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A Bridge Too Far: Crowdfunding For Killer Cop Michael Slager Falls Flat
As of Thursday afternoon, Officer Michael Slager hadn’t even reached his first 1000 dollars from crowdfunding sites.
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Black Votes Matter: Ferguson Adds Two African-Americans To City Council
With higher than normal turnout, Ferguson, Missouri added two African-American representatives to the city council on Tuesday night.
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Still Not Sure the Ferguson Police Were Infiltrated with Racism? Here’s the Ugly Proof
Just in case there are folks out there who are still clinging to the hope that the Ferguson police and city officials were accused of racism for no reason, here’s the ugly proof of what went on behind the scenes.
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Police Union Rep Doubles Down On Comment That Ferguson Protesters “Want Dead Cops”
During Friday morning’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski tried with all of her might to give Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, every opportunity to walk back comments he made to Fox News the previous day about Ferguson protesters wanting “dead cops.”
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Ferguson Protesters Denounce Violence After Two Police Officers Shot And Wounded
Instead of the story being about Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson finally resigning, Thursday morning’s headlines are filled with reports that two police officers were shot and wounded during protests in front of the Ferguson Police Department.
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Protesters March On Ferguson Police Department To Demand Change In Light Of DOJ Report
Hours after the Department of Justice released a report Wednesday highlighting systemic racial discrimination committed by the Ferguson Police Department, protesters gathered in front of the police station in Ferguson to call for change and the dismantling of the current department.
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Police Union Official Wearing ‘I Am Darren Wilson’ Wristband Starts Brawl At St. Louis Meeting
Jeff Roorda, the business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association, interrupted a meeting at St. Louis City Hall Wednesday evening and sparked a melee when he pushed a young black woman to the ground.
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Part Two Of Ferguson Grand Jury: Prosecutor Tricks Of The Trade
Witnesses, experts and evidence would supposedly direct the jurors to a final decision; either the return of a True Bill indictment, followed by a trial, or no charge at all.
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President Obama Explains That Discussion Regarding Race Issues Is Healthy For The Nation
During a comprehensive interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep that was released Monday, President Obama spoke at length on a number of hot-button topics and issues that have come to the forefront in 2014. One of the issues he touched on was race relations in this country.
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Ferguson Protesters Spend Christmas Night Rebuilding Vandalized Michael Brown Memorial
After midnight had struck and another Christmas had passed, activists and protesters in and around Ferguson got word that a memorial in honor of slain teenager Michael Brown had been run over by a car and basically destroyed. they spent the next two hours rebuilding it.
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Questions Arise As Another Black Teen Shot And Killed By White Cop Near St. Louis
Late Tuesday night a white police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black male after an interaction at a gas station in Berkeley, Missouri.
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Prosecutor Admits He Let Witnesses Who “Absolutely Lied” Testify Before Ferguson Grand Jury
In an interview with a St. Louis radio station Friday, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch admitted he let witnesses who “clearly were not telling the truth” testify before a grand jury that decided not to indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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Bill Clinton Says Eric Garner “Didn’t Deserve To Die” For Selling Untaxed Cigarettes
In an interview with Fusion that will air in its entirety Tuesday evening, former President Bill Clinton told interviewer Jorge Ramos that Eric Garner did not deserve to die for the minor crime of selling untaxed cigarettes.
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Key Witness Who Corroborated Darren Wilson’s Testimony Exposed As A Total Fraud
On Monday, The Smoking Gun published a lengthy report exposing “Witness 40,” a woman who testified before the St. Louis County grand jury who corroborated all of the main details of former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s story regarding his encounter with unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August.
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Ferguson Protesters Send Peaceful And Powerful Message To Law Enforcement
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was on the scene during a protest march through downtown St. Louis Friday morning.
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Missouri Town Residents Greet Ferguson Protesters With Confederate Flag And Fried Chicken
Ferguson protesters marching through Missouri on their way to Jefferson City were met by angry residents in the small town of Rosebud. The residents left fried chicken in the road and waved a Confederate flag, along with verbally assaulting the protesters with racial slurs.
