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Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)
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Lawmakers in St Louis, Missouri raised serious concerns about escalating tensions between police and African American residents at least a year before the shooting death of Michael Brown in the small suburb of Ferguson.
“Tensions have been high because of what the citizens here see as police abuse.” says Michael Voss, the co-founder of Arch City Defenders, a non-profit legal service in St Louis. “I know that our clients feel racially profiled and that their poverty is exploited.”
The Arch City Defenders published a white paper last year detailing issues with racial profiling there. The paper argues it’s a systemic problem.
One of the most obvious data points highlighting the disparity is the amount of traffic stops police make on black people.
Let’s take a look at Ferguson. There are more warrants issued in Ferguson than there are people. Voss says a good majority of these warrants are a result of traffic stops. Black people make up two-thirds of the total driving population, but account for 86 percent of all traffic stops there.
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The only 'outside agitators' left in Ferguson are the white cops who don't live heretheguardian.com
Thousands of people from around the nation have traveled here under the banner #FergusonOctober to protest the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. And while local citizens and politicians, visiting demonstrators and even media personnel have been subject to police confrontation since the earliest days of action, the latest round of demonstrations around the city have resulted in dozens of arrests – including those of Union Seminary professor Cornel West and African Methodist Episcopal pastor Renita Lamkin, who was also recently shot with a rubber bullet.
Although local organizations called for protestors to gather in St Louis last weekend, many in the press and general public are still questioning the presence and politics of what some – including Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson – have called “outside agitators”.
Some of us, however, are asking a radically different question: what and who, exactly, is an “outside agitator”? Because, depending on the definition, I might be considered one.
I first went to Ferguson in August with #BlackLivesMatter, a national movement that serves as a “response to the tragic history of racial supremacy – one that renders black life valueless”. We witnessed the tanks and teargas. We saw local police officers uniformed in military gear. The American midwest looked more like the Middle East, and 2014 felt more like 1964.
Just when it seemed like the mainstream media was done reporting on Ferguson, another black teenager from the St Louis area, Vonderrit Myers, was gunned down by an off-duty white police officer, enraging an already infuriated community and putting the area back in the spotlight. The entire nation – and much of the world – has its eyes on Ferguson, once again. And as police repression continues to increase, so do questions of who should be involved in the resistance to it.
“Outside agitator” rhetoric is far from new. In 1964, in the midst of Freedom Summer, Mississippi governor Ross Barnett called workers organizing voter registration drives “outside agitators”. A year earlier, when asked about the protests in Birmingham (referred to by many as “Bombingham”), the notorious Bull Connor blamed unrest in the city on “outside agitators led by Martin Luther King” – all while white police officers were hosing black children in the streets.
And though the specter of “outside agitators” was first raised by the Ferguson police, it is now articulated by people from both sides of the political divide. Conservatives use it to shift attention away from police brutality and state repression and focus instead on a few individuals they claim are inciting violence. Liberals, on the other hand, are legitimately concerned for the livelihood of Ferguson residents and their community.
But liberals’ allegiance to nonviolence renders the very idea of an “outside agitator” anathema. As a result, the peaceful protestor-outside agitator binary is used by those in power – across party lines – to legitimize state violence, perpetuate criminal stereotypes and, ultimately, prevent the possibility of a wider movement against police brutality, state repression and anti-black state violence.
If those in power can turn the youth and seasoned elders, pastors and paralegals who gathered in Ferguson this weekend into scary “outside agitators”, then the push to end police brutality will never grow beyond Ferguson. “Outside agitator” discourse, as authored and articulated by those in power, is a trap into which we who believe in freedom cannot fall.
The real question is not who belongs in Ferguson physically, but rather, who belongs in the fight that Ferguson now represents politically – that is, the struggle against police brutality and anti-black state violence.
As Dr King affirmed, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” What happens in Ferguson impacts us all, and we all have roles to play. The bullets that ended Michael Brown’s life emerged from the same system of anti-black violence that ends the futures of millions of black girls and boys across the US – be it through our failing school system, the growing prison industrial complex or any of the other structures of racial hierarchy that continually and systemically oppress black America.
