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Then we are in agreement.
DOJ decided not to prosecute. seems to me you're reading a little more into that than is actually there.
Then we are in agreement.
When the DOJ report found ZERO evidence to support your dead son's lying witnesses accounts of course they wouldn't like their chances in court.
more reductio ad absurdum from the race baiting, trolling idiot.
Tough time answering the question Chachi?
And lol at race baiting, I don't partake in that, never have and never will.
In related Mike Brown news, in the lawsuit against the city of Ferguson the family said they will let the jury decide what dollar amount if any should be rewarded for the family. I hope the jury rules against the Brown family and charges them for the damages they caused by inciting rioters.
you're still talking about the shooting when the mundane background is predatory overpolicing, per the OP.
everyone can see your ongoing attempts to deflect for what they are.
the topic changed, TSA, please try to keep up with the conversation.
Excuse me, but you're the one who took it here.
He just trolls all civil rights an gun threads trying to spam his narrative and drive everyone else off. Just ignore his oversimplified stupidity and carry on.
more claims you can not and will not back up
http://lbsbaltimore.com/lbs-featured...-rights-lebor/
Things are changing. Washington and other states have enacted similar laws and the tyranny of the police state will have less cover behind which to hide.
it's truer to say you never ceased from it. turn the page, dude.
LE is outta control
in the particular case, perhaps, in the broader social reality, perhaps you're living in the false narrative.
Data Show Cops Growing More Aggressive Against Black People in Missouri
New statistics from Missouri show that the racial disparity in police stops, searches and arrests of drivers was higher, last year, than at any time since the year 2000, when Missouri started keeping records. Black drivers in 2014 were 75 percent more likely than whites to be stopped by police, and 73 percent more likely to be searched. In 2013, the year before a Ferguson, Missouri, cop killed Michael Brown, setting off the Black Lives Matter movement, Missouri was stopping Blacks 66 percent more often than they stopped whites. So, in Missouri, at least, the statistics tend to confirm the general impression among Black people that the police are becoming measurably more aggressive in their dealings with African Americans.
Missouri is not widely viewed as one of the more enlightened states,
whites are almost 50 percent more likely to turn out to be carrying some kind of contraband, usually drugs. Nevertheless, at the end of the stop, Blacks were about twice as likely to be arrested as whites.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...le-in-missouri
“Grab Anybody!”: St. Louis PD Indiscriminately Tase and Arrest People Walking Down Sidewalk
Then another officer can be heard screaming, “Grab anybody, they were all in the street!”
As people begin to comply with the first officer’s order to “get back,” they turn and walk away down the sidewalk. But they are quickly met by officers with tasers drawn.
The man in front, wishing not to be tased, side-steps the taser but is quickly hit. Then the woman is tased.
“Oh my god, Oh my god, why did you do that? I didn’t do anything,” pleads the woman just prior to being hit with the taser again.
The cries for help and obvious distress of the woman in the video are disturbing.
Right before the video ends we can hear the woman screaming in pain, “Why are you doing this to me? I’m on the ground.”
RevoNews reports that eight of the protesters were arrested. All of them were charged with impeding the flow of traffic and two had an additional charge of resisting arrest.
They have all been released.
This small group of people were complying with the original officer’s orders, yet they were met with excessive force. There was absolutely no need for tasers to be deployed.
No one was running away; no one was resisting, nor was anyone posing a threat.
http://www.alternet.org/grab-anybody...-down-sidewalk
But the vast majority of cops are good guys!
DOJ report: St. Louis County is screwing kids in family court
https://cbsstlouis.files.wordpress.c...ngs-report.pdf
One year later: Ferguson is still pumping out arrest warrants
A year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown sparked a firestorm in Ferguson, the city is still pumping out thousands of new arrest warrants and jailing peopleover minor offenses, according to an exclusive CNNMoney analysis.
This practice continues despite a scathing report from the Department of Justice in March that found that Ferguson's police department and municipal courtwere uncons utionally targeting low-income and minority residents with tickets and fines for minor offenses -- often in pursuit of revenue. The report noted that there were more than 16,000 people (residents and non-residents alike) with outstanding arrest warrants as of the end of last year, equivalent to around 75% of the town's population.
