Fuck your marches and peaceful protests....and fuck you too!

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/04/03/howard-morgan-ex-cop-shot_n_1399834.html

As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers -- and lived to tell his side of the story.
Morgan was off-duty as a detective for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad when he was pulled over for driving the wrong way on a one-way street on Feb 21, 2005, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. While both police and Morgan agree on that much, what happened next is a mystery.
According to police, Morgan opened fire with his service weapon when officers tried to arrest him, which caused them to shoot him 28 times. His family, however, very much doubts those claims.
“Four white officers and one black Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad police man with his weapon on him — around the corner from our home — and he just decided to go crazy? No. That’s ludicrous,” Morgan's wife, Rosalind Morgan, told the Sun-Times.
She was not the only person to doubt CPD's side of the story. A Change.org petition signed by more than 2,600 people called for all charges against Morgan to be dropped, and now Occupy Chicago is getting involved.
"After being left for dead, he survived and was then charged with attempted murder of the four white officers who brutalized him," Occupy wrote on their website, adding that Morgan was found not guilty on three counts, including discharging his weapon. The same jury that cleared him of opening fire on the officers, however, deadlocked on a charge of attempted murder -- and another jury found him guilty in January.
That jury was not allowed to hear that Morgan had been acquitted of the other charges.
Protesters and Morgan's family say the second trial amounted to double jeopardy, and claim officers have gone to great lengths to obstruct justice in the case:

Howard Morgan's van was crushed and destroyed without notice or cause before any forensic investigation could be done.

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Howard Morgan was never tested for gun residue to confirm if he even fired a weapon on the morning in question.

The State never produced the actual bullet proof vest worn by one of the officers who claimed to have allegedly taken a shot directly into the vest on the morning in question. The State only produced a replica.

“If they can do this and eliminate double jeopardy and your constitutional rights, then my God, I fear for every Afro-American — whether they be male or female — in this corrupt unjust system,” Morgan's wife told the Sun-Times.
Howard Morgan will be sentenced Thursday. He faces 80 years in prison.
 
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go the fuck back to Africa ....

And when y'all get there we will bomb that mothafucka

take your al green singing president and his hot pants wearing whore

that's how they feel dog :smh:

pure wicked spirited hatred
 
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Ha @ the edits.

I'd still love to know exactly to what manner of "direct action" Upgrade Dave was referring.
 
Censorship on a Black political message board smh..

Nah I edited it because it was going somewhere I didnt want it to.

Im not here to argue with mothafuckas at this point.

Im not a fucking troll....

A lot of this shit is getting sickening to me.:smh:
 
the peaceful protest may or may not get you justice

but they definitely don't hinder other occurrences.

no fear of consequences

which is what keeps black people (even black police) from killing whites.
 
the peaceful protest may or may not get you justice

but they definitely don't hinder other occurrences.

no fear of consequences

which is what keeps black people (even black police) from killing whites.

Go ahead and go to jail playa. Make me some money. Some of my best friends are white and I have white family members. As a positive black man "brothas" like You sicken me. Seriously why are brothas like you still around with this hatred? I can't even sit by the ocean at my family's residence and drink my mango lemonade without gentlemen like you blaring through my radio.

I even hear brothas like you spew hate to younger gentlemen while I'm getting a hair cut. When I stand up the like Proud Black Man living in my homeland you tell me I'm selling out like these bitter angry souls you are. You are no different from these racist white folks do with younger white kids.

Yes I've had an issue with the law. I called my family who are connected to take care of this said injustice.
 
the peaceful protest may or may not get you justice

but they definitely don't hinder other occurrences.

no fear of consequences

which is what keeps black people (even black police) from killing whites.

Bruh, there is no such thing as a hindrance to people doing something stupid or violent or criminal. Texas is known to execute people and they still have a relatively high murder rate.
Even in Sanford, the protesting and exposure will not stop the next Zimmerman but it will make sure the next one is arrested and put through the process.
 
sickening doesn't even begin to describe how i feel right now. how the hell can they get away with something like that. 28 times???? and the victim is being prosecuted????
 
the peaceful protest may or may not get you justice

but they definitely don't hinder other occurrences.

no fear of consequences

which is what keeps black people (even black police) from killing whites.

Now, I would certainly agree with you that peaceful protest does not guarantee you justice or secure whatever might be the objective of the march. But, I would respectfully disagree with the assertion that they they don't hinder other occurences.

I believe that municipal officials, for example, take notice when people take to the streets in protest. Those officials make assessments like,

  • "how does my political opinion of and/or my political position vis-a-vis the protest square with the image I want my constituents to have of me"

  • "what is the protest costing the municipality and how is the municipality able to comfortably shoulder that costs, i.e., does it stand to knock a hole in the budget; and

  • What is the liability exposure ($$$) of the city and how might the protest be increasing or reducing that exposure.

The answer to those decisions often impact how municipal officials make policy decisions that are in line with the goals of the protestors (of course, some protestors have agendas that could not be fulfilled short of a mass-burial of white folk, innocence notwithstanding).

Example: Police officer shoots black citizen; the shooting is questionable and the city has civil exposure ($$$) and, depending upon how the city's risk management is set up, it could end up spending huge $$$ for legal defense of the city and, quite possibly, defendant's counsel as well. Protests break out and a large police and other emergency personnel presence is required. That presence, especially the overtime, strains the hell out of the budget. AND, on top of that, a significant amount or larger of the residents are sympathetic to the protestors (depending upon how tactful they phrase the issue and conduct the protest).​


Reaction of the municipal officials. It has to quell the protest; it has to find a way to deal with the liability, without the obvious appearance that it is giving away the shop (so as not to encourage or invite future litigation and claims); it may very well have to expend significant sums for training (over and above the routine amount budgeted for training); and personnel decisions are made/effected that impact continued employment, promotions, raises and retirement possibilities (trust me, most employees fear these consequences).


Does it ensure a shooting will not occur again? Hell no. But, I believe that it does act as a deterrent to similar future conduct. Example, it would be interesting to note the number of "bad shoots" attributed to the New Orleans Police Department before and in the immediate aftermath of Katrina - and - the number of bad shoots since (after internal policy changes and prosecution of officers involved in the Danziger Bridge shooting). I would respectfully argue that a lot of behind the scenes policy changes were put into effect that the average resident doesn't necessarily recognize (cities and police departments are not in the business of telegraphing a lot of their security moves) -- but those changes tend to reduce the possibililty of similar future conduct, i.e., bad shoots.

What was the goal of the protest? Stopping bad shoots; police misconduct.
 
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