Yapdatfool
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Oh I agree. But it shouldn't be a boycott, it should be a way of life. To fully support and patronize black owned & operated businesses. And not support anything else.
That being said, it would be a start.
Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)
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Oh I agree. But it shouldn't be a boycott, it should be a way of life. To fully support and patronize black owned & operated businesses. And not support anything else.
That being said, it would be a start.
Knicksman20
Superstar
Totally agree with you there.
Digga38
The seperation between what's fake and what's real
who is this?
Knicksman20
Superstar
Stokley Carmichael
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Ferguson’s massive cover-up: How police departments are protecting Michael Brown’s killersalon.com
Basic evidence is being kept from the public. And investigators aren’t showing proper zeal to figure out the truth
I urge everyone to read this. It’s a long read, so I’ll point out a few things.
The Ferguson Police department has delayed and directly denied access to documents that are required by law to be made, required by their own written policy to be made, and are required by state and federal law to be public.
Among them is the Incident Report, and the Use of Force form.
At the very least they have already admitted by their own policy that Darren Wilson has committed a fire-able offense by not filling out the paperwork. But he has not been fired, he is on paid leave, no charges have been placed, and no reprimand or penalty on his job has been enacted.
And let me go back to the bold, they tried to use the defense that Darren Wilson didn’t have to write down what happened BECAUSE IT WOULD INCRIMINATE HIM.
Basic evidence is being kept from the public. And investigators aren’t showing proper zeal to figure out the truth
I urge everyone to read this. It’s a long read, so I’ll point out a few things.
The Ferguson Police department has delayed and directly denied access to documents that are required by law to be made, required by their own written policy to be made, and are required by state and federal law to be public.
Among them is the Incident Report, and the Use of Force form.
- The Incident Report was said to not be needed.
- When faced with why that’s a lie, the police department responded that officers don’t have to fill out an incident report due to the 5th amendment.
- When told Darren Wilson would have to official invoke that right, they admitted he hadn’t.
- When they did finally turn over an Incident Report, it was missing legally required information, in fact all it had was a date, location, and time.
- When told that more information was required, they returned an Incident Report with all of the information filled out, but then redacted (blacked out) all the way back to date, location, and time.
At the very least they have already admitted by their own policy that Darren Wilson has committed a fire-able offense by not filling out the paperwork. But he has not been fired, he is on paid leave, no charges have been placed, and no reprimand or penalty on his job has been enacted.
And let me go back to the bold, they tried to use the defense that Darren Wilson didn’t have to write down what happened BECAUSE IT WOULD INCRIMINATE HIM.
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Man accused of lunging at officer with ‘samurai-type sword’ before being killed
UTAH — To hear prosecutors tell it, Darrien Hunt lunged at officers with a “samurai-type sword” before he was killed.
To hear his family tell it, police shot the 22-year-old several times while he was running away. An independent autopsy proves he was shot from behind, his family’s attorney said.
And while there’s no consensus about what happened Wednesday morning, the case is already drawing comparisons to the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Hunt’s mother said she believes race played a role in her son’s death.
“They killed my son because he’s black,” Susan Hunt told CNN affiliate KSL. “No white boy with a little sword would they shoot while he’s running away.”
But the Utah County Attorney’s Office said there is “currently no indication that race played any role in the confrontation between Mr. Hunt and the police officer.”
“Police officers from the Saratoga Springs Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious individual walking around a local business with a ‘samurai-type’ sword,” Chief Deputy Tim Taylor of the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
“When the officers made contact with Mr. Hunt, preliminary evidence suggests that Mr. Hunt brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers with the sword, at which time Mr. Hunt was shot.”
Hunt family attorney Randall Edwards challenged that version of events.
“An independent autopsy done at the behest of Darrien Hunt’s family reveals that he was shot numerous times, all from the rear,” Edwards said in a statement to the affiliate.
“This is consistent with statements made by witnesses on the scene, who report that Darrien was shot to death while running away from the police. It would appear difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile these facts with a story that Darrien was lunging toward the officers when he was shot.”
The County Attorney’s Office said the case is under investigation. Two officers have been placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, KSL said.
While some have speculated that race played a role in the shooting deaths of Hunt and Brown, there’s one key difference between the two cases: Brown was unarmed when he was shot, and Hunt was reportedly carrying a 3-foot sword around a Panda Express restaurant and other businesses.
