Posted on 01/31/2015 8:05:29 PM PST by cripplecreek
A group of more than a hundred gathered in front of Ann Arbor's Justice Center and City Hall Saturday at 4:30 p.m. to protest Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie's decision to not charge police officer David Ried in the fatal shooting of 40-year-old Aura Rosser.
Monique Barker was the first to speak to the crowd through a megaphone outside 310 East Huron Street, which houses City Hall, the 15th District Court and the Ann Arbor Police Department.
"You can pretend that she deserved to die or that her life doesn't matter, so long as you're a cop or a racist ally of this system of oppression," she said. "All lives matter. Black lives matter. Black women's lives matter. Aura Rosser's life matters."
Barker and a group of organizers then took over downtown Ann Arbor streets, disrupting traffic and frustrating some motorists. They carried signs that read: "Black lives matter" and "Prosecute Ried" while shouting chants like, "Show me how democracy works, this is how democracy works!"
The protesters went south on Fifth Avenue to Washington, headed east to State, went south to Liberty, and then went west until they got to Main Street.
At Main Street and Huron, one of downtown Ann Arbor's busiest intersections, the crowd stopped and effectively took it over. Many sat for a moment of silence. Vehicle traffic stopped. Ann Arbor police showed up to help direct traffic, but the protest remained peaceful.
Ann Arbor police said there were no arrests and the demonstration broke up a little after 6 p.m.
Melvin Parson, of Ann Arbor, said the issue of police brutality brought him to the event.
"I would like to assume that the prosecutor's decision was based on sound evidence and not based upon certain systemic influences," he said.
Claire Whitlinger, a sociology graduate student at U-M, said she wasn't quite sure what she felt about the prosecutor's report.
"This is a really complicated issue," she said. "I do know that we really need to fundamentally change the way we do policing. The people being most affected are African Americans and I'm not OK with that."
Rosser was attacking her boyfriend, 54-year-old Victor Stephens, in the hallway of his home at 2083 Winewood Ave. in Ann Arbor around 11:45 p.m. Nov. 9 when police arrived after being called by Stephens, according to a 12-page memo issued by the prosecutor Friday evening. Video: Protestors take the streets after police officer not indicted for Aura Rosser shooting.
"After the officers yelled at Ms. Rosser to drop the knife, she came at the officers with the knife still raised in an attack position," Mackie said in a release. "Ms. Rosser ignored repeated commands to drop the knife. As she continued to advance on the officers, Officer Ried fired one shot from his department issued handgun, killing Rosser."
Mackie determined the killing was justified and did not choose to prosecute.
Moonbat psychobabble.
The good side of this is desensitization to their antics.
Eventually any issue is neutered when it’s continually overdone.
“This system of oppression” ??? I’ll BET this twit is either a Communist or has Communist money (not an oxymoron by any means;) behind her! /s
I’ve seen it happen three times in real life. The weapon is in the perps hand. That’s where the eye gets fixated. Where the eye is focused the bullet tends to go.
It was amusing in one case. The perp reached for the gun which was in his waistband right above his crotch. Three rounds fired, two by one cop and one by another. Tight grouping at about five to seven feet. One through the thigh, one in the scrotum, one right through...
He lived. Much to his regret.
“There’s a race war raging, I didn’t start it but I have chosen sides.”
I really, really like your wording on that and I completely agree.
C’mon MM....throw in an ‘AXED’ somewhere in there!!!
that may have to wait until revrunt sharpton is called in
I bet you and everyone here anything that after Obama leaves, it’ll be a spark that causes a full blown explosion.
We are inching closer and closer to mob rule.
If you don’t shoot
We can’t loot
The preachers of Black Racism have been at it so long that it has become the cornerstone of American Black culture. Everything they see and hear is about their skin and supposdid victimhood. The current generation's have brainwashed themselves on this from the cradle. The amazing part of it is that they haven't started their much voiced race war yet even with their preachers not only trying to spark it but throwing firebrands at it.
He should have been able to shoot the knife out of her hand, just like in the movies.
Given all i have read about reaction time, Tueller drill, etc. i am surprised he only fired one round. Having taken a tactical knife fighting class, and taking level 2 when available, i learned never to get in a knife fight situation. They are vomit inducing brutal.
LOL! There has to be one in D.C., maybe more than one.
I caught wind of this the other night on twitter but just tracked down the video.
Jason Riley speaks at Hillsdale college about race/violence/police/etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=YjT3umq2pnM#t=20
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