Justice Dept. Moving to Clear Ferguson Officer of Civil Rights Charges

[thundley4]

Justice Dept. Moving to Clear Ferguson Officer of Civil Rights Charges

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black teenager in August, law enforcement officials said.

That would close the politically charged case in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, the officials said.

A broader civil rights investigation into allegations of discriminatory traffic stops and excessive force by the Ferguson Police Department remains open, however. That investigation could lead to significant changes at the department, which is overwhelmingly white despite serving a city that is mostly black.



http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/justice-department-ferguson-civil-rights-darren-wilson.html?_r=0

[Skul]

Grab the popcorn, here we go again.    

[obumazombie]

Another lib twisting of the truth.
How can he be "cleared of charges" when he was never charged ?
I know it sounds like a question, but it's a rhetorical one.

[SVPete]

Believe it when you see it, after checking twice. The only way Obama & Co. will get out of Officer Wilson's life is if there's no political gain left in harassing him and holding his life in suspense.

[thundley4]

I really wish Sheriff Joe Arpaio would offer him a job. 

[SaintLouieWoman]

I really wish Sheriff Joe Arpaio would offer him a job. 

That's a good thought. That poor guy needs something.

Hate how the libs destroy someone's life, then move on to the next one. Really hate that the finger of blame seems to be pointing to Soros for funding all those groups pouring into St Louis on the buses with their professionally done signs.

[Chris_]

That's a good thought. That poor guy needs something.

I agree.  That guy isn't going to find a job anywhere near Missouri.

[Donpeyote]

Grab the popcorn, here we go again.    

True Dat ... 

[TerryOfromCA]

. . . . . The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black teenager. . . . .

Good!  Take that Al Sharpton, you slimy worm.

[Belle]

I wish this nightmare was over for Darren Wilson.
 From 4/2015:  “Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday against the city of Ferguson, Mo., former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of their son last summer."

http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-what-michael-browns-family-just-did-means-darren-wilsons-nightmare-is-not-over/

Onto other Ferguson news, there's plenty of irony in this.  Apparently some Ferguson protestors were told they'd be paid for showing up & protesting, but where's the money?  ACORN had received funding from George Soros to fund the protests.  "They even started a hashtag, #cutthechecks, to demand their money."

http://www.weaselzippers.us/223908-ferguson-protesters-protest-not-getting-their-checks-for-protesting-from-their-organizers-list-of-payouts-to-protesters/

[SVPete]

Onto other Ferguson news, there's plenty of irony in this.  Apparently some Ferguson protestors were told they'd be paid for showing up & protesting, but where's the money?  ACORN had received funding from George Soros to fund the protests.  "They even started a hashtag, #cutthechecks, to demand their money."

http://www.weaselzippers.us/223908-ferguson-protesters-protest-not-getting-their-checks-for-protesting-from-their-organizers-list-of-payouts-to-protesters/

Back in the 80s and 90s one of the want ads jobs available categories in the San Jose mercury News (and probably the SF Chronicle) was "Activist". One of the talkshow hosts in SF used to call them Rent-A-Mob.

There's a certain, delicious, irony in the people hiring the scumbags being scumbags.

[obumazombie]

Libs love to  talk about "root causes".
Even big fat libs like U. Cal Berkeley Professors are admitting the root cause of Ferguson, Baltimore etc...

Was there some kind of rarely-seen alignment of planets, stars and other cosmic entities coinciding with this commentary on NPR?

Conservatives listening to Fresh Air, one of the taxpayer-funded network's most popular shows, must have been startled to hear a University of California-Berkeley professor on May 14 cite a largely ignored culprit in the creation of segregated urban ghettos that erupted in frequent violence during the '60s -- and as shown by riots in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore over the last year, are at risk of going up in flames again.

Liberals don't get more iconic than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, architect of the New Deal, only president to serve more than two terms, a leader who saved the nation from the Great Depression and the world from fascism, or so we've been told ever since.
 
Roosevelt's legacy is decidedly problematic when it comes to New Deal policies that are rarely mentioned any more, but their significance in today's racial tensions and worsening cycle of chaos is undeniable.
Here's how they were described by Richard Rothstein, a senior fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at U-C Berkeley, during an interview with Fresh Air host Terry Gross

GROSS:

I think the American public, including the people trapped in poverty in inner cities, don't understand how literally ghettos were legislated into existence.
Do you consider it part of your mission now to explain that, to put some of the anger that's happening, that we're seeing now, in context?

