Ferguson Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch’s Long History of Siding With the Police – Newsweek

The Political Agitator response: But folks ain’t gonna talk about that because they want to focus on the looters. SMDH!

On the afternoon of June 12, 2000, two unarmed black men pulled into the parking lot of a Jack in the Box in the northern suburbs of St. Louis, just a few miles from where Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, earlier this month.

In the car were Earl Murray, a small-time drug dealer, and his friend Ronald Beasley. Waiting for them were a dozen detectives. By the time Murray realized it was a sting, he was surrounded. Panicked, he put his car into reverse but slammed into a police SUV behind him. Two officers approaching the car from the front opened fire. Twenty-one shots rained down on Murray and Beasley. (Source: Read more)

Ferguson protests continue across the nation – msnbc

The Political Agitator response: So all of these folks who were in charge of setting up peaceful protest in these cities across the nation obviously have an issue with the justice system. Now don’t get it twisted, it is not the damn thugs as one call them who set up the peaceful protest across the nation.

Anger over a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who shot Michael Brown to death continued to reverberate around the country Tuesday, with protests and demonstrations from coast to coast. Authorities arrested 45 people throughout St. Louis County by Wednesday morning.

A melee broke out after protesters shut down a San Francisco highway, a car plowed through a crowd in Minneapolis and marchers in New York City caused a 12-block backup at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel.

Why did Ferguson, MO burn Monday night?

In New York City, about 250 protesters again gathered in the famed Union Square and began marching up Broadway on Tuesday evening, holding signs reading “We will not be silent” and “A badge is not a license to kill,” (Source: Read more)

Ferguson Mess!

They got a mess and it didn’t begin with Michael Brown.

Let’s talk about what Officer Darren Wilson said. That in itself is enough to challenge the system how the white Prosecutor is a part of the Ferguson legal system ran the damn show in favor of Wilson.

So when you got the POWER you can do some things and this is a prime example.

I will not debate or entertain ignant responses unless it is the Prosecutor or the Officer.

Respond only to what the Prosecutor and the Officer had to say.

It is all about challenging the system to save a life, I don’t care to hear about your emotions based on nothing.

Forget the rioting they got a plan for that, but no plan for shooting an unarmed man that has no weapon other than being BIG and Black!

Note: Posted this on my Facebook page as this came to mind, however I was on my phone on facebook at the time. So it will show up on my Facebook account again but no matter how many times I post it, the same message applies.

Ferguson decision offers opportunity for civics lesson on grand juries – News & Observer

RALEIGH — The St. Louis County grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager has sparked more than a nationwide debate about race.

It has provided an opportunity for a civics lesson on the workings of the grand jury, an institution of the American justice system that dates back to Medieval England.

The Missouri grand jury that met routinely for nearly three months and heard roughly 70 hours of testimony from 60 witnesses is atypical of the grand juries in North Carolina and elsewhere.

Among the differences: (Source: Read more)

White people rioting over stupid shit – Tim Wise

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President Obama: Don’t Use Ferguson As ‘An Excuse For Violence’ – HuffPost

As the nation awaits the grand jury’s decision of whether to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, President Obama said that Ferguson should not be used as an “excuse for violence.”

In an interview with ABC News George Stephanopoulos that aired Friday night, Obama acknowledged the right to protest over the killing of Brown, but urged that demonstrations remain peaceful.

“This is a country that allows everybody to express their views,” Obama said. “But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law and contrary to who we are.”

Obama’s interview from Las Vegas was an excerpt of a longer version set to air Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Watch the video excerpt above. (Source: Read more)

Clergy among dozens arrested on final day of ‘Ferguson October’ protests – The Guardian

Police arrested more than 50 people, including members of the clergy and the radical intellectual and activist Cornel West, during a day of civil disobedience protests on Monday over the killing in Ferguson of an unarmed 18-year-old African American man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer two months ago.

Several hundred people marched on Ferguson police station for a “Moral Monday” protest on the final day of a “Weekend of Resistance” that brought activists from across the US to demand that Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Brown, be put on trial and to protest over broader issues of racial profiling and use of excessive force by police officers in other places. (Source: Read more)

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Cornel West Arrested In Ferguson – HuffingtonPost

Author and activist Cornel West was arrested while demonstrating in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday.

West was in Ferguson as part of the “Ferguson October” rally, which has been attended by over 1,000 protesters.

Journalists in Ferguson tweeted photos of the incident Monday afternoon: (Source: Read more)

Michael Brown’s parents unmoved by chief’s apologies – The Grio

Michael Brown’s parents want more than an apology from Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson in the wake of their son’s death, saying in an interview with The Associated Press Saturday they would prefer Officer Darren Wilson arrested and charged with murder and the chief fired. The comments come seven weeks after Officer Wilson shot and killed their 18-year-old son.

