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African Liberation Group Plans To Convene 'Black People's Grand Jury' Against Darren Wilson
St Louis Public Radio ^ | December 12, 2014 | Camille Phillips

Posted on 12/13/2014 12:06:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Universal African People's Organization leader Zaki Baruti (left) and African People's Socialist Party leader Omali Yeshitela.

Activists connected to the Leadership Coalition for Justice (formerly called the Justice for Mike Brown Leadership Coalition) and the African People’s Socialist Party announced Friday that they are convening a symbolic grand jury in January to decide for themselves whether former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson should be charged with a crime for killing Michael Brown.

The group organizing the symbolic grand jury is called the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, a group that seeks to liberate and empower people of African descent around the world.

“In the face of the inability of the justice system to work for our people and our community, in the face of the grand jury’s inability to see what the whole world has been able to see about the murder of Mike Brown on August 9th … clearly it is time for African people to begin to take matters in our own hands,” said African People’s Socialist Party leader Omali Yeshitela. “In that regard I’m here to announce that on January 3rd and 4th black people will have our own grand jury.”

According to Yeshitela, the grand jury will be selected based on their reputations as upstanding members of the community and will make their decision following existing laws after being presented with the same evidence and testimony given to the official grand jury.

But, said Yeshitela, the “Black People’s Grand Jury” will be open to the public and will look at the death of Brown in context of “the history of black people in this county, in this country, and see whether or not it is likely that Darren Wilson or any instrument of state power in this country would murder an 18-year-old unarmed teenager.”

When asked about the goal of this grand jury, given that it will have no power to arrest or discipline Wilson, Yeshitela said that highlighting that lack of power was the whole point.

“The only thing that makes a difference in what the grand jury did in St. Louis County—the legal colonial grand jury—and what we will do here on January 3rd and 4th is that if in fact we indict Darren Wilson we don’t have guns. The government has guns and it has state power and authority over our people. What it does is educate and inform our people that two bodies came together, examined the same set of evidence and were able to come to different conclusions. Therefore the only thing standing between us being able to carry out the will of the people is to change this relationship that exists between us and the armed state apparatus that controls us,” Yeshitela said.

Kennethia Miller of the St. Louis branch of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement.

Yeshitela was joined Friday by Kennethia Miller and two other St. Louis women affiliated with Yeshitela’s Uhuru Movement, which seeks (among other things) to put black people in charge of the hiring of police in communities where mostly black people live.

“We think it’s extremely urgent that we hold the black people’s grand jury and build a campaign for black community control of the police,” Miller said. “As a mother, I’m outraged and deeply concerned about the ongoing law enforcement-based violence that’s taken the lives of our children.”

When asked whether the Uhuru Movement planned to use the electoral process to achieve that control over police, Yeshitela said, “we’ll add that to our suggestion box.”

Zaki Baruti of the St. Louis-based Universal African Peoples Organization also joined the news conference to show support for Yeshitela and the symbolic grand jury.

“I’m in total agreement with (Yeshitela’s) statements,” Baruti said. “This situation with Mike Brown is reflective of a whole culture that targets black men and women across this country, as well as the legal cover-ups that comes as an extension of the murders of black men and women.”

Baruti also said that more needed to be done to put civilian police review boards in place and to make police forces representative of the communities they police. When asked about the measures underway in Ferguson and St. Louis to implement review boards and increase police force diversity, Baruti said those efforts were insufficient.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2014; 201412; apsp; asps; baruti; blacks; communists; darrenwilson; ferguson; ionov; kennethiamiller; lcj; missouri; omaliyeshitela; rooskyspies; russia; russiameddling; russianfinancing; russianspies; spooks; stpetersberg; uapo; uhuru; zakibaruti
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"save us trillions"

Yes, in the long run we'd be much better off. The Black Underclass costs the country about that much every year in criminal actions and welfare payments.

But what country would want these losers? 95% of them will have spent their money within five years leaving them flat broke and no skills.

