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

[Tobias]

apologies if it's in another thread but holy fukking shyt

 

[Woodwerkz]

so is this the thread to talk about this bullshyt?


Report: Darren Wilson's Key Witness Lied About Everything

In a damning new report by the Smoking Gun, a crucial witness in the grand jury deciding whether to indict former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson is revealed as having fabricated her eyewitness account of the altercation between Wilson and unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. "Witness 40," identified as 45-year-old Sandra McElroy, has a documented history of racist remarks, criminal behavior, and mental illness.


"Witness 40": Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson
Read more thesmokinggun.com

McElroy's testimony has been latched on toby Wilson defenders because of how closely her report matched the embattled police officer's. But as the Smoking Gun points out, the timing of McElroy's interviews with authorities is suspicious: Both her statement to St. Louis police on Sept. 11 and another to Justice Department prosecutors on Oct. 22 immediately followed stories detailing Wilson's account of the day:

McElroy provided the federal investigators with an account that neatly tracked with Wilson's version of the fatal confrontation. She claimed to have seen Brown and Johnson walking in the street before Wilson encountered them while seated in his patrol car. She said that the duo shoved the cruiser's door closed as Wilson sought to exit the vehicle, then watched as Brown leaned into the car and began raining punches on the cop. McElroy claimed that she heard gunfire from inside the car, which prompted Brown and Johnson to speed off. As Brown ran, McElroy said, he pulled up his sagging pants, from which "his rear end was hanging out."

But instead of continuing to flee, Brown stopped and turned around to face Wilson, McElroy said. The unarmed teenager, she recalled, gave Wilson a "What are you going to do about it look," and then "bent down in a football position…and began to charge at the officer." Brown, she added, "looked like he was on something." As Brown rushed Wilson, McElroy said, the cop began firing. The "grunting" teenager, McElroy recalled, was hit with a volley of shots, the last of which drove Brown "face first" into the roadway.

"I know what I seen," she apparently told skeptical investigators. "I know you don't believe me." Her story of how she wound up in Ferguson that day doesn't sound convincing, either:

When asked what she was doing in Ferguson—which is about 30 miles north of her home—McElroy explained that she was planning to "pop in" on a former high school classmate she had not seen in 26 years. Saddled with an incorrect address and no cell phone, McElroy claimed that she pulled over to smoke a cigarette and seek directions from a black man standing under a tree. In short order, the violent confrontation between Brown and Wilson purportedly played out in front of McElroy.

But when she testified before the grand jury charged with deciding whether to indict Wilson, her story changed:

McElroy, again under oath, explained to grand jurors that she was something of an amateur urban anthropologist. Every couple of weeks, McElroy testified, she likes to "go into all the African-American neighborhoods." During these weekend sojourns—apparently conducted when her ex has the kids—McElroy said she will "go in and have coffee and I will strike up a conversation with an African-American and I will try to talk to them because I'm trying to understand more."

McElroy also brought a highly-touted journal with alleged entries penned in the days surrounding Michael Brown's killing. The entry dated Aug. 9 starts, "Well Im gonna take my random drive to Florisant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks ******s and Start calling them People."


No Justice: Darren Wilson Walks Free as Grand Jury Fails to Indict
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If McElroy's testimony in Darren Wilson's grand jury proves to have been made up, this will not have been the first eyewitness report she fabricated:

McElroy's devotion to the truth—lacking during her appearances before the Ferguson grand jury—was also absent in early-2007 when she fabricated a bizarre story in the wake of the rescue of Shawn Hornbeck, a St. Louis boy who had been held captive for more than four years by Michael Devlin, a resident of Kirkwood, a city just outside St. Louis.


McElroy, who also lived in Kirkwood, told KMOV-TV that she had known Devlin for 20 years. She also claimed to have gone to the police months after the child's October 2002 disappearance to report that she had seen Devlin with Hornbeck. The police, McElroy said, checked out her tip and determined that the boy with Devlin was not Hornbeck.

In the face of McElroy's allegations, the Kirkwood Police Department fired back at her. Cops reported that they investigated her claim and determined that "we have no record of any contact with Mrs. McElroy in regards to Shawn Hornbeck." The police statement concluded, "We have found that this story is a complete fabrication."

