Posted on 09/16/2014 4:24:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They cannot kill us all. They can not throw us all in jail. We want justice for Michael Brown and every victim of police brutality.
We’re now a month out from the killing of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, and a month away from when a grand jury is likely to decide whether or not to indict him. Yet we still have no answers and no respect in the state of Missouri.
In Saint Louis County, the police have a history of racial profiling and abusing the power of the shield. Racial profiling in North County has transformed into a problem of monstrous proportions. Young black men and women have sadly realized that the police are here to do us more harm than good. We don’t drive certain places in our very own community after a certain time of night. We avoid suburban communities as much as possible because we fear being unjustifiably locked up and thrown into jail. In Saint Louis County all of the cards are stacked against young black people.
Mike Brown’s untimely demise was the tipping point in Saint Louis County. We believe he was brutally assassinated. His body lay in the streets of the Canfield Green Apartment Complex for over four hours. It was as if he was publicly lynched by the Ferguson Police Department and his body was left on display as a mechanism of fear.
The community responded to this wrongdoing with much disdain and the police launched a preemptive and massively militarized offensive. We were tear gassed and shot down in the streets by rubber and wooden bullets as if we were dogs. I woke up one morning and there were armored military vehicles stationed around the corner from my mothers house....
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I read that merchants have been warned that if they don't rebuild fast enough "there will be hell to pay;" I assume that means the "demonstrators" will destroy what's left of the merchants' stores.
We are already planning for massive unrest, like every police officer or sheriff’s deputy within three counties on each side of the Mississippi will be on emergency status.
Emergency status means no going home after your watch, you stay until this mess is done.
Thanks,
‘Put not your trust in kings’
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