People still want to discuss the ongoing ghastliness in Ferguson, MO, but the thread dedicated to that in Good Morning, America is getting old…and as a spam defensive measure, commenting on posts older than three months is automatically shut down. No exceptions allowed.
So here’s a fresh new post to accumulate comments!
#BenevolentRacism 2014 The white-saviour’s boys have a whole different perspective. #blacktwitter
Related to the last article previous comment, NYC asks federal court to approve mass arrests of protesters
Police identify man killed by officer.
Protests In Milwaukee After DA Fails To File Charges Against Cop In Death Of Mentally Ill Man.
US Attorney’s Office will investigate shooting of Dontre Hamilton.
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Bowdoin will waive tuition for son of slain NYPD officer. And the kids of Eric Garner, or any other black person shot by police?
Battered and blue
Black lives matter: speaking truth to power in the US
Following that, contrast. A little from the other side: Howard Safir: Anti-Police Rhetoric Unlike Anything I’ve Seen in 45 Years
Positive: Nelly announces Michael Brown memorial scholarship at Black and White Ball
Police Unions Hated Giuliani & Bloomberg Too. Going to list some tweets with links to stories on this (from respective years) in a bit.
Here’s two:
1986: 11 NYPD cops busted for running drug ring. Police union organizes protests AGAINST punishing drug dealing cops http://nym.ag/1HrdwPW;
1992: Thousands of NYPD officers block Brooklyn Bridge in protest AGAINST independent investigation of police abuses http://nyti.ms/1sRgRRK.
#LosAngeles, because of possible threats to #LAPD cops after NYC, it looks like today’s 3pm #EzellFord press conference is a no go.
Repost? Youtube video: The Mike Brown Rebellion Pt 1
Frustrated protesters call for deeper scrutiny of police
Statistics on officers killed: FBI Releases 2013 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s decision in Dontre Hamilton shooting. That’s a link to the full report released.
More on NY:
1. A reminder that NYC’s police unions have repeatedly and opportunistically abused their power and shabbily attacked every recent mayor.
2. In 1992, the PBA held a violent, vulgar City Hall rally against Dinkins, asking how many drug dealers he’d hugged. Link: http://nyti.ms/1weovWt
3. In 1997, police officers distributed fliers demanding that Mayor Giuliani be refused admittance to their funerals. Link: http://nyti.ms/1GOUe90
4. The PBA ran ads against Bloomberg and threatened to picket the Republican National Convention in 2004. Link: http://nyti.ms/1wWiin9
5. Exploiting their huge power over public safety, NYC police unions have historically behaved less responsibly than any other public union.
Thunderdome saw posted some badly edited footage of protestors suposedly chanting “Kill a cop”. WBFF apologizes for misleading edit on videotape of protest chant
I’m sure all damage is undone. [/sarcasm]
De Blasio, With Bratton by Side, Seeks Balance After 2 Killings
“Suspend #NYC protests” says @BilldeBlasio When does America “suspend” systemic racism & socioeconomic inequality? (intro to previous article).
OMG OMG I CAN’T EVEN. Racist song at ex-cop’s charity event compares Michael Brown to a ‘roadkill dog’. Do I TW this? Yes.
In poor taste? IN POOR TASTE?????
More on that: Horrific Racist Song at Charity Event
‘And He’s Dead, Dead Michael Brown’ [VIDEO]
If you want to keep some christmas spirit, don’t watch the video. But then, what’s the point of christmas spirit with bullshit like this in the world?
Ferguson protest leaders eye next phase
Police officers lives are NOT more important than Citizens
Yet another: Houston Grand Jury Chooses Not to Indict Police Officer in Shooting. More tomorrow.
Officer Juventino Castro Will Walk Free After Killing Unarmed Man Jordan Baker (that’s on the previous).
Related to the 2 NYPD cops, Shaneka Thompson’s Life Matters
Well, at least the NYPD have a nice narrative for themselves.
Officer Juventino Castro Will Walk Free After Killing Unarmed Man Jordan Baker (that’s on the previous).
Related to the 2 NYPD cops, Shaneka Thompson’s Life Matters
Well, at least the NYPD have a nice narrative for themselves.
https://twitter.com/C*ntMeOut/status/547497355134504960
Okay, these two tweets of Dotson handing out money are not working for me.
On this one, replace * with appropriate letter for the link to work. https://twitter.com/C*ntMeOut/status/547497355134504960 RT @deray: Y’all, Chief Dotson is in Secret Santa mode giving out cash in #Ferguson. This is real. America. – The URL won’t work because you have to replace the * with the appropriate letter.
https://twitter.com/peppersandeggs/status/547497600241250304 @deray Where’s the $ from? His own pocket? From taxpayer funded police Fines/Tickets acct? From the $500k in the DW Fund?
In the spirit of helpiong the poor and disadvantaged – St. Louis rules Larry Rice’s homeless shelter a nuisance.
In the past 48 hours alone, while we’re supposed to cease protests, police were let off for murdering #JordanBaker & #DontreHamilton;
121 shootings in four years and all of them cleared but the jury isn’t biased? #JordanBaker There’s a nice little citation at the link.
Ignoring Shaneka Thompson to make Brinsley some kind of revolutionary hero is again stepping on BW under faux-black unity.
Interlude: Five African Americans Named Rhodes Scholars. Congratulations!
This is prior to the Houston announcement: Grand jury clears officer in deadly police shooting
thisisthemovement, installment #67:
Excellent photo.
In this 24 hour news cycle…
Percy Green on St. Louis’ Veiled Prophet (V.P.) Fair
They shot another one in St Louis, pretty much in front of protestors.
The body has been out here for 2 hours. They are abt to put #antoniomartin in the back of a SVU #ferguson
Six different people on the scene sayin #antoniomartin was still alive after the Pigs shot him & they let him die there on the cold pavement
Protestor heard from police that #AntonioMartin was still breathing when he was down. He is now dead. His body has been out for 2 hours.
The body of 18 yr old #AntonioMartin is still laying on the ground,he latest victim of St. Louis police. Liveestream
Community yelling “quit touching him” at police because examiner is not here yet. #AntonioMartin.
Correction, not in front ofp rotestors but once they heard, they went to the scene.
I just saw the news about Antonio Martin via retweets in Chris Kluwe’s timeline. Word is police are macing protesters and smoke is flying now.
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2:00am. #Berkeley, MO. #AntonioMartin
Me: “Why is your body cam all the way down there?” Officer Klein: “so we can record ur hands” #AntonioMartin #Berkley
And the police brought the police dogs out to the scene. Dogs. They just killed someone and they brought the K-9 unit. #AntonioMartin
Protesters are now on the scene. Have crossed the tape line and made it to edge of the Mobile parking lot.
There’sa couple of livestreams, link up soon.
Teenager is fatally shot at gas station in Berkeley
People stating #antoniomartin was alive when shot and no emergency response was called. There are tons of police and no ambulance #ferguson.
Article and what seems to be a livestream at HuffPo: Antonio Martin, Black Teenager, Fatally Shot By Police 2 Miles From Ferguson: Report
‘To Protest Is A First Amendment Right’: New Yorkers Defy Mayor’s Request To Pause Demonstrations
Stuff from Milwaukee intermittently, too, where protest last night was at a high. “@deray: “I’m paying for the overtime, I might as well get a photo.” Milwaukee. ”
#Milwaukee: This entrance to the Bucks game is BLOCKED. #ShutItDown #DontreHamilton via @deray
Ah, more on the apology: WATCH: Protester Confronts Fox Station That Deceptively Edited ‘Kill A Cop’ Chant
That is irresponsible reporting.
New York: NOW: Malcolm X Blvd shut down! We need stuck together cuz every 28 hrs our people are killed #ShutDown5thAve.
Via Wonkette, Off-Duty Black Cops Racisted By White Cops In NYC Because Of Course
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[…The Berkeley Police Officer exited his vehicle and approached the subjects when one of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer. Fearing for his life…]
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Buzzfeed: Large Crowd Gathers Near Ferguson After Police Shoot Teen
Tweets and images going up at the link…
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[Cell phone pic of a distraught black woman being comforted by another as three white cops with pens and clipboards stand nearby.]
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[Transcript image reads: 11:36pm (CST) “Requesting assistance 6800 N. Hanley. 6800 N. Hanley at the Mobil gas station. I just had a shooting and am requesting assistance for crowd control if you could respond J1. 2205, respond as well so you can advise. It’s 11:35.”]
New York: #shutdown5thave Morningside & 125th st #shutitdown #nyc
Zephyr Teachout, Hands Up United and John Oliver Made Our 2014 Progressive Honor Roll. Who Else Made the List?
This on the Native American man who was shot by police: Native American Man Who Attended Anti-Police Brutality Rally Is Killed By Police Next Day
Says a lot that I haven’t heard of the #NativeLivesMatter movement until now. :(
One Tweet Captures What People Don’t Get About the NYPD and #BlackLivesMatter
LAPD Investigating Racist Michael Brown Song Performed at Cop Party (VIDEO)
Yes, but still, the PD has been connected to the event. So.
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They left him out there for about 3 hours. And then picked him up in an SUV, not even a medical vehicle (or related). Apparently kept touching the body, too. Makes me question the images of the gun supposedly found on the scene.
Shee-it.
Unarmed Man Shot And Killed By Houston Cop For Wearing A Hoodie While Black (the original story from January).
The “Special Police Brutality Unit” keeping their eyes on the cops during tonight’s march in NYC. #BlackLivesMatter
Why protesters are ignoring New York mayor’s plea for a pause (+video)
Scene where #antoniomartin’s 18 year old body has been laying for 2 hours. A senior in high school, he was. With his gf. :(
Police want no more protests while they mourn, but they have no intention to stop killing black people. #AntonioMartin #Ferguson #NYPD
“https://twitter.com/DelSchilling/status/547674826232823808”>The person in this thread is aiming for worst person in Twitter today
You know which one.
Yes. Well, ‘keep in our thoughts’, but the thought counts. #Ferguson this is all just too much. Please let’s all pray for this poor mom in Berkeley. I can’t stop crying for her.
St. Louis Area Police Murder Another Black Teen, Antonio Martin
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Police are trying to block our view of them placing #AntonioMartin’s body in a SVU. People have broken through tape!
From last night: Can’t wait. RT @deray: And if people are annoyed with the protests now, then they will be absolutely livid when it gets warm again.
rq, you’re not the only one questioning the gun.
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At this point I don’t give a fuck if people’s sign of solidarity is prayer as long as they show visible support and aren’t fuckwits.
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Also @BBCBreaking according to replies in that stream.
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BTW, the guy posing as “Jesú Christo” claiming t be an eye witness and best friend is a hoaxer
Some comments saying the HuffPo source was a fake, we’ll see.
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and now that the news has caught on fire, I’m probably done.
Giliell Link borked. :( On that tweet you posted.
And yes, I’m going to post up a series of tweets now, possibly reposts, sorry. No time to filter, lots of info still coming in.
We’re calling on all police officers to hold off on killing Black people until #AntonioMartin is laid to rest.
#AntonioMartin was an 18 yr old black kid who was trying to get his life together. Until the police decided to take it from him.
Berkeley officer fatally shoots teenager. If you google, other headlines say “Police shoot black man with gun”. Awesome.
If you don’t feel compassion for #AntonioMartin’s Family – Ask yourself Why? Then tell me why you use the HT #AllLivesMatter. That, too.
On the gun: This white reporter took a photo of a gun but it’s photos and vines from ppl who been out here since it happened, no gun.
Witnesses reported seeing the cops tamper with evidence at the scene #AntonioMartin
Soem stuff to show support:
And here is the link to donate to the bail fund: Link: http://bit.ly/FERGbailfund #Ferguson
And here’s the link to support the collective of Livestreamers: Link: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/bv0Kc/sh/548sc7 #Ferguson
Consequence of police non-indictments in #EricGarner, #MikeBrown and additional killings? Emboldening more police killings. #AntonioMartin
Already the media is making sure we know that #AntonioMartin dropped out of school and that his mom was a teen when she had him. Despicable.
Go media: Just now CNN FINALLY reporting #AntonioMartin death near #Ferguson after multiple repeats of latest on “the Interview”.
Why does the peacekeeper have a bloody nose “@PDPJ ” #AntonioMartin;
Man in red sitting on ground was tased by police & is convulsing badly folks are upset.fist fight btwn cops & people;
Police are tasing an arrestee who appears to be on the ground and handcuffed behind the police line in the crime scene. #AntonioMartin.
St. Louis Area Police Murder Another Black Teen, Antonio Martin (article).
Just heard confirmation from a source that there is video of the incident. Let’s see how long before it’s released. #AntonioMartin.
Go media: Just now CNN FINALLY reporting #AntonioMartin death near #Ferguson after multiple repeats of latest on “the Interview”.
