lowery got into an argument with some douche on twitter because he mentioned the information didn't cover the shooting at all. "it's an ongoing investigation, of course they don't give out information!" unlike the theft i guess which is all complete since the suspect is fucking dead
People have been saying this for years, but no one's listened: The War on Drugs was the new Jim Crow. The white racists and imperialists who had the public's ear before WWII were pushed back by the Civil Rights Movement and protests against Vietnam, so they decided to create a war in cocaine and marijuana and blame blacks for being poor, instead of fixing the problems that made the drugs so popular in the first place.
From what I understand, the claim is that Brown was the shoplifter, and his friend Dorian Johnson (who was present for both the shoplifting and the shooting) was innocent and not being charged. Johnson's attorney corroborates this account, so that's a thing at least.
Supposedly the officer who shot Brown was in the area investigating a lead on the shoplifting, but didn't know Brown was the suspect. Which means the confrontation and shooting happened entirely over jaywalking.
“I think this whole thing is getting blown out of proportion,” said Tries, who is white and 35 years old. “There’s never been any kind of race thing here. It’s something I never even think about.” Over at the Prime Time Beauty & Barber Shop, a social hub in the black part of town, folks see it differently. “They treat us like criminals,” said barber Branden Turner, who’s worked at the shop for a few years. They described officers routinely waiting for customers to leave so they could give them traffic tickets, search for drugs, or ask them for identification so they could run a background check.
tell that person "well why don't you just build a fence around yourself so you can ignore what's going on in #Ferguson instead? smaller fence is cheaper too lol"
NPR says that the guy that got shot is still in critical condition, and I'm a lot more willing to trust the highway patrol here than I would ever think of trusting the local goon squad. Johnson seems like a good guy that knows what a mess he's in and doesn't want to make matters worse.
I think the guy with the handgun might have been an outside agitator, honestly.
And yes, I understand there's a good amount of crossover between those two groups, but the one I saw seemed a bit too dumb to be anything but a fanboy. :P
Seriously, state cops are a whole different breed of law enforcement. My mom was in constant conflict with the hick local cops out here whenever something bad happened, but the highway patrol and state cops were always super helpful and polite.
Yeah, most of the tweets are supportive of the protests...the few that have pissed me off have either been by clueless or uninterested white people who just want to get to work in the morning, or the aforementioned assholes and meatheads.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
This is not a group of people I'm familiar with. I take it they're not people who dislike over-generalizations of police officers while acknowledging that the US police system is in major need of improvement. More like the people who would join the force to have an excuse to carry a gun in public :|
This is not a group of people I'm familiar with. I take it they're not people who dislike over-generalizations of police officers while acknowledging that the US police system is in major need of improvement. More like the people who would join the force to have an excuse to carry a gun in public :|
Yeah, the person I was looking at was apparently not native to the area, was blabbing about how cool guns were, and was following the StLCo PD. :P
i kind of don't like the "wow, he got hit a billion times" things since cops do that by default, the stuff about him having his arms up or whatever is more important
anyway incidentally, i haven't seen human rights watch this mad about something since i started following them. usually as far as the US goes they complain about cluster bombs or prisons. amnesty also sent a team.
i kind of don't like the "wow, he got hit a billion times" things since cops do that by default, the stuff about him having his arms up or whatever is more important
I don't live in an area where the cops really ever use their firearms at all, so I wouldn't know that.
The important part is that the angle, range and placement of the shots indicate that Brown was not the aggressor and, moreover, that he was basically given a gangland execution.
By a cop.
You know, this reminds me: I find it stunning that cop killers, regardless of circumstances, get either really harsh prison sentences or the death sentence and get branded a menace to society, but a cop that kills civilians without reason of self-defence or the protection of innocent lives gets special protection in prison. If you use the power invested in you to protect and serve the public to kill and terrorise, you are far more worthy of death than the man who accidentally kills an officer during a botched robbery.
Mind you, I do not believe in the death penalty. I think it's immoral. But for a killer cop? Even if I know that it is wrong, at the bottom of the blackest part of my heart, I want that creature dead. They betray us all.
An article I linked. It is unusual for grand juries not to indict, except in police killing cases.
In case anyone's not clear, "indicting" means formally accusing of a crime, which is followed by bringing the case to trial. The trial is where you get "convicted" or not. The grand jury did not decide that Darren Wilson was innocent of murder, they decided that the question of whether he committed murder does not need to be asked.
In a way, this is even worse than 1992; the cops in that incident actually made it to trial. It would seem the racist white government (and I can't believe I'm fucking saying this about the UNITED FUKCING STATIES IN @)!$ and not fucking SOUTH AFRICA IN THE 1970s AND 1980s) decided this just wasn't worth even worth bringing to trial.
On a positive not, the Justice Department is still investigating civil rights violations, and the family still maintains the right to sue the officer and the department. So while this is a blow, Wilson and St. Louis PD have yet to face their final reckoning. Let us pray for the wrath of God.
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Anyway the theft didn't even allegedly involve weapons, christ
info on the information packet thing
lowery got into an argument with some douche on twitter because he mentioned the information didn't cover the shooting at all. "it's an ongoing investigation, of course they don't give out information!" unlike the theft i guess which is all complete since the suspect is fucking dead
People have been saying this for years, but no one's listened: The War on Drugs was the new Jim Crow. The white racists and imperialists who had the public's ear before WWII were pushed back by the Civil Rights Movement and protests against Vietnam, so they decided to create a war in cocaine and marijuana and blame blacks for being poor, instead of fixing the problems that made the drugs so popular in the first place.
Supposedly the officer who shot Brown was in the area investigating a lead on the shoplifting, but didn't know Brown was the suspect. Which means the confrontation and shooting happened entirely over jaywalking.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
anyway they're back to gassing people
Hilariously, it's Fox News quoting the Ferguson police chief.
anyway incidentally, i haven't seen human rights watch this mad about something since i started following them. usually as far as the US goes they complain about cluster bombs or prisons. amnesty also sent a team.
Fair point though.
some articles on the recent history of Ferguson and its political context -- including an oddly-timed municipal election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/opinion/in-ferguson-black-town-white-power.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/18/3472278/this-is-the-most-important-reform-ferguson-can-enact-to-prevent-another-standoff/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/18/1322606/-Ferguson-s-election-turnout-is-terrible-by-design-Here-s-how-to-fix-it
http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/what-white-privilege-really-means-an-anecdote
http://tmi.kotaku.com/all-this-racism-is-exhausting-1624560251
In case anyone's not clear, "indicting" means formally accusing of a crime, which is followed by bringing the case to trial. The trial is where you get "convicted" or not. The grand jury did not decide that Darren Wilson was innocent of murder, they decided that the question of whether he committed murder does not need to be asked.