The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri

i can only assume that's the default setting for cops (unapologetically and openly racist and hateful)

if you want to depress yourself even more, google "S3cond C1ty C0p" and read the blog, run by a current (maybe former) Chicago PD and frequented by tons of current cops. the racism on display has always been horrifying.

Anonymous twitter account suspended, apparently for posting the killer cop's real name :/

There's 53 police officers on the force. The killer cop has been there for six years. He hasn't punched the clock since Saturday. How hard was it going to be to hide this guy's i.d. anyway?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-14/st-louis-county-police-to-be-removed-from-ferguson-clay.html

*applause*

There's 53 police officers on the force. The killer cop has been there for six years. He hasn't punched the clock since Saturday. How hard was it going to be to hide this guy's i.d. anyway?

― pplains, Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:20 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

@TheAnonMessage2

backup back up

if you want to depress yourself even more, google "S3cond C1ty C0p" and read the blog, run by a current (maybe former) Chicago PD and frequented by tons of current cops. the racism on display has always been horrifying.

― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

my cousin (a gay republican chiPD vice cop of all things) is a fan of that blog iirc. : /

If the cops have lost NRO, then...

If we take seriously the idea that political power ultimately resides in the people, then for the people to do their job and oversee the activities of the representatives they have elected to take care of their affairs, they need information. They are entitled to know the details of the case, including the identity of the officer and the details of his professional history. It is wrong to withhold that information. The investigation of the shooting cannot be evaluated in the absence of that knowledge.

The behavior of the Ferguson and St. Louis County police in this matter is illuminating. They are ridiculously militarized suburban police dressed up like characters from Starship Troopers and pointing rifles at people from atop armored vehicles, i.e. the worst sort of mall ninjas. They are arresting people for making videos of them at work in public places, which people are legally entitled to do, a habit they share with many other police departments. Protecting life, liberty, and property — which is the job of the police — does not require scooping people up for making phone videos; in fact, it requires not scooping people up for making phone videos.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/385391/name-and-name-not-kevin-d-williamson

whoah

looks like the President's statement has been pushed back to 12:40 EDT

wow xxp

Ted Cruz's statement on Facebook brought out some real winners. People are willing to say some crazy shit under their real name these days:

Debra Goudy What happened ?. The same thing that happens everyday, young black men behave as though they can abuse, harass, rape, rob, sell drugs and kill because they FEEL like it.HUMAN RIGHTS the black community needs to start teaching their children that they are not the only people on the earth with rights.

oh my fucking god the governor is joking about taking pictures of himself

young black men cops behave as though they can abuse, harass, rape, rob, sell drugs and kill because they FEEL like it

fixed

this is the worst public speaker I've seen in months

looks a little blue

oh look it's the dudes i see at jimmy john's every thursday

http://38.media.tumblr.com/fa08cd5548bad2311b5c76a886561a69/tumblr_na79r4cBTX1qjk3vuo2_500.jpg

Obama leading with Iraq mission

that has been going around and repeatedly described as fake xp

christ that military action in Iraq is the good news

xp ah ok my bad.

lol williamson's very next line is:

These confrontations are a reminder of the eternal question: Who? Whom? Who is to protect and serve whom here? Is government our servant or our master?

yes, this police action strikes me as very much leninist, wouldn't you agree *sips tea*

dunno if Barack Hussein Obama is the president I want to hear defend journalists' right to exercise First Amendment

O has gone so grey

that was such an uninspriing damp squib of a "speech", why even bother if you've got nothing to say beyond "children, behave"

that's pretty much what he always does iirc

Rand Paul's piece includes both Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation concern about militarization of police, related to that NRO quote.

http://i.imgur.com/tFqIWGN.png

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/10-insane-numbers-ferguson-killing

http://i.imgur.com/gZOJFEa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/J2AaNIa.jpg

he couldn't resist blaming it on "big government" rather than the perhaps more-accurate "big defense" but man, what's going on in the world

xp infographics are a scourge

On the other hand, I think these stats indicate that, as a white person, my chances of operating a rolling meth lab in Ferguson probably are pretty good! Thanks infographic!

xp infographics are a scourge

― heck (silby), Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Heh

did O's mewling at least include the line "Don't arrest journalists, prosecute them"?

sadly part of the problem in this scenario is that the african american community in ferguson doesnt vote.. hence all the white people runnin/ruinin shit

There are still three of the original agencies operating in Ferguson, and nobody is in charge and nobody is accountable. Sigh.

there is probably a lot on the ground to discourage that from happening xp

Last time I checked police officers weren't elected

jingleberries is that a statement from some evidence or are you inferring low voting rates from the current situation?

that was such an uninspriing damp squib of a "speech", why even bother if you've got nothing to say beyond "children, behave"

seriously that was not good

goole my source was an interview on npr yesterday. let me try to find it.

SIEGEL: We've all heard about how few black police officers there are in Ferguson. There aren't many black elected officials either - 1 councilman in 5. Why is that?

BYNES: Well, anything other than a presidential election there is low voter turnout. And the African-American community has been disenfranchised for a very long time. When you have people who are worrying about can I get a job - can I get to work - can I put food on the table - when election day on Tuesday comes around, that is the furthest thing from their minds. And the whites that live in the community - they participate. And so they vote for who they want for counsel and mayor, and they don't always put practices in place that are best for the majority population there.

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/13/340153388/between-fergusons-police-and-population-a-racial-divide

This is great:
https://storify.com/AthertonKD/veterans-on-ferguson

SIEGEL: But in a place with population 20,000, I'm a little bit surprised that actually most people don't know who the police officer was. I mean...

BYNES: Robert, I was just going to tell you people in the community have told me who the police is. They know who he is. It's about, I guess, releasing it at the much larger level. But people locally know who the cop is. The kids knew him. They told me that he would harass them all the time.

wow

BYNES: I was actually out there the night of the looting. I was trying to help calm things down, and I know that the people that were looting - they don't live in Ferguson. There have been reports that have been released from people who they arrested and they highlighted that, you know, so many of them came from the city of St. Louis, and they weren't actually Ferguson people.

Never underestimate the power of gerrymandering to ensure that only white people get elected. xp

How can we arrange to have FOX News firebombed? Anyone?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qcqRmJLudvY/U-zgG9Ag63I/AAAAAAAATuU/_sjBU9BSByU/s400/enhanced-1267-1408029765-17.png

sometimes i wonder just how different our politics would be if election day were a national holiday. xp