missouri grand jury doesn't indict Wilson. As it turned out in the King case, the four officers were later indicted again, on alleged federal civil rights violations. Two were convicted, and the other two were acquitted. No public disturbances followed that verdict. In the Ferguson case, a federal civil rights inquiry also is under way.
For all the attention Rodney King's beating received, however, the federal pilot study, published in 2001, found that "excessive force was not used in 99.583% of all reported cases."
Police firing more than 40 bullets
Sen.: Agitators not welcome in Ferguson Gray: Zero tolerance for police too Grand jury hears key Ferguson testimony
When civilians die or become injured at the hands of police, controversy arises, even in cases where charges did result.
For example, in 1999, four plainclothes New York officers fired 41 shots at unarmed Guinea immigrant Amadou Diallo, 22.
The officers in the special street crimes unit thought Diallo was reaching for a gun when it was really his wallet. They were charged but later acquitted of murder, and the U.S. Justice Department concluded it didn't have enough evidence to prosecute the officers.
Diallo's family later settled a wrongful death suit against the city for $3 million.
In 2012, police in Saginaw, Michigan, fired 46 bullets at a knife-wielding homeless man, Milton Hall, 49, in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant, in full view of passing motorists. A video of the incident was obtained by CNN weeks later, and a controversy arose over why officers fired so many shots at Hall, who was just a few yards away.
None of the officers was charged, and the U.S. Justice Department decided against pursuing federal criminal civil rights charges.
"It's a tough job"
When a police officer does come under scrutiny after using force, a variety of factors can make prosecution unlikely.
For one thing, indicting an officer is difficult because the law lets police use increasing levels of force to protect his or her life and that of the public, legal experts say.
Prosecutors also may be keenly aware that jurors --and potential jurors -- may likely trust an officer's version of events, said criminal defense attorney Page Pate of Atlanta, who has represented several officers in excessive force cases.
"They know it's a tough job," Pate said. "And they put themselves in the shoes of the officer, and they say, 'Look, I don't want to be in that position. We trust you to do the right thing.'
"Once the jurors hear from the officer, and if they believe that officer, and if his explanation makes sense, they're going to defer to him," he said.
Elected prosecutors must walk a line when investigating a cop. On one hand, they have a close relationship with police. On the other hand, they must be responsive to constituents, and sometimes those constituents want an officer to be arrested after a suspect's death.
"The prosecutor can be impartial, but in the real world, it can be difficult at times," said Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations.
Police agencies, meanwhile, investigate thoroughly any time an officer uses force that hurts or kills a civilian, they say.
Also, in 49 of 50 states, a licensing commission regulates police officers' credentials. Those commissions can and do review officer conduct, Johnson said.
"Every cop out there has to assume they are being watched or recorded, and there are dozens of iPhones available on any city block," Johnson said. "I don't think it's fair for critics to say that officers are trying to hide stuff. That belief went out with Rodney King that force is not going to be noticed."
Biggest study drew responses from a fraction of agencies
The 1991-2000 pilot study was the "most significant use-of-force study ever done," said John Firman, director of research for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which authored the report.
Only a fraction of the nation's law agencies participated, however.
In all, it reviewed 45 million police calls and 177,000 use-of-force incidents; it found that police used force at a rate of 3.61 times per 10,000 calls for service.
Six officers, all men, died in using firearms between 1995 and 2000, the study found.
During the same period, 17 suspects died when police used physical force or firearms, the study said.
The report cost $2.5 million and took three years to complete. Even then, the study secured responses from only 564 of the nation's 18,000 law agencies, Firman said.
To continue for all law agencies "would have taken a decade and cost a billion dollars," Firman said.
The numbers
The FBI says there were an average of about 400 "justifiable homicides" a year by law officers in the line of duty between 2008 and 2012.
In his own research, Bowling Green State University's Stinson has documented 31 cases where a state and local officer was arrested for an on-duty, gun-related murder or non-negligent manslaughter from 2005 to 2011. He found 10 other cases in that time where an officer was arrested for negligent manslaughter in a gun-related incident that happened while the officer was on duty.
His analysis relies on news accounts and court records -- not formal federal statistics.
Overall, Stinson said, he identified 5,545 officers as being arrested on a variety of charges. Roughly 765,000 sworn officers work for state and local police forces in the United States.
"So it's a small number," Stinson said. "I think these arrests are a very small fraction of the firearm shooting cases by police officer of citizens."
One attempt for a public database
The website Fatal Encounters was created by a Nevada journalist devoted to crowd-sourced "data about people killed by police" since 2000.
So far, the website has collected 2,476 confirmed instances of officer-involved killings deemed justified or suspicious, but even those statistics are "barely scratching the surface," said D. Brian Burghart, the website's founder and editor of the weekly newspaper Reno News and Review.