Why does the peacekeeper have a bloody nose “@PDPJ ” #AntonioMartin;
Man in red sitting on ground was tased by police & is convulsing badly folks are upset.fist fight btwn cops & people;
Police are tasing an arrestee who appears to be on the ground and handcuffed behind the police line in the crime scene. #AntonioMartin.
St. Louis Area Police Murder Another Black Teen, Antonio Martin (article).
Just heard confirmation from a source that there is video of the incident. Let’s see how long before it’s released. #AntonioMartin.
Facebook release from the St Louis PD:
A list of PDs present on site: Velda City, Brentwood, Vanita Park, Ferguson, Webster Groves, STL County, Creve Coeur, St. Charles & Woodson Terrace, Fenton PD all here. Pretty impressive list.
About half of the crowd has left. Some left for medical treatment. #AntonioMartin.
Previous in moderation for too many tweets. :P This and that about police tasing an arrestee, who was convulsing for quite some time after the fact.
Streamer reports 4 arrests at scene of #AntonioMartin shooting | tense standoff now ( @stackizshort live at http://ustre.am/1i2lw ). Don’t know if the livestream is down yet.
And this: Moment apparent flash bang went off in middle of police-protester clash Link to youtube: Police are seen making arrests in Berkeley, Missouri early Wednesday morning . That is intense. And scary.
Pics of the gun: Here are the pics–first two before cars moved and last two with gun. #AntonioMartin The first couple are admittedly from a bad angle.
Check the photo. #Berkeley #Ferguson #AntonioMartin.
1,039 = ppl estimated to have been killed by cops in 2014 45 – Cops killed by gunfire in 2014. Think Progress link in the tweet.
Re: the dispatcher recording – Just listened to recording. According to police dispatch, crowd control was immediately called. Ambulance was not. #AntonioMartin.
I bet he doesn’t. I don’t think Officer Falzone wants to be here #Berkeley #Ferguson #AntonioMartin.
A request: If you know #AntonioMartin please tweet positive things, pictures, etc about him. Let’s stop the ‘thug’ narrative. He was a man.
And someone hit the local QuikTrip: Damn. #AntonioMartin and Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. #AntonioMartin (some pictures).
KKK calling on cops to seek revenge, then #Berkeley Police kill a man. Coincidence? Look at location of these tweets. The tweets are from Berkeley, MO. Scary thought, that.
Wait for the evidence? You’re right, we don’t know all the details. But we know this detail: Antonio is dead. And we know: an officer killed him. #AntonioMartin;
You’re right, we don’t know exactly what happened. But we know that deadly force should only be used in rare circumstances. #AntonioMartin
Oh, and about that QuikTrip: FYI. @PDPJ just confirmed that peaceful PROTESTORS put out the fire at the QT with their bare hands while police stood by and watched.
Lots of ppl seem to be more upset about broken windows of gas stations & cop cars than are upset about teenagers lying dead in the street.
I usually cry on New Year’s (it’s tradition), but maybe I’ll jsut do it today for good measure, too.
Criminal charges for ‘put wings on pigs’ post likely violate the First Amendment
“Anti-Police Brutality” Does Not Mean “Anti-Police”
rq, thank you.
Eh. The cops are ruining my christmas. Everything was supposed to be resolved by now.
Photo: A small memorial in Berkeley, Mo., for Antonio Martin, who police say was fatally shot after he pulled a gun on an officer; protesters have dispersed from the gas station where the shooting took place – @JohnHenryKSDK.
These video cameras on the south west corner of the Mobile station. Plans to release the video at presser 9:30 am ;
Tomorrow, I’ll know every bad thing #AntonioMartin ever did. The media will say he deserved it. I won’t believe it.
To my white friends, let me remind you that the reason we don’t stop talking about this is because it doesn’t stop happening. #AntonioMartin;
#KSDKNews will carry first police comments on #Berkeley shooting live at 7:00 on @ksdknews & http://KSDK.com .
Anyone vaguely local?
#AntonioMartin shooting: Timeline of the cone, the yellow marker, and “the gun”. Interesting timeline – some hazy details between the shooting and about 1.30AM. Incl. an invisible (or hidden, I’ll give them that) gun becoming suddenly visible.
Memorial for #AntonioMartin set up at the Mobil gas station where cops killed him. #Ferguson #ICantBreathe. The sign says ‘They can’t kill us all’.
Did I post these photos?
Al Jazeera (@AJEnglish) chose this old picture to frame Antonio’s killing. We just can’t win. #AntonioMartin;
Map of police shooting death of #AntonioMartin relative to those of #MichaelBrown, #KajiemePowell, #VonderritMyers;
Im sure white jesus wont mind if you sit this birthday out. Capitalism may be upset tho. #CancelChristmas.
I don’t want to hear anything about the gun being reported stolen. We need that video and it shouldn’t take all day. #AntonioMartin;
It must be true because the police spokesperson said it and the media reported it! Besides, they have no reason to lie & never make mistakes.
Speaking of which, media update: Police plan media briefing Wednesday morning
This is interesting, because witnesses on scene say he was with his girlfriend, who remained at the scene with his mother to ID the body. Are the police that incompetent, or what? See, the story itself later says:
Declined to talk to a reporter, but no word on whether a cop even tried to talk to her.
Also,
I can understand police not being allowed to disclose details of a crime scene. That’s pretty normal, because not every officer knows the correct story, and it’s best to curtail rumours before they even start. But. A large contingent of officers and no ambulance? Yeah, that kind of reaction deserves some explanation, from SOMEone.
Released footage of moments before shooting
I can’t see shit in that footage. The last bit looks like one person rising their hand in direction of another. Claim is they are holding a gun. For all I can see (and the footage, interestingly, ends at that moment), they could be gesticulating.
The Librarian @AdrianXpression Just expressing my confusion about this #AntonioMartin case. http://youtu.be/v1vfLLipvfw?a
Some things he mentions: Things not adding up, like video being immediately released, which is conveniently grainy and ends just the moment Antonio Martin “raises the gun”. No other cameras? No rest of the video? Nada?
Antonio Martin seems to have been insufficiently subservient.
I doubt that we’ll ever know the full details of this shooting.
Also, what we can see clearly from shitty grainy footage is that the two men approached the police car when it drove in front of the station. That somehow doesn’t strike me as behavior of someone who just robbed a gas station.
Marlin Bando @SpacedOwt01 4m4 minutes ago
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/miles-ferguson-another-black-teen-killed-police
Emphasis mine. Could be just an unfortunate turn of phrase, but there is just something so cold about that sentence.
There is something seriously wrong with the police force that “needs to” shoot so many (black) people.
Now it was an ambush:
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The sick Twitter prankster who pretended to be best friends with shooting victim Antonio Martin and watch him die got his comeuppance today after the infamous ‘hactivist’ group Anonymous started publishing his personal information on their several Twitter accounts.
-_- from STL Today linked by Beatrice @59: (link with pulled-a-gun title)
Not that the dead teen’s family gets to have an attorney on call to speak to the press, though black people in this country sure need one.
This after saying the officer just happened to have no cameras on, because he’s only human and these things happen with new equipment (what a shame) and speculating on why the dead teen’s supposed gun didn’t fire. But a single camera’s worth of grainy video, that cuts out before shots were fired, is so valuable for putting to rest all those false narratives.
Well, he’s different from anyone else involved in one major way. He’s alive. While Antonio’s mother at least had her son’s life taken on the day before Christmas. ‘After expressing condolences to the family’ indeed.
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Which could suggest the gun had been stolen at some point in its history, among other things. It just means now the gun’s untraceable, whoever had it.
No comment.
More background follows, about Martin’s record, the police officer’s record, arrests and protesters being dangerous (natch). At the very end is the family’s reaction. This is the same article that, in the top quarter or so, quoted Millikan’s theory that the officer was being set up for an ambush.
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There is a widespread concept in policing called the ‘throw down gun’ or ‘drop gun’, which is an unregistered gun carried by an officer for the purpose of dropping next to the body of someone he’s shot, to justify the killing.
Police loading Antonio Martin’s body into a mini van… wtf?!
The parallel STL Today article, Parents of Antonio Martin say his fatal shooting ‘doesn’t make any sense’, is only about one screen long and has little more information than the previous.
As long as the officers’ attorney Millikan is talking about false narratives and speculating that the dead kid may have planned to ambush this officer, I’ll just throw out there that it’s roughly as plausible that an officer might have wanted to get payback for the two cops shot in New York. No, I don’t think that’s what happened or even that it’s likely. But we’re supposed to all be considering both sides, aren’t we. *spits*
By the way, the most direct sources I could find for a couple of the images linked above via Twitter. The map of St Louis showing how Michael Brown, Kajieme Powell, Vonderrit Myers, and now Antonio Martin died within a few miles of each other, from St Louis Public Radio: (twitter)
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What’s with releasing footage piece by piece? Do they want to incite violence?!
… oh. Silly question.
Few more tweets from the dark of this morning:
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Indeed. These killings by police *shouldn’t* be dropping off the radar with no investigations, oversight, or follow-up, and ordinary people *shouldn’t* have to risk themselves to get cameras on police and get information to the public however they can before official police spin poisons the well.
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mhm.
The three videos released do far:
First angle: 1
Second angle: 2
Third angle: 3
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The WaPo article also states that the officer’s attorney Milliken is a former St. Louis police officer himself.
Police officer was justified because it was* “obviously” an illegal gun? Police officer is psychic, but he doesn’t know how to turn on a fucking body camera.
* for certain values of was…. like “was probably planted afterwards”
Unrelated to Antonio’s death, via Twitter and the account of a protester arrested last week: Houston PD Orders All Officers Turn Off Body Cameras During Protest (at a site called Everlasting GOP Stoppers)
Marchers are holding a vigil for Antonio Martin tonight. Highway 170 is shut down. Pics and updates from @Nettaaaaaaaa ‘s stream. (8 a’s)
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Pics of Antonio Martin via @Search4swag
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Just delurking after about a decade of reading this blog to thank rq in particular and everyone else who has posted on this thread.
I live in St. Louis County and am DREADING our lovely family Christmas gathering tomorrow. Thank you all so much for being here!
And here’s another police shooting: A First Nations man named Allen Locke attended an anti-police brutality rally. He was killed the next day.
Activists say blaming them for police killings is a dangerous distraction
Yep. We’ve been seeing attempts to discredit the protesters since the protests began in the wake of Michael Brown’s death.
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Over at my blog, I wrote about those attempts and the attempts to change the narrative of the movement.
Thanks for keeping information posted while I’m busy. I’ll be busy today and then probably through Sunday as I travel to the Land of No Internet. Most of what I had’s been posted, but here’s a few tweet-notes:
The only thing this video confirmed for me is that I have a lot more unanswered questions. #AntonioMartin;
Antonio Martin shooting: Mayor says there should be ‘no comparison’ to Ferguson . Because it’s not the same at all (after all, the officer was not in his car anymore).
Body-cams? The Mayor of Berkeley is NOT concerned by the officer not having his body cam turned on or the dash cam. That speaks volumes. That speaks volumes.
This was a question/comment at the first press conference, from someone in the audience: “Police are trigger happy… The police have a license to kill. Not indicting police gives them a license to kill” #Berkeley #AntonioMartin
And this is something the mayor said: “Everybody don’t die the same. Some ppl die because the police initiate it. Some ppl die because they initiate it.” – Mayor #AntonioMartin. And Mayor Hoskins says there will be extra precautions tonight regarding potential unrest. Didn’t elaborate.
Mayor suggests that the investigation will be over in approximately 1 week. #AntonioMartin A week?
Also, re: medical attention.
From all the pictures and comments from people on the scene. there was no ambulance called. There was no EMS called immediately after the shooting, when witnesses said he may still have been alive. A body – yes, a body may be at the scene for a long time. But before a body is a body it is a living human being and it is that human being that did not get the emergency care it needed. It is this lack of thought and consideration for basic human decency that still shocks me. So callous.
Another post from my blog: Black women’s lives matter.
I wrote that post after reading this article at Bustle:
Chris King, managing editor of the St. Louis American:
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Our mainstream media, everyone.
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Several photos of riot police, in lines and packs, at that link.
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Nettaaaaaaaa has been tweeting Vines of people at the vigil singing.
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Photos from Chris King of the St. Louis American.
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[Picture of three toddler-aged children with their parents kneeling alongside, small tealights in their hands, beside the “They can’t kill us all” memorial stacked with teddy bears.]
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[A row of protesters marching down the closed Highway 170, throwing long shadows from the headlights of cars behind them.]
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[Protesters’ solemn faces lit by candlelight as one candle is kindled from the next.]
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[A cop in riot gear with his arm extended, aiming a pepper spray canister at a protester whose hands are raised a few feet away.]
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[A squad of a dozen riot police, with shields and billy clubs in hand, walking along the sidewalk in front of the yard of a house with an American flag in front.]
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[Behind the legs and shields of a line of riot police, the memorial for Antonio Martin sits unattended, a heap of dozens of small stuffed animals and a few balloons around the handwritten sign “They can’t kill us all”.]