“An apology would be when Darren Wilson has handcuffs, processed and charged with murder,” the slain teen’s father Michael Brown Sr. said in the interview. (Source: Read more)

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Ferguson police officer shot – The Grio

According to the St. Louis County Police spokesman, a Ferguson police officer was shot Saturday evening. The officer did survive and police are still looking for the suspect. It is not clear if the shooting was in any way related to the ongoing protests in Ferguson.

Protests have continued in the streets of the Missouri town since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen, was gunned down by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson has yet to be arrested or charged which has fueled the continuous demonstrations. (Source: Read more)

Ferguson Grand Jury Has Until January to Decide Whether to Charge Officer – The Root

The grand jury convened in the case of the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has been given an extension until Jan. 7 to decide whether to bring charges against police Officer Darren Wilson, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The jury had been due to end its four-month term last week, but St. Louis County Judge Carolyn Whittington extended the deadline an additional 60 days beyond the six-month maximum. But as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes, although jurors have been given a longer deadline, it doesn’t mean they will need that much time to make their decision. (Source: Read more)

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Ferguson mob swarms town meeting: If cop gets off, ‘ya’ll better bring every army y’all got. Cause it’s going down’

A raucous crowd disrupted speakers, threatened violence and accused police of murder Tuesday night as the fallout from the police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., reignited.

And anyone who disagreed with the mob needed a police escort to get out.

That was the scene of “democracy” as protesters apparently conceive it during a meeting of the St. Louis County Council in Clayton, Mo., as a meeting called to conduct local government descended into two hours of near chaos and mob rule, according to an account by the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

The mob was on hand, of course, to “protest” the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man shot to death during a scuffle with a police officer Aug. 9. (Source: Read more)

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Michael Brown Was No Angel – Neither Was I – HuffPost

The Political Agitator response: The following says enough I don’t need to add to or take away. “But after reading the Times profile, I thought it must be said. And it must be said by white people who themselves were no angels when they were young. And whose children are surely no angels now. Being a teenager is a time when many people take foolish risks and act stupid. It is a time for “grappling with problems and promise,” as the headline in the Times put it. In the world I came from, that was OK. I was allowed to make mistakes and still grow up to have a full and rich and meaningful life. Because I was white and privileged, I had time and space to grapple with my problems and the chance to fulfill my promise. Michael Brown, black and male, never will.”

Growing up, I was no angel.

Just ask my mom, who loves to tell stories about how she and my stepdad barely survived my teenage years. But they did survive — and more importantly, so did I. Despite some brushes with the law, I had a huge advantage: I was a white, upper-middle-class teenager. No cop ever pulled a gun on me.

As the Michael Brown tragedy begins to fade from the headlines, there is one story I can’t seem to shake. The day before his parents buried him, the New York Times ran a profile about the 18-year-old black teenager who was shot six times by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and left for hours to bake on the hot pavement. At one point, the piece described Brown as “no angel.” (Source: Read more)

An Open Letter To The White Teachers Who Wore NYPD T-Shirts To School, Despite Being Told Not To – The Frisky

Dear PS 220 White Teachers Who Wore NYPD T-Shirts To School,

It must have seemed like a fantastic idea when, despite warnings from from the United Federation of Teachers, you all donned NYPD shirts and crowded in front of a camera for a smirking group portrait. Through this lens, which is conspicuously White, those matching gray shirts might either be a tone-deaf display of team spirit, or a more troubling reification of how you regard your relationship to the minority student body. Whatever the intention, you have managed to introduce the armed and socially embroiled segment of the judicial system into the classroom in the most polarizing way.

And for that reason, on behalf of your Black and minority student population, which happens to comprise more than 59 percent of your school’s racial demographic, you must be made aware of the fact that this is an egregious offense. Regard this as an educational opportunity; a glimpse at some of the sentiments that boil deep within the Black/minority community when such insensitivity is overtly displayed in a school, of all places. (Source: Read more)

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NYC Teachers Wear Shirts to Support Cops After Cop Murders Black Man – Jezebel

The Political Agitator response: Interesting what this shows is white priviledge. I have yet to see a group of black teachers or black workers be bold enough to take a stand and do something like this due to fear of their job.

So hot right now: white people showing support for white cops who kill unarmed black people. The latest group to hop on this bandwagon is New York City public school teachers who, after expressly being told to refrain from wearing pro-cop shirts to the first days of school, are going to go ahead ahead and keep wearing NYPD shirts, anyway.

The teachers’ “protest,” according to DNAInfo, comes on the heels of an anti-police brutality rally presided over by Al Sharpton. Sharpton, like most people who agree that death is an inappropriate punishment for suspicion of selling loosie cigarettes, thought that the death of Eric Garner in the hands of New York City police officers was kind of fucking terrible, and that maybe cops should be less murdery toward unarmed black people. Some teachers disagreed with the union’s support, swarming to pro-cop Facebook groups like Thank You NYPD. (Source: Read more)

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