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Protest Over Decision Not To Prosecute Police In Vonderrit Myers Case

May 20, 2015 Joe Millitzer, www.fox2now.com , , , ,
Protesters took to the to the streets of downtown St. Louis Tuesday morning over the Circuit Attorney’s decision not to charge an officer for the October shooting death of Vonderrit Myers. There were about 40 demonstrators near the intersection of 10th and Market. Police met with protesters on the scene. The Circuit Attorney’s officer released the results of their investigation into the shooting on Monday. Investigators found that Myers shot at the officer therefore deadly force was justified. Demonstrators have dispersed from the scene. The protest in front of the Courts building lasted for about two hours.

Slave Patrols Alive & Well Across America, Part II

October 23, 2014 Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com , , ,
There has long been a playbook for police departments across America—after police officers, predominantly white, kill unarmed citizens who are predominantly black. We can trace this to its origins in the Deep South, during the early days of human trafficking in America when it was called "slavery." Today's iteration of African human trafficking in America goes by various MOs, all with politely toned down labeling: "racial profiling," "gentrification," "the prison-industrial complex." Yet, if we were honest with ourselves we would call this systemic lethality what is it – the renewal of the slave posse’s license to kill black people. After Michael Brown, 18 was profiled and executed on August 9th as he walked in the street with a companion, the Ferguson police department was happy to release a video that on casual viewing appeared to show Brown just minutes before his execution manhandling the much smaller clerk in a local market where Michael appeared to be shoplifting cigars.

Slave Patrols Alive And Well, Part 1: Vonderrit Myers

October 16, 2014 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com , , , ,
“This latest yet unidentified St. Louis police executioner claimed that he followed Myers and his friends because he felt that the teens were acting suspiciously.” Ten minutes earlier he had taken the turkey sandwich Berhe Beyet made him and cradled it away from his friend's playful snatching. Then stood breaking off a piece that he shared with another friend. By now, his mother has seen this tape of him standing in silhouette, and watched his peaceful chewing. On his way out the door he gives yet another friend a bite of what he did not know was his last supper, walking off into a night every parent in America cannot begin to imagine. A night every black person in America knows is coming and that the next one coming could be them—might as well be them—every time they imagine the high caliber bullet shattering his cheek bone, eye socket, aorta the medical examiner identified as the cause of death.

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