Sign says: “Queers say There are no good cops in a racist system!”
4people shot near 18th and Pine #stl police on the scene 1 person dead (not sure if this is somehow related or not).
Christmas message: Your Jesus was a 33-year-old unarmed man of color wrongfully charged, executed publicly by an unjust militarized state. #MerryChristmas
And Im seeing medics didn’t arrive till hours later for #AntonioMartin. That’s administrative homicide on top of the actual shooting.
Re: “he pointed a gun at the officer” Does the way the protester holds his phone while filming the police look familiar? #AntonioMartin
Because It just seems implausible to me that a Black man in 2014 would pull a concealed weapon when standing in front of a cop. #AntonioMartin
Protestors held a vigil at the Basilica. Basilica. Vigil. #AntonioMartin
Riot cop: “@deray: Check the mace. Basilica. #AntonioMartin ” why he posin like its a photo shoot? He was camera ready.
Cops Say Video of Police Shooting Near Ferguson Shows Suspect Pulling Gun, Except it Doesn’t
A die in at the Mobil #AntonioMartin #MikeBrown #Ferguson #Berkeley;
This is a pretty damning narrative:
#AntonioMartin’s girlfriend is here. She says she begged the police to please call the paramedics. #MikeBrown #Ferguson #Berkeley;
#AntonioMartin’s girlfriend says he was moaning on the ground in pain. She kept asking “please let me help him!” #Berkeley;
#AntonioMartin’s girlfriend said she had to go get his mother and tell her about the police shooting her son. #Berkeley.
About that riot cop: We fight for his black life too. #Ferguson #Shaw #Berkeley .
And this: This photo really represents our reality in so many ways. A white woman in a shopping mall laughing while a crowd of black people behind her hold a die-in.
Two from HuffPo today:
Keanna Brown, Antonio Martin’s Girlfriend, Grieves: ‘He Didn’t Deserve To Die’
Protesters Mourn Antonio Martin, Shut Down Missouri Highway On Christmas Eve
So now that Mike Browns death has forced police to wear body cams, now we must fight to get them to actually turn them on? #AntonioMartin
Interesting. @seanjjordan @deray the response ‘you cannot compare this to Ferguson/Garner’ comes across as ‘we can justify this, we cannot justify those’
The Terrain of Police Violence. STL. Map at the link. They’re all so young. Younger than me. :(
The best video I’ve seen put together for #AntonioMartin is in this article: [link redacted but to follow] And I STILL think he’s holding a phone. Link redacted: Another police-involved shooting death of black teen sparks tensions in St. Louis
Well, he said one thing right.
A hypothesis:
My hypothesis: 1) Officer confronted #AntonioMartin about robbery in a rude, beligerant fashion. 2) Martin, who’d done nothing, got angry.;
3) In the exchange, #AntonioMartin pulled out his phone to record the officer’s behavior. 4) The officer perceived it as a threat, fired.;
5) The officer realized #AntonioMartin was holding a phone, not a gun, panicked. 6) Police union was called first. 7) Martin was left to die;
8) Police on site (with the help of the union) quickly planted a “recovered” gun on the scene 9) The narrative of pulling a gun was released.
It’s only a hypothesis, but honestly, I’m having a lot of trouble believing in the gun. A lot. And EVEN IF THERE WAS ONE, it’s been pointed out multiple times that WHITE people who ACTUALLY SHOOT their guns at cops are routinely brought in alive… while BLACK people who only supposedly do the same end up dead.
Funny, that.
Only not really.
Yeah, just this week, right before christmas, they shut down a homeless shelter in Ferguson. Because it was a nuisance. Larry Rice and the homeless people from the shelter slept on the steps of city hall last night chanting “homeless lives matter!”
.@AntonioFrench I want you to know this news segment you did? This is the reason why folks on the ground don’t trust you. Merry Christmas. Still waiting on an article on that, with some quotes. Because apparently he talked down to people angry over yet another shooting. *shrug*
Oh, a short exchange on violence vs. property damage, ref. a discussion had earlier in this thread (perhaps previous iteration):
Violence and property damage are different. Violence is the police killing unarmed black men. Property damage is broken windows and fires.
@deray Conflating damage to property with loss of human life is another achievement of white privilege..
Violence is fundamentally about hurting people, about the threat to lives. Let’s be precise with our words.
Ferguson Responsibility with some stats, of the white vs. black kind. Some very disparate numbers there.
And from the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, White Fragility. It’s a document at thel ink, hadn’t had a chance to read it all yet, but..
Those are the first three paragraphs. Going to read the rest tomorrow.
The fact that you know about the protests means that they “are working.” This conversation about racism is now front and center. Protests.
Officers quicker to shoot black targets in simulations, even when unarmed. #AntonioMartin Link: The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men
So much good stuff in that article, incl. charts and graphs. And by ‘good’, I also mean scary, in the implications of what goes on in our own (read: my) brains. Going to have to read it over more carefully, but the impression I get (for myself) is that combatting my internal prejudices requires constant, conscious vigilance and acknowledgement of the unconscious biases I may still harbour within my thoughts and reactions. And this is by no means easy. But it can be done, and that is what matters. Never give up?
Gun used in NYPD murders was sold at pawn shop where guns regularly end up in criminals’ hands
Deray has been going on on twitter with definition, but I really liked this one: press conference, n.: an event designed to distract us from the truth; a public declaration of misinformation #BlackDictionary. Yes, the hashtag #BlackDictionary will have more of similar.
Newly released videos in #AntonioMartin shooting death by Berkeley, MO police are cropped, removing crucial evidence Link: http://bit.ly/1rlF6vS Haven’t watched, sorry. Story:
(title: “Newly Released Videos in Berkeley Antonio Martin Shooting Death are Cropped, Removing Crucial Evidence”)
Two more NY men arrested for threatening police after officers killed. In case anyone’s interested.
Threats to New York police stream in after fatal shooting putting department on edge. In case anyone’s interested.
More protests sparked after shooting near Ferguson, in case anyone’s interested.
Vigil, protests follow police shooting of young black man in St. Louis suburb. (Toronto Star)
Police shooting: White Missouri officer shoots, kills black man who pulled gun near Ferguson (CBC). Note headline.
This is a story of police harassment and abuse of power from earlier this year. Police SWAT-Raid Innocent Man’s Home Because He’s Muslim, Civil Rights Group Claims (VIDEO)
This GIF image appears to show #AntonioMartin holding a cell phone in his hand with a lit screen, not a gun. Link: http://i.imgur.com/lT5q3DA.jpg (see moving light around his feet)
#Oakland Police looking on as the party blocks the road under the bridge. With music & food!
Someone destroyed the Michael Brown memorial on Canfield Drive: Another angle of the destroyed Canfield street memorial. #Ferguson (via @therealjosh95); Just got to #MikeBrown memorial and it’s been ran over. Someone who saw it on video said it was intentional.
Car Destroys Michael Brown Memorial, But Protesters Rebuild
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/26/st-louis-cops-caught-on-camera-trying-to-plant-guns/
Here’s another non-indictment:
http://thegrio.com/2014/01/23/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-nc-cop-who-killed-former-famu-footballer-looking-for-help/
http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/12/sheneque-proctor-the-female-eric-garner/
That headline is insulting and sexist. Sheneque Proctor was her own person. She should not be defined in relation to anyone else.
(hat tip to Sally Strange)
Concert fundraisers for John Crawford
Ex-NYPD police officer ‘We planted evidence, framed innocent people’ for arrest quota
FBI keeps lid on sniper plot to kill Occupy Wall Street organizers
(twitter)
Original article in the Baltimore Sun, Dec 23: Whistle-blower officer files lawsuit against Batts, BPD
Whew! 1700+ tweets to sort through!
Cops Turn Their Backs On De Blasio At Funeral For NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos;
Hundreds of NYPD officers turn backs on de Blasio during funeral address;
Protestors told for the past week to take a hiatus to allow for healing. NYPD stages a protest at the funeral. Incredible.
Ferguson officer placed on leave over remarks about damaged memorial;
Police arrest two men who fired a BB gun inside an Idaho Walmart (this can’tpo ssibly be a double-standard, can it?);
New Guidelines on Government Profiling Announced
pix from hit&run vehicle that hit livestreamer Bryan Hayes tonite in LA. attn @globalrevlive @CassandraRules ;
Silent March downtown.;
1948 postcard depicting the killing of African American Herman Burns by LA police. Some things never change.;
The Black officer in this picture gets it, that’s why he isn’t turning his back on the Mayor. ;
Worse than shooting a kid- shooting off your mouth. I can’t even. via @deray Officer Zoll on unpaid leave: #Ferguson (tweet contains the statement from the Ferguson PD regarding the officer who mouthed off – more on this later);
Mendocino High School Basketball Players Disinvited From Fort Bragg Tournament For Wearing ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-Shirts.
Check @coryprovost’s experience with overly-aggressive “policing” in FL tonight. Read. America. Storify link: Cory Provost PD incident.
Ferguson business owners take boards down, hopeful for future.
So many people I can’t see the beginning or end of the march. Random shoppers coming out in solidarity with their hands up #MillionsMarchLA
This “NYPD Funeral” Photo Being Shared On Twitter Is Not From Today. Just in case anyone is interested.
Who Police Killed In 2014
But the total is over 1000.
Beginning the die-in in the food court #blacklivesmatter #justice4dontre;
#AkaiGurley family lays down outside police service area #2 in Brooklyn to protest their sons murder by NYPD #NyC;
#AkaiGurley protesters turn backs on the 75th precinct and demand justice for his murder #Brooklyn #NYC:
Put together a reading list w/ some friends via @STLinSolidarity – Check it out, yo. Read & Share! #BlackLivesMatter < – good stuff wthin!
Those good cops? Baltimore Officer reports officers assaulting citizen. A rat is placed on his car and his house. Then this.;
Yup @Russian_Starr: This is why the NYPD, Giuliani and Pat Lynch hate Bill de Blasio so much. “.
Protester who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT
Woman charged after throwing bacon, sausage in Framingham police station
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Civil rights leaders at odds as Ferguson protests grow
Black NYPD cops expose climate of rampant racial profiling in force
A Message From a Protestor and Former Cop: We Are Not Anti-Cop. We Are Pro-Life. (from the Lounge via birgerjohansson). Co-opting language the right way? Or crossing purposes?
RT @joejackson: #AkaiGurley protesters turn their backs on officers imitating cop demo against mayor.
NYPD’s helicopter flyover tribute to fallen officer.
‘A Long Hungry Look’: Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation.
More good cops? Whistle-blower officer files lawsuit against Batts, BPD
(this is the article on rats found on the car previously mentioned)
Baltimore settlements on police brutality more restrictive than in other cities
Michael Brown memorial destroyed overnight
Yup, he called it a pile of trash. Hence the leave without pay.
The Brutality of Rudy Giuliani – on Twitter introduced as what Cheney is to torture, Giuliani is to police brutality.
Protesters Planning Massive Rally In Front Of Fox News Headquarters After Non-Stop Racist Coverage
Relatedly, Journalism Magazine Calls Don Lemon The Worst
Some examples at the link.
Interlude: The Reality of Dating White Women When You’re Black.
Related to the NYPD racism towards black officers, Black cops fear other cops
White American have been brainwashed about race: Lies we tell ourselves about black women . Can’t blockquote, but there’s 4 pages of stuff about the erasure of black women and also their presentation (or lack thereof) n the media.
Ferguson’s other tragedy: School segregation still leaves a mark in Missouri.
Cops Threaten a Blue Coup in New York City
Alabama Senator Teaches Charles Barkley How Bad Slavery Was In Epic Open Letter
Nothing New: The Last Time An NYC Mayor Tried To Rein In NYPD, Cops Rioted. (A number of links via Tony, thank you very much!!!)
Something we’ve all heard before, though in a different context:
I will never be okay with folks wanting to play devil’s advocate in the midst of a political movement about black people’s lives.
I’m not a thought experiment. This movement is not a thought experiment. The systematic killing of blk folks is not a thought experiment.
How Many KKK Chapters Are In Your Area? With map.
Nashville police chief shares message, responds to questions
(Yes, it’s rather long, but oh well, I’ve been away for a few days!)
@ChipotleTweets <<<— please do not eat or support this company till they release a apology to the NYPD thank you. Protestors, however, say boycott if they DO apologize. Because some employees greeted entering police officers with their hands up and the words, “Hands up, don’t shoot!”, and the company refuses to apologize. Ha!
NYPD head William Bratton calls for less rhetoric, more dialogue
I can’t imagine what de Blasio’s wife is feeling during this time.
Rafael Ramos, slain NYC police officer, honoured with huge funeral
Ferguson officer suspended after calling Michael Brown memorial a ‘pile of trash’
Kill a black boy, though, and you get paid leave for weeks and weeks. Huh.
Tony! 108
The fact that there even is such a thing as fucking ‘arrest quotas’ is a pretty major fucking problem all by itself, and would be regardless of how it was applied. Given the existing context, however, it’s even worse, because they’re pretty much being told, straight out :’ go find at least X n-words to lock up tonight.’