"It only gets talked about when there's a street riot or when somebody brings it to the media's attention," Burghart said of officer-involved killings. "Due to things like social media, I think the public is much more aware that this (shortage of data) is an issue."
"The new civil right"
On behalf of many individuals killed by police, Pamela Meanes leads the National Bar Association's "War on Police Brutality" and is targeting 25 cities and 25 states with open records requests -- seeking the number of unarmed individuals who have been killed or injured by police or while in custody.
She calls her efforts "the new civil right."
"I think there's a (data) gap because people don't recognize that this is an epidemic in the country," said Meanes, who heads the nation's oldest and largest group of African-American lawyers. "It"s not a black and white issue. It's a blue issue."
Meanes contends that charges against an officer are rare because of what she calls "vague" standards on justifiable and excessive force.
"The law says that an officer has the authority to elevate that level of force to protect his life, and that is arbitrary and capricious," Meanes said.
Her group is pushing federal legislation to define better the acceptable and excessive use of police force.
"Every officer is not bad," she said. "This is not a war on police departments. This is an effort to get rid of bad police officers -- just like we want to get rid of bad lawyers."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/14/us/ferguson-police-involved-shootings-killings-data/
CNN) -- As a Missouri grand jury nears a decision on whether to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, some people seethe with suspicion that, in the end, nothing will happen.
On the street where Wilson killed teenager Michael Brown and in surrounding neighborhoods, many say the officer won't be indicted because, they contend, cops rarely are.
"After what I witnessed from the 40 years I've been in St Louis, I would say I don't think there will be an indictment," protester Larry Miller said. "I consider the killing of Michael Brown a modern-day lynching."
Photos: Emotions run high in Ferguson Photos: Emotions run high in Ferguson
New media flourishes in Ferguson protests Mom: Cops killed mentally ill son Ferguson residents are on edge Ferguson fights media over public records
Conventional wisdom says it's unusual for an officer to be charged in a suspect's killing. In reality, it's hard to get to the bottom of the issue because no official survey tracks officer-involved killings and why an officer is or isn't charged in the aftermath.
"Nobody has that data," said criminologist Philip Stinson of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who studies allegations of crimes by police. "It's not on any form that's required."
Information on how frequently a department uses force -- deadly or otherwise -- is deemed by experts as key in building public trust, and such data could help defuse suspicions seen in communities such as Ferguson.
The tensions in that city are heightened by the fact that Wilson, who is white, shot an unarmed black teen, Brown. Wilson's defenders say he acted in self-defense. They wear the legend "I am Darren Wilson" on T-shirts and wristbands.
Brown's backers cite witness accounts contending Brown had his hands up when the fatal bullets hit him. "The whole damn system is guilty as hell!" protesters chanted in a recent faceoff with shield-toting officers.
Missing check box
Cold, hard stats will hardly assuage the pain of families whose loved ones were killed when police used force.
Whatever the total number may be, just one killing can devastate a community and its police force, as in Ferguson.
At its core, the issue highlights the most powerful act that an officer, or anyone else, can do: To end someone's life.
From the officer's side of the gun, numbers may not paint the complete picture of how cops put themselves in harm's way daily on behalf of the public. They, too, get killed in the line of duty.
Some police departments do provide figures on the use of force, but the sample does not constitute a national portrait, experts say.
The problem begins with police reports: They don't contain a check box to indicate whether someone who has been arrested is an officer, for example.
"There's nothing in any of those systems where you would put down that a cop got arrested," Stinson said.
This void exists despite the federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. It requires the government to keep "data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers" and "an annual summary of the data."
If you send a survey to a police department, we're not sure they're going to tell the truth.
Criminologist Philip Stinson
Federal study: No excessive force in 99.6% of calls
Such a database was deemed unfeasible, according to researchers of a pilot study that the federal government funded after the law's passage.
The pilot study also found that police rarely used excessive force between 1991 and 2000, despite the severe 1991 beating by Los Angeles police of Rodney King, which was captured on video and played and replayed on television screens across the United States.
Unlike the teen in the Ferguson case, King recovered from his injuries. The grand jury in King's case indicted four officers in the beating, but three were acquitted and the fourth officer's case ended in mistrial in 1992 -- which incited riots in Los Angeles far more severe than Ferguson's violent protests. The riots left more than 50 people dead.
Now the nation wonders whether Ferguson will erupt in chaos, too, if the Missouri grand jury doesn't indict Wilson. As it turned out in the King case, the four officers were later indicted again, on alleged federal civil rights violations. Two were convicted, and the other two were acquitted. No public disturbances followed that verdict. In the Ferguson case, a federal civil rights inquiry also is under way.
