Ferguson’s black community must not be given the same ‘justice’ as Trayvon Martin

The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 22, 2014 | Gary Younge in Ferguson

[2ndDivisionVet]

Only the courts can judge Michael Brown’s killer – but this is the system that let George Zimmerman walk free.

Just outside a mall in Ferguson, Missouri, shortly after 10 o’clock on Wednesday, a black man in his 30s was stopped and frisked by around eight white policemen. As he gingerly emptied his pockets, careful not to move too quickly, he yelled at them. It was a soliloquy of pure rage; a fluent, apparently unstoppable oration against not just the men who had apprehended him but the system they represented.

“Yes I’m angry,” he shouted. “Four hundred years we been here. We built this place for free and y’all still hate us.” A man filming the incident was told to move on but did not budge. When the police let the pedestrian go (whatever they were looking for he didn’t have), the man recording went too. “I’ve done my job,” he said.

“All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of people,” wrote Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in Shah of Shahs. “They should begin with a psychological chapter, one that shows how a harassed, terrified man breaks his terror and stops being afraid. This unusual process demands illuminating. Man gets rid of fear and feels free.”

For the past fortnight, the black population of this St Louis suburb has been shedding its fear. Since Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was shot six times while raising his hands in a surrender position, they have asserted their humanity in ways big and small, beautiful and ugly. Every night they marched up the main drag in the black part of town, past militarised encampments of heavily armed police, chanting: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, killer cops have got to go.”(continued)

[bmwcyle]

OK, free the shooter.

[anton]

They are already being given a free ride. When the rioters destroyed their neighborhood here in 2001, there were over 800 arrests and our DA charged many with aggravated rioting, a felony. That meant it was not “catch and release” here and the real bad actors were not put back on the street to continue the mayhem. They sat in jail trying to make bail. And, it was quite satisfying to see many of them actually incarcerated in the penitentiary.

[zzwhale]

why not..... the shooters in BOTH cases were JUSTIFIED
perhaps the message is DONT RESIST ARREST and dont assault people with deadly weapons...... he haw he haw YUUUUP...

[dfwgator]

Stop “Keepin’ It Real.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Is that the same “black community” that burned the place to the ground?

[Henry Hnyellar]

He looks like he’s been eating well.