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I’d feel better about the fact that there aren’t any in my neck of the woods (Oregon, Washington and Idaho are all clear of markers) if I didn’t know why that’s the case. Around here, we get neo-Nazis and Christian Identity types, who consider the KKK to be a bunch of wimps and backsliders.
Gee, Bill. I wonder what could possibly make the protestors beleive that dialogue with you on matters of race and policing might not be the most fruitful course of action. Any thoughts?
Ezell Ford: The Timeline. They’re finally releasing his autopsy results tomorrow.
#BlackLivesMatter: From Ferguson October to Chicago’s Union Station, a personal account of someone participating in Ferguson and Chicago in support of BlackLivesMatter.
History: Fleeing To Dismal Swamp, Slaves And Outcasts Found Freedom.
For Hollywood, ‘Selma’ Is A New Kind Of Civil Rights Story. Anyone see it yet?
Cleveland pro-police rally draws thousands, including family members of fallen officers. As twitter remarked, it was about 90% white.
Detroit Won’t Restore Police Review Board Even Though Abuses Continue . Video at the link, with a full transcript, too.
Protest For Akai Gurley Held In Brooklyn
LAPD set to release Ezell Ford autopsy report.
In Black Lives Matter Protest, Corporate Rights Trump Free Speech
I think that’s rather interesting, town mall as public market. Huh.
Cops behaving horribly. Boy Struck, Killed by Police Cruiser Responding to Call: Police
Again re: Mall of America, Milwaukee WI: Police Issue Arrest Orders For Protest Organizers
“HANDS UP!” at Grambling State University’s fall graduation on December 19th.
“I Can’t Breathe” 25 Year Old Michigan Man Dies After Being Suffocated To Death By 3 Security Guards!
Not allowed on the arch? Guardians of the Arch, downtown STL, Dec 27 (@LBPhoto1); Mike Brown on the Gateway Arch, downtown STL, Dec 27 (@LBPhoto1).
Police shoot burglary suspect in East Baltimore.
3 White Officers In S.C. Indicted For Shooting Unarmed Black Men – baby steps?
Throw-away Weapons: A Cop Insurance Policy or an Abuse of Power?
Vocal Ferguson Protester Arrested on Arson Charge
(With autoplay video.)
And I really liked this article: The Root Names 2014 The Year of the Protester
I haven’t been following Butterflies & Wheels as much as I used to, but here’s five pieces from Ophelia Benson, commenting on the latest NYPD behaviour:
1) “Our backs have turned to you”;
2) Hundreds of officers outside turned their backs;
3) The occupying-force mentality;
4) No use of force by the police can ever seem too excessive;
5) Somebody has to do the managing.
She’s got some good links within the OPs themselves, good reading.
Here’s one more from Mano:
6) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the police shootings.
I doubt I’ll be focussing on the police shootings so much from now on, though – until and as much as they don’t have any direct bearing on the protesting and general movement-building. But we’ll see, who knows what interesting things will pop up.
(Yes, I know. Just wanted to recap Bratten with these two articles from The Toronto Star and the CBC.)
NYPD commissioner backs Mayor de Blasio after officers’ ‘inappropriate’ gesture;
NYPD head William Bratton calls for less rhetoric, more dialogue.
Basically the same articles as above.
#TakeBlackChi #RahmRepNOW rally for reparations for #CPD torture survivors, part of @BYP_100’s wk of #BlackHolidaze.
Of 3,200 children’s books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people. #LetThatSinkIn
Building with Millennial family in The Movement family from across the country at American Baptist College #Nashville .
Regarding the protestor arrested in Berkeley, I don’t blame josh at all. I blame the world that he has to wake up to everyday. A world where he has to chant “black lives matter”;
I do not blame Josh. 140+ days of constantly being shown that our lives don’t matter to the police? Every one has a breaking point.
Mornin, @deray Seen this and thought of you. Keep up the great work. You’ve inspired me to act. #muchlove Quote in the pic says: “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war”. MLK.
Ferguson officer placed on leave over remarks about damaged memorial;
After calling Mike Brown memorial ‘pile of trash,’ Ferguson police spokesman let go.
A Conversation With Ferguson’s Only Black City Councilman. Yup, there’s just the one. Audio at the link.
Black women and girls killed by the police. Speak their names, see their faces and know their stories. A whole stack of links and pictures at the link, please make an effort to check this one out and to reduce the erasure of black women killed by cops!
Guess Who Took A BB Gun Off A Walmart Shelf, Loaded It, Ran Around Shooting, And Lived?
Once again, this kind of comparison is stark and frightening.
We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies
@MusicOverPeople and @bdoulaoblongata lead us this morning at the #FergusonRetreat .
These Teens And 20-Somethings Are Organizing The Civil Rights Movement That Will Change Our Country . Very much potential in that list. May they do great things!
Charles Koch’s views on criminal justice system just may surprise you. Not that I trust his motivations.
They’ve released Ezell Ford’s autopsy results.
Ezell Ford’s Autopsy Shows LAPD Shot Him Three Times, Once In The Back
A muzzle imprint suggests contact when fired. Gunshot residue or soot suggests close range firing. A muzzle IMPRINT means that gun was pressed to his skin & then fired. #EzellFord @deray
Yeah, that was a no indictment.
The document is here: in scanned pdf.
Ezell Ford autopsy: Black man shot in back, side, arm by L.A. police.
A timeline: Aug. 11 Shot – 8:10pm Died – 10:10pm Aug. 12 Coroner Called – 3:15pm Aug. 13 Body Delivered to Coroner – 3pm Body Processed – 4pm #Ezell.
Ezell did not immediately die. They attempted to save his life. “Evidence of Therapeutic Intervention.” #EzellFord
The Year In Police Killings
A list of the better-known, most controversial incidents follows. No, not incidents, murders. Incl. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Samantha Ramsey. Among others.
In web video, 911 operator defends comments on police
A Majority of Cop Killers Have Been White
Some nice graphs at the link.
10:30am Mayor of Berkeley, MO will tell lies about cops murdering #AntonioMartin (evidence suggests cops planted gun)
Protesters #ShutItDown on #Highway170! #Ferguson #FreeJosh
Group of #EzellFord protesters at 65th & Broadway, on the 110 Fwy were met by CHP & LAPD. The link in the tweet: African-American Community Leaders React to the Ezell Ford Autopsy Report
Cali basketball tournament changes mind on banning Mendocino High School girls team over “I Can’t Breathe” shirts (with photo).
America tweeted about Ferguson more than any other news story in 2014
From the BBC: Ezell Ford shot in back by LA police – coroner.
Protesters stand-off w/#Berkeley pd 63134.
Emails and racist chats show how cops and GOP are teaming up to undermine de Blasio. Can’t copy-paste from the link, but it’s full of a lot of exposed racist bullshit. Like a LOT of it.
Die-in happening at grand central #NYC! #BlackLivesMatter #ThisStopsToday #Icantbreathe #shutitdown.
thisisthemovement, installment #68:
Campaign against twitter activism: RT @Trap_Jesus: I need to be in on this. RT @Nettaaaaaaaa: This is. RT @CassandraRules: Honored to be included. (see photo).
Women Are Leading and Will be leading this movement. Ashe to these powerful sisters. #chi2ferguson
And Ezell couldn’t even be an organ donor because they let his body sit for so long. Autopsy. #EzellFord
This is a protest in 1936. In case you’re not good at math, that’s 78 years ago. Great photo, possible re-post.
Protest in Nashville today, random inserted pictures to follow. Ferguson, Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, and New York to #Nashville. We just took the mayor’s office! @LiberateNville @BYP_100 @MillennialAU.
Y’all, Wal-Mart just isn’t safe. Cops: Tot accidentally shoots, kills woman in Idaho Wal-Mart.
This picture has been going around on twitter here and there, with the idea that, if she were black, she would never get away with this. Here’s the article: What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face?
6-year-old K, daughter of @bdoulaoblongata, leads us in the Assata quote at the direct action today. #ItIsOurDuty
Nashville is empowered. #Ferguson2Nashville;
#Ferguson2Nashville;
Die-in at one of the only locations still standing where earlier Nashville sit-ins took place in the civil rights era;
#Ferguson2Nashville happening now in Downtown Nashville.
The NYPD Is an Embarrassment to the City of New York
Reports: Enjoy Yourself, Sulky NYPD Is Refusing to Enforce the Law
Meh, borkquote.
Boehner Stands by Steve Scalise, even though he’s a supporter of white supremacy. Yay.
Idaho appeals court overturns conviction of black man in case where prosecutor recited Confederate anthem
Oh, this belongs with the previous comment: “Know how we’ll get back at De Blasio? Stop arresting people for bullshit charges!” – NYPD. GREAT JOB GUYS KEEP IT UP I SUPPORT YOU.
Ezell Ford autopsy report: Four questions that remain unanswered
Berkeley mayor to give update this morning on investigation into fatal police shooting. I think the update already happened, and a lot of time was spent speaking about the arrested protestor Joshua, rather htan the shooting itself.
Erasing black victims? This 16 yr old boy was raped and murdered by white men. They are trying to toss out the rape. #justiceforDionePayne. Or just part of their suffering. Same thing.
The NYPD is Essentially Refusing to do Its Job and Yet New York Hasn’t Collapsed into Chaos. Seems like they’re just digging their own deep hole to me.
Man assaulted by NYPD for dancing on Christmas Eve
Video at the link.
via The Mary Sue, the director of the new movie Selma responded to a WaPo op-ed’s claims of historical inaccuracy.
Ava DuVernay also linked to this excellent New Yorker longread on the detailed history of the voting rights movement, published last July after the Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act. Much of it should sound extremely familiar when compared to events of just the past few weeks. All of it’s worth reading.
The Color of Law
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton pens a long piece defending ‘Broken Windows’ policing
It’s a bit of a teal deer, but worth the read.
Milwaukee Police Up the Organizer Intimidation with Late Night Home Visits .
Really? REALLY?? Berkeley, MO Mayor says he thinks the officer who shot and killed Antonio Martin should return to work
Another long read: What your first-grade life says about the rest of it
David Duke: I’ve Met With Steve Scalise Several Times, So What?
Durham mayor reminds citizens of protest rules
WTF? STL 250 Birthday Cakes Voted 2014 St. Louis Person of the Year in Mayor’s Poll. At least it wasn’t McCullogh.
Walgreens we protested at today was once a diner where the #Nashville sit-ins of 1960 took place. The movement lives.
.@YourAnonNews Full list of cities going all out for #NYE2015PROTEST to Stop Police Brutality & End ALL oppression Link: https://sites.google.com/site/weekofoutrage/rock-in-the-new-year-with-resistance-to-police-murder-3
#NYE2015PROTEST. The difference between wanting in on this system or wanting out! #blacklivesmatter #AntonioMartin
‘You’re either a cop or little people’: The American police state in 2014
Previous in moderation, oh well.
Could be relevant, should the movement remain alivE: Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
F.B.I. Evidence Is Often Mishandled, an Internal Inquiry Finds
I’m sure the FBI is not alone in this.
Recap of the Antonio Martin press conferene: Police: Multiple witnesses say Antonio Martin pulled gun on officer
Protesting at the St Louis PD:
https://twitter.com/deray/status/550353994141294592
https://twitter.com/deray/status/550335644082249728
They read an eviction notice: https://twitter.com/deray/status/550335983271415809
https://twitter.com/deray/status/550338839303036930
https://twitter.com/deray/status/550343113223319553
https://twitter.com/deray/status/550347688760197120
They were greeted with tasers: https://twitter.com/deray/status/550347372140580864
Oh, the bogus story about the kill-the-cops protest chant? Fox 45 fires crew behind the bogus ‘kill a cop’ story
Think of the children!!!! ‘Die In’ Activists Urged Not to Traumatize Kids at Boston’s First Night
Yes, think of the poor families being forced to watch activists doing their thing. Never mind those parents who were forced to watch their children die or see their dead children. Never mind them, others are trying to have fun.
The Benefits of Fewer NYPD Arrests
<a href="http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/newcomers-reflect-their-first-months-st-louis"?Newcomers Reflect On Their First Months In St. Louis
How the whole world protested in 2014. Awesome pictures of protest from around the world (as the title indicates), incl. #BlackLivesMatter protests. Suitably dramatic for a new year’s eve.
More from STL:
Officers are refusing to give names to Legal Aid. Metro PD.
Arrest. Metro PD.
Standoff.
This is the kind of racist craziness that comes my way. Keep it classy Gary… Don’t have time to transcribe, but the letter ends with ‘Fuck you n*gg*r’. Kind of says it all.
Street shutdown.
Riot police. Metro PD.
Riot police guard the Metro PD. America.
Not a name tag in sight RT @deray: Where. Are. The. Badges? Metro PD.
Almost funny. How to get rid of the old year. See last frame.
