Ferguson

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EDITORIAL: Ferguson, Michael Brown and the Renewed Mission of Good Black News

 

“As the editor of a website dedicated solely to providing and promoting Good Black News, it has been admittedly hard in the past week to bring myself to post what were starting to seem like frivolous accomplishments and events in the wake of a soul-stirring grass roots movement against tyranny and injustice.  This unrest in particular feels like it has the makings of a sea change from the status quo into a new era of human rights, where systemic and commonplace brutality is voted down and rooted out of any and all policing bodies that are meant to Protect and Serve, not Terrify and Dehumanize.”

 

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Source: goodblacknews.org

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Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans

 

“For weeks I have been in awe of the organizers and writers – Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Jamala Rogers, Malkia Cyril, Ta-Nehesi Coates, john a. powell, Falguni A. Sheth, and so many others – who have placed the situation in Ferguson into critical historical and political context. This despite persistent attempts by police, elected officials, and mainstream media to erase that context with vilifications of black political protest and black life. I write this post to express my solidarity and rage, and to offer a response to the disturbing question that I’ve heard asked, and that demands an answer: Does Ferguson matter to Asian Americans?”

 

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Source: www.racefiles.com

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Ferguson Police Officer Justin Cosma Hog-Tied And Injured A Young Child, Lawsuit Alleges

WASHINGTON — A Ferguson police officer who helped detain a journalist in a McDonald’s earlier this month is in the midst of a civil rights lawsuit because he allegedly hog-tied a 12-year-old boy who was checking the mail at the end of his driveway.
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Subject of iconic photo speaks of anger, excitement

 

This is Edward Crawford.

He’s 25, went to University City High School and works at a bistro on the Delmar Loop. He’s a waiter, a roller skater and a father of three.

And, just after midnight on Aug. 13, he grabbed a sparking, smoking tear gas cylinder, fired by police at Ferguson protesters, and threw it back.

The photo, taken by Post-Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen, has become an iconic image of the now two-week protest along West Florissant Avenue.

For many, the act bottles up all the anger directed at police after the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown. It represents defiance against police aggression. And the shirt Crawford is wearing, with the American flag down the middle, identifies the irony of the moment.

But Crawford says he wasn’t angry when he threw it. He was angry beforehand. Afterward — as he was being dragged out of a car, cuffed and jailed — he was mostly just scared.

And throwing it wasn’t an act of rebellion, he said. It was instinct.

 

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Source: www.stltoday.com

 

One of my all time favorite photos.

#AntiOppression

 

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Cornel West on Missouri: “Obama reeks of political calculation not moral conviction” [VIDEO]

 

“American philosopher Cornel West talks to Newsnight about the alienation of black youth in the US following the continued unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. ”

 

Source: www.youtube.com

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NewsOne Exclusive: Michael Brown’s Mother Visits Location Where Her Son Was Murdered [VIDEO]

 

While an anonymous group lay red roses where Michael Brown was killed in front of the Canfield Green apartments in Ferguson, his mother Lesley McSpadden showed up; spotted walking through the neighborhood to the impromptu vigil surrounded by residents and journalists. This, as a grand jury weighs evidence on whether to charge Darren Wilson in the case.

 

Source: newsone.com

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Bob McCulloch

 

Bob McCulloch (c. 1952- ), an American lawyer, has been the county prosecutor for St Louis County, Missouri since 1991. St Louis County is a suburban county just west of the city of St Louis.


On August 20th 2014 McCulloch began presenting the Michael Brown shooting case to a grand jury. Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri by Darren Wilson, a White police officer.


The grand jury will determine what crime, if any, Wilson should be charged with. It will only hear what McCulloch presents.


McCulloch seems to side with Officer Wilson, the killer:

  1. He had plenty of evidence to charge Wilson without a grand jury, yet did not.
  2. When Wilson’s name was made public, he also made public a video of alleged shoplifting by Brown.
  3. He will allow Wilson to speak before the grand jury. That is rare since prosecutors generally try to make the best case for bringing a charge.

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Henry Davis

 

Henry Davis (c. 1957- ), an American welder, was beat up by the police in Ferguson, Missouri in 2009. After that they charged him with “damage of property” for getting blood on their uniforms.

Davis is not from Ferguson. He pulled off the road there in the middle of the night to wait out bad weather. It was raining so hard he could barely see.


The police approached his car. They took his phone from his hand, put on hand cuffs and took him to the police station. They did not say why.


At the station the police found out that he was the wrong Henry Davis – the one they were looking for had a different middle name.

Instead of letting him go, they threw him in jail and beat him up while hand-cuffed. Then they charged him with bleeding on their uniforms:

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Source: abagond.wordpress.com