According to the Smoking Gun, McElroy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16 and has gone untreated for the condition for 25 years. She also has a history of posting racist comments on social media:

An examination of McElroy's YouTube page, which she apparently shares with one of her daughters, reveals other evidence of racial animus. Next to a clip about the disappearance of a white woman who had a baby with a black man is the comment, "see what happens when you bed down with a monkey have ape babies and party with them." A clip about the sentencing of two black women for murder is captioned, "put them monkeys in a cage."


McElroy's YouTube page is also filled with a variety of anti-Barack Obama videos, including a clip purporting to show Michelle Obama admitting that the president was born in Kenya. Over the past year, McElroy has subscribed to three channels devoted to mystery and real crime shows, as well as a "We Are Darren Wilson" video channel.

McElroy has rarely used her Twitter account, though she did post a message in late-October in response to a news report that several Ferguson drug cases had to be dropped because Darren Wilson failed to show up for court hearings. "drug thug will be arrested again who cares," wrote McElroy.

And her behavior on Facebook indicates a bias toward Wilson's story:

In the weeks after Brown's shooting—but before she contacted police—McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she "liked' a Facebook comment reporting that Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. "The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false," McElroy wrote of the "hands-up" claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, "Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson."

Multiple attempts by the Smoking Gun to contact McElroy—including her three Facebook pages—were left unanswered.​

 

[NatiboyB]

I wonder if this is "JOSIE"

 

[KingTut]

so is this the thread to talk about this bullshyt?


Report: Darren Wilson's Key Witness Lied About Everything

In a damning new report by the Smoking Gun, a crucial witness in the grand jury deciding whether to indict former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson is revealed as having fabricated her eyewitness account of the altercation between Wilson and unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. "Witness 40," identified as 45-year-old Sandra McElroy, has a documented history of racist remarks, criminal behavior, and mental illness.


"Witness 40": Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson
Read more thesmokinggun.com

McElroy's testimony has been latched on toby Wilson defenders because of how closely her report matched the embattled police officer's. But as the Smoking Gun points out, the timing of McElroy's interviews with authorities is suspicious: Both her statement to St. Louis police on Sept. 11 and another to Justice Department prosecutors on Oct. 22 immediately followed stories detailing Wilson's account of the day:

McElroy provided the federal investigators with an account that neatly tracked with Wilson's version of the fatal confrontation. She claimed to have seen Brown and Johnson walking in the street before Wilson encountered them while seated in his patrol car. She said that the duo shoved the cruiser's door closed as Wilson sought to exit the vehicle, then watched as Brown leaned into the car and began raining punches on the cop. McElroy claimed that she heard gunfire from inside the car, which prompted Brown and Johnson to speed off. As Brown ran, McElroy said, he pulled up his sagging pants, from which "his rear end was hanging out."

But instead of continuing to flee, Brown stopped and turned around to face Wilson, McElroy said. The unarmed teenager, she recalled, gave Wilson a "What are you going to do about it look," and then "bent down in a football position…and began to charge at the officer." Brown, she added, "looked like he was on something." As Brown rushed Wilson, McElroy said, the cop began firing. The "grunting" teenager, McElroy recalled, was hit with a volley of shots, the last of which drove Brown "face first" into the roadway.

"I know what I seen," she apparently told skeptical investigators. "I know you don't believe me." Her story of how she wound up in Ferguson that day doesn't sound convincing, either:

When asked what she was doing in Ferguson—which is about 30 miles north of her home—McElroy explained that she was planning to "pop in" on a former high school classmate she had not seen in 26 years. Saddled with an incorrect address and no cell phone, McElroy claimed that she pulled over to smoke a cigarette and seek directions from a black man standing under a tree. In short order, the violent confrontation between Brown and Wilson purportedly played out in front of McElroy.

But when she testified before the grand jury charged with deciding whether to indict Wilson, her story changed:

McElroy, again under oath, explained to grand jurors that she was something of an amateur urban anthropologist. Every couple of weeks, McElroy testified, she likes to "go into all the African-American neighborhoods." During these weekend sojourns—apparently conducted when her ex has the kids—McElroy said she will "go in and have coffee and I will strike up a conversation with an African-American and I will try to talk to them because I'm trying to understand more."

