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August 31, 2014

About F**king Time! Ferguson, Missouri police receive training on body cameras

Ferguson, Missouri police are being trained to use and wear body cameras, CBS affiliate KMOV reports.

The training comes amid increased attention on police use of force in the wake of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Following that shooting, local police in Ferguson donned riot gear and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who refused to disperse and, at times, broke into nearby businesses.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said body cameras would have made a difference in the investigation of Brown's shooting.

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"A picture's worth a thousand words and video, many more," Bibring said. "And video, from the perspective of the officer, is going to be an invaluable tool in determining why an officer acted the way he or she did - and whether he or she acted appropriately."

Video at the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ferguson-missouri-police-receive-training-on-body-cameras/

Ferguson's use of Force was a disgusting display of power.

Secondly, the response of the police had all the makings of Shock and Awe, I believe this was unprecedented.

Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness and maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe


I posted this here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025457550#post9


FERGUSON'S PEOPLE WERE NOT THE ENEMY! PLEASE READ THE QUOTE FROM WIKI! Dear Gawd!Freguson police did this! They did indeed TRY TO"destroy its will to fight."

August 31, 2014

Beyond Ferguson: Understanding the big picture

I just want to say that Carol Anderson nailed it in her column titled: Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress.

When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.

Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.

White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there’s a reaction, a backlash.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html


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The reason its important to remember this is that it keeps the focus where it should be...on racism. But it also allows us to acknowledge the strength of our cause. Change is happening and the backlash is very real. But as I've said so many times, the dying beast is lashing out in its death throes. That's why I loved how Rev. Al Sharpton ended his remarks at Michael Brown's memorial service.

I don’t know how long the investigation will be. I don’t know how long the journey’s going ot be. But I know how this story gonna end. The first will be last. The last will be first. The lion and lamb gonna lay down together. And God will! God will! God will make a way for his children! I been to the end of the Book. Justice is gonna come!


The backlash we're experiencing now was triggered by just that kind of hope.


We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change...


Lift Every Voice and Sing




MORE MORE MORE HERE:http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ferguson-understanding-big.html
August 30, 2014

Ssssh... Trigger Warning

Daddy, stop hurting me! Please stop hurting me.



He says softly, do not tell. Never tell.



She remains silent.



Shame Hurt Fear Guilt Anger



Domestic Violence..or an accident



Ssssh. Don't tell.



Shattered.








White Ribbon Day

Celebrities, sportsmen, politicians, community leaders, businessmen and thousands of men and women across Australia will mark White Ribbon Day, 25 November, the UN’s International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, by joining together and swearing: 'never to commit, excuse or remain silent about violence against women.’

As one of Australia’s well-respected voices of opinion and news you are in a unique position to help raise awareness and create positive change around the issue of violence against women.

http://www.whiteribbon.org.au/update/media-should-sw-r-this-white-ribbon-day





No More Silence. We Speak.



We are Strong.



To all of you~

We Will Not Sit Down and We Will Not Shut Up! This is about us.






August 12, 2014

I’m tired of White people and the Media pretending that there isn’t a war on Black people

Ferguson Police shoots unarmed black kid 10 times
Posted on August 9, 2014 by SouthernGirl2

WTFF? It’s open season on young black boys in America. Shot 10 times? Did he empty his clip? A hunter doesn’t shoot a lion 10 times.

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When Black people bring up the obvious racial component of this against the Black community by law enforcement, White people always want to diminish it, and disregard our valid feelings about it.

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I want you to find 25 cases where WHITE PEOPLE are MURDERED by the police like this.

Unarmed and choked like Eric Garner in New York.
Standing in a Wal-Mart – a place that sells and shills ACTUAL FIREARMS – with a Plastic BBGuns – being shot down
This young man being shot with his hands in the air.
Being shot in the back ‘ resisting arrest’.
‘Committing Suicide’ while being handcuffed.
Killing a 92 year old woman in her house under a wrong warrant.


http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/08/09/ferguson-police-shoots-unarmed-black-kid-10-times-2/

The Michael Brown Murder in Ferguson, Missouri
Posted on August 11, 2014 by rikyrah

Trudy @thetrudz
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[TW] After a lynching, the body left on tree for a while. 3 reasons. To make images of it. To entertain Whites. Psych warfare on Black ppl



Trudy@thetrudz
And this reason, this context, this history, and this power, *directly* connects to Michael Brown’s execution and his body left in street.

Trudy @thetrudz
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DIRECTLY. It is not a metaphor. It is not a trope. Not use of Black death for non-BP anti-Blackness. His execution = legacy of lynching.
9:11 PM – 10 Aug 2014



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Of course. It fits the oppressor’s narrative. RT @AngryBlackLady: now the media is going to focus on looting rather than the shooting.
9:31 PM – 10 Aug 2014

http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/08/11/the-michael-brown-murder-in-ferguson-missouri/

Please rest in peace Michael. We will stand for you now.


August 9, 2014

Two women kissing over the fence.



There have always been LGBT people. There has always been love.‪#‎womeninhistory‬,‪#‎LGBTequalitynow‬,
Lodz, Poland during the Holocaust. Two women kissing over the fence. Photo source: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/96093.html

Love is timeless. It doesn't matter who you love, what matters is that you do.

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