As long as we allow the narrative of white supremacy to define the limits and possibilities of our resistance, we’ve already lost. But we can’t lose. As one of the world’s most well known “outside agitators”, Assata Shakur, reminds us: “It is our duty to win.” We must redefine what it means to be “outside” within a society that has historically rendered us outside the category of humanity itself. We must reconsider what it means to be named an “outside agitator” in a system whereby the very idea of blackness “agitates” – or disturbs – the “American dream”.
Within the gaze of white supremacy, all black people are potential “outside agitators”.
But through the eyes of black folk, from Ferguson to Flatbush, the real “outsider agitators” are the police officers who don’t live here but come in to “agitate” black people. The real “outside agitators” are the political leaders who work against our right freedom and justice. They have truly “agitated” black America.
Thousands of people from around the nation have traveled here under the banner #FergusonOctober to protest the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. And while local citizens and politicians, visiting demonstrators and even media personnel have been subject to police confrontation since the earliest days of action, the latest round of demonstrations around the city have resulted in dozens of arrests – including those of Union Seminary professor Cornel West and African Methodist Episcopal pastor Renita Lamkin, who was also recently shot with a rubber bullet.
Although local organizations called for protestors to gather in St Louis last weekend, many in the press and general public are still questioning the presence and politics of what some – including Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson – have called “outside agitators”.
Some of us, however, are asking a radically different question: what and who, exactly, is an “outside agitator”? Because, depending on the definition, I might be considered one.
I first went to Ferguson in August with #BlackLivesMatter, a national movement that serves as a “response to the tragic history of racial supremacy – one that renders black life valueless”. We witnessed the tanks and teargas. We saw local police officers uniformed in military gear. The American midwest looked more like the Middle East, and 2014 felt more like 1964.
Just when it seemed like the mainstream media was done reporting on Ferguson, another black teenager from the St Louis area, Vonderrit Myers, was gunned down by an off-duty white police officer, enraging an already infuriated community and putting the area back in the spotlight. The entire nation – and much of the world – has its eyes on Ferguson, once again. And as police repression continues to increase, so do questions of who should be involved in the resistance to it.
“Outside agitator” rhetoric is far from new. In 1964, in the midst of Freedom Summer, Mississippi governor Ross Barnett called workers organizing voter registration drives “outside agitators”. A year earlier, when asked about the protests in Birmingham (referred to by many as “Bombingham”), the notorious Bull Connor blamed unrest in the city on “outside agitators led by Martin Luther King” – all while white police officers were hosing black children in the streets.
And though the specter of “outside agitators” was first raised by the Ferguson police, it is now articulated by people from both sides of the political divide. Conservatives use it to shift attention away from police brutality and state repression and focus instead on a few individuals they claim are inciting violence. Liberals, on the other hand, are legitimately concerned for the livelihood of Ferguson residents and their community.
But liberals’ allegiance to nonviolence renders the very idea of an “outside agitator” anathema. As a result, the peaceful protestor-outside agitator binary is used by those in power – across party lines – to legitimize state violence, perpetuate criminal stereotypes and, ultimately, prevent the possibility of a wider movement against police brutality, state repression and anti-black state violence.
If those in power can turn the youth and seasoned elders, pastors and paralegals who gathered in Ferguson this weekend into scary “outside agitators”, then the push to end police brutality will never grow beyond Ferguson. “Outside agitator” discourse, as authored and articulated by those in power, is a trap into which we who believe in freedom cannot fall.
The real question is not who belongs in Ferguson physically, but rather, who belongs in the fight that Ferguson now represents politically – that is, the struggle against police brutality and anti-black state violence.
