“We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.
While we understand that many others share our pain, we ask that you channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change. We need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen.
Join with us in our campaign to ensure that every police officer working the streets in this country wears a body camera.
We respectfully ask that you please keep your protests peaceful. Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate reaction.
Let’s not just make noise, let’s make a difference.”
Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown, Sr.
Parents of Michael Brown, Jr.
Last night, watching CNN, it was easy to understand why most people have given up watching mainstream media coverage of events like what was taking place in Ferguson, Missouri—response to the grand jury not charging police officer Darren Wilson, who took the life of Michael Brown. Doth protest much on tear gas, a car fire and what in actuality wasn’t a riot, CNN?
For you? Two choices. Two local organized responses.
Can’t recommend “Black Lives Matter: On-going UA Dialogue & Discussion,” enough if you’re a UA student or find yourself on campus. The good people from the African American Student Affairs are hosting a dialogue from today through Dec. 10, at the MLK Center, 1322 E. First St., Room 209.
Throughout the rest of the semester, AASA and the UA Black Student Union will host space for dialogue, brainstorming and action related to issues of police violence, Ferguson, and racial justice.
As news and plans of additional events are developed and scheduled, we will continue to update this event page. We will begin with a lunchtime meeting on Tuesday, November 25th, and post additional events leading up to January’s Black Lives Matter Conference being held at the UA on January 15th – 18th 2015.
Tuesday, January 25th: Non-Indictment Brown Bag – Bring your lunch and meet at the MLK Center, 12:00pm.
Wednesday December 3rd 5:30pm – BSU Dialogue and Discussion
Wednesday, December 10th 5:30pm – BSU Dialogue and Discussion
If there’s any group in town more qualified to lead dialogue on racial justice and police violence, it just might be people associated with the AASA—who recently traveled to Ferguson in response to a national Black Lives Matter call to action.
If you wished you could be in cities like Oakland, who had what seemed like instant responses to the grand jury decision, than perhaps this other response from Tucson Responds to Police Violence is what you had in mind. The rally takes place tonight, 6 to 9 p.m., at the Ronstadt Transit Center, 215 E Congress St,
Along with cities across the country, we’ll rally against police violence following the Darren Wilson Grand Jury Announcement.
Meet at the Ronstadt Center at 6PM the day AFTER the grand jury announcement.
Bring signs, noise, and friends to demonstrate solidarity with Ferguson and confront police violence everywhere.
More information on national responses at http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/
This article appears in Nov 20-26, 2014.
The POTUS failed us once again when last night he said “they have a right to be angry.”
I just checked the USC and I can not find that right. These terrorists do not even know what the grand jury did or said. They are an opportunistic lynch mob.
We are a nation of laws and we agree to abide by legal decisions.
By the way, didn’t they riot when OJ Simpson was “ACQUITTED?”
The big question is “did the Obama Administration refuse to allow the National Guard in to Ferguson to protect lives and property?
We need an answer…soon.
Watch the video and you can see the avowed communist Van Jones with the CNN crew.
Interesting.
If a normal person discharges a firearm, he’s charged with discharging a firearm.
If he/she aims it at another person or threatens others there’s an additional charge of reckless endangerment.
If a person is shot there’s a charge of anything from negligent manslaughter to murder — sometimes even if there is no premeditation (a requirement for murder).
But if you have a police uniform, you have a license to do all those things and not even be brought up on charges. We do live in a new world… one where the “police powers” extend beyond anything that makes them a part of our society. They do not PROTECT us. They protect themselves. They do not SERVE us. They serve themselves. And we pay for it. In money and liberties and life.
Are you arguing against self preservation? That would be suicidal.
Police have been empowered to protect all from criminals and criminal actions.
Did this officer start the altercation that escalated into an attack on the officer?
What causes you to side with the criminal aggressor?
Civil disobediance has historically been the great equlizer in American society, like it or not Rat boy
That’s funny. Not when I google it:
“Education as Great Equalizer”
Equalizer? I don’t think that is what business owners believe in Ferguson this morning. Their businesses were destroyed by greedy home grown terrorists.
Punishing them for what? I would pack up and leave that community and let it sink into the abyss.
Seriously…
“The big question is …”
No, the following is not the big question. It’s a red-herring you made up.
“did the Obama Administration refuse to allow the National Guard”
You mean THE MISSOURI National Guard, right? They don’t answer to the executive branch of the US Federal Government, and that branch did nothing to affect how they were deployed.
“…in to Ferguson to protect lives and property?”
Nice prepositional phrase. The reason why the MONG would be deployed is of no consequence to whether the Federal Government CAN or DID intervene. It did not.
“We need an answer…soon.”
We? Have you noticed that while you have the highest number of posts, you also have the highest number of dislikes. You’re in a society of one. Your “we” is likely you and the other voices in your head.
Fortunately you’ve already shown your true “color” when you wrote:
“I would pack up and leave that community and let it sink into the abyss.”
…and now we know your solution to things is to run away.
Best
E
Sorry but now the LT Governor has called on the Governor of MO to answer that very question. “Did the Obama Administration or the JD direct you not to send the guard in?”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/mo-lt-gov-peter-kinder-obama-admin-leaned-on-mo-governor-to-keep-national-guard-out-of-ferguson-video/
Sorry ehud but I did not make it up.
Leaving the community was my suggestion to the minority owned businesses that were burned and looted.
Why would you stay and suffer that abuse ?
Some things just can’t be fixed.