“I believe that maybe my son thought, ‘Maybe I’ll try to get a job at Panda, maybe this sword will impress them,’ ” Susan Hunt told KSL.
She said that the sword was purchased at a local Asian gift shop and that it could not actually cut anything.
from myfox8.com To read the rest of the article Click Here
UTAH — To hear prosecutors tell it, Darrien Hunt lunged at officers with a “samurai-type sword” before he was killed.
To hear his family tell it, police shot the 22-year-old several times while he was running away. An independent autopsy proves he was shot from behind, his family’s attorney said.
And while there’s no consensus about what happened Wednesday morning, the case is already drawing comparisons to the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Hunt’s mother said she believes race played a role in her son’s death.
“They killed my son because he’s black,” Susan Hunt told CNN affiliate KSL. “No white boy with a little sword would they shoot while he’s running away.”
But the Utah County Attorney’s Office said there is “currently no indication that race played any role in the confrontation between Mr. Hunt and the police officer.”
“Police officers from the Saratoga Springs Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious individual walking around a local business with a ‘samurai-type’ sword,” Chief Deputy Tim Taylor of the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
“When the officers made contact with Mr. Hunt, preliminary evidence suggests that Mr. Hunt brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers with the sword, at which time Mr. Hunt was shot.”
Hunt family attorney Randall Edwards challenged that version of events.
“An independent autopsy done at the behest of Darrien Hunt’s family reveals that he was shot numerous times, all from the rear,” Edwards said in a statement to the affiliate.
“This is consistent with statements made by witnesses on the scene, who report that Darrien was shot to death while running away from the police. It would appear difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile these facts with a story that Darrien was lunging toward the officers when he was shot.”
The County Attorney’s Office said the case is under investigation. Two officers have been placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, KSL said.
While some have speculated that race played a role in the shooting deaths of Hunt and Brown, there’s one key difference between the two cases: Brown was unarmed when he was shot, and Hunt was reportedly carrying a 3-foot sword around a Panda Express restaurant and other businesses.
“I believe that maybe my son thought, ‘Maybe I’ll try to get a job at Panda, maybe this sword will impress them,’ ” Susan Hunt told KSL.
She said that the sword was purchased at a local Asian gift shop and that it could not actually cut anything.
from myfox8.com To read the rest of the article Click Here
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The Illuminator projected this near the Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity with the people of Ferguson.
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51 years ago today Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in a racially-motivated act of terrorism, killing four little girls inside.
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How Ferguson exposed a civil rights generational divide
The racial crisis in Ferguson, Mo., has uncovered a divide within the Black community – one based on generation, class and the cloudy political vision offered by African-American politics in the Obama age.
When asked who is the leader of the ongoing protests since the killing of Michael Brown – protests that have triggered Missouri’s governor to declare a state of emergency and curfew – one young man from St. Louis answered, “Do we have a leader? No,” and he went on to suggest that the martyred Brown, himself, offered the best example of leadership for Ferguson’s angry and alienated young people.
Two tracks
Protests on the streets of that city operated on two separate tracks: Civil rights leaders organized effective nonviolent marches even as young protesters, and some would-be outlaws, descended into violence and looting in parts of the city. Leaders such as the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Ferguson, but their pleas for calm were ineffective.
Ironically, the Black person who provided arguably the most visible leadership during the Ferguson events was Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, whose forceful yet compassionate presence and policing tactics helped to temporarily defuse the escalating crisis.
That young people in Ferguson refused to heed calls for nonviolence should come as no surprise. Demonstrations at the height of the civil rights era featured sporadic incidents of violence waged by angry Black Americans outraged at racism and poverty, but unwilling or unable to commit to the discipline of nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. encountered these episodes in Birmingham, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn., and was famously heckled when he visited Watts in the aftermath of Los Angeles’ 1965 rebellion.
Can’t relate
What makes the current situation different from the 1960s is that we have no Stokely Carmichael or Black Panthers who can properly relate to the young people in and outside of Ferguson, who have used the language of violence to convey rage and disappointment.
Make no mistake. Brown’s killing is not the root cause of Ferguson’s violence. It’s merely the spark that triggered it.
Poverty, segregation, unemployment and a climate of anti-Black racism haunt tiny Ferguson and the wider St. Louis metropolitan area. Riots, Dr. King reminded us, are “the language of the unheard” and oppressed.
