Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - April 2015 Edition - Update #36
From RSN: Baltimore explained.
From RSN: Cop beats his wife at Chicago PD black site, Homan Square.
From RSN: This is why I found that DOJ report on Ferguson to be wanting. They let Darren Wilson get away with murder, and then for all the DOJ's criticism of Ferguson, there were no arrests, indictments, or lawsuits.
From ThinkProgress: Dallas cops shoot mentally ill man within seconds of arriving at this apartment.
From RSN: Don't forget that Cleveland said that a child was directly responsible for his death.
From GuardianUK: Reserve deputy's shooting of an unarmed black man actually isn't being investigated anymore.
From RSN: Michael Slater almost got away with murdering a black man.
From Vice: Cop mocks dying man, and boils my blood.
From RSN: After shooting Walter Scott in South Carolina, white cop jokes about adrenaline.
From TheDailyBeast: Don't be surprised if Robert Bates and Sheriff Stanley Glanz turn out to be undercover gay lovers... not that there's anything wrong with being gay.
From Truthout: The millionaire reserve deputy who shot Eric Harris dead in Tulsa Oklahoma is really the victim.
From YahooNews: Police meet with family of cop-shooting victim, Freddie Gray.
From RSN: Grand jury, Schmand jury. When the grand jury won't give the prosecutor her way, she can just ignore them.
From YahooNews: A white guy gets shot in the back and killed by a cop. Go figure.
From YahooNews: A sapling tree planted in Mike Brown's honor is destroyed and a plague stolen.
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From TheHill: Black protestors are not "enemy forces."
From Salon: Another article on "enemy forces."
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From GuardianUK: My blood still boils over this decision.
From DailyCaller: A list of those horrid text released by San Francisco cops, who must be closeted Klansman.
From the GuardianUK: Why the U.S. can't keep track of police killing civilians.
From YahooSports: The NYPD never gets enough of beating on Black men. Now, they have attacked an NBA player, ending his season because of injury that they may have caused.
Tulsa Shooting - 73-year-old reserve deputy shoots man dead, although he claims that he meant to use a Taser. RAWVideo. CNN.
From Politico: Frank Serpico - "When Cops Cry Wolf" or "testi-lying.
From RT: In this article, a US Marshal says cops are trained to justify use of deadly force. Hell, they're trained to use deadly force on Black people, even children.
From TheAtlantic: The gangsters of Ferguson.
From the NYT: Cop points gun at son of Times' writer, Charles Blow.
From TheDailyBeast: Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, is apparently on a hunger strike while in Riker's.
From YahooNews: About the gap in between the video recordings of the South Carolina Walter Scott shooting.
From YahooNews: After this white cop in South Carolina killed an unarmed Black man, he tried to plan a weapon on him.
From RSN: White people far more accepting of police violence. I can only laugh, although I am surprised, but should not be.
From Truthout: A young African-American woman is charged with lynching in California for "removing someone from police custody." Irony x ridiculous.
From YahooMovies: City of Ferguson releases racists emails.
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From Truthout: PART 1: Exclusive report begins - Chicago PD killing Black youth and purges misconduct allegations.
From Truthout: PART 2: Young life vs. deadly force
From Truthout: PART 4: How the "Gold Standard" of Police Accountability Fails Civilians by Design.
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From ACLU: Since the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing report was released, cops have killed over 100 people - an average of 3 day.
From Progressive: Black America's surveillance state.
From Truthout: Ring of Snitches - how Detroit cops got false murder convictions of young Black mane.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - March 2015 Edition - Update #30
From Gawker: The NYPD plan to turn making someone into a felony easy-peasy.
From TechDirt: There is no such thing as "contempt of cop."
From RSN: In this case, it's a white woman in prison for decades for a murder she did not commit.
From RSN: Two inmates shot and one is killed... their hands were handcuffed behind their backs.
From ShreveportTime and RSN: Former prosecutor's words are hollow.
From GuardianUK: Cleveland PD still killing black teens.
From RSN: Whatever.
From BuzzFlash: Chicago PD uses stop-and-frisk against people of color at 4 times the rate of the NYPD.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi on the decision to keep Eric Garner grand jury minutes secret. I say if you have nothing to hide, what are you hiding.
From YahooNews: San Fran pigs show their Klan-side in text messages.
From YahooNews: Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kindel probably called his mother "Aunt Mama" and probably thinks the Ku Klux Klan is super-tubular-cool!
From Truthout: A history of killing black men and getting away with it.
From CapitalNewYork: The NYPD kills and abuses, and then changes the Wikipedia entries about those incidents.
From the NewYorker: Release Eric Garner grand jury records... NOW!
From GuardianUK: Two cops shot during recent Ferguson protests.
From GuardianUK: Long overdue - Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson resigns, but gets a a year's severance pay, $95,000. The city manager left and got $120,000.
From Politico: Yes, Obama's friend the professor found this out.
From RSN and Slate: States take over Ferguson court system to restore order and to implement reforms.
From teleSUR: White cop kills unarmed NAKED black man.
From YahooNews: More on how Madison police chief is doing it differently from Ferguson Klan chief... err... I mean police chief.
From Truthout: Why Black America, even the uncle toms, sometimes fear calling the police.
From TheGuardian: Madison police chief has a better control of things than that portly clown in Ferguson had.
From YahooNews: Black, unarmed, shot dead by cop in Madison, Wisconsin.
From CBCNews: A police officer in Quebec drives 75 miles in a 30 mile zone and kills a five-year-old child. Canadian media won't name him, nor has he been charged.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: Shot in the back.
From The Post via RSN: They're called "SCOPs" and you should know about them.
From TheWashingtonPost: Attorney General Eric Holder is prepared to dismantle Ferguson police force if necessary.
From HuffPost: This tale of a drunk white man at White Castle begins the Ferguson PD highlights from the Department of Justice's report.
From YahooNews: Highlights or low lights from the DOJ's Ferguson Police Department report.
From TheVox: A selection of 7 racist jokes from Ferguson police and court officials. They're F'ed up.
From TheVox: Justice Department's report on Ferguson PD is due this week. Preview from the New York Times, includes racist jokes (including a horrid one about President Obama), and targeting black to raise funds for the city.
From TheGuardian: The Chicago PD have their own CIA-like "black site."
From TheGuardian: After Trayvon, a new Civil Rights movement.
From Cleveland.com: City responds to lawsuit by Tamir Rice's family.