61 posted on 12/13/2014 12:44:47 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: windsorknot

Where do they come up with this crap?

These are traditional names.

http://babynames.net/all/african


62 posted on 12/13/2014 12:45:05 PM PST by mylife
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To: Brandonmark
Dey be da homeboyz til dey meet dees doods


63 posted on 12/13/2014 12:45:26 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: DoodleDawg

The really funny thing is these folks are still p*ssed off about what happened to Emmet Till, even as they form their own lynch mob.


64 posted on 12/13/2014 12:45:36 PM PST by skeeter
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To: TexasCajun

Da Justice Brotha’s!!


65 posted on 12/13/2014 12:45:42 PM PST by mylife
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To: skeeter

“This is looking more and more like something that will end violently.”

Nah. We’ll just tell them we are at work...they won’t know where to find us.


66 posted on 12/13/2014 12:47:01 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
If Western man had real strength these people would be adjusting to life in Africa as we write on this web site.

Exactly right.

67 posted on 12/13/2014 12:47:24 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only thing that this “jury” will decide is whether Wilson should be shot, hung from a tree, or eaten for dinner.


68 posted on 12/13/2014 12:49:33 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: mylife

“Being black does not mean you are on welfare.”

Black make up 32% of welfare recipients even though they comprise only 12% of the US population.

Blacks number 45 million but 1 million of them are in prison out of 2.3 million in prison.


69 posted on 12/13/2014 12:52:37 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: tomkat

Are they pullin' our leg, Commander?

70 posted on 12/13/2014 12:55:19 PM 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: CodeToad

As I said.

“Being black does not mean you are on welfare.”


71 posted on 12/13/2014 12:55:50 PM PST by mylife
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To: Fresh Wind
The only thing that this “jury” will decide is whether Wilson should be shot, hung from a tree, or eaten for dinner.

Oh no....they promise to be fair and open minded:


72 posted on 12/13/2014 1:07:20 PM PST by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By the same authority they have I have convened my own grand jury and found them all guilty of high treason.


73 posted on 12/13/2014 1:09:12 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

The only thing keeping them from leaving this horrible land is their welfare check.


74 posted on 12/13/2014 1:10:05 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will take a stab here and say that the only thing ‘African’ in this Organization is the name.

To take a page from Mama Brown ‘you ain’t got no f’n patent on the name’ Or was it Grandma? I didn’t buy a program.

If it were an Organization with roots or based on the Continent, we could gather up all the witnesses and prospective witness and ship them to wherever the ‘African’ Govt wanted them.

They will thank us so much in 6 months that they will cut off relations etc...


75 posted on 12/13/2014 1:10:06 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)those who understand, no explanation needed-Those who don't none will work.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What it does is educate and inform our people that two bodies came together, examined the same set of evidence and were able to come to different conclusions.

Not that I needed to see this, but it's worth noting that they tipped their hand with this statement - that they already know what conclusion they will reach before examining the evidence. So that's not a "grand jury" - that's just a lynch mob.
76 posted on 12/13/2014 1:12:39 PM PST by zencycler
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To: LeoWindhorse

There is a solution for Reparations.

Simply give them a one way ticket back to Africa, and a horse and 1 acre when they get there...they can pick their African country of choice...but the land will be rural, as it was during their ancestor’s slavery in the south...agricultural.

And tell them goodbye, the claim is closed...for they will have more than their ancestor when they came to America. And mention that any welfare would be paid by their new country.


77 posted on 12/13/2014 1:17:17 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And for the record is Africa not liberated?


78 posted on 12/13/2014 1:18:39 PM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

rofl...liberated? Africa nations are now what are part of the African Union....like the European Union, and the NWO plans for us to be the North American Union...US, Canada, and Mexico.


79 posted on 12/13/2014 1:20:29 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The black leaders are coming unglued to reality.


80 posted on 12/13/2014 1:20:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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