McElroy also brought a highly-touted journal with alleged entries penned in the days surrounding Michael Brown's killing. The entry dated Aug. 9 starts, "Well Im gonna take my random drive to Florisant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks ******s and Start calling them People."


No Justice: Darren Wilson Walks Free as Grand Jury Fails to Indict
Read more

If McElroy's testimony in Darren Wilson's grand jury proves to have been made up, this will not have been the first eyewitness report she fabricated:

McElroy's devotion to the truth—lacking during her appearances before the Ferguson grand jury—was also absent in early-2007 when she fabricated a bizarre story in the wake of the rescue of Shawn Hornbeck, a St. Louis boy who had been held captive for more than four years by Michael Devlin, a resident of Kirkwood, a city just outside St. Louis.


McElroy, who also lived in Kirkwood, told KMOV-TV that she had known Devlin for 20 years. She also claimed to have gone to the police months after the child's October 2002 disappearance to report that she had seen Devlin with Hornbeck. The police, McElroy said, checked out her tip and determined that the boy with Devlin was not Hornbeck.

In the face of McElroy's allegations, the Kirkwood Police Department fired back at her. Cops reported that they investigated her claim and determined that "we have no record of any contact with Mrs. McElroy in regards to Shawn Hornbeck." The police statement concluded, "We have found that this story is a complete fabrication."

According to the Smoking Gun, McElroy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16 and has gone untreated for the condition for 25 years. She also has a history of posting racist comments on social media:

An examination of McElroy's YouTube page, which she apparently shares with one of her daughters, reveals other evidence of racial animus. Next to a clip about the disappearance of a white woman who had a baby with a black man is the comment, "see what happens when you bed down with a monkey have ape babies and party with them." A clip about the sentencing of two black women for murder is captioned, "put them monkeys in a cage."


McElroy's YouTube page is also filled with a variety of anti-Barack Obama videos, including a clip purporting to show Michelle Obama admitting that the president was born in Kenya. Over the past year, McElroy has subscribed to three channels devoted to mystery and real crime shows, as well as a "We Are Darren Wilson" video channel.

McElroy has rarely used her Twitter account, though she did post a message in late-October in response to a news report that several Ferguson drug cases had to be dropped because Darren Wilson failed to show up for court hearings. "drug thug will be arrested again who cares," wrote McElroy.

And her behavior on Facebook indicates a bias toward Wilson's story:

In the weeks after Brown's shooting—but before she contacted police—McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she "liked' a Facebook comment reporting that Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. "The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false," McElroy wrote of the "hands-up" claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, "Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson."

Multiple attempts by the Smoking Gun to contact McElroy—including her three Facebook pages—were left unanswered.​

:rscott::rscott::rscott::rscott::rscott::rscott:

You can't make this shyt up... you really can't. This is just... :rscott:

 

[loyola llothta]

The Political Art of Police Violence in Albuquerque

When Emilio Naranjo died in 2008 at the age of 92, New Mexico politicians flocked to his funeral to sing his praises. Bill Richardson lamented Naranjo’s death calling it “the end of a unique political era in Northern New Mexico.” Former House Speaker Ben Lujan called Naranjo “the last crown jewel of the political patron system.” The Santa Fe New Mexican covered the event like a State funeral, remembering Naranjo as New Mexico’s “last patron.”

His prominent eulogists remembered a life of public service. For more than forty years, he served in a variety of elected and appointed positions: state senator, county sheriff, chairman of the Democratic Party and U.S. Marshal. From these posts Naranjo built a political machine through which he dominated Rio Arriba County politics.

But his reign was not as benign as his eulogist made out. If Naranjo should be remembered for anything, it should be for his embrace of police violence as political tactic; he turned police violence into a frightening political art.

Early in his long political career, Naranjo realized that of all the many political posts he held, County Sheriff was perhaps the most important. It meant being in control of a small army of loyal, well-armed deputies who, under color of law, could enforce his authoritarian rule. It was police violence as politics.