From Reuters via RSN: Justice Department reportedly to sue Ferguson Police Department.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Review: "Dear White People" Suddenly Relevant... Again
Dear White People (2014)
Running time: 108 minutes (1 hour, 48 minutes)
MPAA – R for language, sexual content and drug use
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Justin Simien
PRODUCERS: Effie Brown, Ann Le, Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Justin Simien, and Lena Waithe
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Topher Osborn
EDITOR: Phillip J. Bartell
COMPOSER: Kathryn Bostic
Black Reel Award winner
COMEDY/DRAMA
Starring: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris, Brand P. Bell, Brittany Curran, Justin Dobies, Marque Richardson, Dennis Haysbert, and Peter Syvertsen
Dear White People is 2014 comedy-drama and satirical film from writer-director, Justin Simien. The film is set at an Ivy League-like university that is facing racial discord, and the story focuses on four particular African-American students.
Dear White People is set at Winchester University, a prestigious and predominantly white school with an Ivy League pedigree. A recent decision by the school's administration has caused a stir among the African-American student body. Samantha “Sam” White (Tessa Thompson) has used the controversy, via her radio show, “Dear White People,” to spur fellow black students to action.
Sam's former boyfriend, Troy Fairbanks (Brand P. Bell), is trying to hold onto his position as “head of house” of Armstrong/Parker, an all-black dormitory. Troy really wants to be a comedy writer, but his father, Dr. Walter Fairbanks (Dennis Haysbert), is Dean of Students. Dean Fairbanks does not want his son doing anything that might give white people a chance to profile the young man who has a promising future.
Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams) is a freshman who is trying to find his place on campus, but he is gay and a blerd (black nerd or fanboy), which makes him an odd-man-out. His housemates harass him, and the chief tormentor is Kurt (Kyle Gallner), the son of Winchester's President Hutchinson (Peter Syvertsen). Meanwhile, black student Colandrea "Coco" Conners (Teyonah Parris) is determined not to pegged as being 'hood or from the ghetto.
While watching Dear White People, I often thought of Spike Lee's 1988 film, School Daze, which was the first Spike Lee film I saw and which remains a personal favorite. Both films are driven not so much by plot as they focus on characters and settings. Lee's film is set at a HBCU (historically black college or university) and focuses on class strife among black students and also delves into how African-Americans often discriminate against each other based on how light-complected or dark-skinned he or she is.
Dear White People is set at a predominantly white school, but focuses on mostly black students. The film's writer-director Justin Simien seems to make several pointed statement: Back people don't exist to entertain white folks. Black people are not here to provide fodder for white people's curiosity and prejudice. Black people's culture, pathologies, and the way we live are not to be exploited so that white people can mock us at their leisure.
With a great many characters comes a great many motivations and conflicts, and that causes the story in Dear White People to lose focus. There is so much going on in this movie that it is practically a pitch for an original cable television series, because only a serial comedy-drama could do Justin Simien's ideas and angles justice.
Still, the movie is especially interesting. It was almost as if I could not stop watching it. Plus, Tyler James Williams as Lionel Higgins and Teyonah Parris as “Coco” Conners give star-making turns. Their performances make their characters the most interesting in this film, by far. If Ms. Parris were a white actress, this role would have earn her roles in several high-profile films for at least the next two years, some as the female lead.
The sky is the limit for Williams. I think so after watching him make Lionel force Tessa Thompson's Sam to share the spotlight as Dear White People's signature character. There is a moment in the film when Lionel tells Dean Fairbanks that in high school, he had more trouble from his Black classmates. It takes guts and talent to pull off a moment like that, and Williams has both. And Dear White People is better for his performance.
Also, a video of members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, performing a racist chant/song was recently made public. In the wake of that incident and the subsequent fallout and controversy, Dear White People is now more relevant than ever.
7 of 10
B+
Thursday, March 12, 2015
NOTES:
2015 Black Reel Awards: 2 wins: “Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male” (Tyler James Williams) and “Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Female” (Teyonah Parris); 8 nominations: “Outstanding Motion Picture” (Justin Simien, Angel Lopez, Lena Waithe, Ann Le, Effie Brown, and Julia Lebedev), “Outstanding Actress, Motion Picture” (Tessa Thompson), “Outstanding Supporting Actress, Motion Picture” (Teyonah Parris), “Outstanding Director, Motion Picture” (Justin Simien), “Outstanding Screenplay-Original or Adapted, Motion Picture” (Justin Simien), “Outstanding Ensemble” (Kim Coleman), and “Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male” (Brandon P Bell), and “Outstanding Score” (Kathryn Bostic)
2015 Image Awards: 4 nominations: “Outstanding Motion Picture,” “Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture” (Tessa Thompson), “Outstanding Independent Motion Picture,” and “Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture” (Justin Simien)
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Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - January 2015 Edition - Update #20
From YahooNews: Brawl erupts at meeting to find peace between black people and St. Louis cops. White cop antagonizes until brawl erupts.
From DetroitFreePress: After two hung juries, Joseph Weekley, the white Detroit cop who fatally shot a seven year old black girl during a raid, will not face a third trial. The shooting happened during a raid that was filmed by the show, "The First 48."
From NYT: The Justice Department will not bring charges against Darren Wilson, the man who killed Michael Brown. Mike is dead. Wilson is now a millionaire because of donations he received for killing a black man and the $500,000 ABC News gave him for exclusive, softball interview. The victim is dead. The killer is rich. Yep, doesn't sound like a civil rights violation.
From NYT: New Mexico killer cops charged with killing homeless man.
From RSN: The cops who killed Tamir Rice tackled his sister to the ground when she tried to help her dying baby brother.
From FireDogLake: Activists move to remove St. Louis County Prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, from office.
From TPM and News9: White man shoots black police chief and will apparently get away with it. Chief was not killed because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
From StLouisDispatch: A member of the Mike Brown grand jury wants to speak, and is suing district attorney, Bob McCulloch, to do so.
From Esquire: Mike Brown, Sr. and the agony of the black father.
From YahooNews: Trayvon Martin's killer ordered to turn in his weapons after this third arrest for domestic violence.
From TheDailyKos: This Montana police officer specializes in killing unarmed men during routine traffic stops. He's never been charged.
From RSN: Over $300 million paid to settle misconduct suits and claims against the NYPD from 2006 to 2012.
From RSN: The Justice Dept.'s report on the Cleveland Police Department.
From YahooNews: #EndWhiteSilence - Pittsburgh's new police chief has more balls than the Steelers showed Saturday night. 15 points on offense? Really?
From YahooNews: The "Black brunch" protests take off in NYC and Oakland.
From BuzzFlash: Darren Wilson was likely paid for his ABC interview. To date he may have received $1.5 million is fees and donations. Consider that a bounty for killing a black man.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: Decision reversed; "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts can be worn.
