Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)
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loyola llothta
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Please do not be fooled
by some of these “activists”. Especially ones that come to St. Louis just to make themselves known and have their voices heard. They’re here to speak over us instead of with us. All of these tweets that yall consider so “revolutionary” and “bloop” are actually come from so-called activists who speak at panels and discussions just to be quoted and retweeted and are ideas and observations made by Malcolm X and James Baldwin…they’ve just been paraphrased and restated in 140 characters.
Please don’t act like people in St. Louis are dumb and uneducated and you’ve decided to descend from your throne and enlighten us with your knowledge of racism and police brutality. And don’t ever think that we should bow at your feet because you came from over yonder, said some shyt people in St. Louis have been saying for YEARS but using bigger words and got your 15 minutes. It’s belittling. It’s truly an insult to my intelligence.
I think the media has sensationalized Ferguson so much that people (both black and white) come from other parts of the country with the mindset that we’re all illiterate c00ns and need you to translate our Ebonics into “proper English”. We’re not here to assimilate or impress white people. This respectability politics shyt is crippling.
Stop telling other black people that we need to change who and how are for these pink people.
Stop preaching black solidarity and unity then excluding black women and the black LGBT community.
Stop saying that “God took Mike Brown’s life for a reason” because the truth is that Darren Wilson took Mike Brown’s life because he’s black.
Stop making it seem like had we stopped twerking, using slang, and buying Jordans prior to August 9th, Mike Brown would be breathing right now.
With white people stealing and appropriating our culture, you’d think that - lemme stop.
If I have to change how I talk and dress and act around white people for THEM to feel comfortable or like they can #StandInSolidarity with #Ferguson, then THEY are the problem, not me. Because to them anything and anyone “ghetto”, “hood”, “urban”, “inner city”, and ultimately black doesn’t deserve basic fukking human rights until we pull up our pants and tawk jussa lak da massa, right?
If walking on the wrong side of the street could get me killed, do you really think I’m concerned about saying “am not” instead of “ain’t” when I talk to a white person? Like that would somehow save me? Like me correcting my grammar would finally make them treat me like a human being?
I’ve seen white people on West Florissant like “Hey I’m so and so from the Sloppy Ass White Guilt Coalition and we’re from California and we really feel for you guys. Your struggle is our struggle. Please let us know how we can help.” FOH.
Ferguson is not a spot on your resumé or self conscious that reads “Charity Work”.
When yall [white people] acknowledge and admit that you and your ancestors have treated and still treat black people like a stain that you’re presently trying to wash off with hashtags and donating cases of water, then come fukking talk to me.
Nation of Islam, don’t think I forgot about yall nikkas either. I went to a town hall meeting that the NOI held on Canfield for the residents of Ferguson. Anthony Shahid said that he had all these plans for protests. Talking about how we should shut down the highways and buy black and march to police stations. Then when Mike Brown’s parents held a press conference, Shahid was like “We need to let the police do their jobs and stop protesting”. Then a few days ago at that highway protest sure as shyt Shahid was there “leading” a march. You fugazi. It’s clear that Shahid and the NOI only do shyt for attention and publicity. nikkas do a 360 when the cameras are on. Yall disqualified.
- A Ferguson resident
by some of these “activists”. Especially ones that come to St. Louis just to make themselves known and have their voices heard. They’re here to speak over us instead of with us. All of these tweets that yall consider so “revolutionary” and “bloop” are actually come from so-called activists who speak at panels and discussions just to be quoted and retweeted and are ideas and observations made by Malcolm X and James Baldwin…they’ve just been paraphrased and restated in 140 characters.
Please don’t act like people in St. Louis are dumb and uneducated and you’ve decided to descend from your throne and enlighten us with your knowledge of racism and police brutality. And don’t ever think that we should bow at your feet because you came from over yonder, said some shyt people in St. Louis have been saying for YEARS but using bigger words and got your 15 minutes. It’s belittling. It’s truly an insult to my intelligence.
Stop telling other black people that we need to change who and how are for these pink people.
Stop preaching black solidarity and unity then excluding black women and the black LGBT community.
Stop saying that “God took Mike Brown’s life for a reason” because the truth is that Darren Wilson took Mike Brown’s life because he’s black.
Stop making it seem like had we stopped twerking, using slang, and buying Jordans prior to August 9th, Mike Brown would be breathing right now.
With white people stealing and appropriating our culture, you’d think that - lemme stop.
If I have to change how I talk and dress and act around white people for THEM to feel comfortable or like they can #StandInSolidarity with #Ferguson, then THEY are the problem, not me. Because to them anything and anyone “ghetto”, “hood”, “urban”, “inner city”, and ultimately black doesn’t deserve basic fukking human rights until we pull up our pants and tawk jussa lak da massa, right?
If walking on the wrong side of the street could get me killed, do you really think I’m concerned about saying “am not” instead of “ain’t” when I talk to a white person? Like that would somehow save me? Like me correcting my grammar would finally make them treat me like a human being?
I’ve seen white people on West Florissant like “Hey I’m so and so from the Sloppy Ass White Guilt Coalition and we’re from California and we really feel for you guys. Your struggle is our struggle. Please let us know how we can help.” FOH.
Ferguson is not a spot on your resumé or self conscious that reads “Charity Work”.
When yall [white people] acknowledge and admit that you and your ancestors have treated and still treat black people like a stain that you’re presently trying to wash off with hashtags and donating cases of water, then come fukking talk to me.
