Ferguson: Waiting on Justice

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Ricochet : Rioting in Ferguson — A Disheartening Rejection of the Civil Rights Movement

Clark Judge

 

 

November 28, 2014

The most disheartening fact about the riots in Ferguson, Missouri — and subsequent demonstrations elsewhere — has been that both rioters and demonstrators reject due process of law. Yet these same rioters and many of their supporters are among the Americans who should be most invested in protecting the law’s protections. They are, after all, some of the chief beneficiaries of the nearly two-century struggle to achieve the very rights they called for wiping away.

 

The struggle to make protection of rights universal in America – that is, to extend it to African-Americans — began in the Revolutionary years with the banning of slavery in Vermont in 1777, in Pennsylvania (albeit by stages) in 1780 and in Massachusetts in 1783. It continued with exclusion of slavery from the Northwest Territories in 1787, the subsequent ending of slavery within their borders by all states north of the Mason-Dixon line and the Ohio River, the Civil War, the 13th Amendment, and Reconstruction.

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November 28, 2014

The Strange Case of Ferguson Witness 40

By Jack Cashill

Easily the strangest of all the documents that have emerged from the Darren Wilson grand jury is the one attributed to Witness 40. These are the pages pulled from her -- I assume her based on writing style -- diary entries from the day Michael Brown was shot, August 9, 2014. She does not appear to have been interviewed.

 

On the face of things, Witness 40 fullycorroborates the testimony of Officer Wilson. I leave the grammar uncorrected. “The cop was wobbling,” she wrote from her anxious perch in a silver Pontiac stopped behind Wilson’s car, “the big kid turned and had his arms out with attitude. The cop just stood there dang if that kid didn't start running right at the cop like a football player, head down.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/the_strange_case_of_ferguson_witness_40.html

From what I have read she did not get much credit with prosecutors or GJ. I don't think this influenced their decision and her testimony was not critical.

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The American Conservative: The Unspoken Truth of Ferguson

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • November 28, 2014, 12:05 AM

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

 

Edmund Burke’s insight returned to mind while watching cable news coverage of the rampage in Ferguson, Missouri, after St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

 

The rioting, looting, arson, and gunfire that began after McCulloch relayed the grand jury’s decision, a decision long predicted and anticipated, revealed the unspoken truth about Ferguson

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November 28, 2014

The Strange Case of Ferguson Witness 40

By Jack Cashill

Easily the strangest of all the documents that have emerged from the Darren Wilson grand jury is the one attributed to Witness 40. These are the pages pulled from her -- I assume her based on writing style -- diary entries from the day Michael Brown was shot, August 9, 2014. She does not appear to have been interviewed.

 

On the face of things, Witness 40 fullycorroborates the testimony of Officer Wilson. I leave the grammar uncorrected. “The cop was wobbling,” she wrote from her anxious perch in a silver Pontiac stopped behind Wilson’s car, “the big kid turned and had his arms out with attitude. The cop just stood there dang if that kid didn't start running right at the cop like a football player, head down.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/the_strange_case_of_ferguson_witness_40.html

From what I have read she did not get much credit with prosecutors or GJ. I don't think this influenced their decision and her testimony was not critical.

 

as for as I know you are correct

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Marijuana Figures Big in Ferguson Meltdown

Cliff Kincaid — November 27, 2014

CNN’s Don Lemon is under fire for making the elementary observation that some of the Ferguson protesters planning violence and mayhem were smoking pot. Linking dope to violence is taboo for most of the media.

 

Reporting from the scene, Lemon said, “Maybe a minute, two minutes ago we heard a gunshot and watched people scattering. And we’re watching people on the roofs of cars, on the tops of cars and…Obviously there’s a smell of marijuana here as well.”

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/marijuana-figures-big-in-ferguson-meltdown/

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Allegation: White Supremacists Burned Black Ferguson Church

Written by Selwyn Duke

A few miles away from the Monday night mayhem and media presence in downtown Ferguson, a church was burned. It was a notable church, at least in the context of current events, in that it was attended by Michael Brown and his family — and its pastor has been very vocal in his defense of the deceased Missouri teen. And this story is unique in another way:

 

While the Ferguson looting and rioting caught on video has been a phenomenon of black criminals, Pastor Carlton Lee thinks his Flood Christian Church was burned by, as he put it, “white supremacists.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/19616-allegation-white-supremacists-burned-black-ferguson-church

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I merged 2 of your new threads into this one, 4 Ferguson threads at top of news seemed a bit much.