From People: President Obama praises athletes for "I Can't Breathe" stance.
From CrooksandLiars: Of course, the bastard did, and it is apparently not the first time.
From RSN: The abuse of Mayor Bill de Blasio by the NYPD and related unions.
From TheGuardian: Dear Fellow White People...
From TheGuardian: Another "I Can't Breathe" t-shirt controversy. The truth hurts, doesn't it.
From YahooNews: There was hell to pay for the callous comments about the Mike Brown memorial in Ferguson.
From Yahoo News via RSN: Hundreds of cop killings of civilians not reported to the FBI.
From Reuters via RSN: Hillary Clinton backs federal probes of Mike Brown and Eric Garner killings. Already she has more balls then so-called Democratic governors in Missouri and New York.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - December 2014 Edition - Update #28
From TheGuardian: Another "I Can't Breathe" t-shirt controversy. The truth hurts, doesn't it.
From YahooNews: There was hell to pay for the callous comments about the Mike Brown memorial in Ferguson.
From Yahoo News via RSN: Hundreds of cop killings of civilians not reported to the FBI.
From Reuters via RSN: Hillary Clinton backs federal probes of Mike Brown and Eric Garner killings. Already she has more balls then so-called Democratic governors in Missouri and New York.
From YahooNews: If you don't want to hear "wings on pigs," then, don't do this.
From YahooNews: Off-duty, black cops feel the boot of their white colleagues, also.
From YahooNews: Black, unarmed, and shot dead by a cop in Houston.
From the NYT: Sad story about a Ferguson moment in Louisville, Kentucky back in 1999.
From the NYT: Okay, don't act like you don't know why some people react crazily.
From the NYT: Yes, police must stop the abuse of Black men.
From RollingStone: Matt Taibbi: The police in America are becoming illegitimate.
From YahooNews: Ray Kelly, who sires rapists, and Giuliani, whose vanity led to the deaths of scores of firemen, on 9/11, blame President Obama and Mayor de Blasio for the murder of two New York policemen on 12/20/2014 by a lone gunman.
From AlJazeeraAmerica: Yeah, we should be suspicious of the Oath Keepers.
From YahooNews: Why the LAPD is not like the NYPD or Ferguson Police Department.
From YahooNews: Could NYPD killings trigger a backlash against protestors.
From YahooNews: Baltimore gang member kills two New York policemen, before killing himself.
From Esquire: Why police unions have been making deranged responses to the responses to their brutality.
From YahooParenting: Second graders do Ferguson protest. One student's father is a cop. "Daddy, do you shoot people?" he claims she asked.
From TheGuardian: Remember John Crawford, shot dead by a cop in an Ohio Wal-Mart? Well, The Guardian has obtained video footage of cop threatening his girlfriend.
From RSN: Football still representing... damn what the pig's unions have got to say.
From RSN: FBI to investigage North Carolina trailer park lynching.
From RSN: Huge marches protesting police violence.
From YahooNews: The National Bar Association wants Darren Wilson stripped of his license to carry a badge anywhere in Missouri. The NBA is the nation's largest group of African-American lawyers and judges.
From ThinkProgress: The woman who could hit reset on Mike Brown-Darren Wilson case.
From ThinkProgress: The one word that kept Darren Wilson out of jail (It's "reasonable").
From GuardianUK: In Brooklyn, a rookie cop kills an unarmed black man and calls his union rep instead of 911.
From YahooNews: No indictment for Eric Garner's murderer.
From YahooNews: Another angry white guy. No, "Morning Joe," even 95 percent of white people don't agree with you.
From YahooSports: Angry old white guy, Mike Ditko, embarrassed for the Rams players and demands that we not weaken the police anymore than they already are. First, I'm sure the Rams players don't give a f**k. Non-indictments say Ditko is clueless about the weakness of cops - especially post 9/11. Maybe, he just needs a Viagra and beer.
From RSN: A "Dear White People" essay from Carl Gibson.
From YahooNews: America's mayor, Rudy Giulani, says that Ferguson grand jury should not have indicted. This from a man whose vanity caused the death of many fireman on 9/11, an event from which Giulani made tens of millions of dollars.
From YahooSports: One of America's favorite media quote machines, Charles Barkley, is down with Darren Wilson.
From YahooSports: St. Louis cops union pissed at St. Louis Rams.
From WashingtonPost: Holding an entire community in contempt by Eugene Robinson.
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THE BASICS:
From TheIntercept via RSN: Klan jury... I mean grand jury in Mike Brown's shooting began Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.
Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death, reportedly by police officer Darren Wilson, on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at approximately 2:15 pm on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis County. The shooting of the unarmed Brown sparked a furious backlash and days of protests, some violent and involving looting. What follows is a list of links to news articles about the shooting and related matters:
From the StLouisPostDispatch: An early article about the Michael Brown shooting
From the LosAngelesTimes: This is the earliest (or oldest) article that I could find about the Michael Brown shooting.
From HuffingtonPost: Another early article about the local African-American community's reaction to the shooting of Brown
From PrisonCulture: A searing image of Michael Brown's father
From the WashingtonPost via RSN: More of Darren Wilson's history and background emerges; it seems that he was previously associated with another police department that had a bad relationship with the local black folks.
From Al Jazeera via RSN: Darren Wilson: Judge, jury, and executioner.
From YahooNews via CSM and the AP: Shooter a.k.a. Darren Wilson tells his "side" of the story about how he shot an unarmed black man to death.
Updated Shooting Timeline: The AP via YahooNews.
Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - Update #77
There's no "race problem" in America. We all have black friends. I even have more than I need. [I call some of them relatives.] Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare. It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014
From AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
From Reuters via RSN: Off-duty, Black NYPD cops feel threat from White colleagues.
From TheDailyBeast: After they fired the shots, they're the victims...
From NYTimes: Police shootings reveal racial chasm... D'uh.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to White people feeling targeted by Ferguson protests - Welcome to our world.
From MiamiHerald: The rules are indeed different for Black people seeking justice.
From TheGuardian: Gentrifiers having to throw people out of their homes.
From CNN: Racism without racists.
From the GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we can still get justice for Mike Brown. I kinda doubt it, but I'm hopeful.
From Esquire: The rise in police shootings, even in places like Utah.
From YahooNews: Another black male with a toy gun shot to death by cops - this time the black male is a child.
From CSMonitor: Mumia Abu-Jamal sues over the Pennsylvania law specifically meant to gag him.
From RSN and FirstLook: Yes, we do need someone to judge the judges because Judge Edith Jones is an ignorant racist bitch.
From FirstLook: How the innocent are screwed into pleading guilty.
