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

[loyola llothta]

Just in case you missed it in the John Crawford thread

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   While there is a lot of appropriate rage about Ferguson right now, the killing of John Crawford, III is getting less attention than it deserves. I put Shaun King’s tweets and history lesson on the matter in chronological order for easier consumption.
   
   
   
   Links:
   
   Autopsy and video show John Crawford shot from behind in Wal-Mart
   
   Witness in murder of John Crawford changes story
   
   You really should be followingShaun King on Twitter.

 

[DAlbert]

 

[DAlbert]

 

[loyola llothta]

9/11/14
BUT DON’T FORGET FERGUSON!

 

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[loyola llothta]

Ferguson -2014
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"I blinked one day and when I opened my eyes, it was normal to have an American army battling Americans on American streets. No one even calls it a war. But it is."​

 

[OG Talk]

Ferguson -2014
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I blinked one day and when I opened my eyes, it was normal to have an American army battling Americans on American streets. No one even calls it a war. But it is.​

In less than 30 days, it seems like so many people have already just moved on as well...

 

[loyola llothta]

In less than 30 days, it seems like so many people have already just moved on as well...

yeah its crazy how many black folks are so uncomfortable to speak about it or even mention it. they be the first one to send a RIP message to a celebrity that believes genocide to sort group was needed.Its like a fuking inferior complex, they did a number on us that shyt is still in effect .


Shyt i remember when Nelson Mandela died and a had group of pos tweeting "why do you even care" "he was terrorist" "he was a racist", these tweeter users had some black people on tweeter copping pleads like bytches ......... i be dam to let a cac tell me what black leaders/activist/freedom fighters to care about. In my senior year of high school my computer/ engineering class gave us the opportunity to do a print press design clothing/shirts, so i decided to design a T-shirt(black) with a big red "M' Capitalize and have my three black inspirations(artin Luther King Jr, alcolm X, andela) stack on each other in small white letters. The last later was "e" and my teacher says "whoa that shirt is real cool but why do you have Malcolm x on the shirt, he was radical and his message was bad/ or bad person something like that." I was appalled on someleft me speechless for a few seconds just looking at him, this was one of my favorite teachers

 

[loyola llothta]

Sept. 11

• CNN confirms the accounts of the 2 construction workers who witnessed Mike Brown’s murder. Workers reported immediately that Brown had his hands up. (x)
• Was it legal for Darren Wilson to shoot Mike Brown?
• Ferguson residents are still angry
• “Missouri residents who have concealed-carry permits will be able to openly carry their firearms anywhere in the state…”
• You don’t need a reason to arrest someone? (video)
• October 11: Day of National Mobilization (x)
• Mike Brown situation is not an isolated incident
• Police rarely arrested for killings on the job
• Video/Audio of Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal discussing Ferguson on Senate floor (Sept. 10)

 

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[Arishok]

I just want to say, I've been silent in this thread not only because school has started but also because I'm just waiting on some major news. This story is very emotionally draining and sometimes people need a break, this isn't an excuse to all the people who jumped on the bandwagon and suddenly jumped off just a perspective coming from someone whose almost always close to tears every time a new piece of the puzzle is shown.

 

[loyola llothta]

City Council meeting on Tuesday night in Ferguson.

 

[Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson]

one of the biggest c00ns alive.
somebody should time warp that nikka back
to a damn cotton field where he'd be happy.

 

[loyola llothta]

CNN has obtained a video, taken shortly after Michael Brown was shot, that shows a contractor who had been working near the shooting site describing the incident in a manner that matches other eyewitness testimony—raising his arms and shouting “man, he was going like this,” as if to suggest that Brown had adopted a posture of surrender before he died.





Two contractors are shown in the video, and both have spoken to CNN; one also spoke previously to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one to Fox affiliate KTVI. The individual who is shouting and raising his arms in in the video told CNN that “the cop didn’t say get on the ground. He just kept shooting.” The other said that he saw officer Darren Wilson “chasing” Brown, that Wilson fired a shot at Brown while Brown’s back was turned, and that Brown raised his hands before he died, though it’s not clear at what point the witness saw Brown’s hands raised. (For what it’s worth, it seems like the worker who spoke to KTVI is the one wearing a pink shirt in the video and that the worker who spoke to the Post-Dispatch is wearing a green shirt.)

The CNN account notes that the workers are not from Ferguson and did not know the Brown family—a detail that could increase their perceived objectivity vis a vis witnesses from Brown’s neighborhood.



33 Days since Mike Brown’s murder, and his killer, Darren Wilson, is still a free man. How much more evidence is needed to make a fukking arrest?!
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