Ferguson

Davey D On Newest Murder By Police In St. Louis

October 10, 2014 Davey D, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Ferguson, Police abuse, Racism

In our discussion both Bgyrl and Tef Poe noted what I brought to light in my last post about all these recent cases (6 in the past few months) of folks going to jail over traffic tickets and winding up dead, disappeared or seriously harmed while in police custody. This has been on many people's minds, hence the name of the game is to take evasive action when seeing them. Any encounter can be deadly especially if you have a record which was the case with Myers. Tef Poe brought up another key point. While off duty police who are required to wear their uniforms, the question raised was that officer who was not in his assigned area in his full uniform. In other words did Myers know he was a cop or someone with a hostile attitude?

FBI, Multiple Cities Preparing For Riots If No Ferguson Indictment

October 10, 2014 Tim Reid, www.reuters.com Educate! Ferguson, police brutality, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism

Missouri authorities are drawing up contingency plans and seeking intelligence from U.S. police departments on out-of-state agitators, fearing that fresh riots could erupt if a grand jury does not indict a white officer for killing a black teen. The plans are being thrashed out in meetings being held two to three times a week, according to people who have attended them. The FBI said it was also involved in the discussions. Details of the meetings and intelligence sharing by Missouri police agencies and their counterparts around the country have not been reported before. The grand jury is expected to decide next month whether to bring criminal charges against police officer Darren Wilson, who shot dead Michael Brown, 18, on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri.

Judge Stops Ferguson Police’s ‘Five Second Rule’

October 7, 2014 Diane Balogh, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Ferguson, Police abuse, Racism

Law enforcement officials can no longer force peaceful protesters in Ferguson to keep moving on sidewalks when they are breaking no law. Federal Judge Catherine Perry granted a preliminary injunction this afternoon in the lawsuit Mustafa Abdullah v. Saint Louis County et al., regarding the “five-second rule.” In August, law enforcement officers began enforcing a new rule in the area where demonstrators had gathered in Ferguson after the shooting death of Michael Brown. The ACLU of Missouri called it the “five-second rule” because protesters were told they could not remain still for more than five seconds, but law enforcement invoked the rule for many things including standing still for more than five seconds, just standing still, and walking back and forth over hundreds of yards in the protest area. The rule has no statutory or regulatory reference number and has not been released to the public in print.

Demonstrators ‘Disrupt’ St. Louis Symphony For Mike Brown

October 6, 2014 Rebecca Rivas, www.stlamerican.com Resist! Art, Direct Action, Ferguson, Racial Justice

Just after intermission, about 50 people disrupted the St. Louis Symphony’s performance of Brahms Requiem on Saturday night, singing “Justice for Mike Brown.” As symphony conductor Markus Stenz stepped to the podium to begin the second act of German Requiem, one middle-aged African-American man stood up in the middle of the theater and sang, “What side are you on friend, what side are you on?” In an operatic voice, another woman located a few rows away stood up and joined him singing, “Justice for Mike Brown is justice for us all.” Several more audience members sprinkled throughout the theater and in the balcony rose up and joined in the singing.

Ferguson Protesters In Orange Jumpsuits And High Bail Set

October 5, 2014 Mariah Stewart and Ryan J. Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Ferguson, Police abuse, Racism

More than a dozen people arrested during protests outside the Ferguson Police Department early Friday were outfitted with orange prison jumpsuits, slapped with high bail and locked behind bars for hours longer than most others arrested in earlier demonstrations against the police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. The 13 protestors, including many seized while standing on the sidewalk, were arrested by police officers from St. Louis County Police and Missouri State Highway Patrol and were jailed in nearby St. Ann. Video of the arrests show protestors on the sidewalk, and not blocking the street, when officers moved in. They were charged with offenses that included failure to comply with police, noise ordinance violations and resisting arrest.

House Of Cards Level Corruption In Ferguson And Beyond

October 4, 2014 Shaun King, www.dailykos.com Educate! Corruption, Ferguson, Law, police brutality, Police the Police

On August 10, 2014, St. Louis County Police Chief John Belmar held his first press conference on the murder of Mike Brown by Officer Darren Wilson of the nearby Missouri Ferguson Police Department. His force had been called in to take over the investigation for the much smaller local department. The shooting had occurred less than 24 hours earlier, and the tensions on the ground in Ferguson were already red hot and boiling over. As we are now likely to just be a few weeks away from a grand jury decision in this case, citizens and journalists have been left to do what police and prosecutors seem to have very little interest in—pushing for the real facts to find justice for a young man who was killed with his hands in the air.

Ferguson Grand Jury: Is Juror Talking To Wilson Supporter?

October 3, 2014 Kimberly Kindy, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! Ferguson, Law

The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is investigating an accusation of misconduct on the grand jury that is hearing the case against the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. An account of possible jury misconduct surfaced Wednesday morning on Twitter, when several users sent messages about one juror who may have discussed evidence in the case with a friend. In one of those messages, a person tweeted that they are friends with a member of the jury who doesn’t believe there is enough evidence to warrant an arrest of the officer, Darren Wilson. The same person who tweeted about being friends with a member of the jury has also tweeted messages of support for Wilson.