From NPR: Black and dead in Brazil.
From ConsortiumNews: Is Arlington, VA racist? Probably.
From RSN: Did you know that Denver cops had killed an unarmed street preacher. It costs them $4.6 million? That was an expensive cap-popping.
From RawStory: Dead in Alabama jails to save money.
From TheNation: How racism stole black childhood.
From RSN: Cops killed 77 people in September 2014.
From the NYT: Civil asset forfeiture - makes me wanna support Clive Bundy.
From Demos via RSN: A third of Americans live at or near poverty.
From YahooNews: Expelled Nazis and SS still get Social Security paychecks.
From Think Progress via RSN: Funny Ebola freak-outs.
From YahooNews: Michael Dunn gets life for killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
From Truthout: Incarceration, mass murder, and genocide of Black men.
From FreeThoughtProject: Cops with gang tattoos to celebrate the people they kill.
From Truthout: Understanding our many Fergusons.
From YahooNews: Another unarmed, innocent black teen attacked by white cops on a racial profiling rampage. Luckily, the cops didn't kill him.
From GQ via RSN: An interesting article about murderer, George Zimmerman's crappy family.
From News 13 via RSN: Michael Dunn found guilty of murdering black teenager, Jordan Davis.
From Truthout: Cops retaliate against citizens group that monitor police activity.
From Salon via RSN: America's summer of white supremacy.
From InformedComment via RSN: $8.7 billion in food stamp cuts, but $22 billion to fight ISIS.
From TheNewYorkTimes: When Whites Just Don't Get It Part One and Part Two.
From the HuffingtonPost: Los Angeles law enforcement kill about one person a week - I'm not surprised.
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From YahooNews: JUSTICE: Woman beat up by CHiP cop, wins $1.5 million and cop resigns.
From NPR: INJUSTICE: Grand Jury refuses to indict murders... I mean cops involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in Ohio Wal-Mart shooting.
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From BearingArms: Family wants charges against fat lying bastard who made the 911 call that led to the murder of their son.
From Salon via RSN: The strange death of Charles Smith. Shot to death while handcuffed, supposedly in possession of gun.
From Salon via RSN: Rock the Vote joins militia group to intimidate Wisconsin African-American voters in November.
From CBS: WHITE South Carolina state trooper charged in shooting of UNARMED BLACK MAN.
From Salon via RSN: Yes, Justice Scalia is "an utter moral failure."
From the Guardian UK via RSN: Cops act like gang in assault on Latino man.
From the AP via RSN: Students walk-out in protest over conservative school board's attempt to make history education emphasize respect for authority and the free-market.
From the Guardian UK via RSN: By the way, a federal judge approved New York City's settlement with the Central Park Five. Former mayor, Michael Bumberg, had fought the lawsuit.
From The Washington Post via RSN: Cops seizing hundreds of millions in cash and property from motorists not charged with crimes. First heard about this a month ago, and I'm still shocked.
From Campus Reform via RSN: Students and faculty have to tell Clemson University how many times they've had sex... Apparently, this is real.
From The Daily Beast via RSN: Ferguson cops caught in a lie about blood on their uniforms and got away with it... for now.
From BuzzFlash via Truthout: For Black youth, no mistakes allowed. It could be fatal.
From TheWashingtonPost: White rage against Black progress.
From the GuardianUK via RSN: Yep, the cops shot Darrien Hunt in the back. Had to admit it.
From Esquire via RSN: It's never about race, right? Riiiiiight.
From The Intercept via RSN: No heads in the sand on ISIS beheading videos.
From Truthout: NRA hold "killer cop contest."Includes a "Head Shots Only" competition.
From the SPLC via RSN: Neo-Confederate group forms paramilitary unit to advance a second secession.
From YahooSports: Yeah, there are good cops...
From CBSLocal via RSN: Free Patrick McLaw - A teacher an self-published science fiction author placed on administrative leave after his work was discovered. Free Patrick McLaw.
From ABCNews: John Crawford, Jr., the father of Wal-Mart shooting victime, John Crawford, III, hears his son's dying breaths.
From YahooNews: So-called witness in John Crawford shooting - the guy who called 911, has changed his story.
From BuzzFlash: Black men who "open carry" get a cap in the ass from cops.
From TomDisptach via RSN: We made ISIS.
From Truthout: U.S. slammed for failure to end all forms of racial discrimination
From Reuters via RSN: Federal prosecutors will investigate the shooting death of Victor White III, a Louisiana man whose death had been previously ruled a suicide. Supposedly, he shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car.
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From LATimes: Two brothers who were wrongly convicted of the murder and rape of an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina were freed Wednesday morning, September 3, 2014. They spent 30 years in prison. One was 19 and the other were 15 when they were arrested in 1983.
So is a Black man in America more afraid of police and the justice system or of ISIL/ISIS?
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From ThinkProgress via RSN: Ain't it the truth, girl - America has a real racial problem - Justice Ginsburg.
From GlobalVoiceOnline: Israeli soldiers used Gazans as human shields This is not the first time I have heard of this. They way Israelis act, one would think Palestinians were the ones who caused the Holocaust.
From Truthout: Black women on "Women's Equality Day."
From NateSilver via RSN: Most police don't live in the cities they serve.
From TheNation: How Trayvon Martin's death launched a new generation of black activism.
From MotherJones: How indeed.
From BuzzFlash: A piece on Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, and his racist speech given before the Oath Keepers in April 2014. From TheAdvocate and TheGuardian - Page's speech.
From YouTube: Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, threatening CNN's Don Lemon.
From Truthout: "We won't go back" - the march for Eric Garner.
From Truthout: The killing of black men continues...
From YahooNews: Activist carry the coffin of a black woman killed by a white Phoenix police sergeant to the steps of City Hall.
From Valid: More commentary on Michelle Cusseaux, the black woman killed by a white Phoenix police officer.
From BuzzFlash via Truthout: Most whites still don't understand the danger of being a black man in the U.S. ...
From Esquire via RSN: Charles Pierce - Ferguson: The Limits of Everything
From Reuters via RSN: President Obama order review of police militirization
From Salon via RSN: How to Wreck the GOP in 3 Easy Steps! - Obama and weak-kneed Democratic leadership won't do this.
From RSN: Where Were the Soldier Cops at Bundy Ranch? - Good questions, Marc Ash. There is a markedly different response to black protestors in Ferguson, Missouri than there was to the white, gun-toting protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.
From Popular Resistance via Truthout: The reality of militarized, racist policing ...according to a recent study, a black man is killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or vigilantes. The whole nation is experiencing these tragedies; reality is being forced upon us.
