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Russell Simmons: USA Hasn't Seen Protests Like Those That're Coming if Justice Doesn't Start
Truth Revolt ^ | December 9, 2014 | Sarah Fisher

Posted on 12/09/2014 6:40:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

We have a list of demands.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, appeared on CNN last night on Out Front with Erin Burnett to warn there are more protests coming if "demands" were not met.

We are seeing the beginning of the end of police policing the police, he added.

"On Wednesday, we are going to ask for indictments and list of achievable demands." ('We' referring to high profile celebrities and athletes that share Simmons' beliefs.)

"And America has not seen protests like those that are coming if justice doesn't start to come down," warned Simmons.

Simmons told Burnett, "Over 150K cases were brought before the grand Jury and and only 11 cases didn't come back with indictments. It's like lightening striking the black community over and over and over again."

We need special oversight committees, we shouldn't leave it to DAs who work with the police, explained Simmons.

Burnett asked, "You don't feel defeated that has happened again and again and again" to which Simmons responded "We're going to get indictments now because America hasn't seen what's coming."

"When people understand the injustice properly, the way these protestors understand it, they're all going to fight for justice, and that's going to change this system."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; raceriots; riots; russellsimmons; terrorism
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Depends on what part of town they are burning and looting.
21 posted on 12/09/2014 6:50:59 AM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We need special oversight committees, we shouldn't leave it to DAs who work with the police, explained Simmons.

He's actually right about that. But it would be difficult to keep those oversight committees fair and nonpolitical.

22 posted on 12/09/2014 6:51:35 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: driftdiver

You hit it on the head my friend. These protests are coordinated and directed by worldwide anarchists who see a very wounded country in the United States and are sending in their rabble rousers to stir up the pot even more. These are not citizen-led protests. The ones in Ferguson and in the Bay Area have a professional feel to them.


23 posted on 12/09/2014 6:52:04 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They tried blocking bridges in my town here in NE Fla. yesterday. Cops responded and had ‘em off the bridges and in cuffs in about 10-15 minutes..... There’ll probably be more though.

CCW is my friend.


24 posted on 12/09/2014 6:52:28 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: driftdiver

Yeah, if we didn’t **know better** it’d all look scripted and pre-planned...


25 posted on 12/09/2014 6:52:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Over 150K cases were brought before the grand Jury and and only 11 cases didn't come back with indictments.

Seems like the system works. So you riot over the 11?................

26 posted on 12/09/2014 6:52:44 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There will be some justice handed out all right, but I don’t think it will be what he had in mind.....bring it.


27 posted on 12/09/2014 6:53:21 AM PST by Envisioning (My desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the words that Russell Simmons would understand:

Bring it on b!tch.

The problem is you will burn down your own businesses and homes. You will bring on more police action.

And if you take it into the white neighborhoods, you will bring down hell fire and brimstone the likes of which YOU haven’t seen since the civil war.

So, bring it on. We welcome it.

The white majority supports your desire for justice. We really do. We don’t want to see anyone hurt. We do not want to see anyone killed. But justice is the process, not the outcome. The justice system for whites is the same as it is for blacks. If you introduce a two tiered system it will be the basis for riots, coming from the other direction.

And Russell, part of the change of the justice system is to follow the orders of the police. When they tell you to stop, stop. When they say put your hands behind your back, put your hands behind your back.

MOST of these incidents occur when there is a resistance to arrest or detainment. Generally speaking, most people know they cannot outrun a bullet. Why is this a difficult concept to understand.


28 posted on 12/09/2014 6:54:34 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And mark my words, oh great Obamahole, that you’ve not begun to see the kickback either.

You’re going to have to face the fact that its YOUR culture that is a complete utter failure, not ours.

Get use to it, idiot.


29 posted on 12/09/2014 6:57:32 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s a rapper! We better do what he says!


30 posted on 12/09/2014 6:58:34 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“Slaves dream not of freedom, but of becoming masters.”


31 posted on 12/09/2014 6:59:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

He’s simply citing the flawed Nate Silver/538 numbers spun to show that the 11% were an abberation driven by bias.

What Nate-boy failed to do is to consider that the cases even going to grand jury might have been the abberation. In the case of Wilson/Brown there was overwheming physical evidence justifying the use of lethal force. This evidence corroborated the story of Wilson and several other witnesses.

The ONLY reason it went to grand jury is that the DA wanted to punt the issue to an ostensibly “neutral” body for political cover. Had the races been different the DA wouldn’t have wasted the grand juries time.


32 posted on 12/09/2014 6:59:28 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

* cough ** national police force ** cough


33 posted on 12/09/2014 6:59:29 AM PST by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somehow, those protesters and rioters always seem to provoke a backlash. California Governor’s race in 1966 (Reagan beat Brown), Presidential race in 1968 (Nixon beat Humphrey), Presidential race in 1972 (Nixon beat McGovern in a tremendous landslide), NYC Mayoral race in 1992 (Giuliani beat Dinkins)...


34 posted on 12/09/2014 6:59:39 AM PST by BusterBear
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To: Michael.SF.

Doesn’t matter. There are honest businesses in the bad parts of town, too.


35 posted on 12/09/2014 7:02:09 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So tell me, Russell, how many criminal acts have been inspired by the rap “music” that you are promoting? How many thefts, how many assaults, how many rapes, how many murders?


36 posted on 12/09/2014 7:06:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: BusterBear

37 posted on 12/09/2014 7:07:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bring it leeches.


38 posted on 12/09/2014 7:09:03 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And just what would “justice coming down” look like?

Black males being allowed to get away with criminal activity?
Cops avoiding arresting black males?
If they resist, letting them go?
Cops waiting to actually be injured before defending themselves?


39 posted on 12/09/2014 7:10:37 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like we care if Obama’s flunkies burn down blue cities?

Just dont step across into civilized parts of America with that s**t, or you will be limping back. I’m sure a rich dude like Simmons will make sure he isnt in one of those cities either.

And whatever happened to the Tea Party being the dangerous extremists?


40 posted on 12/09/2014 7:10:41 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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