For all the attention Rodney King's beating received, however, the federal pilot study, published in 2001, found that "excessive force was not used in 99.583% of all reported cases."
Police firing more than 40 bullets
Sen.: Agitators not welcome in Ferguson Gray: Zero tolerance for police too Grand jury hears key Ferguson testimony
When civilians die or become injured at the hands of police, controversy arises, even in cases where charges did result.
For example, in 1999, four plainclothes New York officers fired 41 shots at unarmed Guinea immigrant Amadou Diallo, 22.
The officers in the special street crimes unit thought Diallo was reaching for a gun when it was really his wallet. They were charged but later acquitted of murder, and the U.S. Justice Department concluded it didn't have enough evidence to prosecute the officers.
Diallo's family later settled a wrongful death suit against the city for $3 million.
In 2012, police in Saginaw, Michigan, fired 46 bullets at a knife-wielding homeless man, Milton Hall, 49, in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant, in full view of passing motorists. A video of the incident was obtained by CNN weeks later, and a controversy arose over why officers fired so many shots at Hall, who was just a few yards away.
None of the officers was charged, and the U.S. Justice Department decided against pursuing federal criminal civil rights charges.
"It's a tough job"
When a police officer does come under scrutiny after using force, a variety of factors can make prosecution unlikely.
For one thing, indicting an officer is difficult because the law lets police use increasing levels of force to protect his or her life and that of the public, legal experts say.
Prosecutors also may be keenly aware that jurors --and potential jurors -- may likely trust an officer's version of events, said criminal defense attorney Page Pate of Atlanta, who has represented several officers in excessive force cases.
"They know it's a tough job," Pate said. "And they put themselves in the shoes of the officer, and they say, 'Look, I don't want to be in that position. We trust you to do the right thing.'
"Once the jurors hear from the officer, and if they believe that officer, and if his explanation makes sense, they're going to defer to him," he said.
Elected prosecutors must walk a line when investigating a cop. On one hand, they have a close relationship with police. On the other hand, they must be responsive to constituents, and sometimes those constituents want an officer to be arrested after a suspect's death.
"The prosecutor can be impartial, but in the real world, it can be difficult at times," said Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations.
Police agencies, meanwhile, investigate thoroughly any time an officer uses force that hurts or kills a civilian, they say.
Also, in 49 of 50 states, a licensing commission regulates police officers' credentials. Those commissions can and do review officer conduct, Johnson said.
"Every cop out there has to assume they are being watched or recorded, and there are dozens of iPhones available on any city block," Johnson said. "I don't think it's fair for critics to say that officers are trying to hide stuff. That belief went out with Rodney King that force is not going to be noticed."
Biggest study drew responses from a fraction of agencies
The 1991-2000 pilot study was the "most significant use-of-force study ever done," said John Firman, director of research for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which authored the report.
Only a fraction of the nation's law agencies participated, however.
In all, it reviewed 45 million police calls and 177,000 use-of-force incidents; it found that police used force at a rate of 3.61 times per 10,000 calls for service.
Six officers, all men, died in using firearms between 1995 and 2000, the study found.
During the same period, 17 suspects died when police used physical force or firearms, the study said.
The report cost $2.5 million and took three years to complete. Even then, the study secured responses from only 564 of the nation's 18,000 law agencies, Firman said.
To continue for all law agencies "would have taken a decade and cost a billion dollars," Firman said.
The numbers
The FBI says there were an average of about 400 "justifiable homicides" a year by law officers in the line of duty between 2008 and 2012.
In his own research, Bowling Green State University's Stinson has documented 31 cases where a state and local officer was arrested for an on-duty, gun-related murder or non-negligent manslaughter from 2005 to 2011. He found 10 other cases in that time where an officer was arrested for negligent manslaughter in a gun-related incident that happened while the officer was on duty.
His analysis relies on news accounts and court records -- not formal federal statistics.
Overall, Stinson said, he identified 5,545 officers as being arrested on a variety of charges. Roughly 765,000 sworn officers work for state and local police forces in the United States.
"So it's a small number," Stinson said. "I think these arrests are a very small fraction of the firearm shooting cases by police officer of citizens."
One attempt for a public database
The website Fatal Encounters was created by a Nevada journalist devoted to crowd-sourced "data about people killed by police" since 2000.
So far, the website has collected 2,476 confirmed instances of officer-involved killings deemed justified or suspicious, but even those statistics are "barely scratching the surface," said D. Brian Burghart, the website's founder and editor of the weekly newspaper Reno News and Review.