From Time via RSN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The Coming Race War Won't Be About Race." He says that it will be about class. He also wonders if the event in Ferguson, Missouri will disappear down the memory hole as the shootings at Jackson State in 1970 - 10 days after the Kent State shooting.
From Salon via RSN: The criminalization of Black mothers.
From Truthout: It's worth standing with Keith Ellison.
From BuzzFlash: President Nixon's Vietnam treason confirmed
OTHER:
From The Intercept via RSN: How Gary Webb was destroyed.
MISC:
From Suggest: 10 celebs you didn't know were black.
From RedFlagNews, you will learn that everything is not peachy.
From AlterNet: A great review of the new film, Selma.
From YahooParenting: 7 things I can do that my black son can't.
From CNN: I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.
From Reuters via RSN: Off-duty, Black NYPD cops feel threat from White colleagues.
From TheDailyBeast: After they fired the shots, they're the victims...
From NYTimes: Police shootings reveal racial chasm... D'uh.
From Time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to White people feeling targeted by Ferguson protests - Welcome to our world.
From MiamiHerald: The rules are indeed different for Black people seeking justice.
From TheGuardian: Gentrifiers having to throw people out of their homes.
From CNN: Racism without racists.
From the GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we can still get justice for Mike Brown. I kinda doubt it, but I'm hopeful.
From Esquire: The rise in police shootings, even in places like Utah.
From YahooNews: Another black male with a toy gun shot to death by cops - this time the black male is a child.
From CSMonitor: Mumia Abu-Jamal sues over the Pennsylvania law specifically meant to gag him.
From RSN and FirstLook: Yes, we do need someone to judge the judges because Judge Edith Jones is an ignorant racist bitch.
From FirstLook: How the innocent are screwed into pleading guilty.
From NPR: Black and dead in Brazil.
From ConsortiumNews: Is Arlington, VA racist? Probably.
From RSN: Did you know that Denver cops had killed an unarmed street preacher. It costs them $4.6 million? That was an expensive cap-popping.
From RawStory: Dead in Alabama jails to save money.
From TheNation: How racism stole black childhood.
From RSN: Cops killed 77 people in September 2014.
From the NYT: Civil asset forfeiture - makes me wanna support Clive Bundy.
From Demos via RSN: A third of Americans live at or near poverty.
From YahooNews: Expelled Nazis and SS still get Social Security paychecks.
From Think Progress via RSN: Funny Ebola freak-outs.
From YahooNews: Michael Dunn gets life for killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
From Truthout: Incarceration, mass murder, and genocide of Black men.
From FreeThoughtProject: Cops with gang tattoos to celebrate the people they kill.
From Truthout: Understanding our many Fergusons.
From YahooNews: Another unarmed, innocent black teen attacked by white cops on a racial profiling rampage. Luckily, the cops didn't kill him.
From GQ via RSN: An interesting article about murderer, George Zimmerman's crappy family.
From News 13 via RSN: Michael Dunn found guilty of murdering black teenager, Jordan Davis.
From Truthout: Cops retaliate against citizens group that monitor police activity.
From Salon via RSN: America's summer of white supremacy.
From InformedComment via RSN: $8.7 billion in food stamp cuts, but $22 billion to fight ISIS.
From TheNewYorkTimes: When Whites Just Don't Get It Part One and Part Two.
From the HuffingtonPost: Los Angeles law enforcement kill about one person a week - I'm not surprised.
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From YahooNews: JUSTICE: Woman beat up by CHiP cop, wins $1.5 million and cop resigns.
From NPR: INJUSTICE: Grand Jury refuses to indict murders... I mean cops involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in Ohio Wal-Mart shooting.
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From BearingArms: Family wants charges against fat lying bastard who made the 911 call that led to the murder of their son.
From Salon via RSN: The strange death of Charles Smith. Shot to death while handcuffed, supposedly in possession of gun.
From Salon via RSN: Rock the Vote joins militia group to intimidate Wisconsin African-American voters in November.
From CBS: WHITE South Carolina state trooper charged in shooting of UNARMED BLACK MAN.
From Salon via RSN: Yes, Justice Scalia is "an utter moral failure."
From the Guardian UK via RSN: Cops act like gang in assault on Latino man.
From the AP via RSN: Students walk-out in protest over conservative school board's attempt to make history education emphasize respect for authority and the free-market.
From the Guardian UK via RSN: By the way, a federal judge approved New York City's settlement with the Central Park Five. Former mayor, Michael Bumberg, had fought the lawsuit.
From The Washington Post via RSN: Cops seizing hundreds of millions in cash and property from motorists not charged with crimes. First heard about this a month ago, and I'm still shocked.
From Campus Reform via RSN: Students and faculty have to tell Clemson University how many times they've had sex... Apparently, this is real.
From The Daily Beast via RSN: Ferguson cops caught in a lie about blood on their uniforms and got away with it... for now.
From BuzzFlash via Truthout: For Black youth, no mistakes allowed. It could be fatal.
From TheWashingtonPost: White rage against Black progress.
From the GuardianUK via RSN: Yep, the cops shot Darrien Hunt in the back. Had to admit it.
From Esquire via RSN: It's never about race, right? Riiiiiight.
From The Intercept via RSN: No heads in the sand on ISIS beheading videos.
From Truthout: NRA hold "killer cop contest."Includes a "Head Shots Only" competition.
From the SPLC via RSN: Neo-Confederate group forms paramilitary unit to advance a second secession.
From YahooSports: Yeah, there are good cops...
From CBSLocal via RSN: Free Patrick McLaw - A teacher an self-published science fiction author placed on administrative leave after his work was discovered. Free Patrick McLaw.
From ABCNews: John Crawford, Jr., the father of Wal-Mart shooting victime, John Crawford, III, hears his son's dying breaths.
From YahooNews: So-called witness in John Crawford shooting - the guy who called 911, has changed his story.
From BuzzFlash: Black men who "open carry" get a cap in the ass from cops.
From TomDisptach via RSN: We made ISIS.
From Truthout: U.S. slammed for failure to end all forms of racial discrimination
From Reuters via RSN: Federal prosecutors will investigate the shooting death of Victor White III, a Louisiana man whose death had been previously ruled a suicide. Supposedly, he shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car.
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From LATimes: Two brothers who were wrongly convicted of the murder and rape of an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina were freed Wednesday morning, September 3, 2014. They spent 30 years in prison. One was 19 and the other were 15 when they were arrested in 1983.
So is a Black man in America more afraid of police and the justice system or of ISIL/ISIS?
