Clean up, calm Monday morning after violent night in Ferguson

[thundley4]

They want the name of the cop. However from my understanding of urban culture, snitches get stiches.

If his name is released, his family and him are in danger.

[DefiantSix]

If his name is released, his family and him are in danger.

That's exactly what the mob wants: to endanger the cop and his family.

[HawkHogan]

That's exactly what the mob wants: to endanger the cop and his family.

Anonymous released the name of the Police Chief's wife and kids, and their addresses.

[DefiantSix]

Anonymous released the name of the Police Chief's wife and kids, and their addresses.

Where's Eric Holder and the Department of Justice during all thi....

Oh, wait. 

[Ptarmigan]

Chief: Officer in fatal shooting sustained facial injuries
http://www.kmov.com/special-coverage-001/Chief-Officer-in-fatal-shooting-suffered-facial-injuries-271079471.html

FERGUSON, Mo. -- The officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri was injured in the alleged altercation, according to Ferguson Chief of Police Tom Jackson.

Jackson, who spoke on the phone with News 4's Laura Hettiger Wednesday morning, said the officer "was hit" and the "side of his face was swollen."  The chief did not say if the officer suffered any broken bones.

In an interview after the shooting, police said 18-year-old Michael Brown was walking with a friend in the middle of Canfield when an officer attempted to exit his vehicle. Police said Brown pushed the officer back into the police car. According to police, Brown then entered the officer’s vehicle and a struggle ensued over the officer’s weapon.  Police said during the physical altercation a shot was fired inside of the car.

The name of the cop has not been released, but was injured.

[thundley4]

Just lies to cover their asses. /DU mode

[CollectivismMustDie]

Where's Eric Holder and the Department of Justice during all thi....

Oh, wait. 

When the flames die down enough, he'll fan them.


CMD

[Chris_]

Well.  Look at this.

Police Chief: Shot Fired in Officer's Car Before Death of Michael Brown

Jackson said there was a struggle for the officer's gun before 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by the officer.

He could not say whether there are witnesses who will confirm the shot going off in the car or that the struggle occurred. Hannity asked whether, as some witnesses have stated, as many as 10 shots were fired by the officer.

Fox News

It seems we don't know the entire story, but let's burn, loot, and pillage anyway.

[HawkHogan]

Anonymous released the cop's name and will release more information through out the day.

[Happy Fun Ball]

Anonymous released the cop's name and will release more information through out the day.

No they didn't.

Oops

[thundley4]

No they didn't.

Oops

They just put innocent people in danger.

[vesta111]

They just put innocent people in danger.

Something just doesn't ring true here.   I will await the toxicology reports on the young man before asking any questions on what caused the young man to attack a police man who was armed and to as is reported push him back into the police car.

Odd behavior from anyone of any sex, color or religion to do when they are just walking down the street and the police stop them for any reason.   

[Ptarmigan]

A city ripped apart: Heavily-armed SWAT teams fire tear gas on demonstrators and arrest two journalists in FOURTH night of clashes over the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724528/A-city-ripped-apart-Heavily-armed-SWAT-teams-fire-tear-gas-demonstrators-arrest-two-journalists-FOURTH-night-clashes-shooting-unarmed-18-year-old-Michael-Brown.html

Heavily armed SWAT police trained their guns on the public and fired tear gas in Ferguson, Missouri, last night as racial unrest over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen rocked the St. Louis suburb for the fourth night running.

An estimated 500 people, who had been protesting 18-year-old Michael Brown's death on Saturday, ignored the night curfew imposed by police and instead faced-off against officers chanting 'Hands Up! Don't Shoot!'

After repeatedly asking them to disperse, the riot police then fired tear gas into the crowd to break it up, causing scenes that resembled a war zone as another night of clashes was sparked between authorities and furious protestors.

The violence continues. This is worse than Trayvon Martin since George Zimmerman is not a police officer.

[Ptarmigan]

French warned travelers to avoid Ferguson area
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/french-warned-travelers-to-avoid-ferguson-area/

NEW YORK – For the past year, a French government website has warned French travelers to avoid visiting the area north of downtown St. Louis were the police shooting of a black teen Saturday sparked violent, racial tensions that now are being addressed by the White House.

The French government website “France Diplomatie” carries a security warning for St. Louis, that reads in French: “St. Louis: Eviter le quartier nord entre l’aéroport et le centre-ville, mais la navette reliant l’aéroport est sûre.”

It translates to: “St. Louis: Avoid the northern area between the airport and the city center, but the airport shuttle is safe.”