ROTHSTEIN:

Yes.
We've forgotten all this history.

It's not that we never knew it, but we've forgotten it. We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country are what the Supreme Court calls de facto, just the accident of the fact that people have not enough income to move into middle-class neighborhoods or because real estate agents steered black and white families to different neighborhoods or because there was white flight.

But the truth is that while those things existed, the major reason we have ghettos in every metropolitan area in this country is because federal, state and local governments purposely created racial boundaries in these cities.
It was not the unintended effect of benign policies.

It was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government, and that's the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies.

GROSS: And it's amazing really, there's policies on so many different levels.
There's policies pertaining to loans to buy housing.

There's policies preventing you from moving into certain neighborhoods.
There's policies about zoning that affect the kind of climate you're living in if you're trapped in a neighborhood because you're black and no white people are going to let you move.

So it's really coming at you from every direction.

ROTHSTEIN: Yes, there were many, many policies, as I said, at the federal, state and local levels.
Probably the chief ones, the most important ones, were public housing which began in the New Deal for civilian populations. And the federal government, under Public Works Administration of the New Deal, had an explicit segregation policy.

Its policy was that public housing could be used only to house people of the same race as the neighborhood in which it was located. But in fact, most of the public housing that was built in the early years was built in integrated neighborhoods which they razed and then built segregated public housing in those neighborhoods.
So public housing created racial segregation where none existed before. That was one of the chief policies.

The second policy, which was probably even more effective in segregating metropolitan areas, was the Federal Housing Administration, which financed mass-production builders of subdivisions starting in the '30s and then going on to the '40s and '50s in which those mass-production builders, places like Levittown, for example, in Nassau County in New York, and in every metropolitan area in the country, the Federal Housing Administration gave builders like (William) Levitt, concessionary loans through banks, as they guaranteed loans at lower interest rates for banks that the developers could use to build these subdivisions, on condition that no homes in those subdivisions be sold to African-Americans.

The Federal Housing Administration even provided model language attached to the deeds that builders could use to ensure that no purchaser could resell to an African-American.
So while there was an initial civilian housing shortage in the '30s, '40s and early '50s, which meant that public housing was built as a segregated policy both for whites and for blacks in separate projects, in separate buildings, as that period developed the subdivisions and the suburbs were built for white families, they were lured away from the public housing.

Public housing became all-black in the inner city. And these two policies -- of public housing and Federal Housing Administration subsidization of suburbs -- are the two major factors that have created the segregation that we know today.

History that's been forgotten -- or that doesn't get taught by left wingers who control the unions in public schools? A liberal in front of a classroom has a vested interest in making sure this history remains ignored -- it perpetuates the myth that Republicans are solely to blame for racism in this country.

It was a Republican, George Romney, Mitt Romney's late father when he was a Cabinet secretary during the Nixon presidency, who tried in vain to dismantle these policies, Rothstein explained (audio) --

GROSS: I suppose one should never be surprised by the extent of racism in America, but it's still shocking that that would be legal in the North where there wasn't legal segregation.

ROTHSTEIN: But there was -- this was not legal, it was unconstitutional.
But this was the policy the federal government followed.

As I said it was once well known.
You know, in 1970, George Romney, who was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Nixon, the father of the recent presidential candidate, announced that the federal government had created a white noose around African-American neighborhoods, Negro neighborhoods he called them, in the central cities and it was the federal government's obligation now to untie that noose.

And Romney implemented a series of policies designed to integrate the suburbs, to reverse the policies that had been pursued in the previous 20 years.

He proposed to withhold federal funds for all kinds of things, sewer projects or water projects or parklands, from any suburban community that didn't desegregate, by repealing ordinances that prohibited the construction of multi-family units or that didn't take their fair share of public housing throughout the metropolitan area or that didn't accept subsidized housing.
And he actually, Romney actually did withhold federal funds from three suburbs as his first round of this policy. He called it Open Communities and there was such a(n) uproar in the country about it that President Nixon reined him in.

Romney was forced to cancel the Open Communities program.
He was eventually forced out as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and we've had nothing since from the federal government that was anywhere near as aggressive in trying to reverse the policies that the federal government had pursued to create segregation.

 

full article...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2015/05/19/u-calif-professor-npr-new-deal-policies-created-ghettos-led-riots#sthash.W1k3Q8qD.dpuf