Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)
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@Dafunkdoc_Unlimited said that the people of Ferguson need to leave and abandon everything they've worked for in another thread.
Too bad it seems the ROTC/Army whatever doesn't even want that to happen. Sad state of affairs.
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Oct. 5
- Requiem for Mike Brown: Protesters sing during a break at the STL Symphony (x) (x) Videos: (1) (2) (3)
- In Ferguson, the fervor of the street is moving to the ballot box
- 5 things you should know about race in America
- STL Mayor Francis Slay to speak at Ferguson-related conference featuring Bill Clinton, AG Eric Holder
- 3 distinct perspectives on Ferguson: A Washington University professor, a local pastor, and a former North County resident
- "I cannot believe I STILL have to protest this shyt!!": The woman behind an iconic protest photo tells her story
- What’s Happening Today: 1. Flood Christian Church — Sermon Topic: Arrest Him Now @ 12:30pm 2. Flood Christian Church — The family of Mike Brown to demand the arrest of Darren Wilson @ 2:15pm 3. Legal Observer Training @ SLU Law School 2-5pm
- Coming Up: October 7 — 1. Ferguson City Government Town Hall @ 6-8pm Topic: “Addressing Diversity and Racial Tension” 2. STL Co. Council Meeting @ 6pm
loyola llothta
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No way, too much blood,sweat and tears has already been spilled to leave . This incident though when it finally reaches its climax/end is going to be the biggest racial incident of most of our lifetimes and its like you said earlier its barely getting coverage on the news any more. At this point I doubt Darren Wilson will ever seen a courthouse and Mike Brown will never get justice. When that happens all HELL is going to break lose and the police/military will be released in full force and people all over this country and in this thread will REALLY see what the people in power are capable of , its going to make the things will citizen china,Cuba,Venezuela and Arab nations for look like light work.
If yall want a good idea of how this is going to end go on YouTube and look up "Seattle 1999 riots WTO" that what the government/police forces will do to a disruptive majority WHITE crowd, just imagine what they are going to do in Ferguson to break this up
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Yep...I remember seeing this on the news back when I was in high school...
I hope people are ready...that's all I'll say.
there not , shyts going to be ugly , unfortunately i think the incidents of the past couple of months has given the people down there a false sense of victory (not to take nothing away from them, they have showing balls) but the police have been holding back as crazy as that is to believe.Once Darren Wilson is officially cleared of wrong doing (falsely) , huge riots are going to break out , i think the police are going to let this happen, they are going to let buildings burn etc , prevent firefighters and medics from coming , they'll will let this happen for hours this WILL be posted all over the TV it will show minimal interference from police (to make it look like the protesters fault) at that point a state of emergency will be declared AGAIN (if yall aint know when the riots happened right after mike was killed a S.o.E was declared ) why is that important you ask? i pointed it out before but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency#United_States
Thats when there going to HAM, all types of "non lethal" and lethal force will be used to "Save the city"
It already has breh.
Police getting military equipment, bill of rights becoming nothing more than toilet paper, black unemployment high as shyt, middle class shrinking, I could go on.
Hey, at least 'crime' is down...
Honestly, I expect the cop to not be indicted. How can I expect justice from an unjust system?
my nikkas in Chicago ignoring this shyt like they can't be next... there's already a heavy militarized police presence out there I can only imagine if they were given the green light to go "Ferguson" on nikkas...
Huey Shootin
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We've been at war. It's just been cold, for the most part, but it's about to turn hot. White people are armed and ready to kill us. Are we ready?
Nope, not at all, not even close
Nefflum nigga
Bred from insolence
don't underestimate saint louis, brotha
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Ferguson’s Elections Look Like They Are About to Change
10:03 AMOct 3 By Harry Enten
Shiron Hagens of St. Louis registers voters at a rally in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.
Bill Boyce / AP
Following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, community leaders started registering people to vote – an effort, in part, to remedy the racial disparity between the township’s government and population. Ferguson is 67 percent African-American, but five of its six City Council members are white. So is the mayor. Ferguson holds most of its elections in non-presidential years, and always in April, timing that typically leads to less minority turnout.
In the 2013 election, the most recent municipal election for which racial data is available, whites made up 52 percent of voters in Ferguson.
But the recent registration efforts may reduce this gap. According to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners, 3,287 new voters have registered in Ferguson since Brown was killed. As Yamiche Alcindor of USA Today pointed out, the county registered 4,839 new voters — in total.
Those numbers might not seem that big, but in a midterm election year, that’s an amazing number of new voters for a city the size of Ferguson. And the percentage of newly registered voters in Ferguson compared to the county as a whole (68 percent) is equally staggering. Since 2002, the township of Ferguson’s new voters have made up no greater than 3.6 percent of new registrants in St. Louis County overall.
In other words, Brown’s death has spurred a lot of people in Ferguson to register to vote.