Why would anyone travel to that area in northern St. Louis County?

[Ptarmigan]

Why Ferguson Was Ready to Explode
http://time.com/3111727/ferguson-missouri-michael-brown-hyper-segregated/

A few cautionary tales point to the frustrating racial divide within St. Louis' suburbs that many African Americans feel is impossible to transcend.

The late Tom Eagleton, longtime Democrat Senator from Missouri, in speaking to a group of NFL owners some years ago referred to St. Louis as “a raucous Des Moines,” despite its Southern pedigree (St. Louis had slavery); its role as portal to the American West (St. Louis proudly calls itself “the gateway city”); and its reputation of being more refined and “eastern” than its bigger western sister, Kansas City. Perhaps St. Louis, in its heart, is something of a mid-sized, Midwestern burg, a bigger, more lively, and urban version of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street. St. Louis has always thought itself as current in a benign way, hardly avant-garde, but a charming, if declining, metropolis with a glorious past, when, in the 19th Century, the nation ran through this city.

This caught my attention.

Enter this iron triangle of control, neglect and racial alienation, and one uncovers several recent racial narratives that should have warned St. Louisans about what was coming—narratives about crossing the racial divide here. Metrolink, St. Louis’s light rail system, completed its second line in 2006. It provided African Americans of East St. Louis, one of the poorest cities in the country, and of north St. Louis county much easier access to the St. Louis Galleria Mall and the central cultural corridor of the city, including the hip Delmar Loop district. Concurrently, the Galleria has since seen an astronomical increase in shoplifting, and there has also been an increase in general crime and hooliganism in the Delmar Loop. This has led many to think that the Metrolink, as it has crossed racial boundaries, has enabled African American teenaged crime. This vicious cycle of young African Americans’ antisocial hostility and acting out, hardly unique to African Americans or even to Americans, and ever increasing white fear and barricade building, have intensified racial tensions, as people find the problem intractable and increasingly impossible to discuss honestly. The current riot in Ferguson is largely a war between police and the young African Americans who think cops exist mostly to prevent African American from harming whites.

[Ptarmigan]

As usual, Front Page Magazine has very insightful articles.

Race Riot Romance
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/race-riot-romance-1/

The fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda.

After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot.

Cries of “no justice, no peace” pierce the air as demonstrators hurl Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officials. Some say the police have been responding to the protesters and rioters with excessive force and have been mean by discouraging protests. Some blacks are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown.

Here is one part that nails it right on.

Cloward, who died in 2001, and his wife Piven objectified blacks, viewing them as cannon fodder in a fifth-column assault on America. They wanted blacks to remain miserable, docile, poor, and angry in black ghettos where left-wing community organizers could easily sacrifice their lives at will, as I wrote in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

In a particularly odious essay titled, “The Case Against Urban Desegregation,” these apostles of depravity wrote, “If the African American is to develop the power to enter the mainstream of American life, it is separatism—not integration—that will be essential to achieve results in certain institutional arenas.” The black American would be better off “consolidating his power within the central city” in order to “have some impact on the environment of the ghetto itself.” Blacks have to “organize as a bloc.” Achieving “effective separatist power” would not be accomplished by arguing “the ghetto must be dispersed.”

It is no secret that radicals want blacks to hate the police because it makes it easier to fan the flames of discontent. The leftist narrative is that the police are “pigs,” the armed wing of the white capitalist class that oppresses poor blacks. Cops are legitimate targets in the radicals’ war against what Sixties radicals called “AmeriKKKa.”

Echoing a sentiment expressed by Bolshevik barrister William Kunstler—defender of the Chicago Seven antiwar protesters, accused of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention— Piven wrote separately in 1972 that growing numbers of poor blacks viewed police officers as a kind of “army of occupation in the ghetto.”

The left uses Blacks for their own gain and seek for power. Blacks are just pawns to the left.

[Chris_]

I wouldn't want to be a white woman in Ferguson, MO right now.

Ferguson's Rep. Lacy Clay Voted Against Amendment to Limit Military Surplus Transfers to Local Cops, Just Two Months Ago

In June, the House of Representatives voted on a series of amendments to H.R. 4435, the National Defense Authorization Act.  Among the amendments was one by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) which would’ve prohibited funds from being used to transfer certain kinds of military surplus to local police departments. The amendment failed by a wide margin, with only 62 votes for and 355 against.

Among those voting against this bill, which would slow down the militarization of America’s police forces, was Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), whose district includes Ferguson, Missouri, where many Americans have gotten their first glimpse of America’s militarized police in action.