"It only gets talked about when there's a street riot or when somebody brings it to the media's attention," Burghart said of officer-involved killings. "Due to things like social media, I think the public is much more aware that this (shortage of data) is an issue."
"The new civil right"
On behalf of many individuals killed by police, Pamela Meanes leads the National Bar Association's "War on Police Brutality" and is targeting 25 cities and 25 states with open records requests -- seeking the number of unarmed individuals who have been killed or injured by police or while in custody.
She calls her efforts "the new civil right."
"I think there's a (data) gap because people don't recognize that this is an epidemic in the country," said Meanes, who heads the nation's oldest and largest group of African-American lawyers. "It"s not a black and white issue. It's a blue issue."
Meanes contends that charges against an officer are rare because of what she calls "vague" standards on justifiable and excessive force.
"The law says that an officer has the authority to elevate that level of force to protect his life, and that is arbitrary and capricious," Meanes said.
Her group is pushing federal legislation to define better the acceptable and excessive use of police force.
"Every officer is not bad," she said. "This is not a war on police departments. This is an effort to get rid of bad police officers -- just like we want to get rid of bad lawyers."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/14/us/ferguson-police-involved-shootings-killings-data/
I'll like to give some props to the ladies and gentlemen of the media who express some "doubt" about what happen as what being report from the officers...
"He does not appear to have any visible injuries"
Published on Nov 15, 2014(ABC) New surveillance videos show Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson leaving for the hospital hours after he fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, sparking weeks of protest in the Missouri city.
The videos, which were obtained by the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, show Wilson, 28, leaving the police station with another officer and a police union lawyer two hours after the shooting, the newspaper reported.
Dispatch calls also obtained by the newspaper reveal how quickly the situation between Wilson and Brown escalated.
Wilson can be heard just before noon on August 9 asking other units if they need his help locating a robbery suspect.
“You guys need me?” he asks in the recordings.
Less than 10 minutes later, another officer asks for help controlling the scene where Brown was shot.
Get us several more units over here. There’s going to be a problem,” says the officer.
During the call a woman appears to be crying in the background.
Brown was unarmed when he was shot six times by Wilson. Weeks of protests and some incidents of looting followed after the shooting outraged the Ferguson community.
Wilson, who has been suspended with pay, claimed he was injured in a confrontation with Brown. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson previously said that the confrontation started because the teenager was walking in the middle of the street.
A state grand jury is investigating whether he should face criminal charges. A decision is expected this month.
The Department of Justice is also looking into the case.
"He does not appear to have any visible injuries"
Published on Nov 15, 2014(ABC) New surveillance videos show Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson leaving for the hospital hours after he fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, sparking weeks of protest in the Missouri city.
The videos, which were obtained by the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, show Wilson, 28, leaving the police station with another officer and a police union lawyer two hours after the shooting, the newspaper reported.
Dispatch calls also obtained by the newspaper reveal how quickly the situation between Wilson and Brown escalated.
Wilson can be heard just before noon on August 9 asking other units if they need his help locating a robbery suspect.
“You guys need me?” he asks in the recordings.
Less than 10 minutes later, another officer asks for help controlling the scene where Brown was shot.
Get us several more units over here. There’s going to be a problem,” says the officer.
During the call a woman appears to be crying in the background.
Brown was unarmed when he was shot six times by Wilson. Weeks of protests and some incidents of looting followed after the shooting outraged the Ferguson community.
Wilson, who has been suspended with pay, claimed he was injured in a confrontation with Brown. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson previously said that the confrontation started because the teenager was walking in the middle of the street.
A state grand jury is investigating whether he should face criminal charges. A decision is expected this month.
The Department of Justice is also looking into the case.
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all the evidence dont mean much...imho.
hate to be a pessimistic..but i dont think that man is going to jail.
We should continue to push for some sort of legal action...but a plan b needs to be in the works.
hate to be a pessimistic..but i dont think that man is going to jail.
We should continue to push for some sort of legal action...but a plan b needs to be in the works.
Chief: Officer didn't stop Brown as suspect
Police chief: 'I had to release' tape
Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) - The Ferguson police officer who shot Michael Brown didn't stop him because he was suspected in a convenience-store robbery, but because he was "walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic," the city's police chief said Friday.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson -- hours after documents came out labeling the 18-year-old Brown as the "primary suspect" in the store theft -- told reporters the "robbery does not relate to the initial contact between the officer and Michael Brown."
So why did Ferguson police opt to release surveillance video of the convenience-store incident Friday -- the same day they named, six days after the shooting, the white police officer who fatally shot the African-American teenager -- if the two situations aren't related?
Awaiting Ferguson grand jury, activists drill protest tactics
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - In a former union hall in downtown St. Louis, about 100 activists formed a rough circle and, at the instruction of organizer Michael McPhearson, crossed the room wading through a crowd of people going the opposite way.