Police Pepper Spray Protesters Who Try To Rush Station Lobby, autoplay video.
When I was little, I was at a balloon vigil/protest, though back then, it was in honour of the Baltic states. Always left an impression, those balloons going up in the air, and what my parents said they stood for. Black balloons, that time.
Dotson and Belmar. Balloon vigil. America.
Pics & Video from protesters attempt to occupy @SLMPD HQ this morning (that’s the video I posted above).
Then, from the vigil, several speakers of varying calibre.
“We will not stop until someone is held accountable for violence that is done in our city!” – Chief Dotson
James Clark says that we are hypocritical to only be upset when police kill people but “we accept when we kill each other.” Wow.
To which people replied: @deray people are upset because when police kill they are NOT held accountable,unlike when blacks kill other black. #Ferguson #MarchOn and along those lines.
Co-worker @KoranAddo took big shot of pepper spray today covering protest, back reporting short time later #dedicated .
Ha. Fearless Protester @deray Is STL’s Tank Man Reminding Police The Movement Is Alive #Ferguson pic @KWRose.
Demonstrators stage die-in in Boston’s Copley Square ahead of annual First Night festivities #BlackLivesMatter.
The First Lady of the church noted that “protests and riots” won’t bring about change, but “prayer and Jesus” will. To which protestors replied that Jesus was an organizer, and his disciples – protestors. And that she should read her bible more closely.
Update: Police say 18 people arrested for ‘impeding flow of traffic’ outside of St. Louis Police headquarters; protesters have dispersed.
Protesters push through security at courthouse
Protest is fundamentally community-building. Community-building is the movement. If you protest and do not build community, it is awry.
Re: “protests and riots” won’t bring change – @deray “I prayed for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” -Frederick Douglass
Group of helmeted police, some holding batons, on 34th and 6th. Demonstrators a few blocks south #NYE2015PROTEST
Peaceful protestors confronted w mase taunting police & a helicopter #BlackLivesMatter @deray @Ent73Michael
Revolutionary criminologist (@JWilliams004) looking to interview men in STL (@DrHillaryPotter is interviewing women)
@dangainor @RonReavesJr @NVCopBlock @deray Cops in STL even pepper sprayed news photographers. Threatened?
29 people were arrested at the Metro PD today.
This car got stuck in the middle of the protest. Downtown STL. Honestly, I just like the car.
Protest. First night. STL.
Die In. First night.
1098. Final total of cops killing in 2014. A 21 to 1 ratio blacks to whites; half mentally ill; 40% unarmed. #BlackLivesMatter #Ferguson
Re: previous, here’s the list.
December 30, another one, Jerame Reid: Wife of man fatally shot by Bridgeton police says, ‘My biggest fear has come true’.
Here’s the Daily Journal, Millville man, 36, killed by police gunfire in Bridgeton
Another child without a father.
Invisible no more…we reclaim First Night as Our Night. We have removed the barriers at Delmar.
The PD shut down the page that showed Rossomanno’s military history? lol. It’s too late for that. #ferguson Rossomanno, FYI, was an extremely aggressive officer at the Metro PD in St Louis yesterday.
Since last night, they’ve deactivated the link showing Sgt. Brian Rossomanno’s deep military background. What’s to hide Rossomanno?
MAKE 2015 THE YEAR OF RESISTANCE. Sign the pledge:
In case you missed it, this is Sgt. Rossomanno arresting a legal observer last night. Watch. Vine video at the link.
Article about the financial consequences of saying ‘Black’ vs ‘African-American’. At first glance it might not seem this article is appropriate here, but it speaks to the biases and assumptions made about Black people in the United States.
Good news: there’s been a 94% drop in racial profiling arrests in NYC / Bad news: NYPD thinks they are punishing people by “striking”;
Overheard:”If they let these guys do what they wanted…” “Don’t say that, they’re locking people up for making threats.”
Look what they did with this U.S. flag:
In a move that could set a terrible precedent for free speech, BART is suing activists over #BlackLivesMatter protest, Link: BART Directors: When it comes to ending the war on Black communities, which side are you on?
More elaboration at the link.
One of the signs at the Support the Police rally downtown at the STL City pd. #Ferguson
Yup, there was a rally to support police. A touch more later.
Aside: Report: Cop Turned Himself In For Allegedly Attacking MTA Worker At Subway Station
Man charged for posting ‘terroristic threats’ on Twitter
Breaking: activists participate in #BlackLivesMatter die-in at Wheaton Mall MD @naturallyelsa @MJiffar ;
Just got a call that my big sis @2liveunchained was targeted by the police and arrested today AFTER an action #DCFerguson. After that action at the Wheaton Mall, that is.
Reminder: It’s A New Year And Protests Are Still Raging Across America
Has a quick little roundup of actions around the country. Nice to see.
KKK: Much of David Duke’s ’91 Campaign Is Now in Louisiana Mainstream
Mmhm,, right.
This is what happens when #blacklivesmatter tries to go to the #RoseParade. Happy 2015! Nothing’s changed. #FTP;
The part of the #RoseParade mainstream media won’t show. #Policestate
NYPD turn their backs on their mayor, threaten strikes,meanwhile in little ol’ Pittsburgh our police chief is like… (see picture).
End-of-Year Round-up for Ferguson Protests: More than 600 Arrests, At Least 18 Still in Jail with Serious Charges. Those are pretty big numbers.
I’m hearing that Sgt. Rossomanno is at the 2pm pro-police rally at the Metro PD today.
I’ve seen one black person at this rally in downtown St. Louis, and here she is, with Rossomano:
See, this isn’t about “intimidating” Sgt. Rossomanno. This is about showing you that police brutality has a face, a name, a history.
Y’all, Sgt. Rossomanno’s company JUST posted this on their facebook page. Can’t make it up. America.
Rossomanno’s company website, with his bio: 0311 Tactical Solutions
(the bio kind of ends like that – and this is a guy meant to keep the peace on the streets… or something).
Local politicians get a lesson in how policemen work
See that last little bit. Conflict of interest? :P
*snicker* to anybody but a bigoted RWA.
Y’all. I’ll share this without commentary. Sgt. Rossomanno. America. Police. STL.
Now. This. Remember, they’ve been deleting Facebook comments all day long. Sgt. Rossomanno.
@deray 0311 Tactical Solutions; why they took their website down.
NYC Labor May Break With Police Union. Oh, good for them, if they do.
.@SLMPD sprayed EVERYONE today even photographers. @stltoday photog @PDPJ trying to recover @deray #Ferguson #ABanks
The Birth of a New Civil Rights Movement
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/i-am-tired-of-being-profiled-nyc-fashion-photographer-faces-weapon-charges-over-jewelry/
People donated half a million dollars to the murderous thug Darren Wilson, but for Andre Perry, a guy arrested on some fucking outlandish charges, he can’t even raise the necessary funds for a lawyer.
13-year-old black teen writes letter to Santa, gets response from President Obama
Here is the full text of his letter (as it appears in the link above; so no, I did not make any corrections):
The President’s response:
The article closes out with some good news for Malik:
Tony
It’s good news for Malik, but in the long run, it will not help all the other black teens out there worried for their own safety. Malik’s letter was distributed via the internet and he got lucky (yes, I say lucky), but there are so many others, in slightly better or worse situations, who will never see an ounce of help because they are invisible. The security of all of these children should be Obama’s priority, and the best way to ensure their security is to change the racist system in place (what a task!).
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I would like to thank the @NYPD for its “virtual work stoppage.” Racial profiling arrests have dropped off 94 percent. Exemplary! Great numbers, NYPD! *applause* Oh, you mean that wasn’t your point?
Let’s remember Shaneka Thompson, too: Ex-Girlfriend of Man Who Killed Two NYPD Police Officers Released From Hospital.
Soundbite – Anti-Protester Edit
Check the Post-Dispatch’s headline describing the Pro Police Rally. I shouldn’t be, but I’m actually shocked. Friendly crowd, it says. Police return the favour, it says. But then there was that sign I posted yesterday… The link to the article: Friendly crowd gathers in St. Louis to support police, who return the favor
The respect they deserve? The respect they cannot return to people a few shades darker than themselves and to those who have a different opinion on their respect-worthiness. And “I support the police, not thugs” counts as a friendly sign? Right.
The NYPD Might Inadvertently Prove ‘Broken Windows’ Theory Is A Sham
Yesterday at the PD, some photos:
STL Police defend headquarters with mace at direct action Dec. 31 (@LBPhoto1) (sorry that’s from the previous action);
More pix from rally in support of the police outside @SLMPD HQ today, about 150 people showed up.
There were arrests, of a sort. The officers who arrested Smoochie roughed her up. She was taken to the hospital before the jail. #ThinkMOOR #DCFerguson #FreeSmoochie
Ha ha. #NYC residents to #NYPD:
And I’m so tired of seeing “it’s going to take more than protesting.” Aight, nigga, we know.
Actually it begins with a bullet fired from hate and ends in hashtag in this age. | @deray
Seen in Burlington, Vermont. Second whitest state in the nation. #blacklivesmatter @deray @ShaunKing. “Black Lives Matter” graffitti on a wall.
@deray tacsol responded to my quick email.
@chriskingstl @deray Yes, and it looks like some employees of 0311 Tactical have police discipline records.
@deray Deeba and Rossomanno talking tough, but clearly under their skin. What is hidden will come to light. #corrupt
Art: 2014 Person of The Year “The Ferguson Protesters” (version 1) got a few more versions coming…stay tuned.
Aside: CEO of Revlon Believes He Can ‘Smell’ Blacks When They Walk into a Room: Lawsuit Claims. Among other rather racially charged statements.
Tamir Rice Shooting: Cleveland Seeks To Outsource Deadly Force Investigations
Is this a good thing? I can’t really tell.
St Louis man arrested over alleged Twitter threats against police
And to compound the grief of the family, Girlfriend of Fairfield man killed in Wal-Mart dies in New Year’s crash (that’s John Crawford III they’re talking about).
Oprah is waiting on leaders from Ferguson to arise. And that is astonishing. I’m not mad. Today, I’m hurt.
rq @175:
On the surface it appears to be. But can we trust another police department to conduct a fair and balanced investigation into complaints of excessive force by police officers? The cynic in me says “no”.
Grappling honestly with U.S. history (3:16 Video)
Tony
That’s my inner conflict, too. If there was some independent, impartial entity to do it, yes. But just outsourcing to the neighbouring cops? How will that help?
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Oprah said something about leadership, and I don’t know what iti s exactly yet, but some early responses (incl. pretty severe disappointment in Oprah):
I watched Selma and really connected with the role Oprah chose to play in the movie. I saw my great great grandma in that role.
Oprah is waiting on leaders from Ferguson to arise. And that is astonishing. I’m not mad. Today, I’m hurt.
Damn. Whew. That like really just messed me up. I love and respect that black woman so much and today my image of her is truly ruined.
.@RonONealDC not just me. It’s countless folks making this movement move. Her comment erases everyone. Everyone.
Martin wasn’t the only leader. Malcolm wasn’t the only leader. There were many.
There was different groups with different leaders in the 60s. Y’all looking for an MLK when the MLK you know didn’t exist in the 60s either.
Tired of folks reciting black history white supremacy decides we get to know. Tired of it.
“Quit with the respectability bullshit.. There’s absolutely nothing that will save you from racism” – @crissles #TheRead
“i’m waiting on a leader” really means “i’m waiting on the mainstream media to tell me who they have crowned the leader”. @Oprah
very specific lists of changes, improvements and demands have been stated publicly. but she’s “waiting”.
also…when a “leader” is made the face, it turns into “silence the leader, silence the movement”. i’d fight that posturing at all turns.
too many flaws in the “leadership” paradigm. Bayard Rustin is often ignored in discussing the CRM…and he was HUGE.
so why would people not consider one of the main planners, organizers, and tactical geniuses of the movement a “leader”? he was gay. smh
Did not know that last. I sense google in my near future.
Video that isn’t working for me: Why we need independent prosecutors in officer-involved shootings.
It came with this tweet, so I may just be doing the link wrong.
Wow, I’m completely in awe of the activists in #Ferguson for pulling off today’s action. The Link: BREAKING: “Doors Stormed” Ferguson Protesters have Occupied the STL Police Department
The eviction notice is at the link, along with other video and pictures and the livestream recording.
More on Jerame Reid: Authorities ID man killed in Bridgeton police involved shooting
Another ‘rookie’ cop. I wonder how much of a rookie he will actually turn out to be?
New York:
Die-in happening now outside FOX News/Newscorp. #BlackLivesMatter
Another die-in, this time outside the barricades. #BlackLivesMatter
Protesters DieIn outside the caged area #NYC on @Our_Friend_Ken Take that #NYPD #BlackLivesMatter @AnonRastaFTP
Press Release: Upcoming Town Halls Focus on Policing in St. Louis Region
Via Tony, it’s nothing particularly new, but the presentation is good: Watch This Y.A. Author Break Down Racism in America by the Numbers
What sustained this discussion? Every direct protest action. Every open letter. Every march. Every rally. Every insightful tweet.