Despite his silly, high-pitched, squeaky voice, Naranjo was no idiot. Police violence under the Naranjo regime was not arbitrary, but rather an instrumental practice that followed a particular pattern. He targeted his critics, many of whom were Chicano activists allied with land grant communities.

His deputies harassed, arrested and beat-up dissidents and political opponents. In a two-year stretch beginning in 1974, they beat or shot eighteen people. Dozens more, according to some, went unreported by his frightened victims. Once, in a close re-election campaign for Sheriff, Naranjo ordered the arrest of both of his opponents.

Naranjo was allowed to wreak havoc because he made himself useful to powerful political interests in Santa Fe and Washington, D.C. He delivered votes for political allies in tough-fought local and state elections; he defended wealthy ranchers against the challenges of land grant activists; he refused to defend traditional forest users against the racist patterns of Forest Service paternalism. “Emilio has become the sort of man,” one Rio Arriba County resident remarked in the late 1970s “no one will say anything about except that he’s a very kind and generous man we’re afraid of.”

Police violence under the Naranjo regime was never understood as a problem of training or policy. No one pretended Naranjo’s goons-in-badges suffered from bad leadership or low hiring standards. If you had suggested to anyone in Española or Tierra Amarilla in 1975 that they just needed to reform police policies on the use of force, they would have laughed you out of town. They shot people, and falsely arrested people, and beat-up people. That was the whole point.

Police violence was a problem because it was also a solution. Naranjo practiced the art of police violence. He recognized it for its ability to reinforce a social and economic order organized around the interests of wealthy landowners who profited from controversial tourist development. He saw how police violence could sustain federal control and authority over Rio Arriba’s Carson National Forest, and thus give him political allies among grateful federal officials. He recognized how violence, under the color of law, transformed his critics into common criminals.

This is Naranjo’s real legacy: the political art of police violence. And over the last thirty years it’s been on display in Albuquerque, where police violence has been a solution to those seeking power long before anyone admitted it was a problem to its victims. Dozens shot and killed in the 1980s and 1990s. Reports concluded that most were unjustified. Dozens shot and killed since 2010. Reports concluded that most were unjustified.

As in Rio Arriba County in the 1970s, police violence in Albuquerque has followed a pattern. It has been through coordinated violence that APD has confronted the problem of homelessness and untreated mental illness in Albuquerque. Nearly every victim of lethal force by APD since 2010 suffered from untreated or undertreated mental illness or was in the middle of a mental health crisis at the moment of their death; many were homeless. They were military veterans who suffered from PTSD; they were elderly homeless men who suffered from schizophrenia.

The SWAT shooting death of James Boyd on March 16, 2014 was shocking for many reasons. He was clearly suffering from mental illness and incapable of responding to orders from aggressive, military-equipped officers. He was shot in the back just as he finally agreed to give himself up to officers. And then APD sicced a German shepherd on his prone and lifeless body.

But perhaps most chilling was the organized manner in which it all happened; the businesslike way in which APD officers went about their deadly work. They were just doing their job. And their job included, without question, the use of lethal force in order to keep a homeless man from sleeping too close to the wealthy homeowners who lived in small mansions crowded up against the Sandia foothills.

This was their city, not James Boyd’s, and APD’s job was to make it so.

But this seems far-fetched. Who after all would willingly victimize the most vulnerable members of our society? What motivates APD officers to unleash such organized, overwhelming violence on men like James Boyd?

In the months since Boyd’s death, APD has tried to depict Boyd as dangerous, and the moment of his death as chaotic. Officers suddenly, after an hours-long standoff, feared for their safety. Few who’ve seen the video believe the defense, but without evidence of premeditation, how can it be refuted?

This week the release of an audio recording of APD officer Keith Sandy, James Boyd’s killer, may finally provide that evidence. Just two hours before firing fatal shots, after Sandy first arrived on the scene, he stopped to talk to a New Mexico State Police Sergeant who recorded their brief conversation on his belt tape:

Sandy: Where they got you guys going, what have they got you guys doing?”

Sergeant: I don’t know, the guy asked for State Police.

Sandy: Who asked for you?

Sergeant: I don’t know.

Sandy: For this fukking lunatic? I’m going to shoot him with [unintelligible] shotgun here in a second.

