Posted on 08/20/2014 5:08:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The following statement was released by Keith Kelleher, president of SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana, Missouri & Kansas, in response to the shooting of Ferguson, MO, resident Michael Brown and the unrest that is occurring there:
The aftermath of the tragic shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, reveals the urgent need for justice to prevail in order to bring a level of calm back to the community. The initial lack of information coming from the Ferguson Police Department and its militarized response to protesters has clearly erased any faith in local authorities to uncover the truth.
To that end, the members of SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas call on Governor Jay Nixon to do everything in his authority to de-escalate the militarized atmosphere in Ferguson and allow residents to practice their 1st Amendment right to peaceful assembly and protest.
Additionally, we call on the governor to appoint an independent investigator to work along with the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice, who also have been called in to investigate.
Michael Brown was shot six times while unarmed. Some accounts indicate that his hands were raised in the air when shot. The community demands that someone be held accountable for this abuse of force.
We express our heartfelt sympathy to the family of Michael Brown and call on Gov. Nixon to move swiftly and with transparency to review the facts, inform the community and bring charges wherever the investigation shows that there was misconduct.
We also believe that it is only when people of good will unite and organize for racial and economic justice that incidents like this will cease to occur.
Nice uniforms. I ain’t never seen no double colonel before!
Erik Scott was shot more than that, and he was legally armed, although he hadn’t just assaulted a police officer.
Has anyone read the insanely racist remarks by Eric Holder in Ferguson today? The man is saying he is there as a black, and complaining that he was stopped twice in his life for speeding on the NJ Turnpike. He is as attorney general indicting this cop and America.
He is a racist destroyer of the law and justice.
I have no problem with that. Had those women been at the Ferguson Liquor Store, none of this would have happened.
yep, nice friendly group of people that remind me of the isis crowd.
I’m guessing that the Attorney General in the Cruz administration will be a horse of a different color.
I have no problem with their open carrying so long as they aren’t threatening anyone.
A black what ? You mean African-American?
You're going to have to be more specific.
: )
Major drop in watchers after the “I am Mike Brown” dude made the comment about him being the first one to put a camera on top of a car. He said the other camera guy was a copycat. (What a CHILD this guy is.)
Huey P. Newton Gun Club no joke
He was just one of a million young black men exactly the same. The difference was his dad had connections through the well known 'black' groups that led back to the Governor and eventually President.
Exactly the same groups that brought out the Trayvon Martin case after it had been dropped by the Police Department as unfounded. The same 'channels' were used to do both.
Mamas in combat boots. Know for a fact is a fact. Saw frontal twins.
Went out and did a look around. Huey was killed by Tyrone “Double R” Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.
A bunch of spoiled brats; we live in the best possible society and they have to ruin it because of some made up grievance. We live in such a great country that problems are literally (in many cases) invented.
As for the minorities, well, as usual we have to parent them and tiptoe around them.
shot in the face. twice. Jane Fonda thought he was just peachy keen. Angela Davis was in the mix somewhere, too. Like Ayers, Davis became academia.
Day of Rage planned for tomorrow in cities across the country. So not helpful.
http://pastebin.com/HQCaxcdu
Oakland, CA - they got an early start on Thursday:
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