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From ThinkProgress via RSN: Ain't it the truth, girl - America has a real racial problem - Justice Ginsburg.
From GlobalVoiceOnline: Israeli soldiers used Gazans as human shields This is not the first time I have heard of this. They way Israelis act, one would think Palestinians were the ones who caused the Holocaust.
From Truthout: Black women on "Women's Equality Day."
From NateSilver via RSN: Most police don't live in the cities they serve.
From TheNation: How Trayvon Martin's death launched a new generation of black activism.
From MotherJones: How indeed.
From BuzzFlash: A piece on Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, and his racist speech given before the Oath Keepers in April 2014. From TheAdvocate and TheGuardian - Page's speech.
From YouTube: Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, threatening CNN's Don Lemon.
From Truthout: "We won't go back" - the march for Eric Garner.
From Truthout: The killing of black men continues...
From YahooNews: Activist carry the coffin of a black woman killed by a white Phoenix police sergeant to the steps of City Hall.
From Valid: More commentary on Michelle Cusseaux, the black woman killed by a white Phoenix police officer.
From BuzzFlash via Truthout: Most whites still don't understand the danger of being a black man in the U.S. ...
From Esquire via RSN: Charles Pierce - Ferguson: The Limits of Everything
From Reuters via RSN: President Obama order review of police militirization
From Salon via RSN: How to Wreck the GOP in 3 Easy Steps! - Obama and weak-kneed Democratic leadership won't do this.
From RSN: Where Were the Soldier Cops at Bundy Ranch? - Good questions, Marc Ash. There is a markedly different response to black protestors in Ferguson, Missouri than there was to the white, gun-toting protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.
From Popular Resistance via Truthout: The reality of militarized, racist policing ...according to a recent study, a black man is killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or vigilantes. The whole nation is experiencing these tragedies; reality is being forced upon us.
From Time via RSN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The Coming Race War Won't Be About Race." He says that it will be about class. He also wonders if the event in Ferguson, Missouri will disappear down the memory hole as the shootings at Jackson State in 1970 - 10 days after the Kent State shooting.
From Salon via RSN: The criminalization of Black mothers.
From Truthout: It's worth standing with Keith Ellison.
From BuzzFlash: President Nixon's Vietnam treason confirmed
OTHER:
From The Intercept via RSN: How Gary Webb was destroyed.
MISC:
From Suggest: 10 celebs you didn't know were black.
From RedFlagNews, you will learn that everything is not peachy.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - November 2014 Edition - Update #26
From AddictingInfo: Bob McCulloch connected to organization that did fundraising for Darren Wilson. Special prosecutor, bee-yuch.
From RSN: Benjamin Watson is angry. Join the crowd.
From YahooNews: No severance package for Darren Wilson... or so Ferguson's mayor says.
From YahooNews: Darren Wilson resigns.
From ThinkProgress: Compare Justice Scalia's writings on what a grand jury is supposed to do.
From HuffingtonPost: McCulloch manipulated grand jury process to shield a killer police officer.
From Variety: Oscar-nominee Amy Berg, actor Nate Parker, and writer/director Matthew Cooke launch an Indiegogo campaign for their film, "Black Male Crisis," in wake of Ferguson non-indictment.
From Esquire: Charles Pierce mocks Darren Wilson's ridiculous story as given to the ridiculous George Clinton-connection-oulos interview on FOX News lite... err ABC.
From YahooTV: Garth Brooks cancels promotional appearances for his new album as distasteful while Mike Brown protests are occuring.
From ABCNews: Celebs react to injustice of no indictment.
From TheVox: Why Killer Darren's story is unbelievable.
From TheVox: Why President Obama can't give the Ferguson speech his supporters want.
From YahooNews: George Stephanopoulos interviews Darren Wilson.
From InTheseTimes: A short history of killer cops.
From RSN: No indictment.
From YouTube: Reporter Larry Everest confronts Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Ferguson press conference.
From StLouisDisptach: Darren Wilson married his girlfriend. His wedding gift to her was the carcass of a "buck" he killed just a few months ago.
From FirstLook: A complete guide to the shooting of Mike Brown.
From YahooNews: Mike Brown's killer does not expect to be charged with killing Mike Brown, according to the St. Louis Police Officer's Association.
From RSN: Pre-emptive state of emergency means that the grand jury decision is rigged, indeed.
From RSN: Read Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's declaration of a state of emergency.
From the DailyBeast: Dread in America, following Ferguson.
From Esquire: They're right: What is going on in Ferguson is not going to end well.
From YahooNews: The Associated Press answers questions about the Ferguson grand jury on the Michael Brown killing.
From YahooNews: Reportedly, Officer Shooter... err... I mean Wilson could return to the Ferguson police department if he is not indicted. Sounds like a winner!
From YahooNews: Where're the injuries, Officer Wilson? Video footage of Darren Wilson in the hours after his killed Michael Brown are released under state open records laws.
From the AP via RSN: Ferguson no-fly zone was aimed at media.
From YahooNews: Missouri governor, Jay Nixon, prepared for war, but not to prosecute a murdering cop.
From the GuardianUK: Ferguson police ready for war. Gonna kill us some more Niggers!
From RSN: 18-year-old Black male (what else) shot from behind by St. Louis (where else) cop.
From the WashingtonPost: There will likely be no federal charges against Darren Wilson, the man who killed Mike Brown. They're too busy bringing charges against anti-war and environmental activists.
From YahooNews: Attorney General Holder: Ferguson police need "wholesale" change. D'uh, General Holder, d'uh
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THE BASICS:
From TheIntercept via RSN: Klan jury... I mean grand jury in Mike Brown's shooting began Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.
Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death, reportedly by police officer Darren Wilson, on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at approximately 2:15 pm on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis County. The shooting of the unarmed Brown sparked a furious backlash and days of protests, some violent and involving looting. What follows is a list of links to news articles about the shooting and related matters:
From the StLouisPostDispatch: An early article about the Michael Brown shooting
From the LosAngelesTimes: This is the earliest (or oldest) article that I could find about the Michael Brown shooting.
From HuffingtonPost: Another early article about the local African-American community's reaction to the shooting of Brown
From PrisonCulture: A searing image of Michael Brown's father
From the WashingtonPost via RSN: More of Darren Wilson's history and background emerges; it seems that he was previously associated with another police department that had a bad relationship with the local black folks.
From Al Jazeera via RSN: Darren Wilson: Judge, jury, and executioner.
From YahooNews via CSM and the AP: Shooter a.k.a. Darren Wilson tells his "side" of the story about how he shot an unarmed black man to death.