Reason

[Ptarmigan]

Times Square SHUT DOWN by thousands marching as Ferguson protests spin-off across the country on fifth night of tensions over gunned down teen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2725535/Times-Square-SHUT-DOWN-thousands-marching-Ferguson-protests-spin-country-fifth-night-tensions-gunned-teen.html

The fifth night of demonstrations in support of gunned down Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown saw scores of protesters marching through the streets of New York in a vigil that culminated in Times Square Thursday night.

Tensions flared as some protestors attempted to shove their way through a police barricade set up in their path toward the beating heart of the city.

Police held their own and tempers soon calmed, but as night gripped New York, the already congested Times Square ground to a halt as thousands flowed into the streets to demand an end to police brutality and militarization and justice for 18-year-old Brown.

The protest has gone beyond Ferguson.

[Dori]

Must be summer time.

[mrclose]

Trayvon all over again?

Just ran across this ...



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-michael-brown-was-a-local-gangster-seen-flashing-gang-signs/

[mrclose]

To be fair .. we just may have another false Trayvon photo incident here.
(There were lots of photos attributed to Trayvon Martin which were not him in the beginning)

I'm not so sure that this is Brown, after seeing some other pictures of him?

Even being half black myself .. most blacks look alike to me!

[Gina]

Trayvon all over again?

Just ran across this ...



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-michael-brown-was-a-local-gangster-seen-flashing-gang-signs/

You dumbass!  If you only knew where my money ended up before I passed it on.  I have found a $20 with mold growing on it and wiped it off and spent it.  I have found money when I was lifting manhole covers up to get elevations.  Yeh, sewer!

Plus think of all the strippers asses and fat womens underboob that money has been in. 

[JohnnyReb]

You dumbass!  If you only knew where my money ended up before I passed it on.  I have found a $20 with mold growing on it and wiped it off and spent it. I have found money when I was lifting manhole covers up to get elevations.  Yeh, sewer!Plus think of all the strippers asses and fat womens underboob that money has been in. 

I once had my arm twisted to finish a grading job the original contractor refused to finish. I knew something was wrong when I pulled up on the job. Unloaded my dozer and asked the superintendent where the 'benchmark' was. Got a few shots off the installed sewer and buildings already under construction and things just weren't right. Asked for a complete set of plans and I found what I was looking for....an elevation given in the bottom of a manhole in the middle of the city street. Checked it against the benchmark that I was told to use and found it was almost 40 inches to high....the previous contractor and superintendent had been using the wrong 'spike' in the wrong 'tree'. I found evidence of the original correct benchmark in another tree and checked it against the sewer elevation. I called the owners and explained what I had found and that that mistake was the reason for the small fortune they had spent for grading that 'cost plus' job. They fired the superintendent on the spot over the phone and sued the former contractor.

I did several grading jobs for them after that at what ever I charged, no questions asked.

[Gina]

I once had my arm twisted to finish a grading job the original contractor refused to finish. I knew something was wrong when I pulled up on the job. Unloaded my dozer and asked the superintendent where the 'benchmark' was. Got a few shots off the installed sewer and buildings already under construction and things just weren't right. Asked for a complete set of plans and I found what I was looking for....an elevation given in the bottom of a manhole in the middle of the city street. Checked it against the benchmark that I was told to use and found it was almost 40 inches to high....the previous contractor and superintendent had been using the wrong 'spike' in the wrong 'tree'. I found evidence of the original correct benchmark in another tree and checked it against the sewer elevation. I called the owners and explained what I had found and that that mistake was the reason for the small fortune they had spent for grading that 'cost plus' job. They fired the superintendent on the spot over the phone and sued the former contractor.

I did several grading jobs for them after that at what ever I charged, no questions asked.

That shit's expensive. My former boss had to buy a $500k house because one of the engineers didn't do enough deed research to know there was a permanent utility esmt runnning through the middle of the lot.  So he now own a huge house that he can only rent.  Never sell. 

I just got my insurance bill for E&O insurance (event we make a mistake, like malpractice).  Geez! I got the least amount so I'm gonna beat the crap out of him if he makes an error that costs $1,000,001. 

(I do like going to different cities and especially when it's raining noticing the parking lots pooling water. We try to guess whether they just did a shitty job or used the wrong elevation during staking.  (we are boring  )

[Dori]

The officer was identified as Darren Wilson, on the force six years with no disciplinary record.

Brown and his friend Johnson were suspected by the officer of an earlier strong arm theft at a near-by convenience store that looks to have been identified by cameras at the store.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/state-troopers-walk-side-by-side-with-thousands-of-protesters-in-ferguson/