The Ferguson, Missouri thread

[kuronosan]

Darren Wilson in negotiations to resign.

Well that sucks. He won't be able to find a decent job.

[notorious bum]

Well, Anonymous declares no more KKK websites in operation lol

Also, for those who were unsure about the distance in which MB died from DW's SUV (I remember folks distrusting google maps' accuracy), someone went out and manually measured it with one of those rolling distance meters. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...n-Wilson-s-SUV

The last two days of protesting outside the FPD have been rough and extra-nasty, lot's of snatch and grab tactics, where police push protestors onto sidewalk, then out to the street, advance the line into the street, etc. Brandishing of weapons and pepper spray abound, name tags missing, bodycams turned off, etc. They snatched livestreamer Bassem, the Palestinian guy, who they alleged had warrants, released tonight.

Tim Pool retweeted
Carol Schaeffer ‏@thencarolsaid 55m55 minutes ago Ferguson, MO
Woman arrested at #Fergsuon PD yells "My legs!" at arrest. Officer tells her "Stop resisting, it won't hurt."

Chris Gagné ‏@cgagneASN 15m15 minutes ago Berkeley, MO
It was Officer Dean of the @stlcountypd who pushed me, attempted to grab my phone and threatened me with arrest for interfering for filming.

Melody ‏@MelodyTheMellow 34m34 minutes ago
One person shot in the back with a rubber bullet, three arrested. #Ferguson

update: Not only is the police presence ramped-up and outnumbering the protestors tonight, but their tactics have been upgraded to ridiculous



Chuck_MODI ‏@POPSspotSports 12m12 minutes ago
#Ferguson police advance one of many times. Eventually rush parking lot on other side as we have not seen before

Diamond Latchison ‏@dlatchison011 11m11 minutes ago
Can't believe the police are running up into Andy Wurm's lot snatching up people. That's bold as hell.

[Quicklet]

The past two nights don't bode well for how the police will interact with larger crowds once an announcement comes down.

[kuronosan]

Nah thas ignant. /mj

[6souls]

The group Ferguson hired to locate emails, Acumen, that Vice request earlier this year, at a price of $1200, spent only 5 hours on the search. In their 5 hours they found only 7 emails with mentions to Michael Brown, but decided to forgo a deep search for deleted items. Although they said that they could have, they choose not to.

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local...oned/19304949/

[Nephlite]

The DUI checkpoint is just an example of how the use of police departments as revenue streams disproportionately targets low-income people, which translates into racial differences as well. Congratulations, you work for one of the few departments that isn't regarded as a revenue stream. You are not representative of the national trend. I might seem to be "all over the map" as you put it, but only because this is a complicated problem with a complicated answer. There is no magic bullet that will solve everything. It has to be fixed from multiple directions. And I never said you lost your mind, only that you reflexively toe the blue line. You want all other cops to be like you, but they're not. That's part of the problem. It's really hard to get people to trust cops (which is the only way the system can work) when the cops are targeting them (even unconsciously) and the bad apples are protected by those of you who identify so strongly as "cop" that the slightest insult/criticism of anyone called a "cop" makes you feel threatened.

You don't have anything to support this, unfortunately. It's a blanket statement where you're assuming every department is like that, when they're not.

[noblemountain]

Because law enforcement is loathe to give up real numbers. In GA they went from less than 2,000 roadblocks a year to over 11,000 a year now. Something like 50 or 60,000 man hours. (Their funding increased from 40 million to 140 million btw) However only 2.3% of their DUI arrests came at roadblocks. They were all used to garner resources from hispanic and black areas. Shocking.

[6souls]

Businesses are hiring PMC's to move Guns & Gold out of Ferguson before trouble begins.

https://news.vice.com/article/privat...ut-of-ferguson

[noblemountain]

I am registered off call and have gotten ten emails from my director asking about special pay jobs. Wish I had the time to make some extra bank right now, but am helping train five keepers that are brand new to elephants right now.

[notorious bum]

Glad to see that those watching MSM for Ferguson updates are still getting quality information:'

[notorious bum]

LMAO Chicago Tribune is on the case! https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/s...16038044139520

[Nephlite]

Glad to see that those watching MSM for Ferguson updates are still getting quality information:'

Looks like they were affiliates with the New Black Panther Party.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mic...otests-n254021

They arrested one of the ringleaders and one of the more vocal activists who was enticing the violence from the beginning of this whole thing. Guess some of them decided to stick around. That would explain why the KKK got involved. Glad those assholes got exposed as well. Hopefully, by taking those two groups out of the equation (and with the feds bringing in 100 extra agents for intelligence gathering), it'll be a bit more peaceful.

[notorious bum]

I saw one of the Anonymous accounts retweeting some NBPP garbage, I hope the Ferguson activists put them in-check. That's going to be easy pickings for anyone looking to paint protestors as instigators/thugs/criminals/terrorists. Especially that Palestinian dude Bassem, he seems ripe for co-opting by the NBPP...

[Quicklet]

Bassem has a pretty good reason to be pissed though given how the police have targeted livestreamers and maced him multiple times just for filming what the police were doing several feet away, often doing things like forcefully jamming a baton into someone in a sit-in.

At this point I'm not convinced the protests are going to be as big as they were over the summer, if only because of the cold weather and how both the media and certain parts of the police/government seem eager to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of "violent" protests. For the past few nights, media have outnumbered protesters by like 3:1 at times, and CNN has really been hyping up the situation in an irresponsible way.

[notorious bum]

Yeah, I actually forgot to post this video from this morning of Bassem on CNN. I've seen him dip into some conspiracy and major paranoia sometimes on twitter + the fact that he retweeted the reply from the NBPP, that's what has me worried. As long as he stays with the core Ferguson support group, he should be alright.



Also, to note on the jab by the host about Bassem trying to get his 15min of fame or whatever, CNN was the one who called him up for the interview. Enjoy the weak attempt to control the narrative by CNN lol

[notorious bum]

Looks like the judge will NOT be releasing any information if DW is not indicted, contrary to previous reports that evidence would be released after GJ. Also, last night a reporter was arrested and labeled a protestor.

At the moment, giant barricades are being erected all over STL. On a side note, frontline protestor @deray is also tweeting in-defense of the NBPP, increasing my level of paranoia with upcoming announcement.

[Salodin]

Did you see a reason for why the judge isn't releasing the information in case of no indictment?

[notorious bum]

[Xno Kappa]

Did you see a reason for why the judge isn't releasing the information in case of no indictment?

I've seen this happen several times and usually it's because there's still an ongoing investigation by one or more agencies. A local grand jury may state the threshold hasn't been met for a full blown trial, but the case can, and pretty much guaranteed in this situation, be referred to state/federal level for prosecutorial jurisdiction.

[Xno Kappa]

So is Darren Wilson part of the KKK?