APD claims Sandy told the NMSP Sergeant he was going to shoot Boyd with his Taser shotgun, a less-than-lethal weapon. Given APD’s recent history, it makes little difference. The Department of Justice investigation of APD focused, in part, on APD’s use of less-than lethal force, particularly its use of Tasers. It concluded that APD “officers engaged in a pattern of using Tasers unreasonably, including in situations that placed individuals at risk of death or serious bodily harm; against individuals experiencing mental health crises, or who, due to inebriation or inability, could not comply; against subjects requiring medical treatment; against unarmed subjects; and against individuals in a punitive manner.”

Whether Sandy referred to his Taser shotgun or his standard shotgun, the implication is the same: Sandy walked into that conflict with lethal intent. He saw the mentally ill Boyd as the legitimate target of lethal police violence because he was mentally ill.

In the organizational logic of APD, the condition of mental illness stands in as a proxy for the condition of criminality.

Days after the release of the audio of Sandy, APD Chief Gorden Eden, who wouldn’t comment on the case to the press, gave awards to a number of officers “who intelligently perform his/her duty in an outstanding manner.” Among the officers who received the award was Sean Wallace. In 2004, then State Trooper Wallace shot an unarmed man named Leo Lopez four-times in the back killing him. APD then hired Wallace in 2007 and in 2010 he shot and wounded an unarmed man named Wayne Cordova. Wallace admitted to investigators that he knew Cordova was unarmed prior to shooting him. Cordova, who suffered from mental illness, was huddled on a rooftop, crying and asking to be killed when Wallace shot him in the back. Less than six months later, in May of 2011, Wallace shot and killed an unarmed Alan Gomez during a SWAT standoff. Gomez, like Cordova suffered from mental illness.

In the organizational culture of APD, demonstrating consistent and violent aggression against homeless or mentally ill people is the quickest route to awards and promotion.

Criticism of APD in the wake of the award to Wallace called it another example of APD’s tone-deaf response to criticism. But perhaps it reveals something else, something essential about the political art of police violence. Police violence, in order to be effective, must never be understood as a systemic issue. It cannot be understood as the inevitable outcome of an entire institution organized around violent social control of the mentally ill and homeless. It must be a problem of a bad policy or a bad cop. Once those problems are rooted out the logic of the institution can once again unfold.

The City Council recently abolished the old, toothless Police Oversight Commission and replaced it was a new Civilian Police Oversight Agency. Its proponents celebrate it as a reform measure that can address key policy problems at APD. But final authority over discipline and policy remains with the Chief of Police.

And the US Attorney, Damon Martinez, who has promised to get tough with APD, got tough with the Sheriff of Rio Arriba County instead.

A federal jury found Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella guilty last month of a felony in a March 11, 2014 incident that prosecutors called an unconstitutional arrest of a motorist. Rodella and his son were in plainclothes and driving in their personal vehicle when they chased down a motorist they claimed was driving erratically.

US Attorney Martinez held up the prosecution of Rodella as proof that he takes the problem of police violence seriously.

But why Rodella and not Keith Sandy? Rodella has no connection to APD and has never before been charged with the unjustified use of lethal or less-than-lethal force. And no deputy in his Sheriff’s Department has used lethal force.

But Martinez wanted to look tough on police misconduct. And, it turns out, he had political reasons to get rid of Rodella.

After becoming Sheriff, Rodella ended the practice of deputizing federal agents. It has been routine practice in Rio Arriba, and in nearly every other County with federal lands, to deputize federal agents so that they can wield local police power. The always-savvy Emilio Naranjo routinely deputized federal agents. He knew enough not to bite the hand that feeds him. But at a May 7 meeting in Albuquerque, Damon Martinez demanded that Rodella deputize federal agents. Rodella, the first Sheriff to end the practice, refused Martinez’s demands. He told Martinez he didn’t trust federal agents. Former Rio Arriba County Commissioner Felipe Martinez, long one of Rodella’s staunchest critics, was at that meeting. He called Rodella’s refusal a principled stand in solidarity with land grant communities. Local land grant communities reserve their harshest criticism for the loss of land grant common lands to the federal government. Today the federal government controls millions of acres of former Spanish and Mexican common lands. Rodella told Martinez federal land management is unjust to the people and communities of northern New Mexico and therefore he would not deputize its agents.