One quick note: The historical data I’m using here is for townships, not municipalities. The vast majority of the city of Ferguson (where those 3,287 new voters are located) is in the township of Ferguson (a county subdivision), but the township has about double the number of registered voters as the municipality. That makes the following numbers even more impressive.
In midterm election years dating to 2002, the township of Ferguson has never registered more than 1,538 new voters. And the average number of voters added to the rolls across the past three midterm years is just over 1,000. Those numbers are for the entire election cycle. The number of new registrants in the city of Ferguson over the past two months is more than double the highest number (and more than than triple the average) in the township of Ferguson in midterm election years since 2002.
The city of Ferguson’s 3,287 new registrants (in two months) is more than recorded by any township in St. Louis County in any midterm election since 2002. The previous midterm-year high, 2,830, belonged to Chesterfield.
These newly registered voters could easily shake up municipal elections. In the 2014 mayoral election, the winning candidate, James Knowles III, was unopposed and won with just 1,314 votes. In the most recent competitive mayoral election, in 2011, Knowles won by just 511 votes. The total number of voters in that election was 2,265.
The City Council elections tell the same story. In council elections in the three city wards over the past five years (each ward elects two council members), no candidate has won more than 650 votes. The most total votes cast in any of these elections is 1,085. The average number of votes cast in council elections since 2009 has been just 490.
The newly registered 3,287 voters won’t be able to vote in all these ward elections, but even dividing this number by three (the number of city wards) leaves us with more than 1,000 voters. The new registrants, if they voted in anything resembling a bloc, could sway the outcome in a large number of these elections. Also of note, in five of these 12 elections, the winning candidate ran unopposed. The new registrants could spur competition and invite a new slate of candidates to run for office.
It may be a whole new game in Ferguson’s elections — as long as people vote.
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Harry Enten is a senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight.
10:03 AMOct 3 By Harry Enten
Shiron Hagens of St. Louis registers voters at a rally in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.
Bill Boyce / AP
Following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, community leaders started registering people to vote – an effort, in part, to remedy the racial disparity between the township’s government and population. Ferguson is 67 percent African-American, but five of its six City Council members are white. So is the mayor. Ferguson holds most of its elections in non-presidential years, and always in April, timing that typically leads to less minority turnout.
In the 2013 election, the most recent municipal election for which racial data is available, whites made up 52 percent of voters in Ferguson.
But the recent registration efforts may reduce this gap. According to the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners, 3,287 new voters have registered in Ferguson since Brown was killed. As Yamiche Alcindor of USA Today pointed out, the county registered 4,839 new voters — in total.
Those numbers might not seem that big, but in a midterm election year, that’s an amazing number of new voters for a city the size of Ferguson. And the percentage of newly registered voters in Ferguson compared to the county as a whole (68 percent) is equally staggering. Since 2002, the township of Ferguson’s new voters have made up no greater than 3.6 percent of new registrants in St. Louis County overall.
In other words, Brown’s death has spurred a lot of people in Ferguson to register to vote.
One quick note: The historical data I’m using here is for townships, not municipalities. The vast majority of the city of Ferguson (where those 3,287 new voters are located) is in the township of Ferguson (a county subdivision), but the township has about double the number of registered voters as the municipality. That makes the following numbers even more impressive.
In midterm election years dating to 2002, the township of Ferguson has never registered more than 1,538 new voters. And the average number of voters added to the rolls across the past three midterm years is just over 1,000. Those numbers are for the entire election cycle. The number of new registrants in the city of Ferguson over the past two months is more than double the highest number (and more than than triple the average) in the township of Ferguson in midterm election years since 2002.
The city of Ferguson’s 3,287 new registrants (in two months) is more than recorded by any township in St. Louis County in any midterm election since 2002. The previous midterm-year high, 2,830, belonged to Chesterfield.
These newly registered voters could easily shake up municipal elections. In the 2014 mayoral election, the winning candidate, James Knowles III, was unopposed and won with just 1,314 votes. In the most recent competitive mayoral election, in 2011, Knowles won by just 511 votes. The total number of voters in that election was 2,265.
The City Council elections tell the same story. In council elections in the three city wards over the past five years (each ward elects two council members), no candidate has won more than 650 votes. The most total votes cast in any of these elections is 1,085. The average number of votes cast in council elections since 2009 has been just 490.
The newly registered 3,287 voters won’t be able to vote in all these ward elections, but even dividing this number by three (the number of city wards) leaves us with more than 1,000 voters. The new registrants, if they voted in anything resembling a bloc, could sway the outcome in a large number of these elections. Also of note, in five of these 12 elections, the winning candidate ran unopposed. The new registrants could spur competition and invite a new slate of candidates to run for office.
It may be a whole new game in Ferguson’s elections — as long as people vote.
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Harry Enten @forecasterenten
Harry Enten is a senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight.