Updated Shooting Timeline: The AP via YahooNews.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
BET News to Air Ferguson Special on Wednesday, November 26, 2014
BET News to Air an All-New Special “Justice for Ferguson: A Community Reacts” about the Socially-Charged Community of Ferguson, Missouri Premiering Wednesday, November 26 at 10:30 PM ET/PT On BET
Hosted By BET News Correspondent Marc Lamont Hill, The Commercial-Free Half Hour Special Features All-new Exclusive Interviews And On The Ground Reporting
For more info go to www.bet.com/justiceforferguson and join the conversation by using hashtag: #BETJustice
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BET News reports from the ground on events unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri where the tension has been mounting with anticipation of the grand jury's decision on whether or not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. BET News captures new footage and exclusive interviews with Michael Brown Sr., Syreeta Meyers – mother of Von Derrick who was shot and killed by St. Louis Police 10 days after Mike Brown, Lost Voices – youth activists and new leaders of the protests in Ferguson, Damon Davis – an artist who created hands up poster and posted them all over Ferguson, James Knowles - Mayor of Ferguson, business owners in the heart of the protests and first-hand accounts from local residents. Hosted by BET News correspondent Marc Lamont Hill, “Justice For Ferguson: A Community Reacts” Premieres Wednesday, November 26 at 10:30pm ET/PT on BET.
BET News has traced this story from when it first made headlines to the rallies that mobilized people of all backgrounds to the streets demanding justice. In the half hour commercial-free news special, viewers will see how Ferguson is transforming in the months following the tragic shooting of Michael Brown. The Ferguson community is struggling to heal, but it’s also finding strength and mobilizing to make a difference.
Log on to BET.com/justiceforferguson for exclusive video content, up-to-the-minute updates on the case and compelling interviews. Join the conversation on social media by logging on to BET’s multiple social media platforms by using hashtag: #BETJustice; and following us @BETNews.
*All times are ET/PT.
About BET Networks
BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), is the nation’s leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks - BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
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Hosted By BET News Correspondent Marc Lamont Hill, The Commercial-Free Half Hour Special Features All-new Exclusive Interviews And On The Ground Reporting
For more info go to www.bet.com/justiceforferguson and join the conversation by using hashtag: #BETJustice
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BET News reports from the ground on events unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri where the tension has been mounting with anticipation of the grand jury's decision on whether or not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. BET News captures new footage and exclusive interviews with Michael Brown Sr., Syreeta Meyers – mother of Von Derrick who was shot and killed by St. Louis Police 10 days after Mike Brown, Lost Voices – youth activists and new leaders of the protests in Ferguson, Damon Davis – an artist who created hands up poster and posted them all over Ferguson, James Knowles - Mayor of Ferguson, business owners in the heart of the protests and first-hand accounts from local residents. Hosted by BET News correspondent Marc Lamont Hill, “Justice For Ferguson: A Community Reacts” Premieres Wednesday, November 26 at 10:30pm ET/PT on BET.
BET News has traced this story from when it first made headlines to the rallies that mobilized people of all backgrounds to the streets demanding justice. In the half hour commercial-free news special, viewers will see how Ferguson is transforming in the months following the tragic shooting of Michael Brown. The Ferguson community is struggling to heal, but it’s also finding strength and mobilizing to make a difference.
Log on to BET.com/justiceforferguson for exclusive video content, up-to-the-minute updates on the case and compelling interviews. Join the conversation on social media by logging on to BET’s multiple social media platforms by using hashtag: #BETJustice; and following us @BETNews.
*All times are ET/PT.
About BET Networks
BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), is the nation’s leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks - BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
News Round-up: The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Update #72
GoFundMe page for Mike Brown's family
From TheIntercept via RSN: Klan jury... I mean grand jury in Mike Brown's shooting began Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.
Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death, reportedly by police officer Darren Wilson, on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at approximately 2:15 pm on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis County. The shooting of the unarmed Brown sparked a furious backlash and days of protests, some violent and involving looting. What follows is a list of links to news articles about the shooting and related matters:
From the StLouisPostDispatch: An early article about the Michael Brown shooting
From the LosAngelesTimes: This is the earliest (or oldest) article that I could find about the Michael Brown shooting.
From HuffingtonPost: Another early article about the local African-American community's reaction to the shooting of Brown
From PrisonCulture: A searing image of Michael Brown's father
From the WashingtonPost via RSN: More of Darren Wilson's history and background emerges; it seems that he was previously associated with another police department that had a bad relationship with the local black folks.
From Al Jazeera via RSN: Darren Wilson: Judge, jury, and executioner.
From YahooNews via CSM and the AP: Shooter a.k.a. Darren Wilson tells his "side" of the story about how he shot an unarmed black man to death.
Updated Shooting Timeline: The AP via YahooNews.
UPDATED LINKS SECTION:
From YahooNews: Why is the Justice Department surprised by anything Ferguson and St. Louis investigators do.
From Reuters: Amnesty International: Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses.
From YahooNews: The results of a government autopsy of Mike Brown leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
From Guardian UK via RSN: Young people resist older generation's call for "peace."
From YahooNews: A weekend of resistance.
From the Guardian UK via RSN: Ours sons could be the next Michael Brown.
From RSN: The much-talked about grand jury tweet.
From Esquire via RSN: Another black teenager shot by a you-know-what.
From Reuters via RSN: Missourri planning for riots.
From ABC News via YahooNews: There is a night of unrest after police kills black teen.
From Truthout: The fault lines of Obama's "My Brother's Keeper."
From The Feminist Wire via Truthout: Black women on the front lines of Ferguson.
From the AP via RSN: Ferguson price-gouging media and other entities seeking files, records and information connected to Darren Wilson's killing of Mike Brown.
From Truthout: Facism 101 - Police and media control.
From the USA Today via RSN: Voter registration surges in Ferguson post-Mike Brown killing.
From the AP via RSN: President Obama says mistrust of police is corroding America.
From Reuters via RSN: People shooting at Ferguson police officers. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. Of course, this may not be linked to the Mike Brown shooting...
From YahooNews: Mike Brown's parents ain't buyin' your bull, Chief/Grand Dragon Tom Jackson!
From Salon via RSN: Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson attempts to join protest march calling for his resignation.
From YahooNews: The Justice Department asked the Ferguson Police Department to order its officers to stop wearing "I am Darren Wilson: bracelets.
From YahooNews: The Department of Justice begins interviews in its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.
From NPR via RSN: The 11-year-old who shocked the St. Louis County Council.
From YahooNews: Slide-show about tensions in Ferguson. The real treat is the string of anti-Black racists posts in the comments section.
