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

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#Every28Hours (2/3/15): fukk. fukk. FUUUCK! I can’t breathe right now. I really can’t. I don’t have any words, except for this: how many more will it take for you to care? #howthefukkcanyoustillbeasleep #whenwillitend
 

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Enough already. just get these white fukking savages out of Black areas..sick and tired of this shyt.
The only thing the Black political movements should advocate for is community policing. These neanderthals dont even live in the communities they allegedly serve. yet they pocket a salary and benefits to abuse and intimidate locals..with so much Black unemployment, its time we kept jobs local..
 

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What has ever happened with the Tamir Rice investigation? Are we still waiting a decision from the grand jury? Also did you guys hear the DOJ is planning on suing The ferguson PD if they don't bring an end to their racists ways. They are also going to announce the results of the Shooting but I heard on CNN they are not expected to charge Darren Wilson.
 

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I read somewhere (I think it was this very thread) where some of the witnesses to Michael Brown's trial were mysteriously killed (presumably by KKK members).
 

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Justice Dept.: No federal charges in Trayvon Martin death

By JENNIFER KAY and ERIC TUCKER 36 minutes ago

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FILE - This Jan. 10, 2015 booking file photo provided by the Seminole County Public Affairs shows George …
MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation with the teenager, will not face federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

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The decision, announced in the waning days of Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure, resolves a case that focused public attention on self-defense gun laws and became a flashpoint in the national conversation about race two years before the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting.

Zimmerman has maintained that he acted in self-defense when he shot the 17-year-old Martin during a confrontation inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida, just outside Orlando. Martin, who was black, was unarmed when he was killed. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.

Once Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder by a state jury in July 2013, Martin's family turned to the federal investigation in final hopes that he would be held accountable for the shooting.

That probe focused on whether the killing could be charged as a federal hate crime and on whether Zimmerman willfully deprived Martin of his civil rights, a difficult legal standard to meet. But Justice Department officials said they ultimately determined there was insufficient evidence to prove Zimmerman killed the teenager on account of his race.

"Our decision not to pursue federal charges does not condone the shooting that resulted in the death of Trayvon Martin and is based solely on the high legal standard applicable to these cases," Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's top civil rights official, said in a statement announcing the decision.

Zimmerman's attorney, Don West, was on a flight and couldn't immediately comment on the decision. A call to Zimmerman's cellphone went directly to voicemail.

Martin's parents were too distraught after their meeting in Miami with Justice Department officials to speak with reporters, said their attorney Ben Crump, who called the decision a "bitter pill to swallow" even though it was expected.

"What they told his family and I was that because Trayvon wasn't able to tell us his version of events, there was a lack of evidence to bring the charges. That's the tragedy," Crump said.

The February 2012 confrontation began after Zimmerman observed Martin while driving in his neighborhood. Zimmerman called police and got out of his car and approached Martin, who was returning from a store while visiting his father and his father's fiancee at the same townhome complex where Zimmerman lived. Zimmerman did not testify at his trial, but he told investigators that he feared for his life as Martin straddled him and punched him during the fight.

Federal investigators said they examined the case under multiple civil rights provisions, including ones that make it illegal to use force against someone based on their race and another that criminalizes race-based interference with a person's housing rights. They conducted roughly 75 witness interviews, examined police reports and reviewed all of the evidence gathered during the state prosecution.

The Justice Department's decision was not surprising because there was no direct or circumstantial evidence that Zimmerman's actions were motivated by race, said Tamara Rice Lave, a professor at the University of Miami's School of Law.

In a 911 call, as he followed Martin through their Sanford neighborhood, Zimmerman said the teenager "looks black."

"But he doesn't say the things that would make you think it was motivated by race," Lave said. "He doesn't call him the N-word."

Black leaders in Sanford, where Martin was shot, said they weren't surprised by the decision.

"I was expecting this to happen," said Turner Clayton, a former local leader of the NAACP.

The decision to not prosecute Zimmerman comes even though Holder has made civil rights a cornerstone of his tenure. The Justice Department is also moving to resolve a separate high-profile civil rights case — the August shooting by a Ferguson police officer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. The killing sparked weeks of protests.

Days after Zimmerman was acquitted, Holder said he considered Martin's death an "unnecessary shooting." In a news release Tuesday, Holder echoed remarks he made in the shooting's aftermath.

"Though a comprehensive investigation found that the high standard for a federal hate crime prosecution cannot be met under the circumstances here, this young man's premature death necessitates that we continue the dialogue and be unafraid of confronting the issues and tensions his passing brought to the surface," Holder said. "We, as a nation, must take concrete steps to ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future."

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Associated Press correspondent Mike Schneider contributed to this report from Orlando, Fla.

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