Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/2...-my-son-michelle-alexander.html?_r=1&referrer


Op-Ed Contributor
Telling My Son About Ferguson
By MICHELLE ALEXANDER
November 26, 2014

COLUMBUS, Ohio — MY son wants an answer. He is 10 years old, and he wants me to tell him that he doesn’t need to worry. He is a black boy, rather sheltered, and knows little of the world beyond our safe, quiet neighborhood. His eyes are wide and holding my gaze, silently begging me to say: No, sweetheart, you have no need to worry. Most officers are nothing like Officer Wilson. They would not shoot you — or anyone — while you’re unarmed, running away or even toward them.

I am stammering.

For the past few years, I have traveled from coast to coast speaking to just about anyone who will listen about the horrors of our criminal injustice system. I have written and lectured extensively about the wars that have been declared on poor communities of color — the “war on crime” and the “war on drugs” — the militarization of our police forces, the school-to-prison pipeline, the millions stripped of basic civil and human rights, a penal system unprecedented in world history. Yet here I am, on Monday evening, before the announcement about the grand jury’s decision has been made, speechless.

My son wants me to reassure him, and tell him that of course Darren Wilson will go to jail. At 10 years old, he can feel deep in his bones how wrong it was for the police to kill Michael Brown. “There will be a trial, at least — right, Mom?” My son is asking me a simple question, and I know the answer.


Michelle Alexander

Ben Garvin for The New York Times

As a civil rights lawyer, I know all too well that Officer Wilson will not be going to trial or to jail. The system is legally rigged so that poor people guilty of relatively minor crimes are regularly sentenced to decades behind bars while police officers who kill unarmed black men almost never get charged, much less serve time in prison.

I open my mouth to speak, look into my son’s eyes, and hear myself begin to lie: “Don’t worry, honey, you have nothing to worry about. Nothing like this could ever happen to you.” His face brightens as he tells me that he likes the police, and that he always waves at the cops in our neighborhood and they always wave back. His innocence is radiating from him now; he’s all lit up with relief and gladness that he lives in a world where he can take for granted that the police can be trusted to serve and protect him with a wave and a smile.

My face is flushing red. I am embarrassed that I have lied. And I am angry. I am angry that I have to tell my son that he has reason to worry. I am angry that I have to tell him that I already know Darren Wilson won’t be indicted, because police officers are almost never indicted when they kill unarmed black men. I must tell him now, before he hears it on the school bus or sees it in the news, that many people in Michael Brown’s town will be very angry too — so filled with pain, sadness and rage — that they may react by doing things they shouldn’t, like setting fires or breaking windows or starting fights.

I know I must explain this violence, but not condone it. I must help him see that adults often have trouble managing their pain just like he does. Doesn’t he sometimes lash out and yell at friends or family when he’s hurt or angry? When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you’re given lectures about how it’s really all your fault, and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind. We can wind up harming people we care about with words or deeds, people who have done no harm to us.

I begin telling him the truth and his face contorts. The glowing innocence is wiped away as his eyes flash first with fear, then anger. “No!,” he erupts. “There has to be a trial! If you kill an unarmed man, don’t you at least have a trial?”

My son is telling me now that the people in Ferguson should fight back. A minute ago, he was reminiscing about waving to Officer Friendly. Now he wants to riot.

I tell him that sometimes I have those feelings too. But now I feel something greater. I am proud of the thousands of people of all colors who have taken to the streets in nonviolent protest, raising their voices with boldness and courage, capturing the attention and the imagination of the world. They’re building a radical movement for justice, one that would make the freedom fighters who came before them sing from the heavens with joy.

I tell my son, as well as my daughters, as we sit around the dinner table, stories of young activists organizing in Ferguson, some of them not much older than they are. I tell them about the hip-hop artist Tef Poe, who traveled with Michael Brown’s parents to Geneva to testify before a United Nations subcommittee about police militarization and violence. I tell them about activists like Phillip B. Agnew, Tory Russell, Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton, who marched in the streets and endured tear gas while waving signs bearing three words: “Black Lives Matter.”

I’ve met some of these activists, I say. They believe, like you do, that we should be able to live in a world where we trust the police and where all people and all children, no matter what their color or where they came from, are treated with dignity, care, compassion and concern. These courageous young people know the tools of war, violence and revenge will never build a nation of justice. They told me they’re willing to risk their lives, if necessary, so that kids like you can live in a better world.

My son is stirring his mashed potatoes around on his plate. He looks up and says, “Right now, I’m just thinking I don’t want anything like this ever to happen again.”

I’m tempted to tell him that it will happen; in fact, it already has. Several unarmed black men have been shot by the police since Aug. 9, when Michael Brown was killed. But I don’t say another word. It’s much easier telling the truth about race and justice in America to strangers than to my son, who will soon be forced to live it.

Michelle Alexander is the author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
 

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Learn the laws. Get guns. Make law that pass that help us. Get more black faces in government but what if those same laws dont apply to your people. Racial capitalism. all semantics. Never forget we live in White American:

I am DESPERATELY trying to inform everyone that IT IS ALREADY UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO KILL UNARMED FLEEING FELONS/SUSPECTED FELONS

In the 1984 case Tennessee v. Garner, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that killing an unarmed fleeing felon (and even SUSPECTED felon) is unconstitutional.