As Dr King affirmed, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” What happens in Ferguson impacts us all, and we all have roles to play. The bullets that ended Michael Brown’s life emerged from the same system of anti-black violence that ends the futures of millions of black girls and boys across the US – be it through our failing school system, the growing prison industrial complex or any of the other structures of racial hierarchy that continually and systemically oppress black America.
As long as we allow the narrative of white supremacy to define the limits and possibilities of our resistance, we’ve already lost. But we can’t lose. As one of the world’s most well known “outside agitators”, Assata Shakur, reminds us: “It is our duty to win.” We must redefine what it means to be “outside” within a society that has historically rendered us outside the category of humanity itself. We must reconsider what it means to be named an “outside agitator” in a system whereby the very idea of blackness “agitates” – or disturbs – the “American dream”.
Within the gaze of white supremacy, all black people are potential “outside agitators”.
But through the eyes of black folk, from Ferguson to Flatbush, the real “outsider agitators” are the police officers who don’t live here but come in to “agitate” black people. The real “outside agitators” are the political leaders who work against our right freedom and justice. They have truly “agitated” black America.
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Actually, Thousands Didn’t Register To Vote In Fergusonyoungprogressivevoices.net
USA Today’s Yamiche Alcindor recently broke the news that Ferguson’s local Director of Elections had performed a gross miscalculation concerning the number of residents in Ferguson registering to vote. Since unarmed teen, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson, there has been wide-ranging discussions surrounding the dynamics of race politics and […]
USA Today’s Yamiche Alcindor recently broke the news that Ferguson’s local Director of Elections had performed a gross miscalculation concerning the number of residents in Ferguson registering to vote. Since unarmed teen, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson, there has been wide-ranging discussions surrounding the dynamics of race politics and […]
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Youth Are on the Frontlines in Ferguson, and They Refuse to Back Downthenation.com
“This moment is consecrated in blood,” a representative from the Organization for Black Struggle said before a crowd of 3,000 in downtown St. Louis last weekend.
“This moment is consecrated in blood,” a representative from the Organization for Black Struggle said before a crowd of 3,000 in downtown St. Louis last weekend.
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St. Louis police pressured me “to snitch on my friends,” says Palestinian-American protester
A Palestinian-American activist says police in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, put pressure on him to inform on others taking part in protests against violence by that force earlier this week.
Bassem Masri, a 27-year-old self-described “pissed off citizen” from St. Louis, was arrested on Monday with around a dozen other demonstrators, including the hip-hop artist Tef Poe, while protesting at an…
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A Palestinian-American activist says police in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, put pressure on him to inform on others taking part in protests against violence by that force earlier this week.
Bassem Masri, a 27-year-old self-described “pissed off citizen” from St. Louis, was arrested on Monday with around a dozen other demonstrators, including the hip-hop artist Tef Poe, while protesting at an…
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Police Officer: “Reckless Reporting” is Why Americans Don’t Trust Cops, Not Their Misconduct
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This article, at best, is an attempt to refuse to take responsibility for the brutality, corruption, and heavily militarized action that is running rampant through police departments nationwide. At worst it is an attempt to censor media coverage of police misconduct.
In the article, Deputy Matt claims that since the “month long Circus” in Ferguson has gone on, “the number of police shot in the line of duty has skyrocketed.”
However, when we look up the line of duty deaths resulting from gunshots this year, May had more gunshot deaths than August or September.
There has been a significant increase in police officer shooting deaths this year, up 16 deaths, but all of these were not immediately following Ferguson.
In 2013, 105 police officers lost their lives in the line of duty. So far this year, there have been 82 deaths; almost the exact same rate as 2013.
Deputy Matt wants you to think that exposing police corruption leads to innocent people being murdered.
We, the local cops they have seen and contacted in the past, have not changed. We have done nothing different.
What has changed is the public’s perception of us, created by the reckless reporting by nearly every news outlet very early after the shooting of Michael Brown. The rush to be first with the story over the desire to be correct is having dire consequences nationwide, and quite honestly, has made my job more difficult and more dangerous.
