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"Many strive to put violence-torn Ferguson on new course" by Akilah Johnson | Globe Staff August 18, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. — An unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed by a white police officer....
I got the point.... for the fourth time.
More than a week after this city erupted in protest over the shooting, the people who live here and those who have traveled here from across the country are looking forward as much as they are remembering the past. They are searching for ways to bring about the change that has often eluded the nation after similar crises such as Los Angeles in 1992, when police officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King were acquitted in court.
Now they are comparing this to that?
For the hundreds of men and women who have turned several blocks of West Florissant Avenue into a protest zone, this is the release of generations of pent-up frustration. Brown’s death had echoes of their own treatment at the hands of a police department they say does not respect black residents, who make up about 70 percent of the population in this small city in northern St. Louis County. Brown’s death resonated with them, tearing open the scars of old injustices and serving as a moment of awakening.
It's so good to see the 1% flagship take up the torch of the oppressed, isn't it?
But his death also hit home far from the borders of this city. People have traveled to Ferguson from hundreds of miles away, ready to add their presence to the cause.
Including the Globe reporter, indicating a full-on agenda push.
How does the community capitalize on its nascent political momentum?
All I can thing of is Occupy Wall Street and how the propaganda pre$$ was not so concerned about their momentum.
Some demonstrators say they must work within the system to bring about change by voting ineffective elected officials out of office.
We have done that. Didn't work.
Others, however, say the system must be torn down and rebuilt.
Through nonviolent noncooperation.
The path forward starts with justice for Brown, many say, and should wind its way through schools, where police officers should spend more time getting to know students on neutral ground, to eventually to the voting booth on Election Day.
Let the brainwashing continue.
“They are in the process of learning their power,” state Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal said Saturday, motioning to the crowds of young people gathered on West Florissant Avenue. “The young people recognize that at any time, they can be Michael Brown.”
Occupy learned about the limits of their power, too, which makes this coverage stink to high heaven.
Residents say this has long been a place of simmering racial tensions and disparities. In predominately black Ferguson, the mayor, police chief, and five of its six city councilors are white. Just three of the 53 members of the police force are black.
Those who live here point to traffic stops as the biggest indicators of police intimidation and harassment.
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Anger and sorrow over Brown’s death have been compounded by the official response that followed....
It is looking like it is on purpose now, in service to a larger agenda.
Still, Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who was appointed by the governor to handle security in Ferguson, told the crowd of protesters Sunday that something positive could nonetheless emerge from the strife.
“Michael is going to make it better for our sons, so they can be better black men so they can be better to our daughters so they can be better black women,” Johnson said. “Better for me so I can be a better black father, and we can make mamas even better than they are now.”
He turns it into black-white rather than authority-citizen.
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It's all about getting “registered to vote.”
And CUI BONO?
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He raises some good points as well, and shows how we are all being played by the pre$$.
Autopsy shows Mo. teen was shot at least 6 times" by Francis Robles and Julie Bosman | New York Times
That's strange because my printed autopsy report was signed by Nigel Duara.
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asks for federal autopsy on Missouri teen killed by police" by NIGEL DUARA and JIM SUHR, The Associated Press | 08/17/2014
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on the body of a black Missouri teenager whose fatal shooting by a white police officer has spurred a week of rancorous and sometimes violent protests in suburban St. Louis.
Like we are going to believe anything coming from them.
Department of Justice spokesman Brian Fallon cited a request by family members and the "extraordinary circumstances" surrounding the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown in explaining decision.
"This independent examination will take place as soon as possible," Fallon said in a statement. "Even after it is complete, Justice Department officials still plan to take the state-performed autopsy into account in the course of their investigation."
The Justice Department already had deepened its civil rights investigation of the shooting. Officials said a day earlier that 40 FBI agents were going door-to-door gathering information in the Ferguson, Missouri, neighborhood where an unarmed Brown was shot to death in the middle of the street on Aug. 9.
David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor who supervised the criminal civil rights section of Miami's U.S. Attorney's office, said a federally conducted autopsy "more closely focused on entry point of projectiles, defensive wounds and bruises" might help that investigation, and that the move is "not that unusual."
He also said federal authorities want to calm any public fears that no action will be taken on the case.
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They were not to worried then.
Holder's latest announcement followed the first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, which ended with tear gas and seven arrests after police dressed in riot gear used armored vehicles to disperse defiant protesters.
Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said protesters weren't the reason for the escalated police reaction early Sunday morning after the midnight curfew took effect, but a report of people who had broken into a barbecue restaurant and taken to the roof, and a man who flashed a handgun in the street as armored vehicles approached the crowd of protesters.
More agent provocateurs, I see.
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Also overnight, a man was shot and critically wounded in the same area, but not by police; authorities were searching for the shooter. Someone also shot at a police car, officials said.
The protests have been going on since Brown's death heightened racial tensions between the predominantly black community and mostly white Ferguson Police Department, leading to several run-ins between police and protesters and prompting Missouri's governor to put the Highway Patrol in charge of security.
As the sun began to set Sunday, the protests had a party-like atmosphere, with crowds lining the street in front of buildings that had been looted.
Approved protests from an agenda-pushing media!
Ferguson Police waited six days to publicly reveal the name of the officer and documents alleging Brown robbed a convenience store before he was killed, though Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer did not know Brown was a suspect when he encountered him walking in the street with a friend.
The hacking group Anonymous forced their hand to identify.
Gov. Jay Nixon, who imposed the curfew after declaring a state of emergency as protests turned violent to start the weekend, said Sunday morning on ABC's "This Week" that he was not aware the police were going to release surveillance video from the store where Brown is alleged to have stolen a $49 box of cigars.
"It's appeared to cast aspersions on a young man that was gunned down in the street. It made emotions raw," Nixon said.
In announcing the curfew, Nixon said many protesters were making themselves heard peacefully but the state would not allow looters to endanger the community.
This Nixon would have the old Nixon spinning in his grave.
Johnson, the Highway Patrol captain, had said police would not enforce the curfew with armored trucks and tear gas and would communicate with protesters and give them ample opportunity to leave. Local officers faced strong criticism earlier in the week for their use of tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.
Actions not words, dink!
As the curfew deadline arrived early Sunday, most protesters left the streets, but those who remained protesters refused to leave the area as officers spoke through a loudspeaker: "You are in violation of a state-imposed curfew. You must disperse immediately."
As officers put on gas masks, a chant from the distant crowd emerged: "We have the right to assemble peacefully."
A moment later, police began firing canisters into the crowd. Highway Patrol Spokesman Lt. John Hotz initially said police only used smoke, but later told The Associated Press they also used tear gas canisters.
Looks like the curfew is being enforced with.... never mind.
Jackson, the Ferguson police chief, has identified the officer who shot Brown as Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran who had no previous complaints against him. Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting and the department has refused to say anything about his whereabouts. Associated Press reporters have been unable to contact him at any addresses or phone numbers listed under that name in the St. Louis area.
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UPDATE:
National Guard Ordered Onto Streets of Ferguson, Missouri
Michael Brown Autopsy Shows Ferguson Teen Shot at Least 6 Times
That is what I appeared when I logged on this morning. Two different NBC reports on the Comcast cover page, both the same.
Missouri governor orders National Guard to Ferguson
Fired into his front, not back, after I was given the impression....
AAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!
Looks like things in Ferguson are only getting worse.
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See you on the other side.