It’s no wonder, then, that local young Black men and women can’t identify a single Black leader or organization as the leader of the chaotic demonstrations in which they have participated.
National Black political leaders from the civil rights era have tried, through organizational outreach, speeches, media – both traditional and social – marches and demonstrations to reach out to and stay connected with a new generation of young people. But this effort bumps up against the limitations of resources and outreach.
No advocates
America’s racial underclass, the off-the-grid hustlers and entrepreneurs who many Black elites ignore or demonize, rarely sees political leaders of any color advocating for them. The divide, while generational on the surface, is also fueled by class, as young people with education, networks and access tend to view politics as a long-term process – one that comes with victories, but also compromise and setbacks.
Millions of young Blacks have no entrée to the nuances of American democracy and racial struggle. Their world is more painfully straightforward and wrenching – Black folks get shot in the streets with no hope of justice.
The ideal response to this tragedy, one that our national civil rights narrative promotes but, in fact, was never entirely true, is for the entire Black population of Ferguson to put on their best church clothes and nonviolently show the world what happened to Michael Brown. But in the age of Obama, these young people find the lessons of the civil rights era increasingly hard to comprehend.
What progress?
Certainly, the frequency of police killings of Black men, the Iraq War-styled police presence in Ferguson and the numbing persistence of racial segregation and violence makes talk of racial progress ring hollow.
That puts civil rights leaders in a tough spot. They’re wary of being too critical of President Obama’s track record on race and poverty, aware that Attorney General Eric Holder is his staunch ally and conservatives as “race hustlers have pilloried them” eager to arouse the rabble.
But perhaps most importantly, the very constituency they often claim to speak for – the voiceless Black youth who have come out in Ferguson over the past few weeks – find these leaders’ voices indistinguishable from the political ‘white noise’ that only unfettered violence seems capable of breaking through.
Peniel E. Joseph is founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and a professor of history at Tufts University. He is the author of “Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America”, “Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama”, and “Stokely: A Life.”
The racial crisis in Ferguson, Mo., has uncovered a divide within the Black community – one based on generation, class and the cloudy political vision offered by African-American politics in the Obama age.
When asked who is the leader of the ongoing protests since the killing of Michael Brown – protests that have triggered Missouri’s governor to declare a state of emergency and curfew – one young man from St. Louis answered, “Do we have a leader? No,” and he went on to suggest that the martyred Brown, himself, offered the best example of leadership for Ferguson’s angry and alienated young people.
Two tracks
Protests on the streets of that city operated on two separate tracks: Civil rights leaders organized effective nonviolent marches even as young protesters, and some would-be outlaws, descended into violence and looting in parts of the city. Leaders such as the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Ferguson, but their pleas for calm were ineffective.
Ironically, the Black person who provided arguably the most visible leadership during the Ferguson events was Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, whose forceful yet compassionate presence and policing tactics helped to temporarily defuse the escalating crisis.
That young people in Ferguson refused to heed calls for nonviolence should come as no surprise. Demonstrations at the height of the civil rights era featured sporadic incidents of violence waged by angry Black Americans outraged at racism and poverty, but unwilling or unable to commit to the discipline of nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. encountered these episodes in Birmingham, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn., and was famously heckled when he visited Watts in the aftermath of Los Angeles’ 1965 rebellion.
Can’t relate
What makes the current situation different from the 1960s is that we have no Stokely Carmichael or Black Panthers who can properly relate to the young people in and outside of Ferguson, who have used the language of violence to convey rage and disappointment.
Make no mistake. Brown’s killing is not the root cause of Ferguson’s violence. It’s merely the spark that triggered it.
Poverty, segregation, unemployment and a climate of anti-Black racism haunt tiny Ferguson and the wider St. Louis metropolitan area. Riots, Dr. King reminded us, are “the language of the unheard” and oppressed.
It’s no wonder, then, that local young Black men and women can’t identify a single Black leader or organization as the leader of the chaotic demonstrations in which they have participated.
National Black political leaders from the civil rights era have tried, through organizational outreach, speeches, media – both traditional and social – marches and demonstrations to reach out to and stay connected with a new generation of young people. But this effort bumps up against the limitations of resources and outreach.
No advocates
America’s racial underclass, the off-the-grid hustlers and entrepreneurs who many Black elites ignore or demonize, rarely sees political leaders of any color advocating for them. The divide, while generational on the surface, is also fueled by class, as young people with education, networks and access tend to view politics as a long-term process – one that comes with victories, but also compromise and setbacks.