Destruction is no solution…
I love how they destroyed the place where they live. Do you actually think businesses will return? They want justice but do not like the outcome of a 18 year old criminal who attacked a police officer and paid with his life. Now that place is going to become a Ghetto, Then…Gentrification and the all those people who lived there will be moving out cause with Gentrification means development and property tax going up and they can’t afford to live there anymore. That is the truth
Well maybe the racists and assorted white supremacists who have flocked, migrated to Arizona over the past few years will migrate to Missouri and seek their race war their and take their social misfit attitudes to that state, imagine many of them came from that part of the country, no surprise Missouri was a slaver state, Jim Crow sun down area during other eras! Am sure many who have this social misfit/mental defect of racism will fit well there into certain communities! Maybe the shock jock on 104.1 FM who did the drowned dog hoax in Michigan before he migrated to Arizona will go there and maybe he will take his man servant side kick who is a white man trapped in a black mans body with him!:-) One can hope anyway!:-)
The Governor of a state has to declare a State of Emergency in order to deploy the National Guard for that state. Just because the Lt. Governor for Missouri is an idiot doesn’t mean you need to follow his lead, Rat.
I could agree with you, if Brian terry’s death had not been ignored. covered up and lied about.
Trying to discredit me does nothing to bolster your positions.
By the way what are your positions any way?
Overturn grand jury decisions with no basis in fact, or just once again caught up in the emotion?
2:20 PM Ferguson MO-Press Conference
The Mayor of Ferguson just demanded a response from the Governor as to why the National Guard were not deployed at the appropriate time.
“This was a desperate reaching out by Mayor Knowles while his city was burning. And the National Guardsman were being held back. The National Guardsman who the governor mobilized and declared a state of emergency almost a week ago were somehow held back. The Mayor pleaded with him and it somehow fell on deaf ears. I spoke with him very early this morning when he returned my call and he’s crying out for someone in state government to exercise some leadership. Now the Lieutenant Governor has no Constitutional power or statutory power to act here. All executive authority rests with the governor.”
Kinder adds that Mayor Knowles “tried to reach out to the chief executive to this state, who by the way has not been communicating with him over the three and half months since this erupted on the 9th of August.”
Kinder finally asked, “It is so inexplicable. It is so hard to understand why the governor would not deploy the forces he had at the ready. Is it because he was leaned on not to send them in–leaned on by the Obama administration and the Holder Justice Department?”
biggovernment.com
Ferguson now looks like Tucson.
So… all law enforcement are murderous, trigger-happy, capricious psychos that want to bathe in the blood of the nations’s disenfranchised black and brown youth, I suppose? By the Gods, this is what most people think? Law enforcement pass psychological exams, which I wager a guess most of those commenting and protesting would nary pass. This is why I don’t give my valuable time and attention to the smutty mass media.
Also, totally “liked” Rat T’s supposedly unpopular comments. While I did “dislike” some comments, I enjoyed reading all of them. Thank you for making me smile, everyone.
Ferguson is already a ghetto and always will be. There won’t be any gentrification. I know, I lived in St. Louis. It is more than anger about a wise ass 18 year old who got killed for not listening to the police officer. The Ferguson area is poor, there are no jobs and people -mostly uneducated, are angry they don’t have what they perceive the white rich people in St. Louis have. It is and always has been a very divided area – poor blacks live North and rich whites fled to the burbs but control all the money. They can destroy Ferguson but nothing will change. The entire St. Louis area is a crime ridden mess. I don’t see all the moneyed white rushing back to the city to save it and no one gives a rat’s ass about Ferguson, Dellwood, Kinloch or any other minor northern community.
You all need to stop watching the television!
Would everyone be happier if this person had shot the policeman?
Why don’t we talk about the facts and try to inform some of the people that may not know what the testimony of the facts was.
Read the transcript from Witness #10. he testified that he saw and heard the entire altercation. His testimony was identical to what the officer had said at the time of the tragedy.
He used the same words and phrases that the officer claimed was heard and that he said.
He also stated that he was “sickened” by the other black witnesses (4) that had admitted after testimony that they had not witnessed the event, but had repeated what they hear and saw on television.
Has anybody actually stated how many laws that Michael Brown had violated?
Witness #10 staed that Brown was never shot in the back, he never got on his knees and he never put his hands in the air. As he returned to attack the officer again he reached in the waistband of his pants.
Put yourself in the patrol car as the officer and think about what you would have done after the suspect had come in the car, punched you in the side of your head and attempted to take your firearm.
I would like to know more about Wilson’s basic psychology and the stew of institutionalized racism that the entire police dept apparently simmers in…
I would like to know more about Wilson’s probable arrogance and expectations that every Black man will grovel at his feet when he exercises his “authority” as a member of the occupying force…
I would like to know more about the facts of Wilson’s approach — the words used, the attitude displayed that probably precipitated any confrontation that may have taken place…
I would also like to know why society allows extra-judicial murder by numerous gunshots after the danger has been obviously averted…
Domestic “Shock and Awe”?
This might shed some light on the issues for you.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/ferguson-fraud-113178.html?hp=c2_3#.VHYibMk5hyI
Dorian Johnson who was with Michael Brown at the time of the shooting was found to have lied in his eyewitness testimony according to the grand jury.
Monday night as the decision was being read on air, Dorian Johnson’s friend DeAndre Joshua shot and killed and lit on fire in a car in the same neighborhood. Family blamed it on the protesters.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dorian+johnson&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb
I wonder what he knew.
This is such a sad state of affairs that are going on in this country. It’s been stewing for years, to the point that people don’t take the time to look into what is really going on.
The next thing you know is, it will be happening in your city or town were you live.