More on Rossomanno and his company (I believe the actual officer being discussed is not Rossomanno but someone he hired for his other company):
How can you have ex-police officers, fired for sending racist emails showing/training policy makers on what a “day in the life” is like?
The racist email was sent out after Obama was elected &uses the phrase “Ni&&ER lover”.These are the people we count on to fairly police POC?
The PO responsible for sending those emails was fired by @SLMPD & essentially hired back as an independent consultant, teaching tactical.
The @SLMPD has been sending more & more officers to this racist lead tactical training site to “deal with” #Ferguson protesters.
Albuquerque police haven’t killed anyone in 5 months, this is some kind of record for them. As previously established, Albuquerque has the killingest police force of them all in America.
From History (TW!!!), James Meredith…..moments after being shot by a sniper while leading a march to encourage Blacks to vote. (1966)
So they talked about it, and now they’re doing it: Cleveland hands off probe into boy’s shooting
‘No way of knowing’ would be true, as the officer behind the wheel was driving a mite too fast and braking a touch too hard for them to get a clear look as they rolled out the car door weapons-ready and trigger-happy. *sigh*
Tanisha Anderson’s Death, At Hands Of Police, Ruled A Homicide
Does ‘legal intervention’ simply mean that cops were involved? Or is there some other meaning behind that phrase?
We’ve seen it, but here it is again, police do not need to know the law. Court Rules for a Mistaken Police Officer
Hmm, that last bit rings a bit off to me, since police especially should know the law and should know their own limits within that law, and should be the first to not overstep those limits. But I’m not a lawyer, judge OR police officer, so what do I know.
In California, remember those cops who went undercover then pulled guns on protestors? California police lied about #BlackLivesMatter protesters ‘posing with guns, explosives’; the link: After weeks of pestering for the alleged tweets, the CHP finally told me they had disappeared. The reality: they never existed in the first place.
This and that else at the link.
My friend just texted me that a major brawl is happening at a bar. No NYPD to be found. Crazy that they’re mad they can’t kill w/ impunity.
In memo to all NYPD cops, Commish Bratton warned them not to turn their back on Mayor: “A hero’s funeral is about grieving, not grievance.”
It’s not just black people, but the disadvantaged in general, esp. those with mental illness: MD Grand Jury Refuses Indictment Of Cop Who Killed Man With Down Syndrome Because He Wouldn’t Leave Movie
Old one: Haunting pic of an empty Mall of America with arrest warning on the jumbotron following #BlackLivesMatter shut down.
Oklahoma lawmakers want to ban hoodies.
Damn, for a minute there I thought they were going to ban the burqa, too.
There was another shooting in the area #BrandonTateBrown died in last Sunday. The outcome was a tad bit different. In other words, visibly armed and threatening white guy does not die in encounter with police. SOORPREEZ!!!
In St Louis – Are candidates for the Board of Aldermen representative of their ward’s racial make up?
Just some protestor-activist faces: 2015. The crew. Protest. (@Nettaaaaaaaa @MsPackyetti @kidnoble @RE_invent_ED @WyzeChef)
Manhattan Man Calls 911, Says He’s “Dying To Kill NYPD,” Attys Say
Via Wonkette, Smirking Thug Who Attacked Lady Subway Worker Was An NYPD Cop, Surprise!
Thank you, media, for that lovely comparison in reporting.
Protesters demonstrate outside St. Louis Police Headquarters.
Some ‘interesting’ language in that article.
thisisthemovement, installment #69:
One of the most important (and under emphasized) aspects of the protest taking place is the empowering effects that it’s having on children.
Ferguson movement drafts its own blueprint
Today we march for Ryan Ronquillo – unarmed, killed by DPD at his friend’s funeral. Dress warm & join. #DenverForFerguson #BlackLivesMatter
Press release from #BlackBrunch action organized by Black UC Berkeley students. #BlackLivesMatter #Ferguson2Cal
What service! A wake up call and everything! #OccupyLAPD #Day5 #BlackLivesMatter #Justice4Ezell
#BlackBrunch protest ongoing on Berkeley’s 4th St RT @BylineGraph: Singing, marching into Peets #ferguson2berkeley
New records show Police Officer, who shot #DontreHamilton 14x, was investigated by police internal affairs on 17 separate allegations prior
Where are the cops? Not cops anymore. Whistleblower Cop Fired For Calling Out Corruption In Her Department
NYPD Officer Speaks Out on Fellow Cops Who Turned Backs to Mayor & Why People of Color Fear Police (how is he back on patrol)??? (you have to scroll down for the video). WARNING for heavy racism at that link.
Nicki Minaj on Black Artists Speaking Out: ‘Look What Happened to Kanye’
It troubles me that even in the movement space some won’t accept that women and men are leading TOGETHER in powerful ways.
Justice Department Announces National Effort to Build Trust Between Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve – from September 2014.
Post-racial? Ijs @deray (graph at link on the War on Drugs)
Appropriation? Jewish Atheist’s Controversial T-Shirt: “I Met God, She’s Black”.
Former US Senator Edward W. Brooke dies at 95
I haven’t said ‘Thanks’ in a while.
Thank you.
You’re welcome.
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Witness Says NJ Man Killed by Police During Traffic Stop Had Hands Up (this is Jerame Reid we’re talking about here).
US Department of Justice report on the Orleans Parish Prison System in New Orleans, Louisiana. Because this: Dying at OPP: 44 inmates dead in 9 years.
Maybe another one? GUYS PLEASE RT. Matt may have been murdered by police in Georgia while in custody. #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeforMatt He was bipolar, having an episode, his gf called 911 to take him to the hospital, instead the cops took him to jail, where he died. If not incompetence or outright assault, then it was definitely negligence in denying him medical care.
TW on this one… It kind of fits, kind of doesn’t (no cops involved) – mysterious death of black teenager athlete – A Death in Valdosta
The Berkeley Cop Who Shot and Killed Antonio Martin is Andrew Weusthoff
On Edward Brooke again: Edward Brooke, First Black Man Elected To US Senate, Dead At 95.
Managing Large-Scale Security Events: A Planning Primer for Local Law Enforcement Agencies. In case anyone knows a law enforcement agency planning for large-scale security events.
I wonder if this patch, strengthens the case for a permanent injunction against the Police. @ArchCityDefense.
From history: Protests never create progress. #FactCheckThat @deray
Mano Singham in Behind the New York City police slowdown points to a supposedly excellent article by Matt Taibbi here, quoting a piece of it in his post, too. (I say ‘supposedly’ because my work computer insists the article is ‘Entertainment’ and thus is not allowing me access to it. Boo.)
Fan-generated or not, I’m not sure if this was in good taste (mildly put) considering the current re-awoken political issues in America: Madonna defends altered Instagram pics of Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela.
Also, police shootings and poor interaction with the mentally ill – not just for the States anymore. Mother remembers Ian Pryce, shot by police in 2013 with a pellet gun in his hand
What. An. Absolute. Mess.
Mayor Bill de Blasio draws salutes at slain NYPD officer’s wake
Well… that’s nice of him, I suppose.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/01/03/374564307/the-goal-to-remember-each-jim-crow-killing-from-the-30s-on
Gotta run to work, so I haven’t had the chance to read any further.
Via Tony, Al Sharpton is being paid thousands of dollars to not cry ‘racism’ at large corporations, it is claimed
Didn’t know Macy’s, General Motors and Pfizer had/were lakes.
Death of mentally ill Cleveland woman in police restraint ruled homicide
17 horrible things people said weren’t racist in 2014
Includes outrage over the new Annie, blackface, brown and black immigrants ruining everything for white people, a black president and black movies, gang signs, black people as props, and much, much more.
Stuart Scott Accepts Jimmy V Award, video at the link – in memoriam. For so many of us, Stuart Scott was a model of what was possible for Black journalists. He showed that we could be ourselves and succeed.
I mentioned the mysterious death of Kendrick Johnson (see “A Death in Valdosta” above) @deray I’ve been following this case. The article failed to mention the 3 videos with an avg of ~4 hrs missing data. And KJ’s missing organs. If you look at some of the replies, there’s all kinds of weirdness about the case (and I’m not talking about chemtrails and Halliburton).
Charlotte-Mecklenburg. North Carolina. Sunday, January 4th. Officer Involved Shooting.
Threat Of Protests Moves St. Louis County Inaugurations
THE PEOPLE DEMAND TRANSPARENCY FOR GARNER GRAND JURY (Facebook event but doesn’t require login)
A few links with more information and context at the site.
Youtube video: The New Year’s Eve Countdown to 2015 at Downtown LA’s Grand Park! The projected phrase “#BlackLivesMatter” appears for a short while at 2.30, then for over a minute starting at 3.20, with a green laser pointer emphasizing it; at about 4.50, the phrase “Disarm The Police” is projected. This is AWESOME.
So NYPD cops were a model of restraint and respect once again, during the funeral of the second murdered officer, after explicit requests (well, explicit public requests, as who knows what he said in private) from Bratton not to make any protest-like statements during the funeral – and the officer’s widow also madea special request for no gestures during the funeral. Well, here’s some tweetage on what actually happened:
NYPD turn there backs on NYC Mayor @BilldeBlasio again after widow already asked you guys not to. #SHAME #NYPD (alternate caption: The donut’s siren song proved to be too strong for some NYPD officers.
@itsmepanda1 @deray You can’t have a conversation if you turn your back. Its childish. Period.
The NYPD is too cowardly to organize their own protest. So they hijack the funeral of their slain brothers.
Would the NYPD have disrupted those funerals if the officers slain had been Smith and Johnson instead of Ramos and Liu? Just wondering.
I never thought anyone would out asshole the Westboro Baptists in the funeral protesting department. I vastly underestimated the NYPD.
mtc…
It should be pointed out Brown’s Family requested a day of peace & we wouldn’t even hack on that day. So who has more respect? | @deray
@deray @aymanndotcom & Liu’s widow expressly asked them not to turn his funeral into a political stunt. Shameful. Embarrassing. Despicable.
NYPD. Authority figures. DeBlasio. (good cartoon)
That blue line of solidarity the NYPD claims to honor apparently does not extend to respecting the wishes of the families of slain officers.
Some didn’t follow the crowd: Few & far between but you can spot the officers who went against the grain and didn’t turn their backs on the Mayor.
Police turn their backs on screens showing mayor as he addresses mourners @ NYPD Officer’s Liu funeral @aymanndotcom.
Ta-Nehisi Coates put it well the other day: “DeBlasio is being treated like a black parent.”
Via Lynna, Shootings by police vastly underreported in Utah and nationally
In Oakland, they went from restaurant to restaurant with their protest:
Stand up for black lives. At Forge. #BlackBrunch #oakland
Stand up for black lives. Boca Nova. #BlackBrunch #oakland
Hella folks stood up for black lives at Lungomare. #BlackBrunch #oakland
Cops behaving badly and getting wrist-slapped for it – TW for sexual assault on a child – This is How Child Molesting Cops are Treated in a Corrupt Police State.
Someone recently asked an elder, “How do we keep the movement alive?” to which the elder replied, “The police will do it for you.”
At the intersection of being black, mental illness, and policing, lies a whole stack of horror.
On youtube, A Mother’s Mission: The Shooting of Milton Hall (NSFW) .
Here’s another on the use of deadly force on mentally ill people (not a video). Deadly Force, Police, and the Mentally Ill. It’s a four-part series, of which this is the first part.
Youtube video, LAPD murders Omar Abrego (Warning: Graphic)
If you watch the Omar Abrego video, it is … I have no words. Two officers already have him down, soon there are six practically on top of him, trying to hold him down though he is obviously not going anywhere, and then they start arriving, more and more and more of them, just crowding in and around, like vultures. And Omar dies.
Martin Luther King Day -19/01/2015 #BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe #BeReady
I think that the police may be reviewing all of the footage they’ve recorded of protestors and will begin making random arrests. I wouldn’t be surprised, really.
Y’all, if the police do begin making random arrests based off of age-old protest footage, the protests will intensify and never end.
I have no interest in a ‘New’ Civil Rights movement, but I’m totally down for a Black Freedom and/or Liberation movement #justbeinghonest
Also, just because Happy New Year, police in Wichita killed another unarmed black man.
UPDATE: Man dies after confrontation with police
Another on the same: Man hurt in officer-involved shooting has died.
And someone almost witnessed it:
So the police stand-off I saw on my drive home last night resulting in the officer shooting an unarmed man to death, seconds after I passed.
Passed police officers with automatic rifles drawn at single suspect on way home, 5ft from my car. Guns are dumb. Wonder if suspect had one.
More on police turning their backs on de Blasio — cross posted from the Lounge.
Police union members turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio again at another funeral. Way to protest inappropriately, police persons.
Link.