The Security State’s Plans To Crush Activism

October 2, 2014 Michael D. Micklow, www.mediaroots.org Educate! Ferguson, NSA, Police, Racism, Surveillance

Enforcing security based on racist ideology has long been field tested by Israel, which uses Palestinians as lab rats before outsourcing its defense and intelligence capabilities to other world powers. Whether it be Israeli forces training ICE officers in Tacoma, outsourcing a Behavior Pattern Recognition security system for US airports, or intelligence contractor Elbit Systems winning multimillion dollar contracts to patrol the US-Mexico border, Israel’s idea of security has now become America’s. As a result, Big Brother’s gaze is discriminatory, and racial minorities are unfairly targeted by the system. When the state engenders unjust policies like those epitomized in places like Ferguson, the press has a duty to engage, raise awareness and advocate the reinstatement of justice. Standing in solidarity with the oppressed and amplifying the plight of the voiceless is the primary function of the Fourth Estate.

#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, & Self-Serving Allying

October 2, 2014 Heather Laine Talley, www.thefeministwire.com Educate! Ferguson, Media, Racism, Social Media, Solidarity

One of the most insidious privileges accessible to whites in a white supremacist culture is that claiming anti-racism regularly functions in the service of self-promotion and, in fact, anti-racism can translate into status for whites. Under no circumstance would this be okay, but when state sanctioned violence directed at Black lives is epidemic, this pattern amplifies injustice. We live in a society that is structured by white supremacy, post-racial and colorblind rhetoric, alongside policies that promote a de-politicized version of multiculturalism. In a time characterized by these cultural contradictions, anti-racist whites are celebrated as evidence of progress.

ACLU Wants Police Banned From Using ‘Keep Moving’ Rule

October 1, 2014 Jennifer S. Mann, www.stltoday.com Resist! Ferguson, Law, Police the Police, Protests

A crowd-control tactic designed to enforce curfew during the most volatile nights of the Ferguson protests was applied in the most calm of daytime situations by mistake, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar testified in federal court Monday. He was one of several witnesses called during a day-long hearing, in which the ACLU asked a judge to put an end to a “keep moving” rule that police began enforcing on Aug. 18 along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson. Some activists are calling it the “five-second rule” — referring to how police would give them five seconds to move or face arrest. Among those who took the stand Monday were a legal observer who said he was threatened with jail after stopping to take information from a handcuffed protester, and an ACLU worker who said he was told he would be arrested after pausing to pray.

Understanding Our Many Fergusons

October 1, 2014 Noel A. Cazenave, www.truth-out.org Educate! Ferguson, Law, police brutality, Racism, Violence

One way of looking at this conflict from the perspective of European-American police officers and vigilante-type individuals who kill African-American youth is as a very highly racialized and macho game of lines drawn in the sand. Here the lines in the sand are drawn in blood and the game is over when they get to shoot to kill with impunity. Indeed it is useful to think in terms of there actually being three lines: The will to kill line - based on highly racialized and genderized emotions of anger and hatred; the right to kill line - what that person can reasonably expect to get away with based on existing norms, laws, policies and practices, and their enforcement, and the need to kill line - rooted in a threat to that person's life or the lives of others.

Ferguson Police Told To Stop Wearing ‘I Am Darren Wilson’ Bracelets

September 28, 2014 Staff, www.reuters.com Educate! Ferguson, Police abuse, Racism

The U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests. In a letter to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, the Justice Department said residents had told its investigators that officers policing protest sites on Tuesday in Ferguson were seen wearing "I am Darren Wilson" bracelets. Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, causing outrage in the mostly black St. Louis suburb of 21,000 people. Wilson has not been charged in the case. The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the shooting and the police treatment of protesters, which critics say was unduly harsh.

Come to Ferguson, MO – October 10-13

September 26, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Ferguson, Militarization, Police abuse, police brutality, police murder, Racism

A call has been issued by Hands Up United, Organization for Black Struggle, and a coalition of local and national organizations demanding justice for Mike Brown, an end to police violence, racial profiling and police militarization. People across the country are being urged to travel to Ferguson on October 10 through October 13 to participate in a series of events with the main march is scheduled for Saturday October 11 in downtown St. Louis. Please answer this call from the people of Ferguson and the surrounding region. Solidarity with the people of Ferguson will strengthen the people on the front lines in Ferguson. Come with others in your community, send a delegation from your campus or church or neighborhood. Organize ride shares and a car caravan. Jump on a bus or train! This call for people from around the country to come to Ferguson October 10-13 comes at a crucial juncture in this battle as the grand jury has been meeting to determine whether the police officer who shot Michael Brown will be indicted.

Ferguson Chief Apologizes, Protest Calls For His Resignation

September 26, 2014 Jade Walker, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Ferguson, Police abuse

Police in Ferguson, Mo., arrested a number of protesters late Thursday night after a scuffle broke out while Police Chief Tom Jackson was walking with the crowd, KMOV.com reported. According to CNN, Jackson was about to make a statement around 11 p.m. when a scuffle broke out behind him. Officers responded by pushing demonstrators back across the street and making arrests. Earlier in the day, Jackson released a video in which he apologized for the way the Michael Brown case, and ensuing protests, had been handled. "The right of the people to peacefully assemble is what the police are here to protect. If anyone who was peacefully exercising that right is upset and angry, I feel responsible and I'm sorry," Jackson stated.

Leaders Come from the Bottom Up

September 21, 2014 Charles Cobb, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! Civil Rights, Ferguson, Racism

For all the righteous indignation it inspired, the Ferguson turmoil has become the latest in a series of flash-in-the-pan causes that peter out without inspiring lasting movements for racial justice. As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi during the ’60s, what I learned was the importance of organizing at the grass-roots and how even small actions at this level can have national impact. That is why I cannot help but notice that many black leaders, in their efforts to drive change, are ignoring some of the great lessons of the Southern Freedom Movement.

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