Millions of young Blacks have no entrée to the nuances of American democracy and racial struggle. Their world is more painfully straightforward and wrenching – Black folks get shot in the streets with no hope of justice.
The ideal response to this tragedy, one that our national civil rights narrative promotes but, in fact, was never entirely true, is for the entire Black population of Ferguson to put on their best church clothes and nonviolently show the world what happened to Michael Brown. But in the age of Obama, these young people find the lessons of the civil rights era increasingly hard to comprehend.
What progress?
Certainly, the frequency of police killings of Black men, the Iraq War-styled police presence in Ferguson and the numbing persistence of racial segregation and violence makes talk of racial progress ring hollow.
That puts civil rights leaders in a tough spot. They’re wary of being too critical of President Obama’s track record on race and poverty, aware that Attorney General Eric Holder is his staunch ally and conservatives as “race hustlers have pilloried them” eager to arouse the rabble.
But perhaps most importantly, the very constituency they often claim to speak for – the voiceless Black youth who have come out in Ferguson over the past few weeks – find these leaders’ voices indistinguishable from the political ‘white noise’ that only unfettered violence seems capable of breaking through.
Peniel E. Joseph is founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and a professor of history at Tufts University. He is the author of “Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America”, “Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama”, and “Stokely: A Life.”
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Sept. 15
- Ferguson’s massive cover-up: How police departments are protecting Darren Wilson
- STL grand jury weighs charges in Ferguson shooting
- Some Ferguson protesters shift focus to city’s historic district
- 11 things you should know about the murder of Mike Brown
- 5000 show up to Ferguson job fair
- When all the angels are white.
- Can black children be “angels”? The history behind the NY Times insult to Mike Brown.
- Moving beyond anger in Ferguson: A health journalists perspective
- Michael Brown Sr. to Darren Wilson: “Turn yourself in right now”
- How companies are profiting from police crackdowns
- Letter from The Criminal Justice Graduate Student Association of Eastern Kentucky Universtiy
- Teaching #Ferguson resources
- ArchCity Defenders: Municipal Courts White Paper
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Cosplaying While Black?
So I decide to read more on the kid with the toy samurai sword they gun down. Darrien Hunt
"There is information spreading that he was cosplaying but I can’t find any sources that confirms this.
Here are two pictures of what Darrien was wearing before the incident"
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He was shot FOUR times in the back. Cop said Hunt attacked him with the toy sword....However
Not to mention from witness’s accounts says he never raised the toy sword or confronted anybody.
So I decide to read more on the kid with the toy samurai sword they gun down. Darrien Hunt
"There is information spreading that he was cosplaying but I can’t find any sources that confirms this.
Here are two pictures of what Darrien was wearing before the incident"
x
x
He was shot FOUR times in the back. Cop said Hunt attacked him with the toy sword....However
Not to mention from witness’s accounts says he never raised the toy sword or confronted anybody.
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Just like Mike Brown they think we stupid and they dont give a fukk. Attack cops with guns with a sword u no is fake, stop running from a cop shooting at u, then turn around and bumrush a cop who is still shooting at u , when u no u dont have a gun yourself.Cosplaying While Black?
So I decide to read more on the kid with the toy samurai sword they gun down. Darrien Hunt
"There is information spreading that he was cosplaying but I can’t find any sources that confirms this.
Here are two pictures of what Darrien was wearing before the incident"
x
x
He was shot FOUR times in the back. Cop said Hunt attacked him with the toy sword....However
Not to mention from witness’s accounts says he never raised the toy sword or confronted anybody.
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Ferguson today look like Birmingham in ’63.
Tropical Fantasy
Superstar
Cosplaying While Black?
So I decide to read more on the kid with the toy samurai sword they gun down. Darrien Hunt
"There is information spreading that he was cosplaying but I can’t find any sources that confirms this.
Here are two pictures of what Darrien was wearing before the incident"
x
x
He was shot FOUR times in the back. Cop said Hunt attacked him with the toy sword....However
Not to mention from witness’s accounts says he never raised the toy sword or confronted anybody.
a couple things that make this story unique
1) he's biracial, having a white mom & curly hair didnt matter to those white supremacist cops
2) Utah is an open carry state. Probably cacs in Walmart with fully loaded AK 47s right now but a black man with a TOY is bigger threat