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Unbelievable! New York Cop Who Killed Eric Garner With Chokehold Will Not Be Indicted
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo will not be indicted on any charges relating to the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner. Garner’s death was the result of a chokehold used by Pantaleo during an arrest.
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Fox News Blames Obama for Apartheid, Racist Cops, and GOP Jobs Obstruction
The latest “blame Obama” crusade is reaction to the President’s request for funding to train and outfit racist cops with body cameras.
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Rush Limbaugh Claims President Obama Is Looking To Frame A Cop For “Racial Assassination”
In Limbaugh’s mind. Obama, Holder and all the other race hustlers feel that they didn’t “get a win” with the Michael Brown case and now want to frame and railroad another cop over a race-based death.
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Racists Demand Punishment For African Americans Exercising First Amendment Rights
For decent Americans it is beyond comprehension that it is acceptable for white supremacists, whether they are St. Louis-area cops or owners of a sports bar, to demand that African Americans suffer punishment for exercising their constitutional rights.
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Rudy Giuliani Tells Black People They’re To Blame For Police Brutality
Rudy Giuliani has used Fox News as a safe ground to further denigrate the black community and justify the racist remarks he made on Meet The Press. This Sunday, he showed up on Fox News Sunday and continued to blame blacks for any mistreatment they may receive from law enforcement.
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Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Protesters Stage ‘Die-Ins’ At St. Louis Shopping Center
After Black Friday demonstrations, protest organizers arranged for another action on Saturday. This time they targeted the Brentwood Promenade, a shopping center just outside the city limits of St. Louis.
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St. Louis Grand Jury Indicted, Tried, And Convicted Unarmed Murder Victim Michael Brown
Not only did the prosecutor succeed in acquitting the murderer Darren Wilson, he convinced the grand jury to indict, try, and convict the unarmed murder victim Michael Brown.
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Michael Brown’s Empty Chair At Thanksgiving
Three days before the holiday where we here in America are expected to feast, rejoice, and give thanks, the parents of a dead child were given the news that the man who killed their son will face no punishment for his actions.
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Why Ferguson Is Also, And Again, About Guns
What’s happening in Ferguson, and rattling the cages of strained municipalities throughout the country, is, of course, about our complicated and corrosive attitudes about race. And yes, always and forever when it comes to public safety and the senseless loss of life on American streets, it’s about guns.
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Ferguson Decision Is Another Sign Of American Apartheid
America is not a civilized society and the concept of equality for all its citizens is exactly that; a concept. In fact, what America really has always been is a nation founded on the principles of apartheid, or the policy of racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-whites.
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GOP Minority Outreach: Rudy Giuliani Continues Racist Tirade Over Michael Brown Killing
Over the past few days, both before and after the St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made waves over his racially insensitive statements regarding Michael Brown’s death and criminal statistics within the black community.
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Coast To Coast: Thousands Of People Across The Nation Protest In Solidarity With Ferguson
Thousands of protesters in 170 American cities participated in rallies and marches Tuesday night to not only show their solidarity with Ferguson protesters, but to also display their outrage at the racial injustice apparent in the nation’s broken legal system.
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Attorney For Michael Brown’s Family States That The “Process Needs To Be Indicted”
When discussing how the legal system continuously seems to not work when it comes to men of color being killed by police officers, attorney Benjamin Crump said, “The process is broken. The process needs to be indicted.”
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St. Louis Woman Accidentally Kills Herself With Gun She Bought For Possible Ferguson Unrest
A 26-year-old woman accidentally shot and killed herself late Friday evening with a gun she purchased in preparation for large-scale protests in the aftermath of the impending grand jury decision in the death of Michael Brown.
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Police Arrest Reporter Covering Ferguson Protest For Walking On Sidewalk
While covering a protest in front of the Ferguson police station Saturday night, reporter Trey Yingst was arrested for failure to disperse. Witnesses say Yingst was on the sidewalk at the time.