Nation of Islam, don’t think I forgot about yall nikkas either. I went to a town hall meeting that the NOI held on Canfield for the residents of Ferguson. Anthony Shahid said that he had all these plans for protests. Talking about how we should shut down the highways and buy black and march to police stations. Then when Mike Brown’s parents held a press conference, Shahid was like “We need to let the police do their jobs and stop protesting”. Then a few days ago at that highway protest sure as shyt Shahid was there “leading” a march. You fugazi. It’s clear that Shahid and the NOI only do shyt for attention and publicity. nikkas do a 360 when the cameras are on. Yall disqualified.
- A Ferguson resident
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Salute to Ferguson residents. Too many of the activists, local and from other places, are making this "us" vs "them."
Fact of the matter is that Ferguson residents have to live this after they leave, this is their fight. We can assist and help them even the lines but at the end of the day they need to make it clear they have leaders in place for THEIR community. Antonio is going a great job of that. Others are as well. The old civil rights leaders need to take a backseat.
the cac mamba
Veteran
yo that dude shaun king is goin hard as fukk
the community needs to rally behind her and help her open her own practice and only patronize her
get crowdfund started for that!!!
this is the easiest part of this whole ordeal
Beegio
You ni66as don't exist we eat filet mignon
Is he gonna be charging Ferguson residents for this screening?
Charges from getting jailed from orotesting, and other predatory fines issued by the local government is certainly a strain on black folks pockets who reside there.
QamYasharahla
All Star
Is he gonna be charging Ferguson residents for this screening?
Charges from getting jailed from orotesting, and other predatory fines issued by the local government is certainly a strain on black folks pockets who reside there.
It's free.
Bone Bender
Superstar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...2226ca-3a82-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html
Looks more and more like there wont even be a trial. Makes me fukking sick.
So this fukking prosecutor has DECLINED to file any charges against Wilson and instead dumped all evidence on the jurors and expects them to decide whether to charge Wilson with anything.
Demonstrators protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police department during the National March on Ferguson, August 30, 2014. (Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer September 12
What happened in Ferguson, Mo., last month was a tragedy. What’s on course to happen there next month will be a farce.
October is when a grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict the white police officer, Darren Wilson, who killed an unarmed black teenager by firing at least six bullets into him. It’s a good bet the grand jurors won’t charge him, because all signs indicate that the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, doesn’t want them to.
Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation’s capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. View Archive
The latest evidence that the fix is in came this week from The Post’s Kimberly Kindy and Carol Leonnig, who discovered that McCulloch’s office has declined so far to recommend any charges to the grand jury. Instead, McCulloch’s prosecutors handling the case are taking the highly unusual course of dumping all evidence on the jurors and leaving them to make sense of it.
McCulloch’s office claims that this is a way to give more authority to the grand jurors, but it looks more like a way to avoid charging Wilson at all — and to use the grand jury as cover for the outrage that will ensue. It is often said that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. But the opposite is also true. A grand jury is less likely to deliver an indictment — even a much deserved one — if a prosecutor doesn’t ask for it.
One might give McCulloch the benefit of the doubt, if not for his background. His father was a police officer killed in a shootout with a black suspect, and several of his family members are, or were, police officers. His 23-year record on the job reveals scant interest in prosecuting such cases. During his tenure, there have been at least a dozen fatal shootings by police in his jurisdiction (the roughly 90 municipalities in the county other than St. Louis itself), and probably many more than that, but McCulloch’s office has not prosecuted a single police shooting in all those years. At least four times he presented evidence to a grand jury but — wouldn’t you know it? — didn’t get an indictment.
One of the four: A 2000 case in which a grand jury declined to indict two police officers who had shot two unarmed black men 21 times while they sat in their car behind a Jack in the Box fast-food restaurant. It was a botched drug arrest, and one of the two men killed hadn’t even been a suspect. McCulloch at the time said he agreed with the grand jury’s decision, dismissing complaints of the handling of the case by saying the dead men “were bums.” He refused to release surveillance tapes of the shooting. When those tapes were later released as part of a federal probe, it was discovered that, contrary to what police alleged, the car had not moved before the police began shooting.
McCulloch apparently hasn’t learned from that. His spokesman, asked by The Post’s Wesley Lowery about those remarks, said the slain men “should have been described as ‘convicted felons’ rather than ‘bums.’ ”
Lowery gained national attention last month when he was unjustly detained by Ferguson’s out-of-control police while covering the demonstrations. He has since asked McCulloch’s office for a list of cases in which prosecutors pursued charges against a law enforcement official. McCulloch’s office ultimately came up with only one case over 23 years that The Post could verify of the prosecution of a white officer for using inappropriate force against a black victim, and it wasn’t a shooting.
But if McCulloch lacks credibility, he apparently has political clout. This could explain why Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon — like McCulloch, a Democrat — is refusing to appoint a special prosecutor. This could also explain Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s statement in support of McCulloch.
Proving a case of excessive force against a police officer is difficult, and I’m not in any position to determine Wilson’s guilt. But that doesn’t justify declining to prosecute such cases. There’s no dispute that Brown ran away after Wilson shot him in a scuffle and that Wilson shot Brown several more times after that. Several witnesses — including those in a newly discovered video showing the immediate aftermath of the shooting — claim that Brown had his hands up in surrender. The alternative account offered by Wilson — Brown charged at him — requires us to believe that the unarmed and wounded man ran away, reconsidered and ran back toward the man pointing a gun at him.
And McCulloch won’t have his prosecutors recommend even involuntary manslaughter? If he persists and if the governor won’t intervene, their behavior will confirm suspicions that justice is rigged.
Looks more and more like there wont even be a trial. Makes me fukking sick.
Cant say Im surprised. The fact that Wilson still hasnt had to explain himself or even show his face tells you everything. Not even the press is asking where he is and why he won't defend his actions
So what we have to do to help her open her own practice...let me know I'm down.
-contact her
-find out if she needs money to establish a new location
-crowd fund
-get the word out about her practice to the community