Posted on 06/11/2015 1:37:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's been 250 days since our fallen brethren Michael Brown Jr. was fatally shot in Canfield Apartments in Ferguson, Missouri, by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.
Wilson got rich, famous and a vacation after killing Mike Brown, a phenomenon that is occurring all too often across the United States. In fact, an MXGM (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement) study has reported that every 28 hours a black person is killed by police. Accountability is the key. Accountability is the answer.
As you may remember, Wilson was not indicted and the community of the St. Louis and St. Louis County region still suffers for it. Ferguson's response sparked a movement and uprising from people of different congregations, ethnicities, genders and ages nationwide to stand up against this system and be a voice for black, brown and oppressed people.
Since the killing of Michael Brown, there have been numerous similar killings and then protests, rallies, direct actions and more. Yet it will not stop. From private attorneys to the Department of Justice, there have been several investigations of shootings of unarmed African-Americans. Yet we still cannot fully attain the transparency or accountability that we deserve from police officers. Ferguson is still everywhere if you're black.
Therefore, we must start moving in a way to create our own narrative. This means doing our own investigations of these incidents involving officers, who are sworn to protect and serve us. The system itself also needs investigating.
In other words, we need policies that establish accountability. Accountability by police would mean them taking responsibility, being liable and answerable for these travesties of justice. Looking at what accountability actually means, can we as a nation say our police departments are truly held accountable for their fumbling of community relationships?
The constant mistakes, bad judgment, racist motives and lack of transparency would result in immediate termination in any other fields in this country. Why don't normal morals and human standards apply to police officers?
They tell us police have the right to make it home. Well shouldn't every citizen in this country have the right to make it home? Or how about the right to be able to sleep in your home and not be killed due to reckless gunfire by police like 7-year-old Aiyana Jones, who was killed by Detroit police during a raid at her home. Final charges against Joseph Weekley, the cop who shot her, were dismissed early this year.
We must hold these officers accountable. In the St. Louis region, there have been at least 10 more police-involved killings since Michael Brown Jr., which happened in August 2014. Around the nation, there are too many names to name with similar circumstances with no transparency and no justice in the system: Kimberly Randall King, Vonderritt Myers Jr., Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and, more recently, Freddie Gray of Baltimore.
Fortunately there are indictments of the officers in the Freddie Gray case, but for the most part around the country, there is currently no way to hold these departments accountable. It seems as if they run the nation and we serve them instead of the other way around.
During protests in Ferguson, municipalities established many unconstitutional rules. For example, they refused to wear name badges even after the Department of Justice said they were legally obligated to do so. They refused to identify themselves. They continued to use illegal unnecessary force against citizens. Ferguson Police officers even issued a five-second rule stating that a person could be subject to arrest if he or she stood still for longer than five seconds while protesting. A federal court ruled against it. Yet, police officers are still on the normal predator policing tactic.
The Department of justice released a report confirming all the racial targeting that the Ferguson police department practiced against people of color and oppressed people in general. Yet police still use shoot-first tactics because there is no one holding them accountable. Ferguson is still everywhere if you are black.
So, Saint Michael was hunted down and shot in an apartment building, by the assassin Darrin Wilson Huh?
Golly, was I misinformed; I coulda sworn that he was killed in the street after committing a strongarm robbery and some sort of altercation with an officer of the law.
Methinks Rika and T-Dubb-O were smoking something even stronger than Michael’s ‘blunts’ when they wrote this little piece of propaganda.
When you can't even get the words right in your first sentence, why should anyone continue reading?
By contrast, about twenty black males are shot and killed every day by other black males.
And almost one young black child is killed by stray bullets from black males annually.
Correction: that’s about one black child per day is killed by stray bullets from black males.
One annually? You mean one per day, at least, right?
See my correction.
Silly screed.
Black people need to grow up.
Ya beat me to it.
:: It’s been 250 days since our fallen brethren Michael Brown Jr. ::
Has anyone informed Mssr. T-Dubb and Mmslle(?) Rika that the word “brethren” is plural? I know some folks like to think of Brown as a gentle giant but was he so big as to find assignation as “more than one”?
I trust a racially well-integrated source like the federal government and I do not trust biased, enraged, advocates of "kill whitey". See U.S. DoJ Arrest Related Deaths (ARD) here.
Speaking of kill whitey checkout the FBI homicide data at that link.. blacks kill whitey more than twice as often as whites kill Black Americans -- and whites outnumber blacks by at least six-to-one.
And you have to be wary of stats about whites killing blacks. Many official reports list Hispanics as whites. Many blacks are killed by Mexican gang members. The total number of blacks killed by non-Mexican whites is probably much smaller.
Certainly, if blacks were assaulted and butchered on a daily basis by whites like whites are assaulted and killed by blacks, it would be a national outrage every day on lib media. As it is, they have to shout about cops arresting mobs of blacks and occasionally going overboard like the cop in Texas just to have a story.
In related news, Ferguson has a library.
Via KRTV
Director Scott Bonner considered closing the doors of Ferguson’s library as protests and riots broke out in the St. Louis suburb and he saw police with tear gas nearing.
Instead, he kept the building open — and now it’s been voted Library Journal and Gale’s 2015 “Library of the Year.”
Via: WeaselZippers. 
"Yes, Martha, I have an overdue book at the Ferguson Libaray and I am going down there right now."
They see boogeyman everywhere....too bad they don’t look right in their backyard..sheesh
Hey editor-moron: Brethren is the plural of brother. To how many dead Michael Browns are you referring?
Which as you noted include many blacks "killed by Mexican gang members."
You're right.
The MSM employees know it: they use "WHITE Hispanic" description -- but only when a person of Hispanic origin attacks a Black American.
MSM employees welcome the opportunity to shout: "HEY LOOK EVERYBODY IT'S A WHITE HISPANIC ATTACKING AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN!!
“And almost one young black child is killed by stray bullets from black males annually.”
That’s just in Chicago. I believe we’ve had two or three already.
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The problem is that we haven’t, to date, had comprehensive statistics on the number of people, of whatever complexion, killed by cops. The FBI statistics are based on voluntary reporting by departments.
While the “official” statistics probably capture almost all such killings, that they are admittedly not complete allows people who want to stir up outrage to claim the “real numbers” are much higher.
Speaking of which, I was watching a Denzel Washington movie last night on Netflix. He played a professor in the 30s at a Texas college.
Boy was I surprised when, in class, he dredged up that old hoax about Willie Lynch’s lesson on how to keep black people down. Presented in the movie as fact.
A. Nobody has found a trace of the story prior to the 70s. So a professor in the 30s wouldn’t be discussing it.
B. Anybody who reads it with an eye to language can immediately see it’s late 20th century. No historian anywhere claims it’s an accurate record of a 1712 speech.
Yet here’s a major movie passing along lies about racist whites as if they’re the truth.
They also had his students witness a lynching, with the implication this was a routine occurrence for black people at the time. So I looked it up, and there were a grand total of 18 black people lynched in the USA in 1935. Which was high. The average for the 30s was about 10/year.
18 black people murdered is a routine holiday weekend in Chicago.
They hold education, knowledge, wisdom in low regard.
This from a guy who is part of a group that supposedly also undervalues education?
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