What happened in Ferguson could have happened in any town across America. In fact, unarmed people are shot by police all across America, and the mainstream media largely ignores it.
But something snapped in Ferguson, the people had enough and took to the streets to express their discontent. We’re not talking about the thugs and looters but the peaceful protesters who refused to lie down and be oppressed.
Sure, the most recent shooting in Ferguson of Vonderrit Myers was blown up in the media. It was front page news because it happened in a town that has become famous for killing an unarmed young black man, and Myers was shot during the scheduled protest of this unarmed black teen.
The death of Vonderrit Myers is tragic, but it looks like he actually fired on the officer, so the officer shooting back was somewhat justified. But what the people of St. Louis are upset about is that Myers would still be alive had the off-duty officer not approached them in the first place, for simply standing on a sidewalk.
Deputy Matt wants you to believe that police officers are not violent, corrupt, and dangerous. Instead, he wants you to think that the media is just telling you this to keep you tuned in.
The fact of the matter is that police misconduct has never been part of the mainstream. But recently, with the help of the Free Thought Project, it is being forced out into the national conversation.
Police officers across the country commit horrid crimes, some departments are more in line with the mafia or astreet gang than they are with law enforcement.
The people’s mistrust of police is anything but unfounded and, in fact, quite healthy. Blind trust in government always leads to a more corrupt government, always.
Just look at how “faith in the system” over the years has served to create a standing army who is robbing the country blind.
In case Deputy Matt has been sheltered from the myriad of atrocities carried out by police, we will remind him of the following recent stories.
In July a police officer shot and killed an unarmed man and kept his job.
In August a police officer shot and killed an unarmed teenager, Dillon Taylor, and will keep his job.
A cop in Miami was recently rehired after shooting and killing unarmed Travis McNeil.
In Ottawa, KS police shot and killed an unarmed teenager while the family begged them not to.
In August, 24-year-old Ezell Ford, unarmed, was shot and killed by police for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In Ohio, police stormed a Wal-mart and shot and killed a man who was going to purchase a BB-gun that he picked up in the store.
The list goes on, in fact there have been 5,000 American citizens killed by police since 9/11.
However, shooting unarmed people is not all that police do, they frequently, deal drugs, run child prostitution rings,make child porn, molest children, kill dogs, rape women,throw grenades into baby cribs, and steal things from people.
And these things are just the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to play around with the search bar at the top of this page to delve deep into the sick sociopath tendencies of some police officers.
So, Deputy Matt, it is most certainly NOT media coverage that is giving police a bad name. It is the police. The mistrust is coming from their rampant violations of the law and the complete lack of accountability that goes along with it.
The solution to this conundrum is very easy. If you want police to stop being mistrusted and regain the respect of Americans, stop killing, raping, sodomizing, and assaulting them. Stop building this standing army. Stop illegally arresting people for filming you. Stop locking people in cages for choosing to smoke a plant. Stop busting down doors at 2 am looking for an “illegal” part of nature. Stop the drug war all together. Protect the rights of the people instead of violating them. Then, maybe then, this country will start to have trust in law enforcement again.
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This article, at best, is an attempt to refuse to take responsibility for the brutality, corruption, and heavily militarized action that is running rampant through police departments nationwide. At worst it is an attempt to censor media coverage of police misconduct.
In the article, Deputy Matt claims that since the “month long Circus” in Ferguson has gone on, “the number of police shot in the line of duty has skyrocketed.”
However, when we look up the line of duty deaths resulting from gunshots this year, May had more gunshot deaths than August or September.
There has been a significant increase in police officer shooting deaths this year, up 16 deaths, but all of these were not immediately following Ferguson.
In 2013, 105 police officers lost their lives in the line of duty. So far this year, there have been 82 deaths; almost the exact same rate as 2013.
Deputy Matt wants you to think that exposing police corruption leads to innocent people being murdered.
We, the local cops they have seen and contacted in the past, have not changed. We have done nothing different.