In interviews following Rodella’s conviction, Martinez called Rodella “a political prisoner.”

Keith Sandy and Sean Wallace continue to work under color of law, wearing a badge and carrying a gun. Today Rodella sits in jail awaiting sentencing on a conviction that could bring him as much as 17 years.

“This is the first time I can remember a county sheriff being prosecuted,” Commissioner Martinez told theSanta Fe New Mexican, “Yet the U.S. attorney has ignored the cases where law enforcement officers have killed New Mexicans without justification.”

Emilio Naranjo may have practiced police violence in Española. But it has been elevated to an art in Albuquerque.

Source:
http://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/the-political-art-of-police-violence-in-albuquerque/

 

[smitty22]

I wonder if this is "JOSIE"

Josie prolly his wife who's a pig too

 

[Cat piss martini]

Any other time I'd agree that protest does nothing
but this is something new that we are seeing......
This is going world wide and America is looking
like the lie it's always been to the entire world.

 

[loyola llothta]

• McCulloh’s father was a police officer who was killed on duty. He’s biased as all fukking hell.
• 70,000 people signed a petition to try and get McCulloch out of this case. He’s been known to protect officers from murder cases, which isn’t that unusual since his father was one. Despite everyone wanting him off this case, he refused to step down. He fully intended to go in and do a shytty job to make sure Wilson does not get indicted.This was planned.
• He cherry-picked evidence specifically showing Wilson’s innocence while arguing against evidence from his own defense.
• McCulloh literally protects officers. A majority of his work has been getting police officers out of murder charges. He literallyonly became an attorney because he didn’t qualify to become a police officer. This wasn’t an issue of a lazy lawyer, this was methodically planned to make sure Mike Brown never got justice.
• If you’re denying that this wasn’t planned from the beginning, you aren’t listening hard enough.

 

[Scuti]

dad is c00ning right now. saying that the guy shot in walmart was stupid for picking up the toy gun off the shelf

im so disappointed right now brehs

 

[smitty22]

dad is c00ning right now. saying that the guy shot in walmart was stupid for picking up the toy gun off the shelf

im so disappointed right now brehs

Ask him would he feel the same if that was you

 

[loyola llothta]

Haitian American World Champion BoxerAndre Berto was spotted in the streets of Hollywood, California in protest of the recent grand jury decisions failing to indict the two officers who killed Eric Garner & Michael Brown.

His caption: Me and thousands of others swarmed the streets of Hollywood for justice today. It’s hard to keep faith in a system if it continues to fail us. It’s time to stop talking and start doing, this shyt real out here people. If we don’t stand up for ourselves than who will. We’re all we got……

@andreberto :

They think we’re just gonna go away!!! But we just getting started!!! #BlackLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter #YoungLeaders4Change| @mankofit @golden_barbie @everybodyknowslo @quincy

#RipMikeBrown #RipEricGarner#TrayvonMartin #BlackOutHollywood #Blacklivesmatte

 

[loyola llothta]

http://cnn.it/1Gopv25 @cnn

 

[Woodwerkz]

dad is c00ning right now. saying that the guy shot in walmart was stupid for picking up the toy gun off the shelf

im so disappointed right now brehs

About a week ago my fiancee and her mom was on the phone [she had it on speakerphone so the baby to hear is grandma]. I felt the same way you felt and couldn't do anything but fire back and try to educate. She was trying to downgrade them burning stuff down and i was like

me: "You do know the cops sat back and protected their buildings and the building of big businesses and etc. You do know they were right there in reach to stop them from doing anything to those establishments if they really wanted to but they didn't. They wanted it to get bad so the next day they could flex all that militarized stuff that have on them."

Her: "I'm sorry but them no job having thug nikkaz didn't have to burn anything down...and that stepdaddy ain't worth a damn 'Burn this bytch down' they gonna arrest his ass. I mean burning your own stuff down...now what you got...nothing."

