There are some good points in that article, where the writer presses against inconsistencies in the worldview of the cop. Darren Wilson uses all the coded language of a racist asshole, and he has no awareness about his own hypocrisies. Like, Wilson has never read the justice report on racism in Ferguson, because he doesn't want to dwell on the past, but he has no problem discussing everything else about his own past, and the problems he saw while on patrol. Just, racism, that's not to be dwelled on, because that is the past.
― Frederik B, Monday, 3 August 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
And yeah, that passage is really really strong as well, x-post.
Another police shooting tonight, police firing smoke/tear gas at protesters, this is useful:
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/lists/ferguson
― JoeStork, Monday, 10 August 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
this is awful.
i should know this by now, but where would be the best place to look for updates on this, where the stories don't consist entirely of things asserted by the police?
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 August 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
washington post has been doing some good reporting all year
― j., Monday, 10 August 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
deray, netta, cornell west arrested
http://gawker.com/state-of-emergency-declared-in-ferguson-as-protestors-a-1723175123
― j., Monday, 10 August 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
The place to look for news about all this btw is twitter.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
Really good essay by Darryl Pickney:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/black-lives-and-the-police/
― thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
really wish this stuff had come out a couple years ago
http://www.theroot.com/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-death-of-mike-b-1793261221
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link