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

[Lord Scion]

About to hit the sheets... wasn't able to go to the vigil at the Arch tonight, but went out to the protest at the QuikTrip with my girl. Had a great time talking with people. Spoke with this dude who got arrested, police fukked up his hands with zip tie cuffs. shyt looked crazy. People out there picking up trash, making sure the area is nice and clean. Once again, fukk the media's swayed reporting on this.

Some pics I took from earlier:

Will upload the rest in the morning if y'all wanna see.
to all my brehs still posting in here.

The hell was that Marine doing out there?!

That dude is an icon now.

 

[ORDER_66]

White people are starting to think those military vehicles and weapons could one day be used towards them now.

Cops fukked up when they arrested those journalist.

Jacquielynn Floyd
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/colu...y-of-police-didnt-think-so-until-ferguson.ece

Be wary of police? Didn’t think so until Ferguson

Shame on me, since it took the cops roughing up a few reporters to draw my full attention to the unfolding drama on the streets of Ferguson, Mo.

After the shooting Saturday of a teenager there named Michael Brown, I paid only cursory attention to the headlines: White police officer shoots unarmed black man; angry crowd gathers; protests ensue. Some of it spills over into mindless destruction and opportunistic looting.

We have seen this story or stories close to it play out in cities all over the country. We have seen it in Dallas. It’s sad evidence of our failings as a society that the story is so miserably familiar that the headline “Police shooting sparks outrage” is a news-biz cliché. It won’t make anybody’s jaw drop or eyes bug out.

Maybe it should. When you look a little more closely at how law enforcement in the ragged little St. Louis suburb has behaved, starting with Michael Brown’s death and continuing through the events it set in motion, every step they have taken has made matters worse.

Police there have refused to release the name of the officer involved. They have provided little coherent explanation of how a jaywalking incident escalated to a need for deadly force. They have withheld autopsy results, refusing to reveal how many times Brown was shot, or where the bullets hit him. They have indiscriminately met both street violence and peaceful protest with the same response, a ham-fisted display of intimidation and military force.

Worse, there are reports they have been arresting people for such vague and unspecific offenses as standing on the sidewalk, refusing to get into cars, refusing to get out of cars, not moving quickly enough, and asking too many questions. When a reporter from the Huffington Post called the police department to confirm reports that a St. Louis alderman was among the people arrested, the person who answered the phone refused to provide any information, including her own name.

You get the sense that a lot of the cops in Ferguson are not well schooled in treating the residents they serve with courtesy and respect.

That can be a tall order, of course. People in law enforcement often see people when they’re not at their best. Good cops know how to be polite and matter-of-fact, and to weigh whether a situation requires a show of authority or even force.

The confrontation that led to Brown’s shooting allegedly began with the officer telling the teenager and another youth to stop walking in the street.

I suppose that if I were walking in the street, it’s possible that a police officer might draw up and say, “Ma’am, could I ask you to stay up on the sidewalk while you’re walking? We just want to make sure you stay safe, since drivers don’t always pay as much attention as they should.”

This is how police officers in my comfortable neighborhood advise middle-aged white ladies to “Get out of the street, you fool.” I suspect that’s not always the language employed in poor, minority neighborhoods where the relationship between the residents and police is less cordial.

People who look like me in general don’t know what it’s like to be treated rudely or disrespectfully by the police. We have no way of knowing how we would respond to being regarded with suspicion and contempt, to be pulled over for no very good reason, to be bossed and bullied as a matter of routine.

If we were, we’d probably squall like scalded cats. I know I would.

But (shame on me) the situation in Ferguson caught my closer attention when evidence surfaced of police officers dishing out this kind of treatment to people who are quite a lot like me: white-collar news reporters, professional people secure in their rights and perhaps a little extra-specially confident in their own importance.

Reporters for the Washington Post and Huffington Post reported being arrested and ordered to stop video recording when police ordered them out of a fast-food restaurant for reasons that were not made clear. Two women reporters for the St. Louis American tweeted that officers in tactical gear pointed assault rifles at them, training the red laser dots on their chests. Several reporters posted photos of an Al-Jazeera news crew fleeing after police fired a tear gas canister at them.

If bullying, random arrests, Orwellian secretiveness and threats is the police response to professional out-of-towners with large audiences looking on, what kind of treatment do the residents there get when nobody’s looking and nobody cares?

If someone — especially someone young, male, and black — is reading this and thinking sardonically, “Well, welcome to my world!” the point is well taken.

We should all be paying close attention.

It isnt a problem until it happens to them.... but they'll learn!!! but then the black people will turn around and laugh and say, told ya so...

 

[Box Cutta]

brehs sfgate interviewed ya boy yesteday at the sf protest. I thought bout posting the video but nikkas would prolly call me a c00n or something....

Naw breh if you're out there I don't see how anyone can hate.

Unless you were on some Herman Cain type of shyt....

About to hit the sheets... wasn't able to go to the vigil at the Arch tonight, but went out to the protest at the QuikTrip with my girl. Had a great time talking with people. Spoke with this dude who got arrested, police fukked up his hands with zip tie cuffs. shyt looked crazy. People out there picking up trash, making sure the area is nice and clean. Once again, fukk the media's swayed reporting on this.

Some pics I took from earlier:

Will upload the rest in the morning if y'all wanna see.
to all my brehs still posting in here.

Respect breh....

Yo I saw that marine dude all over twitter.

 

[Perpetual Beast]

It isnt a problem until it happens to them.... but they'll learn!!! but then the black people will turn around and laugh and say, told ya so...

Nah...no one will say that cause it aint a laughin matter guy

 

[kUrTe$y]

The earliest video shot of Mike Brown is up:



EVERYONE has the same story, you can hear em all in the video. That lawyer is gonna have to be on some serious Harvard shyt to bail this pig out

 

[El Bombi]

The earliest video shot of Mike Brown is up:



EVERYONE has the same story, you can hear em all in the video. That lawyer is gonna have to be on some serious Harvard shyt to bail this pig out

Man, this shyt is just too hard to watch. I had to cut off the video. SMDH

 

[Ronnie Lott]

everyone west of Houston don't give a half a fukk

the bay is reppin too bruh

 

[Ronnie Lott]

The earliest video shot of Mike Brown is up:



EVERYONE has the same story, you can hear em all in the video. That lawyer is gonna have to be on some serious Harvard shyt to bail this pig out

Gatdamn man, how in the fukk are they just leavin this kid out in the middle of the fukkin street like a dog

 

[Soundbwoy]

the bay is reppin too bruh

it started in bay

 

[Soundbwoy]

 

[kUrTe$y]

audio tapes of STL dispatch the day of Mike Brown's death:


they start talking about Mike around 11:26. they say the news told them it happened, not the ferguson pd

they were tryna cover that shyt up hard

 

[NotaPAWG]

From the same picture's comment section

Tracy Moore ‏@TracyMo53321503 18m
@ogg23 @manish_vij See what these groups of people cause, more riots. Just bring the military & mow them all down, decrease the population.


Dont know if a troll or real. But nothing to joke about and damn sure aint shyt to tolerate.

She's not joking, sadly.

The comments on news websites and youtube videos

Had me so heated earlier

That mindset amongst white people is the majority.

 

[notPsychosiz]

The breakdown of why the police have military vehicles and weapons.
Basically, the stuff the army had in Iraq 2005 is outdated now if the soldiers go into war... so its literally hand-me-down army shyt. Those black SUVs with the satallites on top are actually mine resistant, apparently.



also

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/15/375345/brown-murder-sparks-demos-in-100-us-cities/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/14/375338/us-unsafe-for-black-youths-families/

 

[Cat piss martini]

said it earlier in the thread that them
roughing up them journalists was what was gonna
get them cops fukked up the ass.

ferguson may be for sale after all of them lawsuit payouts.



Props to the Coli man.......it played a huge part.

 

[Lord Scion]

The earliest video shot of Mike Brown is up:



EVERYONE has the same story, you can hear em all in the video. That lawyer is gonna have to be on some serious Harvard shyt to bail this pig out

I sat there and watched the whole video.

"He dead than muthafukka"

"Worldstar"

*female officer shows up*

"I'll fukk the shyt outta her"

Just a mixture of