This ruling has not been overturned and is still valid and standing today!
 
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DeAndre Joshua Shot Dead in #Ferguson Riots – Was Good Friend of Murder Witness Dorian Johnson

On Monday night 20 year-old DeAndre Joshua was shot dead in Ferguson.
His charred body was found in a car on Canfield Drive just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead.

Casualty: DeAndre Joshua, 20. was found ‘shot’ dead in his car in Ferguson, as the St Louis suburb descended into violence in the wake of the decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson over the killing of Michael Brown. (Daily Mail)

CNN reported: Joshua had been shot in the head, police said. An accelerant was used to light him on fire, but the fire went out on its own, police said. He had burns to his arm, fingers and both legs.

USA Today reported on his brutal murder.

Amid the rubble and ashes of a city convulsed in anger over the death of Michael Brown, a different family stood in shock and grief over the death of another young black man: DeAndre Joshua, 20.

At 9 a.m. Tuesday, a resident of an apartment complex spotted Joshua’s body inside a parked car, a white Pontiac Grand Prix, near Canfield Green Apartments, the same complex where Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson shot Brown on Aug. 9. Blood-soaked shattered glass lay in a pile on the ground beside the car.

Family members said Joshua’s death is tied to the protests that consumed Ferguson after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch revealed the grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson. But family members said they did not know specifically how he died.

DeAndre was reportedly a friend of Dorian Johnson – Michael Brown’s buddy.




Dorian Johnson, Michael Brown’s friend and accomplice,wrote about Joshua yesterday after his death.
:damn: this just fukked me up
 

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Elizabeth Lauten, Communications Director at United States Congress, decided to shame the First Kids on her Facebook page.

dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at the bar.

She then followed it up by saying that all Ferguson residents should be arrested (couldn’t get a screen cap of it, or the comment I left).

The backlash caused her to delete her Facebook. I am currently looking into how to contact her supervisor.
 

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DeAndre Joshua Shot Dead in #Ferguson Riots – Was Good Friend of Murder Witness Dorian Johnson

On Monday night 20 year-old DeAndre Joshua was shot dead in Ferguson.
His charred body was found in a car on Canfield Drive just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead.

Casualty: DeAndre Joshua, 20. was found ‘shot’ dead in his car in Ferguson, as the St Louis suburb descended into violence in the wake of the decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson over the killing of Michael Brown. (Daily Mail)

CNN reported: Joshua had been shot in the head, police said. An accelerant was used to light him on fire, but the fire went out on its own, police said. He had burns to his arm, fingers and both legs.

USA Today reported on his brutal murder.

Amid the rubble and ashes of a city convulsed in anger over the death of Michael Brown, a different family stood in shock and grief over the death of another young black man: DeAndre Joshua, 20.

At 9 a.m. Tuesday, a resident of an apartment complex spotted Joshua’s body inside a parked car, a white Pontiac Grand Prix, near Canfield Green Apartments, the same complex where Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson shot Brown on Aug. 9. Blood-soaked shattered glass lay in a pile on the ground beside the car.

Family members said Joshua’s death is tied to the protests that consumed Ferguson after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch revealed the grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson. But family members said they did not know specifically how he died.

DeAndre was reportedly a friend of Dorian Johnson – Michael Brown’s buddy.




Dorian Johnson, Michael Brown’s friend and accomplice,wrote about Joshua yesterday after his death.

Sounds the work of an Edomite...I'm getting a cop, national guardsman or klan. Jake does't just shoot then burn somebody. They wanted to make an example out of him by charring his body.
 

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Thought just popped in my head. We need a few experts to take some leadership at ground zero to keep this thing moving. I'm not talking about figure heads to speak for us on CNN and snap a few photos, I mean brothers and sisters who can take the rage and passion and guide it so that we have focus on the objectives.

For instance, they should keep protesting, but hopefully we keep honing it and being strategic with it. The Black Friday thing was beautiful, so we should have business experts meeting as we speak so that all throughout holiday shopping season, we know the biggest, most lucrative spots to hit on what days to keep fukking up their money. We should have lawyers on deck around the clock to get protesters out of jail and not let them get hit with any bullshyt charges and to keep the thirsty cops honest.

We should have ex military brehs telling them what angles and formations to take to make it harder on the cops and to jam up high traffic areas. Peoples aunties and grandmas should be fixing plates around the clock so everybody can eat. Business people should be setting up funds so that all of us hurting and wanting to get involved know where we can send money to do our part. And they should be transparent so we know we're protected from the bullshyt. And also help give us information on which companies condone this so we can stop supporting them.

And most of all, always be getting the word out and fostering conversation, so that even when brothers and sisters disagree on the course of action to take, we know we're fighting for the same thing. We have our theories and favorite activists, but truth is, we needed Martin AND Malcolm AND Rosa AND Garvey AND Huey AND Ali AND Jackie for all different reasons.
 
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