From YahooNews: More looting after a Mike Brown memorial is burned.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch via RSN: Mike Brown's killer, Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson testifies before grand jury. Mike Brown was also scheduled to testify, but he failed to appear because he is dead... because of Darren Wilson, who was able to testify because no one has killed him... yet.
From YahooNews: Protestors renew calls for D.A. Bob McCullogh's recusal, as judge gives klan jury... I mean grand jury until January to complete is cover-up... I mean complete its inquiry.
From Salon via RSN: Hands up! Don't shoot!
From Salon via RSN: There's a cover-up in Ferguson.
From CSM via RSN: When respect goes down, shootings go up.
From the WashingtonPost via RSN: Protests in Ferguson continue; 38 arrested in act of civil disobedience to have Bob McCulloch removed as the prosecutor in the Mike Brown shooting.
From Rolling Stone via RSN: Grammy-winning rapper and actor, T.I., speaks about the Mike Brown shooting - America has created a monster.
From the AP via RSN: Ferguson, MO elected leaders are met with protests and anger during a Tuesday, September 9, 2014 meeting with the public.
From StLouisToday: New witnesses that Mike Brown has his hands up.
From Truthout: St. Louis area cops loved shooting Black males before Mike Brown.
From Truthout: Black men share their stories of abuse at the hands of the Ferguson (my term) "klops," klan cops.
From The Nation via Truthout: A former Marine explains the weapons of war used by the Ferguson police.
From The Feminist Wire via Truthout: The price of blackness
From Public Radio International via RSN: In 2013, British police fired guns three times.
From the IrishTimes: African-American men at risk...
From MTV: Ma$e drops rhymes about Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.
From RSN: Why the grand jury will love the killer Darren Wilson.
From the AP via RSN: The outrageous behavior of a killer cop and his cohorts has united victims of police violence nationwide.
From TIME via RSN: Hilary finally speaks on Mike Brown shooting.
From TPM: Protesters sue Missouri police.
From Yes! Magazine via Truthout: The #FergusonSyllabus
From YahooNews: 2 law enforcement officers who acted up during Mike Brown/Ferguson protests are out of jobs - one resigned and the other was fired.
From Boston.com: Jordan Lebeau on being "no angel."
From TheDailyBeast: Shocker! The Koch Bros. take on the militarization of police.
From RSN: The New York Times called out for its dishonest of its "Ferguson shooting" story by many including Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC and William Boardman of RSN.
From TheWeek: Jon Stewart returns to "The Daily Show," and talks FOX News, Ferguson, and race; FOX doesn't get the best of that.
From Reuters via RSN: Coverage of Mike Brown's funeral.
From the HuffingtonPost and TheVox: The New York Times draws criticism for calling Mike Brown, "no angel." The killer, Police Officer Darren Wilson, was described as "well-mannered" in the same article.
From the HuffingtonPost: NYT and Uncle Tom back down on "no angel."
From the HuffingtonPost: The always presumptuous Sean Klannity... I mean Sean Hannity gets schooled by Ferguson democratic politician, Patricia Bynes, in not backing down from a paternalistic white bully.
From TheVillageVoice: The difference between the outrage over Mike Brown and over Eric Garner.
From the NewYorkTimes: The secret to raising big money on crowdfunding sites is to kill a black male... apparently.
From YahooNews: Two rallies, one racial divide over Ferguson shooting
From The Wire via RSN: I bet he does represent quite a bit of the rank-and-file St. Louis County Police Department
From RSN: The Ferguson police have a card up their sleeves
From CommonDreams via RSN: 10 Facts about police violence in Ferguson on Sunday night, August 17th, 2014
From RSN: D.A. Bob McCulloch stalls for time: A woman who served on McCulloch's grand jury for eighteen Wednesdays said that the vast majority of witnesses McCulloch uses are police officers. "He relies on them to make his cases. They are his allies...He can present the case against Wilson any way he wants to get the outcome he wants."
From Truthdig via RSN: The ghost of Dred Scott
From MotherJones: Not surprisingly, racists donate to Darren Wilson
From Esquire via RSN: A body does not lie in the street for four hours... not in an advance society
From YahooNews: Autopsy vs. autopsy
From Truthout: How the mainstream media killed Michael Brown - by helping to spread the "official account" when cops kill Black men
From TheGuardianUK: The ghost of Mike Brown
From The Daily Beast via RSN: Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson has a history of supervising cops that shoot unarmed men.
From RSN: Police kill mentally ill woman in Arizona
From RSN: An account of the night police fired rubber bullets at protesters
From the WashingtonPost: Reporter Wesley Lowery's story of being arrested at a McDonald's in Ferguson
From RSN: Did you know an unarmed black man was also shot by police in Los Angeles?
From Reuters via RSN: Protest of that killing continue
From HuffingtonPost: Veteran Cop: If you don't want to get shot -- shut up
From Inquisitr: The "bum rush" theory
From YahooNews: Police mistrust among minorities still prevalent years later
From The Feminist Wire via Truthout: Dancing While Lying Dead in the Street: Michael's body lying in street as the spectacle of lynching
From Truthout: The Militirization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence by Henry A Giroux
From Time via RSN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on what a coming race war will really be about.
From Fox2Now of St. Louis: The Baden autopsy press conference - Brown could have survived all the shots, except the last one, says Dr. Baden
From the NewYorkTimes: The autopsy of Michael Brown - the results by Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner of the City of New York.
From HuffingtonPost: A Klan-like rally in support of killer-cop, Darren Wilson.
From NBCNews: First photographic images of police officer Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.
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From YahooNews: At Greater Grace Church in St. Louis:
Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, a natural and adept, soft-spoken but firm performer, also spoke about his own son who, he said, wears his pants saggy, his hat crooked, and has tattoos running up his arm.
“And that’s my baby! That’s my son,” the police captain said, to raucous applause.
Al Sharpton: “Nobody can go to the White House until they stop by our house!”
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From YahooNews: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before killing Michael Brown
From TheGuardian: St. Louis Country prosecutor furious over transfer in leadership
From Huffington Post: Darren Wilson is the police officer who killed Michael Brown.
From HuffingtonPost: Missouri governor did not know who killed Michael Brown.
Conflicting information about the cop who killed Michael Brown: RT, Wonkette, and TheWire.
From YahooNews: Police defend use of tear gas, smoke at protests.
From TheGuardian via RSN: St. Louis County officer shoots "second man" in Ferguson, where police officers shot 18-year-old African-American man, Michael Brown, dead.
From TheGuardian: ACLU may sue to obtain the name of the police officer who (which has not been revealed as of this post) shot Michael Brown dead.
From The Guardian: They shot another young black man in America.
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