More cops behaving badly: BOSTON COP BEATS UBER DRIVER, STEALS CAR
There’s suspicion that it was an off-duty cop behaving like a racist idiot. And the BPD released a statement (at the link):
No mention of racial language used. Huh. Oh, and this is funny-but-not-funny: According to the @BostonGlobe one of the charges against the cop is “using a motor vehicle without authority” do they mean “stealing a car”? See, cops can’t even steal, they just use things without authority. :P
So they don’t just shoot black people, the cops. They shot a white guy in San Francisco: Officer-involved shooting near San Francisco’s Mission District Police Station
It was a pellet gun. See, white people? You shouldn’t play with guns, even when you’re an adult!!! And especially if you’re a cop.
More cops behaving badly: BOSTON COP BEATS UBER DRIVER, STEALS CAR
There’s suspicion that it was an off-duty cop behaving like a racist idiot. And the BPD released a statement (at the link):
No mention of racial language used. Huh. Oh, and this is funny-but-not-funny: According to the @BostonGlobe one of the charges against the cop is “using a motor vehicle without authority” do they mean “stealing a car”? See, cops can’t even steal, they just use things without authority. :P
So they don’t just shoot black people, the cops. They shot a white guy in San Francisco: Officer-involved shooting near San Francisco’s Mission District Police Station
It was a pellet gun. See, white people? You shouldn’t play with guns, even when you’re an adult!!! And especially if you’re a cop.
[picture of students protesting]
Something about this new addition to the #FergusonCommission feels side-eye worthy… They’ve added a (black) county police sergeant.
Tonight’s benefit raised $1035 for the family of #AntonioMartin to bury their son. #Ferguson
Do not forget that #VonDerritMyers DNA was not present on the alleged gun.
Mentioned upthread, but here’s an article on Matthew Ajibade, young man who died in police custody January 1st. Report: 22-Year Old Man Suffering A Bipolar disorder Dies In Police Custody!
McCullogh probably thought he’d have to get through a few more protests, and then things would quiet down, life would go on, the public would forget… Well, it seems things are heating up again.
Grand Juror Sues McCulloch, Says He Mischaracterized The Wilson Case
Here’s the Fox2 link – Michael Brown grand juror suing over lifetime gag order, with a link to the actual complaint, if any lawyerly types want to take a swing through it. (I will be posting tweets with excerpts later.)
** Note: The correct term is the ‘Darren Wilson Grand Jury’, as Darren Wilson was supposedly the one undergoing examination for indictment, not Michael Brown, but I’m sure I’ve made the mistake – though it would be nice if the media didn’t.
The ACLU: St. Louis County Grand Juror Challenges Lifetime Gag Order.
This is from a while ago, but probably still relevant: St Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch’s office says records I’ve requested aren’t public, and if a court rules they are, I’d need to pay $12,000.
Coming to Terms With My Father’s Racism
And that’s how it ends.
But more on suing McCullogh:
So far this morning, @stltoday, @FOX2now, & @stlpublicradio have all mischaracterized the Darren Wilson grand jury as the Michael Brown GJ. So yes, that’s where I got that from.
Number 37 is important., where paragraph 37 reads: “Plaintiff’s views would add to the public debate – occurring in Missouri and across the country – about the proper role of state grand juries and whether they continue to serve their original purpose of protecting the accused, or are now increasingly used to deprive those accused of crimes of due process to which they are otherwise entitled.” (tpyos mine)
This is the shot across the bow paragraph. Paragraph 34, in other words, where Plaintiff desires to speak about the experiences of being a grand juror and to delve into the details of McCullogh’s mischaracterisations (condensed version mine). It ends with the thought that evidence was presented to insinuate that Brown was the wrongdoer, not Wilson, and that the GJ was never clearly counselled on the law.
This seems to be signaling a majority of the GJ did want to charge Darren Wilson but they couldn’t agree on charges. A list of sentences saying how a majority of 9/12 are needed to indict, and that at no point were there less than 4 dissenting voices for an indictment – implying, of course, that the grand jury members were not as single-minded in their ‘no indictment’ result as McCullogh presents to the public. A bit more to follow.
Interesting. The lawsuit cites the Jack-in-the-Box police shootings as precedent of McCulloch not being transparent. Yup, it says that explicitly (citing the date of the incident, rather than the common name). How McCullogh before promised transparency and apparently failed to deliver.
Racism elsewhere – namely, Pittsburgh: This Is The Generic Anti-Racism Sign That Outraged Pittsburgh’s Police Union
Then it talks about NYC. Pandering to the community, though? The police should do more of that, actually, since so little of it seems to be at the expense of the police community.
toni morrison reminding you #blacklivesmatter & so does black theory. People, not aliens – active agents, not props or storylines.
Interlude: Keshia Knight Pulliam Fired From Celebrity Apprentice for Not Talking to Bill Cosby.
So basically, for having a sense of decency – and his raping past actually makes the appearance of this episode in the final show rather mystifying, the article notes.
Interlude 2: Two Baltimore police motorcycles crash in Elizabeth, police say. They’re fine, though. Alive and to recover fully.
Shaun King has a string of tweets on the latest McCullogh fiasco.
NEW STORY : 7 St. Louis residents file a legal complaint against Prosecutor Bob McCulloch for 15 counts of misconduct. I understand this is separate from the previously mentioned suit. Mentions misplaced/lost evidence, improper counselling, and presenting witnesses known to be untruthful and/or not actually witnesses.
Knowing full well that several members of the grand jury thought Darren Wilson should be charged tell me why Bob McCulloch never inferred it;
Give me a rational reason why Bob McCulloch would threaten charges to jurors if they spoke up, but refuse to charge perjured witnesses.
How St. Louis Prosecutor Bob McCulloch broke the law when he knowingly called a witness to commit perjury. Lists the criteria for perjury and how McCullogh fulfills all of them.
Relatedly, You have to remember McCulloch said he knew witness #40, Sandy McElroy, never witnessed the shooting, but called her to testify TWICE anyway;
If Prosecutor Bob McCulloch refuses to charge witness #40 for committing perjury 100+ times, how could he charge jurors for speaking out?
And Shaun King on DailyKos: 58-point lawsuit filed by juror in Darren Wilson case against St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch
Basically another link to the pdf document (at the link).
Early protesters line up for silent wall against police terrorism before 3:30pm @libbyformayor #Oakland inauguration.
.@BLMLA #OccupyLAPD protesters were arrested trying to take letters to LAPDHQs front desk for Beck. They were told the building was closed.
However, after seeing multiple civilians come in and out of LAPDHQs .@BLMLA decided to walk in to deliver their letters and were arrested.
7 Things I Can Do That My Black Son Can’t.
This part of the grand juror’s lawsuit is in reference to what the Post-Dispatch uncovered about the 2000 grand jury.
thisisthemovement, installment #70:
1. This grand juror suit against the Ferguson prosecutor is significant and strengthens the legal case for a new prosecutor;
2. It alleges that McCulloch’s team acted as defense attorneys, are misrepresenting the views and deliberations of the grand jurors…;
3. …& failed to properly instruct the grand juror’s on the law. This all supports the idea that prosecutors were biased toward the defense.
And last for tonight, from the CBC: Wenjian Liu funeral: Mayor eulogizes slain NYPD officer as police turn backs.
Latest Episode The Book of Negroes series preview – I can’t even watch it online from my location, but if anyone has a chance/the opportunity, can you let me know if it’s any good? I’d love to see it.
And this popped up on the CBC, a propos of rancom coincidence – 1965: Malcolm X on Front Page Challenge.
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shocker. I’m glad someone is finally doing something about it, but this was blatantly obvious from the beginning; hell even McCulloch himself made it clear!
he even implied it’s what he would do if the governor did not remove him as prosecutor, which of course the governor did not do, since they are good buddies.
so, this lawsuit SHOULD include the governor as a defendant IMO.
I was saying this was what happened from the day after the grand jury proceedings were made public.
same exact thing happened in NY.
re rq’s #217:
Here’s the source article from KMOV that Shaun King’s tweet referenced: Several Missouri residents file bar complaint against McCulloch’s office
That’s basically the entire article. The Missouri OCDC complaint process is described here.
The Missouri Court Rules of Professional Conduct referenced above: Link
For the grand juror’s lawsuit challenging the gag order, see the ACLU’s press release here. Shaun King’s Daily Kos article here has the lawsuit via Scribd. The ACLU has it available for download as a PDF: Direct link
More from the grand juror’s lawsuit, which copy/paste a lot more easily from the Scribd version.
Attachments to the lawsuit include the relevant Missouri statutes, the transcript of Prosecutor McCulloch’s press conference on November 24, and the letter from McCulloch’s office concerning transparency and release of materials in the case of a non-indictment under Missouri’s Sunshine Law. The first page attached is the oath taken by grand jurors in the state of Missouri.
thanks to Daily Kos, some more information about the misconduct complaints. KMOX: Bar Complaint Filed Against McCulloch
Say this headline while speaking through nose to get full effect: RT @peterfhart: Someone frame this headline. The headline: “White men have stories to tell, too”.
What Oprah missed when she criticized the Ferguson protests
US Map of Black-Owned banks: [link redacted for the end] #MoveYourMoney #BlackLivesMatter (h/t @deray & @Nettaaaaaaaa), the link: U.S. Map of Black-Owned Banks.
The MOMENT you know you found the best day care center for your little person: [has a vertical display entitled “Ode to the Youth of Ferguson” with MLK pictures on it and such].
Bloomington – It’s our duty to fight for our brothers. We have nothing to lose but our chains. #BlackLivesMatter @mnnoc @ISAIAHMN ;
City Attorney says she won’t listen to political pressure as doing so is discriminatory. @bloomington_mn #BlackLivesMatter #chargemetoo
And I love that Minneapolis protestors attended the Bloomington Council Meeting to discuss the potential protestor criminal charges.
City of Bloomington Prosecutor, Sandra Johnson, apparently told media she will charge 12 people by the end of this week. #BlackLivesMpls
Speaker: “The city of Bloomington will be on the wrong side of history if it puts commerce ahead of people.” #BlackLivesMpls #chargemetoo.
So I’m not entirely sure what happened there, that’s how it showed up on my timeline, but it seems that there is a boycott in the making.
Also, I’m not sure what this means:
And I stand with @MillennialAU (@bdoulaoblongata and @MusicOverPeople) and others in the decision to stop feeding the state bail money.
@akacharleswade @MillennialAU @bdoulaoblongata @MusicOverPeople The leadership & members of @UnitedFrontRev also stand w/this decision.
Activist organizers receive hate-mail of the racist kind: *Iyanla voice* “Who hurt you, beloved?” “@deray: Today, at my office, I received this mail. America. #Ferguson ” If you can, check the pictures.
This: Again, we don’t have a manual. There was no blueprint that dropped out of the sky on August 9th telling us what to do or how to react. NONE. They’re doing pretty good, in my opinion.
This is from end-of-September. Police In Ferguson Lock Up Peaceful Daytime Protesters By Mistake, Chief Testifies. Think an ‘oops, sorry’ will cut it?
Makes me wonder if they can use that new ‘but I didn’t know the law’ defense that just became allowable for officers in December or so.
Now the NYPD can point to the danger of their job once more: 2 NYPD officers shot responding to robbery in the Bronx, expected to survive
And as interlude, this is the website of Neil Kenlock, photographer:
Buzzfeed: Staten Island Judge Will Hear Arguments About Releasing Eric Garner Documents
I must say, the bashing of the bail fund today was probably the most confusing and problematic discussion I’ve seen in a long time. (This relates to the first couple of links of previous post, which is, unfortunately, in moderation.)
New York: The police filmed this entire peaceful protest, btw. #GrandCentral #CarryTheNames into the New Year #BlackLivesMatter;
Los Angeles: Small and mighty #OccupyLAPD encampment endures. Can’t kill the movement! #BlackLivesMatter @BLMLA
St Louis Public Radio: McCulloch, Two Assistants Face Ethics Complaint Over Darren Wilson Grand Jury
Well, then, time to set a precedent!
Just the Washington Post on the same: Grand juror in Darren Wilson case sues for right to speak out.
Family of man shot by Wichita officer says police escalated situation
That’s John Paul Quintero, over in Kansas City, to clarify.
US prison population up 800% since launch of War on Drugs. Nice handy graph previously posted via Twitter link, now via BoingBoing.
HuffPo on Oklahoma’s proposed hoodie ban: Wearing A Hoodie In Oklahoma Could Soon Cost You A $500 Fine
Mic.com : One State Is About To Make It Illegal to Wear a Hoodie
Nothing in there about police who remove or hide their name badges when they put on the riot gear, speaking of being anonymous in public for the purpose of harassment.
NYPD Officer Turns Himself in After Attacking MTA Employee
Will there be ANY charges?
Banner hanging at Stanford Law School #BlackLivesMatter
To be clear, 2 separate complaints have been filed against Bob McCulloch today. 1 from a grand juror & another from 7 St. Louis residents.