"How hard was that? How much harder will it be after the grand jury comes back?" McPhearson, executive director of activist group Veterans for Peace, asked the group, which ranged from young black college students to bearded white retirees.
Police around the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, are preparing for large protests when a grand jury decides whether to indict the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August, and so are activists.
Several groups from across the United States, and even from abroad, are preparing to take to the streets in actions of nonviolent civil disobedience, particularly if the grand jury finds no criminal trial is warranted.
The memory of the violent clashes that followed the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown burns brightly in the minds of both protesters and law enforcement, especially after heavy criticism directed at the Ferguson police department for its handling of the situation. A gas station was burned, stores were looted and police fired tear gas and pointed automatic weapons at demonstrators.
In instructional sessions over the past week, activists including McPhearson, of St. Louis, have shown potential demonstrators how to link arms and remain calm when police clad in riot gear pound batons on the ground and to fashion gas masks from empty soda bottles.
"We are in a rebellion at the moment," said Reverend Osagyego Sekou, an activist from Boston. "That means breaking police lines, non-compliance with police orders. It is confrontational but not violent."
He urged the group of potential protesters to try to focus their minds on "deep, abiding love" to remain calm during demonstrations.
Activists are advised how to carry liquid antacid mixed with water to counteract the effects of pepper spray and even how to dress for unseasonably cold weather, with overnight temperatures expected to fall to well below freezing in the coming days.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has rolled out an application for mobile phones allowing users to videotape interactions with police and share them with the ACLU as they are recorded, providing evidence that could be used in lawsuits.
Streaming the video directly to the group ensures it will not be deleted or lost if the phone is confiscated, said ACLU spokeswoman Diane Balogh. The ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild have also recruited and trained about 100 legal observers to document any violations of civil liberties by police.
On Tuesday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon warned that violence will not be tolerated and said more than 1,000 police officers had undergone more than 5,000 hours of specialized training in preparation for the grand jury decision.
The training involved four hours per officer of mostly classroom instruction, said Sgt. Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police.
He said a group from the county force’s Tactical Operations division trained about 500 police from the county, the state highway patrol and various city forces, during October in the St. Louis County Police Academy.
Classes focused on protesters' constitutional rights, laws regarding unlawful assembly and failure to disburse, as well as a review of civil disobedience and riot training.
Officers will carry at all times a laminated card setting out the 1st, 4th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which deal with free speech, unlawful search and due process, Schellman said.
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - In a former union hall in downtown St. Louis, about 100 activists formed a rough circle and, at the instruction of organizer Michael McPhearson, crossed the room wading through a crowd of people going the opposite way.
"How hard was that? How much harder will it be after the grand jury comes back?" McPhearson, executive director of activist group Veterans for Peace, asked the group, which ranged from young black college students to bearded white retirees.
Police around the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, are preparing for large protests when a grand jury decides whether to indict the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August, and so are activists.
Several groups from across the United States, and even from abroad, are preparing to take to the streets in actions of nonviolent civil disobedience, particularly if the grand jury finds no criminal trial is warranted.
The memory of the violent clashes that followed the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown burns brightly in the minds of both protesters and law enforcement, especially after heavy criticism directed at the Ferguson police department for its handling of the situation. A gas station was burned, stores were looted and police fired tear gas and pointed automatic weapons at demonstrators.
In instructional sessions over the past week, activists including McPhearson, of St. Louis, have shown potential demonstrators how to link arms and remain calm when police clad in riot gear pound batons on the ground and to fashion gas masks from empty soda bottles.
"We are in a rebellion at the moment," said Reverend Osagyego Sekou, an activist from Boston. "That means breaking police lines, non-compliance with police orders. It is confrontational but not violent."
He urged the group of potential protesters to try to focus their minds on "deep, abiding love" to remain calm during demonstrations.
Activists are advised how to carry liquid antacid mixed with water to counteract the effects of pepper spray and even how to dress for unseasonably cold weather, with overnight temperatures expected to fall to well below freezing in the coming days.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has rolled out an application for mobile phones allowing users to videotape interactions with police and share them with the ACLU as they are recorded, providing evidence that could be used in lawsuits.
Streaming the video directly to the group ensures it will not be deleted or lost if the phone is confiscated, said ACLU spokeswoman Diane Balogh. The ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild have also recruited and trained about 100 legal observers to document any violations of civil liberties by police.
On Tuesday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon warned that violence will not be tolerated and said more than 1,000 police officers had undergone more than 5,000 hours of specialized training in preparation for the grand jury decision.
The training involved four hours per officer of mostly classroom instruction, said Sgt. Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police.
He said a group from the county force’s Tactical Operations division trained about 500 police from the county, the state highway patrol and various city forces, during October in the St. Louis County Police Academy.
Classes focused on protesters' constitutional rights, laws regarding unlawful assembly and failure to disburse, as well as a review of civil disobedience and riot training.
Officers will carry at all times a laminated card setting out the 1st, 4th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which deal with free speech, unlawful search and due process, Schellman said.
meaning there will probably be a lot of itchy trigger fingers that day
meaning there will probably be a lot of itchy trigger fingers that day
that's why they need to be well organized...well trained
live streams, cell phones, cameras, twitter and social media active.
Lets see all these so-called celebrities come out too.
Where them white rappers at?
Those POSITIVE rappers too?
All these actors and politicians need to be front and center.
Get ready
theyll all probably stay FAR away from Ferguson especially if some shit were to jump off.. maybe be on their twitters like"THIS IS WRONG!! #BoycottFerguson",etc
anonymous outs kkk who promised #ferguson violence @ LiberalAmerica.org liberalamerica.org/2014/11/15/ano…
12:21pm - 15 Nov 14
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/11/15/anonymous-kkk-ferguson/
12:21pm - 15 Nov 14
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/11/15/anonymous-kkk-ferguson/
Get ready
block ceelhone video??
they can hack the phones whereas u cant receive or send info, calls, text, etc.
But you can stil record whats going on and save it for when you CAN show it to the world.
I think there will be some deaths..but sometimes you got to show them that the fear of death aint gonna knock you off your square.
AT the end of the day.....there needs to be a combination of tactics used.
Violent and non violent.
Deep down I really feel that the police know what they're doing by bring in all this equipment.
(Please don't take this as me siding with them police fuckers)
I got a feeling there's the protestors and there's the fed-up motherfuckers.
If I'm correct the ST. Louis have somewhere of a gangs present.
We really didn't see them doing the protesting. We didn't see many of the so called gangsters.
I think they're worried about all the so called thugs organizing and showing out. Those of us that's been protesting aint threats. It's us who don't give any fucks, who's probably worrying them.
The few of us that attend townhall meetings discussing ways to change, asking for this and that ain't the real threats. It's us mutherfuckers that we call "Ray-Ray and dem, Slugger, Lil Ronnie, Big Timmy etc...they gonna be waiting for.
I may be wrong but I doubt it....
(Please don't take this as me siding with them police fuckers)
I got a feeling there's the protestors and there's the fed-up motherfuckers.
If I'm correct the ST. Louis have somewhere of a gangs present.
We really didn't see them doing the protesting. We didn't see many of the so called gangsters.
I think they're worried about all the so called thugs organizing and showing out. Those of us that's been protesting aint threats. It's us who don't give any fucks, who's probably worrying them.
The few of us that attend townhall meetings discussing ways to change, asking for this and that ain't the real threats. It's us mutherfuckers that we call "Ray-Ray and dem, Slugger, Lil Ronnie, Big Timmy etc...they gonna be waiting for.
I may be wrong but I doubt it....
The complete guide to every public eyewitness interview in the shooting death of Mike Brown
Oct 31, 2014 1:01pm PDT by Shaun King
Good Work, Thanks...
saw this in the Seattle Times newspaper..... Shit is real
From Boston to Los Angeles, police departments are bracing for large demonstrations when a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
The St. Louis County grand jury, which has been meeting since Aug. 20, is expected to decide this month whether Officer Darren Wilson is charged with a crime for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown after ordering him and a friend to stop walking in the street on Aug. 9.
The shooting has led to tension with police and a string of unruly protests there and brought worldwide attention to the formerly obscure St. Louis suburb, where more than half the population is black but few police officers are.
For some cities, a decision in the racially charged case will, inevitably, reignite long-simmering debates over local police relations with minority communities.
"It's definitely on our radar," said Lt. Michael McCarthy, police spokesman in Boston, where police leaders met privately Wednesday to discuss preparations. "Common sense tells you the timeline is getting close. We're just trying to prepare in case something does step off, so we are ready to go with it."
In Los Angeles, rocked by riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, police officials say they've been in touch with their counterparts in Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon and St. Louis-area law enforcement held a news conference this week on their own preparations.
"Naturally, we always pay attention," said Cmdr. Andrew Smith, a police spokesman. "We saw what happened when there were protests over there and how oftentimes protests spill from one part of the country to another."
In Las Vegas, police joined pastors and other community leaders this week to call for restraint at a rally tentatively planned northwest of the casino strip when a decision comes.
Activists in Ferguson met Saturday to map out their protest plans. Meeting organizers encouraged group members to provide their names upon arrest as Darren Wilson or Michael Brown to make it more difficult for police to process them.
