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Truth and Justice Needed in Ferguson, MO [Nightly LIVE RIOT thread]
SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana, Missouri & Kansas ^ | August 19, 2014 | Kaitlin DeCero

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: bigmike; blacks; darrenwilson; ferguson; fergusonriots; gentlegiant; livethread; michaelbrown; mikebrown; missouri; nixon; raceriots; racism; riots; seiu; unions
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To: Williams

I’m freaking white and I’ve been pulled over by white officers and received a few tickets in my lifetime. It sure does seem like some black men, like Holder, believe their skin color should give them a free pass I guess. I just can’t wrap my kind around their “logic.”


141 posted on 08/21/2014 12:36:11 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: a fool in paradise

This would have to have been the position Brown was standing in to get shot in the arm according to the pattern of the bullet holes it would seem to me...I don't know how that fits in with the testimony of the policeman as we know it...

142 posted on 08/21/2014 2:07:21 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Heads up!

Oakland Wednesday nite -

propaganda sign from FTP (F the police) not sure who they’re connected to:
https://twitter.com/PinkXEdge/status/502263615744143360/photo/1

pink panthers (?)
https://twitter.com/alyssa011968/status/502273826558722048/photo/1

got bikes? Anon seems fascinated with them:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51636968

(another video at that site identifies REV.COM as a sponsor)

cannot confirm the below is from Oakland wed nite because there is no video to place it in context, however, the second pix linked from a different source shows that the helmets do have numbers on them. Maybe MSM can confirm:

compare this:
https://twitter.com/CharlesExSavior/status/502402020280926208/photo/1
with this picture of the helmets
https://twitter.com/joenewsman/status/502263018973958144/photo/1


143 posted on 08/21/2014 4:23:41 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: UCANSEE2

OK I assumed they were mayans.


144 posted on 08/21/2014 5:01:39 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Williams

Yeah, he was stopped by the NJSP. Did he also mention he was part of an armed takeover of an ROTC facility at Columbia U in 70. Right, the same place where Mark Rudd, the Ayers family of terrorists, Wilkerson et al engaged in activities in 68 and so on, the group that had planned to bomb a coffee house at Ft Dix NJ and fortunately the bomb blew up in their combined faces? I bet he did not. I wonder if he mentioned if he were speeding or did the police put out a drag net for all blacks on the NJ Turnpike. Given how many blacks use that road, there would have been a traffic jam from Newark to Camden we would have heard of had that happened. No, this guy is simply a race pimp and POS.


145 posted on 08/21/2014 5:01:44 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Let those folks be white with a sign saying impeach obama and watch the left explode.


146 posted on 08/21/2014 5:03:50 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have you read Ayn Rand’s “Return of the Primitive”?

Incredibly prescient.


147 posted on 08/21/2014 5:21:06 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan; humblegunner

Does “open carry” in Texas mean you can brandish the weapon in front of you with your weapon in “close order”?

I’d bet if a bunch of “cracker” tea-party types marched in to the streets of Dallas doing the same as these NB Pampers, we would have seen (shall we say?) a bit more action from LEO.

Humble, Buckeye; can you comment on the “rules”?


148 posted on 08/21/2014 5:33:16 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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FReepathon day 51.

Two percent a day keeps the 404 a way.

149 posted on 08/21/2014 5:52:47 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Thanks for the pic. Where in Dallas was this.


150 posted on 08/21/2014 6:30:01 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Seriously? This isn’t even near the epicenter and there are citizens with MAJOR firearms?

This is a story that needs to be told, and it is not. Not even on FOX.

As someone said, make them white and the outrage would be stratospheric! News all over just from the fact these arms with multiple users were out in the open!


151 posted on 08/21/2014 6:33:21 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Williams

Holder is a racist jerk. It’s all skin tone to him. Character means nothing to him.


152 posted on 08/21/2014 6:36:00 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; the OlLine Rebel; humblegunner
Nah. This is Texas. Generally, folks don't freak out about guns.

This one makes me chuckle - a baby on each hip. Heh.

As for "rules," one should not appear threatening. Open Carry Tarrant has been kicked out of Open Carry Texas for being too aggressive at demonstrations. Still, most people don't freak out when they see them.

153 posted on 08/21/2014 6:59:45 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Gabrial

Main St., downtown.


154 posted on 08/21/2014 7:00:31 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: a fool in paradise
"Of that be must assured"


155 posted on 08/21/2014 7:36:38 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: UCANSEE2

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- sign on plywood panel storefront :

- “THIS IS A BLACK-OWNED BUSINESS” -

- well there is one store to ignore - the owner is in with the radical barack rioters and demanding special and unequal treatment

- property and commercial and residential values will tank as this crap goes on

- “Little Detroit” will be bulldozed and like Chicago non-bracks and visitors will avoid barack areas of Chi-Town like Ebola on Steroids

- Berry Husseina Ebola (junior) did nothing to improve Chicago and Valerie Jarrett
was big into public housing and the buildings fell apart and were never maintained.

-

- Incidentally - her daughter is married to a Canadian politician and she has a huge contact to build and maintain the Ebolacare website

- It has now cost American taxpayers over $100,000,000 bucks - but then “The Goofer” spent $100,000,000 on his last African Golfing Vaca


156 posted on 08/21/2014 8:03:54 AM PDT by devolve (- next : a very special guest appearance by Rosemary Lehmberg -)
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To: devolve

Such signs could simply be a desparate means to avoid property damage, not necessarily communion with the rioters’ views. If you have it, use that card.

It may even be a lie from a non-black for same reason.


157 posted on 08/21/2014 8:14:40 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Mouton

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- Good points, Good info

- Yes - Eric Holder was illegally carrying a revolver as part of an armed takeover of an Columbia Uiversity ROTC building.

- “You honky cops can’t stop me for speeding! I’m speshul and I gots rights and all that there shiite!”

-


158 posted on 08/21/2014 8:17:07 AM PDT by devolve (- next : a very special guest appearance by Rosemary Lehmberg -)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

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- True -

- But that also means “GO LOOT & BURN THE HONKY’S STORES INSTEAD OF MINE”

- “Desperate” is what the rioting bastards will be as they lie there bleeding to death from my daughter’s well-tuned Beretta (she likes a very light trigger) if they spead their dark shiite around the rest of the USA . . .


159 posted on 08/21/2014 8:23:29 AM PDT by devolve (- next : a very special guest appearance by Rosemary Lehmberg -)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will listen to all the protests about this shooting as soon as they start a riot over the death of Brian Claunch, not before. There is only one tiny little detail to account for the fact that for every person who knows the name Brian Claunch a hundred thousand probably know the name Trayvon Martin or Mike Brown.

After that then let’s hear a nationwide uproar over the death of Jesse Dirkhising please.


160 posted on 08/21/2014 9:04:32 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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