Me: "They are protesting in nearly every major city in this nation...several mid-sized ones and in overseas in places like Africa, Japan and more. I mean lets be honest here...they've been peacefully protesting, marching, taking abuse verbally and physically from officers and..."
[I get cut off....]

her.: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry but them sorry niccaz ain't at work, school or nothing...pants off their ass and they wonder why getting killed. Back when King marched you didn't see them burning and looting anything"

Me: I"m glad you brought that up...Dr. King marched in suits and did most of the other people. He was 'peaceful' in approach and they killed him. Malcolm X was nicely dressed...spoke in a more dominant pro-black for self-sufficiency ideals [interrupted with "by any means necessary " from the fiancee as she is shaking her head] and more and he was murdered. Black people had banks, businesses, schools and etc and jealous white militias came through looted, burned and murdered. And as far as school or work...it was at night that they released the findings...schools were cancelled for the next few days, businesses closed up early and decided not to open the following day just in case of violence and like i stated...pants loose, tight, tailors or not we as black people got a target on our back.

[real c00n came out]
her: Well they need to stop with this black on black crime...killing each other, robbing each other and always up to know good. You see more than 2 together they are up to know good.

[I looked at my fiancee like...she fukking it up for you right now]

Me: I'll end with this.... do you know that overall black on black crime has actually decreased over the years? And yes black on black murders are high...but so are same race murders of any race. While they give that quote of 90% black on black...it's in the 80's for white on white. [she goes "oh really?] And the only reason it seems worse it because bad news sells more than the good so instead of hearing about 11year black entrepreneur...you'll hear about an 11 year old getting killed by a stray bullet. Lets be real the only Black person white people truly like is Oprah...and even she get played overseas as just being another nicca.


All i could do was look at my son and think to myself that i'm going to minimize the weekend stays to her mom's house.

 

[KOohbt]

Waiting for the next step to happen. For some reason every time I feel like ain't shyt bout to happen, this shyt picks up and grows. Maybe the world is waiting for us black Americans to finally reclaim our role in the worlds landscape. And you can tell its not about mike brown or garner. Its about white supremacy and people are using polive violence as a launching pad for it.

 

[loyola llothta]

ny and dc shut it down.

Lawyers lie down in the rain to protest killings by police

Amid calls for justice and chants of “black lives matter,” more than 100 lawyers, law students and others staged a “die-in” outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse Tuesday, arguing that the legal system in which they operate is broken.

The group blocked a lane of traffic and clogged the walkway leading to the Hill Street entrance of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, making it virtually impossible for passing motorists and court visitors to ignore their message.

Lawyers, law students and legal staff lie on the ground in the rain outside Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles during a die-in to protest police brutality and the decisions by grand juries in New York and Missouri not to indict police officers involved in the deaths of Eric Garner and... (Robyn Beck / AFP/Getty Images)



“The issue of police brutality is not about any single officer or victim, nor is it about good people versus bad people,” Priscilla Ocen, a law professor, declared over a bullhorn. “The number of unjustified homicides is a result of an entire system left too long without the leigitimate checks necessary to ensure accountability and justice.”
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Tuesday’s “die-in” marked the second day in a row that a group of white-collar professionals has demonstrated in support of calls for increased police accountability following the deaths of unarmed black men.


“As legal actors, we are sworn to uphold and enforce the law, so we have a responsibility to condemn the racist criminal justice system of which we are a part,” Ocen said. “Today we must challenge this structure and take a stand against it.”
When about 10 demonstrators lay in a lane of traffic; a Los Angeles police car moved to blocked the lane behind them. Courthouse deputies snapped photos of the attorneys lying on the wet courthouse steps and described the scene to commanders.
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After about 30 minutes of chanting and lying in the street, the protest was over. The group said it scheduled the “die-in” for about 15 1/2 minutes – to mark the 11 times Eric Garner said “I can’t breathe” to New York police and the 4 1/2 hours Michael Brown’s body lay on a road in Ferguson, Mo., after he was fatally shot.

On Monday, about 50 African American men in suits gathered on the front steps of the federal courthouse in downtown L.A. and held a silent vigil for those who have died in police confrontations. At about the same time in Oakland, protesters chained themselves to the city Police Department's headquarters.