What has changed is the public’s perception of us, created by the reckless reporting by nearly every news outlet very early after the shooting of Michael Brown. The rush to be first with the story over the desire to be correct is having dire consequences nationwide, and quite honestly, has made my job more difficult and more dangerous.
What happened in Ferguson could have happened in any town across America. In fact, unarmed people are shot by police all across America, and the mainstream media largely ignores it.
But something snapped in Ferguson, the people had enough and took to the streets to express their discontent. We’re not talking about the thugs and looters but the peaceful protesters who refused to lie down and be oppressed.
Sure, the most recent shooting in Ferguson of Vonderrit Myers was blown up in the media. It was front page news because it happened in a town that has become famous for killing an unarmed young black man, and Myers was shot during the scheduled protest of this unarmed black teen.
The death of Vonderrit Myers is tragic, but it looks like he actually fired on the officer, so the officer shooting back was somewhat justified. But what the people of St. Louis are upset about is that Myers would still be alive had the off-duty officer not approached them in the first place, for simply standing on a sidewalk.
Deputy Matt wants you to believe that police officers are not violent, corrupt, and dangerous. Instead, he wants you to think that the media is just telling you this to keep you tuned in.
The fact of the matter is that police misconduct has never been part of the mainstream. But recently, with the help of the Free Thought Project, it is being forced out into the national conversation.
Police officers across the country commit horrid crimes, some departments are more in line with the mafia or astreet gang than they are with law enforcement.
The people’s mistrust of police is anything but unfounded and, in fact, quite healthy. Blind trust in government always leads to a more corrupt government, always.
Just look at how “faith in the system” over the years has served to create a standing army who is robbing the country blind.
In case Deputy Matt has been sheltered from the myriad of atrocities carried out by police, we will remind him of the following recent stories.
In July a police officer shot and killed an unarmed man and kept his job.
In August a police officer shot and killed an unarmed teenager, Dillon Taylor, and will keep his job.
A cop in Miami was recently rehired after shooting and killing unarmed Travis McNeil.
In Ottawa, KS police shot and killed an unarmed teenager while the family begged them not to.
In August, 24-year-old Ezell Ford, unarmed, was shot and killed by police for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In Ohio, police stormed a Wal-mart and shot and killed a man who was going to purchase a BB-gun that he picked up in the store.
The list goes on, in fact there have been 5,000 American citizens killed by police since 9/11.
However, shooting unarmed people is not all that police do, they frequently, deal drugs, run child prostitution rings,make child porn, molest children, kill dogs, rape women,throw grenades into baby cribs, and steal things from people.
And these things are just the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to play around with the search bar at the top of this page to delve deep into the sick sociopath tendencies of some police officers.
So, Deputy Matt, it is most certainly NOT media coverage that is giving police a bad name. It is the police. The mistrust is coming from their rampant violations of the law and the complete lack of accountability that goes along with it.
The solution to this conundrum is very easy. If you want police to stop being mistrusted and regain the respect of Americans, stop killing, raping, sodomizing, and assaulting them. Stop building this standing army. Stop illegally arresting people for filming you. Stop locking people in cages for choosing to smoke a plant. Stop busting down doors at 2 am looking for an “illegal” part of nature. Stop the drug war all together. Protect the rights of the people instead of violating them. Then, maybe then, this country will start to have trust in law enforcement again.
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Did the recent shooting happen in Mike Brown's neighborhood? The surroundings in that video look pretty familiar.
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These are the apartments behind the liquor store where Mike and Dorian went to get those blunts...Off W. Florissant and Ferguson
Darren Wilsons going to get off..the jury will probably decide that Wilson was in fear for his life and rely On the story Wilson is telling that Mike assaulted him and went for his gun.. thus, he was in his rights ..
Where's the forensic evidence of Mike's finger prints on the gun?
And even if he did assault Darren, it could have been in self defense considering Mikes friend said that Darren provoked Mike and assaulted him first..? Are citizens not allowed to defend themselves against police?
Happened right behind the McDonald's