Consistent reporting of crime drops in New York is scary. Crime can’t drop forever. God help us when this ends. The link: Has Oprah been living under a rock? The post-Ferguson movement will make history in 2015
It all seems optimistic.
Murders in New York Drop to a Record Low, but Officers Aren’t Celebrating
Followed by a more detailed look at crime stats and levels comparing 2014 with 2013 and other years, too.
Wondering if public is prepared for inevitability of a crime rise in New York.
Bleh, moderation.
Ferguson grand juror sues to talk publicly about how prosecutor mishandled the case. Basically another version of the lawsuit against McCullogh and his rather shitty handling of the grand jury.
Repost? McCulloch, Two Assistants Face Ethics Complaint Over Darren Wilson Grand Jury.
via Shakesville, Andrea Grimes writing in the Texas Observer: The Mental Gymnastics of Excusing White Men’s Violence
also via Shakesville: “What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized) Knowledge Production
Who will read it? *
Indeed, who will read it? Perhaps all those people hungry for that information – the friends, acquaintances and passers-by of those writing for that project. Because if there’s one person writing, there’s probably at least 20 people thinking it and searching for validation for those thoughts, though for some reason unable or unwilling to write themselves.
Yes, who will read it, I do wonder.
The most idiotic question ever.
And like shit,
This is why editors have jobs. And plenty of white people have terrible grammar, spelling and punctuation, and still get published to accolades (rather mysteriously, really). So I call bullshit on the publishing industry here.
(* I would read it, for one, just in case anyone’s wondering.)
More on #OccupyLAPD from the Guardian: Police shut down Black Lives Matter protest outside LAPD headquarters
LA Times:
Background to the conversation on Twitter about suspending the Ferguson bail fund… since police arrest protesters basically at will for any trivial or gamed-up offense, then charge thousands of dollars to release them, some activists are declaring they no longer intend to fund these corrupt practices by paying bail.
Background in this Bloomberg article from December 12, thanks to commenters in Charles Wade’s timeline:
Ferguson to Increase Police Ticketing to Close City’s Budget Gap
I’m also seeing via Twitter that the Ferguson police TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) has been extended for 45 days per a public hearing yesterday, meaning that police are still required to warn protesters and give them time to disperse before deploying tear gas. Twitter link 1, Twitter link 2, Original article on the TRO from Dec. 11.
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Thanks for that on the bail fund. I can understand why they don’t want to add to the system, but I’m worried for those who may be arrested or otherwise held with no financial means of getting out of jail. Or how that exactly may apply. :(
Also, re: not publishing works by authors of colour for silly reasons.
This, I think contributes mightily to white people’s ignorance about black people. They’ve shown themselves willing to write, willing to share, willing to provide information – but that information is not being distributed or disseminated to those who most need to be aware of it: white people (most especially those who don’t have access to or who don’t participate in any way in communities not their own). Granted, there is information already out there, but how much more would there be, if publishing houses weren’t so wary? Especially for those people who don’t have contact with any black people at all – if they can’t speak to them, the second best thing would be for them to read them, in order to understand, and perhaps be less afraid (or less susceptible to fear-mongering attempts).
As a person who loves information for information’s sake, I find this practice of censoring black people and refusing them a voice (read or not, because I’m sure there’s bestsellers by white people out there that could mitigate any losses on those supposedly unsellable books by black people) completely and utterly despicable and unforgiveable. Especially if coming from bigger publishing houses that could, in reality, afford to publish some books at a loss – and heck, maybe not even at a loss, if they invest in some decent marketing for them!
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rq – I’d guess the protesters will have to change tactics somehow, and/or simply warn people they may end up spending time in jail and talk about how to deal with that. In the Moral Monday protests in North Carolina, specific protesters who could handle it volunteered to be on the front lines most at risk of arrest… those who had social support, who could afford to be detained for a time, who had been in jail before and knew what to expect.
But more to the point, protests or no protests, Ferguson is clearly going back on those earlier community-meeting promises to ease up on nuisance ticketing to fill their budget. The residents simply have no way to avoid being caught and milked for cash, either as protesters or just while walking or driving around their own neighborhood. Which of course is a foundation of this whole mess.
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Breaking – an explosion this morning near a Colorado NAACP chapter, police and FBI investigating. Rawstory, Denver Post:
Yup for 245: BREAKING: An explosion has occurred near the headquarters of the NAACP in Colorado. Fears of racial retaliation.
Police, feds respond to explosion near Colorado Springs NAACP chapter.
VIDEO: How Prisons Rip Off And Exploit The Incarcerated.
Relevant to the above rE: no bail fund.
5 Times “Obeying the Law” in America was a Terrible Idea
Oops, it seems I doubled up on the Denver Post link. :P
thisisthemovement, installment #71:
Activists are receiving things that look an awful lot like death threats, sample: Today, this. The picture is rather fright-inducing.
This is the letter 2 women from .@BLMLA #OccupyLAPD were arrested for after trying to deliver to @LAPDChiefBeck. It’s barely a full page, asking for a meeting with the chief. And they got arrested for it.
Hey, speaking of the NAACP! NAACP wants new grand jury in Ferguson case
And via Kansas news outlet, NAACP calls for new Ferguson grand jury, investigation.
Comic called Lucky Strike, on the NYPD’s massive pout that has reduced unnecessary arrests – final panel has a cop saying “We’ll earn respect if we have to” as he helps an old lady across the street.
Engaged, informed, speaking up. @deaconessfound @MissouriSenate #moleg #ActiveAdvocacy.
This was supposed to have been the NAACP press release on the grand jury item above, but it’s not finding the page for me.
And here’s the pdf to the letter to Judge McShane, which won’t C&P for me to quote. :( Nine pages of detailed accusations against McCullogh and his team, though. Worth the read.
Cops keep misbehaving: Lawyer: Cops Break Woman’s Ribs for ‘Disrespect’ Over Incident Involving a Truck.
And was this posted? Cleveland Police Hand Off Investigation Into Tamir Rice Shooting.
BREAKING NEWS: FBI confirming an IED was used in explosion outside of Colorado Springs NAACP.
The story on Jerame Reid is slowly getting out: New Jersey Police Fatally Shoot Father To 3-Month-Old Baby During Traffic Stop (DETAILS), with autoplay video.
Indicative of the common knowledge that the media is not on our side: I heard an anchor on tonights NBC Nightly News, reporting on the officers in NY turning their backs yet again, say that it was due to de Blasio siding with the “anti-law protesters”.
What the fucking hell is that bullshit?
smdh
More on the NAACP’s open letter request to Missouri Circuit Court Judge Maura McShane, via Shaun King at Daily Kos: NAACP Legal Defense Fund files a potential game changer in the case against Darren Wilson
Scribd direct link
NAACP LDF press release: LDF Seeks Investigation of Darren Wilson Grand Jury Proceedings by 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri
PDF link to the letter as per rq’s #248: (Link)
Both copies of the open letter are images, so I can’t copy-paste from it, but I’ll work on transcribing a sample.
Here’s the core of point 2 of the NAACP LDF’s open letter, transcribed exactly as in the PDF to the best of my ability.
Muslims speak out against police brutality
All O.O @252 (I didn’t read it all last night because it was late, just skimmed, it is WORSE than I thought!).
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So that NAACP bombing apparently didn’t make mainstream media. This will be a string of tweets in response, plus the few articles so far written on it.
Plus the usual random assortment of information that may or may not be useful.
At least the have the country’s top people on it, ha. FBI investigating explosion outside NAACP office in Colorado (and just as a note, CNN published this almost 11 hours after it happened – or more, I think; none of this Breaking News! crap for the NAACP).
So finally some stellar reporting by CNN, right? Hmm. A bit more on that in a moment.
Meanwhile, Y’all, MTV has one of the 6 articles I can find on the #NAACPBombing. What have we become when MTV is one of the only sources? The article: Explosive Device Detonated Outside NAACP Building In Colorado
Note presence of a white suspect in MTV article, but not CNN article. A tweeter asks: Is Don Lemon gonna ask if the bomber had a father in his life? #NAACPBombing
And that discrepancy (no suspect / suspect) wasn’t lost on others. So, get this — @CNN covers #NAACPBombing almost a day late and doesn’t mention that the suspect is a white 40ish man. Y’all.
Which was tongue-in-cheek responded to with, @deray @CNN To be fair, they didn’t mention the suspect at all. (At least, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t an entirely straight-up answer.)
To continue with the NAACP.
FBI looking for man regarding explosion near Colorado Springs NAACP office . That’s from The Gazette, which has a decent account:
Oh, except for that bit about hesitating to call it a hate crime by Allen, but that’s Allen’s issue, not the Gazette’s.
KOAA(dot)com on the same: Neighbors shaken by morning explosion, with video.
And thinkprogress on the same: A Colorado NAACP Office Was Bombed Today, and I think the only article that references bombings in the 1960s:
Then there was John Paul Quintero, in Wichita – Wichita police is saying tonight that killer of #JohnQuintero was not wearing her body cam. Wichita has a body cam program already in place. Just a note re: body-cams. :P
Interlude: David Duke Calls Nicki Minaj a ‘Degenerate’ for Her Role in Hip-Hop’s Downfall
This is the guy who insists he’s no racist? Or was that Scalise? Anyway, as the subtitle says, who knew former KKK leaders even cared about hip-hop?
BREAKING NEWS: FBI a says an improvised explosive device was placed next to a gas can outside #NAACP H.Q.
@deray Of course the MSM aren’t covering it. FBI says #NAACP purposefully targeted w/ IED. White suspect. Nobody calling him a terrorist.
they love throwing the words “rioters” “looters” & “thugs”…meanwhile a bomb exploded outside of NAACP in colorado and the silence is LOUD.
@deray The neighborhood she said is not always a quiet one.” Did they -really- just “was no angel” the GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION of a hate crime? (I didn’t even notice, to be honest, until this pointed it out. Seriously.)
#NAACPbombing Black= thug Brown= terrorist White= person of interest probably with mental illness
And for a while on twitter, the LA Times was the only article on the bombing: Explosion outside NAACP in Colorado deliberate, FBI says
Interestingly, they describe the suspect simply as a ‘man’. Apparently, that means he’s white. Or maybe people are to assume he’s black. Oh, the confusion!!!
More Twitter responses to the bombing and lack of coverage:
@deray If it had been an NYPD station that had been bombed, mainstream media would’ve been all over it! #NAACPBombing
@deray I live in Denver and they have not said a word about it. I only learned through Twitter about 4 hours ago
@deray NEITHER CNN nor MSNBC have had it on yet and its 11:09PM We get generic news #BBC
Media neglects the #NAACPBombing because the story contradicts our national myth of white men as victims and black men as aggressors @deray
Let’s talk about how we define terrorism & how the silence of the media is them telling us that our terror is not newsworthy. #NAACPBombing
i guess terrorism isn’t terrorism when Hank, not Habib detonates the bombs. #NAACPBombing #BlackLivesMatter
Back in NY, meanwhile… those cigarettes, man. Still punishable by death or nah? RT @ParisBurned: NYC man busted with 500K untaxed cigarettes The link: NYC man busted with 500,000 untaxed cigarettes in his van.
But he’s white, and therefore alive. *sigh*
Are we surprised? @deray Just now on @CNN w/ @donlemon Texas KKK recruiter says they recruit from Right Wing Political Rallies. How shocking..
Remember a while ago, back during protests in Minneapolis, some guy drove into a crowd of protestors, hitting at least one? He may yet be charged: Driver who lurched into Minneapolis protesters could be charged.
May. May be charged. For running over a child. “Only charge felonies against adults”.
Prosecutor in Eric Garner case going for the big leagues: Michael Grimm’s Replacement
Here are five reasons Daniel Donovan shouldn’t be it.
The Republican Party’s Rebranding Effort Might Be Headed For A Roadblock In New York
Twitter is all over #NAACPBombing.
@deray I keep thinking of 2001 shoe bomb attempt. Bomb failed, no injuries, dominated news for weeks. Media rxn today doesn’t come close.
@deray Um, FBI says bombing “deliberate.” Has anyone ever bombed something that was not “deliberate?”
And the building was bombed in the morning, when he knew people would be inside. This was an act of domestic terrorism. #NAACPBombing
More on the NAACP bombing slowly coming out, and by ‘more’ I just mean the same basic articles with the same basic information, but no TERRORISM! speculation or discussion of how black people might feel about a potential renewal of terrible, impersonal violence against them.
White ppl have bombed black churches, black wall street, black orgs {m.o.v.e.}, etc. #NAACPBombing is nothing new. With pictures of targeted bombings of the black community from the past.
Coincidence? Nationwide protests. Selma release. Grand Jury member files suit again McCulloch. And then a NAACP a branch is bombed.
“Improvised explosive device” set off near Colorado Springs NAACP chapter
Well, the building contains the NAACP and a hair salon. You decide.
A Bomb Was Deliberately Detonated Outside A Colorado NAACP Office…In 2015 (DETAILS). With autoplay video. Again, mentions this: