Mike Brown Grand Jury decision thread. DECISION: NO CHARGES AGAINST DARREN WILSON!!

[Akata Man Bromo]

nikka you was dreaming after our beatdown that shyt didn't happen.

Lol this was before the 4:30 game

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Breh, please tell me you at least told her some shyt.

Of course he's at my place now we are chopping it up....He was scared because I was so angry at first but he understands now... My sister and her husband are good ppl I dont know where he went wrong honestly

 

[philmonroe]

Lol this was before the 4:30 game

Man I'm still sticking to you was dreaming I haven't saw any black person even the most "c00niest" say some shyt like that esp that young. Not believing it you were having a nightmare that's all

 

[blackestofpanthers]

Man, my lil cousin said yesterday during TG dinner that mike brown deserved to be shot because he robbed a store I asked him if everyone who robbed a store deserved to die he said not everybody....I then asked if not everybody then who? He said not white ppl I choked up man... c00ns dont just happen overnight something happened man.

He's 16 if he was older i would have laid hands on that brother and schooled him after

16 is more than old enough to get hands put on you

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Man I'm still sticking to you was dreaming I haven't saw any black person even the most "c00niest" say some shyt like that esp that young. Not believing it you were having a nightmare that's all

I wish man, he was dead serious.... It was a black vs white debate he seemed to think white = classy and angelic

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

DOnt even get me started on what my MOM said My pops and brother are the only ones that get it

 

[acri1]

At least be glad yalls families even brought up the subject.

My fam was insistent on talking about the Illuminati all day.

 

[True Blue Moon]

He's 16 if he was older i would have laid hands on that brother and schooled him after

16 is old enough to at least take him to the grass, cave his chest in and tackle him. Then dust him off and uplift his ass with some jewels to hopefully prevent this bullshyt from getting worse. The brehs we are riding for right now (Trayvon, Mike Brown, etc.) were his age, so you gotta give him that nikka wakeup call before he catches it the hard way

Put The Autobiography Of Malcolm X in his hand and make him hit you with a Skype session on a couple chapters a week ASAP cuz this young motherfukker is lost.

 

[CASHAPP]

Why do we need a reminder? Another Mike Brown will happen anyways to remind us that we are in Babylon the Great.

And the next newsworthy incidents will likely be worse each time ...Watch it be a female

 

[CinnaSlim]

Not sure if posted...
Link to all 75 grand jury documents:
http://documents.latimes.com/ferguson-grand-jury/

 

[KOohbt]

Man, my lil cousin said yesterday during TG dinner that mike brown deserved to be shot because he robbed a store I asked him if everyone who robbed a store deserved to die he said not everybody....I then asked if not everybody then who? He said not white ppl I choked up man... c00ns dont just happen overnight something happened man.

School that Lil nikka with tge quickness! Should've smacked him up. Check his fb friends he must hang with cacs and c00ns.

 

[JahFocus CS]

This is simultaneously not related and related directly to Mike Brown... STRONG history lesson and political context for the New Afrikan experience If you don't have time, just watch a few minutes here and there, I guarantee you'll learn something

 

[DEAD7]

 

[JahFocus CS]

This is a fantastic article by Robin D.G. Kelley titled "Why We Won't Wait: Resisting the War Against the Black and Brown Underclass": http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/25/75039/

Homie goes in

He mentions some cases that aren't getting much press that all transpired since Mike Brown's death, too.

Meanwhile, as we waited for the grand jury’s decision, a twelve-year-old Black boy named Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police in Cleveland because the officer mistook his toy gun for a real one. Tamir was playing outside of Cleveland’s Cudell Recreation Center, one of the few public facilities left that provide safe space for children.


As we waited, Cleveland cops took the life of Tanisha Anderson, a 37-year-old Black woman suffering from bipolar disorder. Police arrived at her home after family members called 911 to help her through a difficult crisis, but rather than treat her empathetically they did what they were trained to do when confronted with Black bodies in Black neighborhoods—they treated her like an enemy combatant. When she became agitated, one officer wrestled her to the ground and cuffed her while a second officer pinned her “face down on the ground with his knee pressed down heavily into the back for 6 to 7 minutes, until her body went completely limp.” She stopped breathing. They made no effort to administer CPR, telling the family and witnesses that she was sleeping. When the ambulance finally arrived twenty minutes later, she was dead.

As we waited, police in Ann Arbor, Michigan, killed a forty-year-old Black woman named Aura Rain Rosser. She was reportedly brandishing a kitchen knife when the cops showed up on a domestic violence call, although her boyfriend who made the initial report insisted that she was no threat to the officers. No matter; they opened fire anyway.