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Nov 27, 3:50 PM EST

 

FOR SOME, LOCATION OF BROWN'S HANDS IRRELEVANT

BY DAVID A. LIEB AND HOLBROOK MOHR
ASSOCIATED PRESS

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- The word spread within minutes of Michael Brown's death - a young black man with his hands raised in surrender had just been shot by a white cop.

 

Soon, "Hands Up. Don't Shoot!" became a rallying cry for protesters in the streets of this St. Louis suburb and a symbol nationwide of racial inequality for those who believe that minorities are too often the targets of overzealous police.

 

Yet the witness accounts contained in thousands of pages of grand jury documents reviewed by The Associated Press show many variations about whether Brown's hands were actually raised - and if so, how high. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FERGUSON_HANDS_UP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-27-15-46-08

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Canada Free Press: Ferguson Charade is all but a travesty to our "rule of law" of the land and our Constitution The Ferguson Charade

By Obie Usategui August 25, 2014 |

As the untimely events of Saturday, August 9th, unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri, claiming the life of 18-year-old Michael Brown, I was hoping and praying we would all be spared the racial merry-go-round we have all been subjected to in the past any time that a police officer kills a black teenager, while doing so in the line of duty.

 

But, then again, Ferguson is but an encrypted model, perversely adapted to a racially over-charged nation, which, for years now has Machiavellically thrived on such events as idyllically fit to further the racial divide now separating blacks and whites in our homeland, albeit an unrelenting propaganda machine assiduously attempting to assert that racial tensions in America are, as such, “a thing of the past”, while precariously the exact opposite continues to prevail in a landscape of hate-filled racial separatism haplessly led by a few charlatans, calling themselves “Reverends” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/the-ferguson-charade

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Perhaps the time has come for all good black Americans to change their leaders; their Sharptons, their Jacksons and others by replacing the latter for true leaders that attend to the persisting problems that plague black communities The Ferguson Charade—Part II

By Obie Usategui November 28, 2014

At approximately 8:15 p.m., on Monday, November 25th, 2014, St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch began his news conference at a courthouse in Clayton, Mo., by expressing his sympathies for Michael Brown’s family, noting that they lost a loved one to violence. On August 9th, Brown had been shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson, presumably, while using justifiable deadly-force in the line of duty as he defended himself from a life-threatening attack by Brown, pursuant to the latter committing a strong-arm robbery just minutes prior to his killing.in the long-awaited conference to deliver the grand jury’s verdict on officer’s Wilson probable cause for a criminal indictment, a nation-wide audience listened as Mr. McCulloch went out of his way.

 

In explaining the events leading to Brown’s shooting, while at the end, making the announcement that the 12-member grand jury panel secretly charged with rendering the final judgment, had made their decision to acquit officer Darren Wilson on all five indictment alternatives, to wit: first-degree murder,

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/67914

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4Dec

Hands Up – It’s A Lie! (Guest Post)

By: Warren Beatty (not the liberal actor)

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. – Dr. Joseph Goebbels

 

It seems that everyone who’s gullible and liberal want to get in on the Ferguson lie.

 

First, five St. Louis Rams NFL football team players took the field with their hands up. The reason? “We wanted to let the community know that we support the community,” said player Kenny Britt. Jared Cook, another St. Louis player, said “… we wanted to come out and show our respect to the protests and the people who have been doing a heck of a job around the world.” But not one word from the five about “hands up” being a lie. No, the gutless NFL will not discipline the five players for their gesture.

 

On Monday it was Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Marcia Fudge (D-OH) who said,

http://floppingaces.net/2014/12/04/hands-up-its-a-lie-guest-post/

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12/4/2014

Sarah Palin On Ferguson

Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:21 pm

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Sarah Palin weighed in on Ferguson. Outrage ensued. This on the heels of her “latte” salute mockery of Obama in September.

http://patterico.com/2014/12/04/sarah-palin-on-ferguson/

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Ferguson Mayor Wins First Election Since Michael Brown's Killing

BY TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE | APRIL 5, 2017

By Stephen Deere

 

The man who led Ferguson through the protests following the shooting death of Michael Brown was re-elected Tuesday.

Mayor James Knowles III beat back a challenge from City Council member Ella Jones in the first mayoral election since Brown was shot to death by a police officer in 2014, making this St. Louis suburb a household name. Knowles won more than 56 percent of the vote.

 

"We all want the same thing," Knowles said Tuesday night. "We're all here for the same purpose, which is our community." He said he was confident that he and Jones and the other council members will continue to work together.

http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/tns-ferguson-mayor-election.html