Posted on 10/12/2014 1:19:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is there a price to pay for summarily killing a man, or is it just what happens in Ferguson when one man has a badge and the other too much melanin?
In September 1955, an all-white jury took just 67 minutes to acquit Emmett Tills killers. Till, 14, said either Bye, baby or wolf-whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Mississippi. Three days later his body was fished out of the Tallahatchie river with a bullet in his skull, an eye gouged out and his forehead crushed on one side. If we hadnt stopped to drink pop, said one juror, it wouldnt have taken that long.
In 2014, racism is more sophisticated but no less deadly. The grand jury investigating the killing of Michael Brown is taking its time. Brown, 18, was unarmed when he was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, in August. Wilson has been suspended on full pay and has not been charged. The four-month period that a panel usually convenes for expired last month. The judge gave the grand jury 60 more days to make a decision, so it has until January 7 to decide whether to indict Wilson. Thats a lot of pop.
Clearly the hope has been that passions would calm if the authorities put some time between the shooting and the verdict. But the opposite has happened. Ten days ago, the St Louis symphony was interrupted by protesters singing a requiem for Brown, which received support from some in the orchestra and the audience. At a St Louis Cardinals game earlier this week, protesters for Brown were heckled by Cardinals fans chanting, Lets Go Darren. In Ferguson, a gathering of at least 30 demonstrators meet every night opposite the police station...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Unarmed??? A 300lb brute smashes a cop’s eye socket unprovoked is ripe for the killing. And the fact that he just strong armed ripped off a convenience store is just icing.
Well heck - if Brown had actually addressed a White woman in such a familiar tone, I could definitely see him being killed on the spot. The minor infractions of assault/robbery/assault of a Cop should have never even been reacted to.
The author is so far out in left field that he doesn't even compare apples to oranges.
Oh forgot to also mention this... Every one of these “peaceful” demonstrations has a chant that the media always leaves out!
“WHO DO WE WANT? DARREN WILSON!! HOW DO WE WANT HIM? DEAD!!!!”
“WHO DO WE WANT? DARREN WILSON!! HOW DO WE WANT HIM? DEAD!!!!”
“WHO DO WE WANT? DARREN WILSON!! HOW DO WE WANT HIM? DEAD!!!!”
These are not “peaceful” demonstrations! This is nothing more than the Black KKK coming to St. Louis.
Starting out by referencing the 1950’s and Emmett Till I stop reading.
fordassh rumagin
10 October 2014 1:16pm
I will repeat the last two sentences for you just to make it easier..."there is more to justice than the law. And the law is too often, too brutally and too brazenly proving itself unjust."I suspect if the races of the people involved were reversed, that quote would be bemoaned as evidence of some sort of vigilante menace.
“I think I despise them even more.”
I know I do.
But considering that whites outnumber blacks by at least six-to-one aren't these figures a bit out of whack?
Expanded Homicide Data
Table 6 data for multiple years.
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www.fbi.gov About Us CJIS UCR Crime in the U.S. Here's the links to most of the FBI tables I referenced above.
I know I do.
Of course, I do too. I was just trying to be diplomatic about it. I remember years ago, there was a radical ACLU lawyer, who earned our disdain. He was one of these chumps. Perhaps you might remember that POS.
Bad Laws Make Hard Cases: Hate Crime Laws and the Supreme Court's Opinion in Wisconsin v. Mitchell (This is more about reversing the hate crime conviction of the offenders and not the assault.)
I suspect more than one white's last sound heard was something like "This is for [insert name here]!" "This is for Trayvon" for example.
"On October 7, 1989, a group of people gathered at the Renault apartment complex in Kenosha, Wisconsin,' where some members of the group had watched the movie "Mississippi Burning" and were discussing it. They particularly noted the scene which depicted a Caucasian man hitting an African-American child who was praying. Todd Mitchell, who had joined the group, said, "There goes a white boy; go get him," after which a group of eight to ten young, African-American males ran across the street and severely beat a 14-year-old Caucasian boy, Gregory Reddick, who was passing by."
Yeah, no kidding.
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