As we waited, a Chicago police officer fatally shot 19-year-old Roshad McIntosh. Despite the officer’s claims, several eyewitnesses reported that McIntosh was unarmed, on his knees with his hands up, begging the officer to hold his fire.

As we waited, police in Saratoga Springs, Utah, pumped six bullets into Darrien Hunt, a 22-year-old Black man dressed kind of like a ninja and carrying a replica Samurai sword. And police in Victorville, California, killed Dante Parker, a 36-year-old Black man and father of five. He had been stopped while riding his bike on suspicion of burglary. When he became “uncooperative,” the officers repeatedly used Tasers to try to subdue him. He died from his injuries.

As we waited, a twenty-eight-year-old Black man named Akai Gurley met a similar fate as he descended a stairwell in the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn. The police were on a typical reconnaissance mission through the housing project. Officer Peter Liang negotiated the darkened stairwell, gun drawn in one hand, flashlight in the other, prepared to take down any threat he encountered. According to liberal mayor Bill DeBlasio and police chief Bill Bratton, Mr. Gurley was collateral damage. Apologies abound. He left a two-year-old daughter.

As we waited, LAPD officers stopped 25-year-old Ezell Ford, a mentally challenged Black man, in his own South Los Angeles neighborhood and shot him to death. The LAPD stopped Omar Abrego, a 37-year-old father from Los Angeles, and beat him to death.

And as we waited and waited and waited, Darren Wilson got married, continued to earn a paycheck while on leave, and received over $400,000 worth of donations for his “defense.

Meanwhile, Governor Jay Nixon, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, the mainstream press and every state-anointed Negro leader lecture Black people to stay calm and remain non-violent, when the main source of violence has been the police. Mike Brown’s murder brought people out to the streets, where they were met with tear gas and rubber bullets. State violence is always rendered invisible in a world where cops and soldiers are heroes, and what they do is always framed as “security,” protection, and self-defense. Police occupy the streets to protect and serve the citizenry from (Black) criminals out of control. This is why, in every instance, there is an effort to depict the victim as assailant – Trayvon Martin used the sidewalk as a weapon, Mike Brown used his big body. A lunge or a glare from a Black person can constitute an imminent threat. When the suburb of Ferguson blew up following Mike Brown’s killing on August 9, the media and mainstream leadership were more concerned with looting and keeping the “peace” than the fact that Darren Wilson was free on paid leave. Or that leaving Brown’s bullet-riddled, lifeless body, on the street for four and a half hours, bleeding, cold, stiff from rigor mortis, constituted a war crime in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. It was, after all, an act of collective punishment – the public display of the tortured corpse was intended to terrorize the entire community, to punish everyone into submission, to remind others of their fate if they step out of line. We used to call this “lynching.”

Whether we call it a war on drugs, or “Operation Ghetto Storm” as the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement dubs it, what we are dealing with is nothing less than permanent war waged by the state and its privatized allies on a mostly poor and marginalized Black and Brown working-class. Five centuries in the making, it stretches from slavery and imperialism to massive systematic criminalization. We see the effects on our children, in the laws that make it easier to prosecute juveniles as adults; in the deluge of zero tolerance policies (again a by-product of the war on drugs); in the startling fact that expulsions and suspensions have risen exponentially despite a significant decline in violent crime. Crisis, moral panics, neoliberal policies, racism fuel an expansive system of human management based on incarceration, surveillance, containment, pacification, lethal occupation, and gross misrepresentation.


The Black community of Ferguson and adjacent communities experience war every single day, in routine police stops, fines for noise ordinance violations (e.g., playing loud music), for fare-hopping on St. Louis’s light rail system, for uncut grass or unkempt property, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” expired driver’s license or registration, “disturbing the peace,” among other things. If these fines or tickets are not paid, they may lead to jail time, the loss of one’s car or other property, or the loss of one’s children to social services. The criminal justice system is used to exact punishment and tribute, a kind of racial tax, on poor/working class Black people. In 2013, Ferguson’s municipal court issued nearly 33,000 arrest warrants to a population of just over 21,000, generating about $2.6 million dollars in income for the municipality. That same year, 92 percent of searches and 86 percent of traffic stops in Ferguson involved black people, this despite the fact that one in three whites was found carrying illegal weapons or drugs, while only one in five blacks had contraband.

 

[Big Boss]

Man, my lil cousin said yesterday during TG dinner that mike brown deserved to be shot because he robbed a store I asked him if everyone who robbed a store deserved to die he said not everybody....I then asked if not everybody then who? He said not white ppl I choked up man... c00ns dont just happen overnight something happened man.