In a neighboring town, Berkeley, officials this week passed out fliers urging residents to be prepared for unrest just as they would a major storm -- with plenty of food, water and medicine in case they're unable to leave home for several days.
In Boston, a group called Black Lives Matter, which has chapters in other major cities, is organizing a rally in front of the police district office in the Roxbury neighborhood the day after an indictment decision.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, police are expecting demonstrations after having dealt with a string of angry protests following a March police shooting of a homeless camper and more than 40 police shootings since 2010.
Philadelphia police spokesman Lt. John Stanford said he anticipated his city will see demonstrations, regardless of what the grand jury returns.
But big-city police departments stressed they're well-equipped to handle crowds. Many saw large but mostly peaceful demonstrations following the 2013 not-guilty verdict in the slaying of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman. In New York, hundreds of protesters marched from Union Square north to Times Square, where a sit-in caused gridlock.
The New York Police Department, the largest in the nation, is "trained to move swiftly and handle events as they come up," spokesman Stephen Davis said.
In Boston, McCarthy said the city's 2,200 sworn police officers have dealt with the range of public actions, from sports fans spontaneously streaming into the streets following championship victories to protest movements like Occupy.
"The good thing is that our relationships here with the community are much better than they are around the world," he said. "People look to us as a model. Boston is not Ferguson."
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2025034740_apxfergusonpreparations.html
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From Boston to Los Angeles, police departments are bracing for large demonstrations when a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
The St. Louis County grand jury, which has been meeting since Aug. 20, is expected to decide this month whether Officer Darren Wilson is charged with a crime for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown after ordering him and a friend to stop walking in the street on Aug. 9.
The shooting has led to tension with police and a string of unruly protests there and brought worldwide attention to the formerly obscure St. Louis suburb, where more than half the population is black but few police officers are.
For some cities, a decision in the racially charged case will, inevitably, reignite long-simmering debates over local police relations with minority communities.
"It's definitely on our radar," said Lt. Michael McCarthy, police spokesman in Boston, where police leaders met privately Wednesday to discuss preparations. "Common sense tells you the timeline is getting close. We're just trying to prepare in case something does step off, so we are ready to go with it."
In Los Angeles, rocked by riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, police officials say they've been in touch with their counterparts in Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon and St. Louis-area law enforcement held a news conference this week on their own preparations.
"Naturally, we always pay attention," said Cmdr. Andrew Smith, a police spokesman. "We saw what happened when there were protests over there and how oftentimes protests spill from one part of the country to another."
In Las Vegas, police joined pastors and other community leaders this week to call for restraint at a rally tentatively planned northwest of the casino strip when a decision comes.
Activists in Ferguson met Saturday to map out their protest plans. Meeting organizers encouraged group members to provide their names upon arrest as Darren Wilson or Michael Brown to make it more difficult for police to process them.
In a neighboring town, Berkeley, officials this week passed out fliers urging residents to be prepared for unrest just as they would a major storm -- with plenty of food, water and medicine in case they're unable to leave home for several days.
In Boston, a group called Black Lives Matter, which has chapters in other major cities, is organizing a rally in front of the police district office in the Roxbury neighborhood the day after an indictment decision.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, police are expecting demonstrations after having dealt with a string of angry protests following a March police shooting of a homeless camper and more than 40 police shootings since 2010.
Philadelphia police spokesman Lt. John Stanford said he anticipated his city will see demonstrations, regardless of what the grand jury returns.
But big-city police departments stressed they're well-equipped to handle crowds. Many saw large but mostly peaceful demonstrations following the 2013 not-guilty verdict in the slaying of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman. In New York, hundreds of protesters marched from Union Square north to Times Square, where a sit-in caused gridlock.
The New York Police Department, the largest in the nation, is "trained to move swiftly and handle events as they come up," spokesman Stephen Davis said.
In Boston, McCarthy said the city's 2,200 sworn police officers have dealt with the range of public actions, from sports fans spontaneously streaming into the streets following championship victories to protest movements like Occupy.
"The good thing is that our relationships here with the community are much better than they are around the world," he said. "People look to us as a model. Boston is not Ferguson."
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2025034740_apxfergusonpreparations.html
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The complete guide to every public eyewitness interview in the shooting death of Mike Brown
Oct 31, 2014 1:01pm PDT by Shaun King
Mike Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in broad daylight on a hot Saturday afternoon in Ferguson, Missouri. Consequently, eyewitnesses were standing at virtually every angle to observe exactly what happened that day. Seven have come forward publicly. Many gave interviews in the immediate aftermath of the shooting on Canfield Drive. Below is an annotated list of every public interview and video given by each eyewitness.
Dorian Johnson
Dorian Johnson is an essential eyewitness. He was walking with Mike Brown when they were first confronted by Officer Wilson and has given the only public account of what was said and done throughout the early stages of that confrontation.
• Here is the video interview with Johnson still on the scene soon after Brown was killed in which he describes everything he saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeni0qt8Vo
• Here is the same video from Johnson, but from a different camera angle.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/witness_to_michael_browns_killing_explains_what_he_saw.html
• A very detailed 12-minute interview with Johnson by Al Sharpton in which he recounts every detail he could remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wlDI6hg18
• Here Johnson does a video interview with the local press in which he recounts the story, the same as he said when he was on the scene. But he adds that it felt as if Brown was gunned down "like an animal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLB4zKKMHo
• Here is an interview Johnson did with Chris Hayes just days after Brown was killed.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?t=4m39s&v=PBjMsX8nyNs&feature=youtu.be
• Here Johnson does an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FIjma3CGDe0
• Here Johnson does an interview with CNN's Don Lemon after Brown's funeral.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bFqGYAHzizc
• Here Johnson gives an interview more two months later, on Oct. 30, again with CNN's Lemon, and stands by every aspect of his previous account.
Additional links to interviews can be found below the fold.
Tiffany Mitchell
Tiffany Mitchell does not live on Canfield Drive, but was driving there to pick up Piaget Crenshaw, a co-worker. She witnessed the shooting from the perspective of Canfield Drive.
• The very first interview Mitchell gave regarding what she saw. She was there for the initial confrontation and witnessed every gunshot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyNLVgvh9o
• Here Mitchell does an interview with Don Lemon just days after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpq29YjH3zo
• Here is a very thorough interview Mitchell gives to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssy_oPk-m8
• Here Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw do a video interview together on CNN just days after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=advkpZIuq2U
• Here are Tiffany Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw, months after the shooting, stating that they stand by their accounts and stating that they saw Mike Brown shot with his hands up, surrendering.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/11/03/ctn-piaget-tiffany.cnn.html
Piaget Crenshaw
• Piaget Crenshaw observed the shooting from her balcony on Canfield Drive and filmed the immediate aftermath just seconds after Brown was shot and killed.
• Here is the video Crenwshaw filmed just seconds after Brown was shot and killed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3L0XUZP4FDo
• Here is another video Crenshaw filmed an hour after Mike Brown was killed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ygMrunrO4l4
• Here Crenshaw gives an interview on the scene just hours after the shooting.
http://www.ksdk.com/videos/news/local/2014/08/13/14007133/
• Here is an interview Crenshaw gave CNN about a week after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImffBt6tyzY
• Here Crenshaw gives an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper a week after the shooting.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/...shaw-describes-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/
• A raw cellphone video of an unreleased interview Crenshaw did after the shooting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=za6pm37Ofwo
• Here are Tiffany Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw, months after the shooting, stating that they stand by their accounts and stating that they saw Mike Brown shot with his hands up, surrendering.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/11/03/ctn-piaget-tiffany.cnn.html
Michael Brady
Michael Brady lives in the apartments on Canfield Drive. After witnessing what he describes as a tussle between Brown and Wilson, he ran outside to take a closer look.
• Here is a very thorough interview Brady gave to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nWxMUX05k
• Here Brady does an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=4d0UC2aefRQ
• Here Brady gives an interview to CNN's Cooper.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqd2HxG5TAQ
Emanuel Freeman (@TheePharaoh on Twitter)
Emanuel Freeman lives in a basement level apartment on Canfield Drive that had a direct view of the crime scene. Freeman, known as @TheePharaoh on Twitter, live-tweeted the entire shooting and even took a picture of Darren Wilson standing over Brown's body. His tweets gave very helpful timestamps and verification to other accounts.
• Here is Freeman's live-tweets collected in one stream. It's unreal to see.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/15/live-tweet-michael-brown-killing-ferguson/
• Here's a video interview that Freeman did with Vice News.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TubkIgb7LkA
Two Construction Workers
Two (white) construction workers were on Canfield Drive working on a project when Wilson shot and killed Brown. Their immediate reactions to the shooting were recorded on video, and they have since spoken anonymously to the media. They are afraid of losing their jobs or being targeted if their identities are released.
• Here is the raw video of the construction workers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etDDT5IcCYc
• Here is the video of the construction workers on the scene and an analysis from CNN after a private interview with them.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/ferguson-michael-brown-shooting-witnesses/index.html
• One of the construction workers gave an interview to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the proviso that he not be named.
http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/cr...5deb-92fe-87fcee622c29.html?mobile_touch=true
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