While the police were the ones giving out the tickets, the DOJ slammed the city's court for using arrest warrants to squeeze money out of the people least able to afford the fines.Even though there need to be repercussions for people who break the law and ignore their tickets, the DOJ says jail time is far too harsh a punishment for infractions that rarely pose a major threat to public safety.
But in the wake of the DOJ report, CNNMoney found that Ferguson is still at it. The city has issued more than 2,300 new arrest warrants so far this year and thousands of older warrants continue to haunt people -- even as neighboring municipalities are wiping out old tickets or warrants entirely.
But that number, provided to CNNMoney by the state, only tells part of the story. So CNNMoney decided to zero in on the underlying offensesthat are leading to these warrants.Getting this information wasn't easy. At first, CNNMoney filed a public records request for data showing all offenses that have led to outstanding warrants, which was denied. CNNMoney then turned to a state committee of judges, which ultimately ordered Ferguson to release the city's court records. But then the city said it doesn't store these records digitally and could only make paper copies available.
So CNNMoney analyzed more than 700 pages of paper court dockets from the two most recent months available at the time, April and May.
For one Ferguson woman, an old ticket for an expired car registration resulted in a warrant that she didn't learn about until she tried to renew her license several months ago. Meanwhile, her neighbor could be arrested at any time because of a ticketshe couldn't afford to pay for having an old, beat-up car parked in her driveway.
A St. Louis mail carrier went to court in Ferguson five times to fight a ticket for driving through a stop sign, but he still ended up with an arrest warrant when he was late to pay the fine. And CNNMoney spoke to multiple people who had recently been arrested and taken to Ferguson's jail after police had discovered their warrants during traffic stops.
"They're still engaging in racial profiling, still over-enforcing and still issuing too many warrants," said Brendan Roediger, a professor at St. Louis University School of Law who is representing plaintiffsin two lawsuits against Ferguson over its municipal court operations.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/06/news...nts/index.html
St. Louis County Is Putting a Reporter on Trial
My old boss Marty Baron – now the editor of The Washington Post and soon to be portrayed by Liev Schreiber at a theater near you – isn't having the greatest month. First, the religious authoritarians in Iran put one of his reporters on trial. And now the secular authoritarians in St. Louis County have put another one of his reporters on trial.
A court summons dated Aug. 6 — just under a year after Lowery's arrest — was sent to Lowery, 25, ordering him to appear in a St. Louis County municipal court on Aug. 24. The summons notes that he could be arrested if he does not appear. "Charging a reporter with trespassing and interfering with a police officer when he was just doing his job is outrageous," Martin Baron, executive editor of The Post, said in a statement Monday. "You'd have thought law enforcement authorities would have come to their senses about this incident. Wes Lowery should never have been arrested in the first place. That was an abuse of police authority."
As if it weren't obvious from the video, Lowery is being inexcusably railroaded by a police culture and a judicial system that remains a stench in the nostrils of the world. Filing this just before the statute of limitations runs out? Really? It's past time for the Department of Justice to step in and bust up this racket, especially now that the police culture and the judicial system seem to be up to their old tricks again.And, this time, they've brought in the pros from Crazytown.
The Oath Keepers organization says its members — all former military, police and first responders — pledge to "defend the Cons ution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." However, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar described their presence as "both unnecessary and inflammatory."
Protesters and police confirmed that a handful of Oath Keepers with assault rifles, bulletproof vest and camouflage gear were seen early Tuesday on the streets of Ferguson, which was under a state of emergency following demonstrations pegged to the anniversary of Michael Brown's death.
In other words, Wesley Lowery is going to court for sitting around with intent to report something, while a platoon of armed vigilante yahoos walk the streets as though they're in Anbar Province and nobody can do anything about it except wring their hands and mumble about freedom. (Chief Belmar sounds like a pillar of Jell-O.)
The market for kangaroo suits in St. Louis County must be booming.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...on-post-trial/
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