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| Police state uses pretext of shooting to clampdown on all civil liberties and expression (AP). |
Eyewitness to Ferguson police shooting: gunfire did not come from area of peaceful demonstration
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| Police state: Fergistan |
Two police officers have been shot -- one in the face -- during a peaceful demonstration outside the Ferguson
police headquarters early this morning. Both of the wounded officers
have serious injuries. The shooting came just hours after Ferguson Police Chief
Thomas Jackson quit following last week’s Justice Department reports (headed by corporate-friendly black Attorney General Eric Holder) reports
finding widespread racial bias in the city’s criminal justice system.
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| "Black Lives Matter" banner seen during recent Ferguson, Missouri demonstration, with law professor and author Michelle Alexander inset (democracynow.org. 3-12-15). |
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Disgraced Jackson is the sixth corrupt Ferguson official to be forced out in the wake of
the report, including the city manager and the top municipal judge. Democracy Now! is joined from Ferguson by Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, who witnessed last
night’s shooting and Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center
for Constitutional Rights, which is part of the Ferguson Legal Defense
Committee. More
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Institutional "racism" in Ferguson?
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| Michelle Alexander |
The U.S. [in-]Justice Department [DOJ or "dodge" for dodging its duties] has concluded that the police and city
courts in Ferguson, Missouri, routinely engaged in a pattern and
practice of discrimination against African Americans. Despite comprising
about 66 percent of the local population, African-Americans accounted
for:
- 93 percent of arrests,
- 88 percent of incidents where force was used,
- 90 percent of citations, and
- 85 percent of traffic stops.
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| The New Jim Crow (newjimcrow.com) |
The DOJ, which launched its report after the police killing of unarmed teen
Michael Brown, also uncovered at least three municipal Ferguson emails
containing racist language or images.
"The report does not give me hope.
What gives me hope is that people across America are finally waking
up," says Dr. Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
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| The militarization of U.S. police (rall.com) |
"There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color
across America.… What we see now is that we do have the power to make
things change. The question is are we going to transition from protest
politics to long-term, strategic movement building?” More
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| UC Berkeley vandalism at anti-Ferguson police brutality student demonstration (AP). |
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