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Driving While Black in Ferguson
newsweek ^ | 8-14-2014 | Victoria Bekiempis

Posted on 08/19/2014 11:16:13 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

“You go to all of these damn courts, and there’s no white people,” one defendant, slated to appear before a municipal court in St. Louis County, recently said.

“In Dellwood, Ferguson, basically, in North County, if you’re black, they’re going to stop you,” the resident said according to a new report on policing in the area.

For residents of Ferguson, Missouri, and surrounding municipalities in St. Louis County, it’s not surprising that racial tensions have boiled over. In a town of 21,000, two-thirds of the residents are African-American, and many reports have highlighted a fraught relationship between Ferguson's residents and its mostly white police force. Only three people in the 53-member police department are black, according to the Washington Post, and the Ferguson Police Department disproportionately stops and arrests black drivers.

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Bekiempis?
1 posted on 08/19/2014 11:16:13 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

A red diaper doper baby....formerly of the village voice. Same old meme that the liberals try to throw around


2 posted on 08/19/2014 11:20:43 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Citizen Zed

read in a prior article the town is 70% black. i am not surprised most people in court are black. given a lot of black on black crime i’m not surprised at all.


3 posted on 08/19/2014 11:27:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Citizen Zed

The only place white people should be driving there is away. Get out now.


4 posted on 08/19/2014 11:32:07 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Citizen Zed; Nifster; Secret Agent Man

Victoria Bekiempis

5 posted on 08/19/2014 11:33:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Citizen Zed
Having spent lots of time in Missouri in towns of that size and smaller, a few observations.

First off, most of the towns in Missouri are small and places like Ferguson (22,000), and Kirksville (17,000 and three hours north) are larger than most and in a perfect world would be ideal.

The difference between Ferguson and Kirksville is the ratio of white to black and white trash.

Ferguson is 2/3 ex slave and the slaves were smarter than the current population.

Kirksville is 98% non ex slave and is paradise.

Communist politicians like Jay Nixon and the marxist PNP's that support them are just as much of an existential threat to the USA as the terrorist army HUSSEIN OBAMA has created in Iraq.

At some point, steps need to be taken.

The satanic hoard in the middle east chops off heads.

We here in the USSA use lawyers instead.

At least for now.

marxists beware.

6 posted on 08/19/2014 11:37:45 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Self hating maybe?


7 posted on 08/19/2014 11:37:59 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: Mark17

There are whole regiments of them and their headquarters seems to be Manhattan.


8 posted on 08/19/2014 11:39:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

?!?!?


9 posted on 08/19/2014 11:41:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Citizen Zed

The statistics cited in the article are not only odd, but make no sense as they seem impossible and I don’t think they should be believed.

“The paper points out that in Ferguson, 86 percent of vehicle stops “involved a black motorist, although blacks make up just 67 percent of the population.” In addition, blacks stopped in Ferguson “are almost twice as likely as whites to be searched (12.1 percent versus 6.9 percent) and twice as likely to be arrested (10.4 percent versus 5.2 percent)”. Searches of blacks only results in discovery of contraband 21.7 percent of the time, whereas contraband is recovered from their less frequently stopped white counterparts 34.0 percent of the time.”


10 posted on 08/19/2014 11:45:07 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As I said red diaper doper baby


12 posted on 08/20/2014 12:36:19 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Angry White Hipsters Protest Michael Brown Shooting in New York
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/angry-white-hipsters-protest-michael-brown-shooting-in-new-york/


13 posted on 08/20/2014 1:12:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Disproportionate? Does she mean how 77% of all violent crime is committed by 8% of the population - Black males? Is that what she means? Didn’t think so.


14 posted on 08/20/2014 1:49:33 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Citizen Zed

Chris Rock - How not to get your ass kicked by the police!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR465HoCWFQ&feature=youtu.be


15 posted on 08/20/2014 2:47:44 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s municipal court (traffic tickets).

70% populace, 100% in court to fight the fines. Maybe the white people just pay the fine and mail it in.


16 posted on 08/20/2014 6:33:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m lost in the 60s again.....

Rent-a-mobs tend to look the same


17 posted on 08/20/2014 8:28:27 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Citizen Zed
if you’re black, they’re going to stop you,”

And if you're white, someone's going to run in front of your car, drag you out, beat you or kill you. What's their point? It's like Larry Elder always says: Put a black guy in a white neighborhood and a white guy in a black neighborhood, and let's see who has a worse time.

18 posted on 08/20/2014 11:07:33 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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