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Sources Claim Darren Wilson Will Resign From Ferguson Police Force If Not Indicted
CNN reported late Thursday evening that sources close to Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson confirm that Wilson is in the last stages of negotiating his resignation from the Ferguson police department.
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St. Louis Cop Who Killed Black Teenager Identified As Obama-Hating Gun-Loving Racist
The St. Louis police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers, Jr. last month was inadvertently identified by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department when his name was included in an evidence envelope when Myers’ body was delivered to the funeral home.
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Darren Wilson Threatened And Arrested Ferguson Man For Recording Video Of Him
A man who was arrested last year by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson uploaded video of the incident to YouTube on Friday. Per the incident report filed at the time, Wilson arrested Ferguson resident Mike Arman for failing to comply with orders.
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Anonymous Responds To KKK’s ‘Lethal Force’ Ferguson Threat By Hacking Twitter Account
The ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous responded to threats by a Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to use lethal force against Ferguson protesters by hacking the organization’s national Twitter account on Sunday.
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Ferguson Police Chief Says Darren Wilson Will Return To Active Duty If Not Indicted
In a conversation with St. Louis news station KSDK 5 on Friday evening, Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson told the station that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will be immediately reinstated to the active duty if he is not indicted by the St. Louis County grand jury in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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Missouri Governor Says He Will Use National Guard In Ferguson After Grand Jury Decision
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon held a press conference near St. Louis Tuesday afternoon to discuss contingency plans surrounding Ferguson in the wake of the upcoming grand jury decision regarding the shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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Resignation Of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson Will Not Magically Fix Broken System
Late Tuesday evening, CNN reported that Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson is expected to step down from his position as part of a larger effort to reform the city’s embattled police department. Jackson may announce his resignation as early as next week.
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Prominent Tea Partier Says Michael Brown’s Parents Received ‘Taxpayer-Funded Abortion’
Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party Todd Kincannon sent out a tweet Wednesday evening saying Michael Brown’s parents shouldn’t be upset because they are pro-choice Democrats and “they got a taxpayer-funded abortion.”
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Coverage Of Pumpkin Fest Riot Compared To Ferguson Protests Exposes Media’s Overt Racism
Dozens of people were arrested and police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse a rioting crowd after a riot broke out in the aftermath of the Keene Pumpkin Festival in Keene, New Hampshire.
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Ferguson Protesters Take It To The Next Level By Shutting Down Multiple Local Walmarts
Ferguson October, a weekend long series of events held in the St. Louis area to protest against police violence and racial disparity, officially wrapped up Monday with a number of seemingly spontaneous protests across a number of locations in the metropolitan area.
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Cornel West Among Demonstrators Arrested During Protest At Ferguson Police Station
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was on the scene Monday during a protest at the Ferguson police station that led to the arrest of at least a dozen protesters, including Dr. Cornel West.
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Ferguson October: Young Protesters Reject Message Delivered By Older Religious Leaders
As the gathering wore on, younger activists, who have been on the ground in Ferguson since an unarmed Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson over two months ago, started growing restless.
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People From Around The World Gather In St. Louis For March Against Police Brutality
Activists and protesters from all over the world gathered Saturday morning in downtown St. Louis to participate in a march, part of Ferguson October, and show that they stand united against police brutality and racial disparity.
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Shaw Shooting: St. Louis Police Use Pepper Spray And Billy Clubs On Protesters And Media
Protesters and members of the media were hit with pepper spray and rushed by police officers armed with batons and riot shields Thursday night in south St. Louis.
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Police Kick Ferguson Protesters Out Of Council Meeting To Protect Darren Wilson Supporter
Demonstrators were escorted by police out of an open St. Louis County Council meeting on Tuesday night after a woman verbally expressed support for Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9th.
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Requiem For Mike Brown: Ferguson Protesters Make Powerful Statement Saturday Night
Protesters made a powerful statement Saturday night when they showed up at the St. Louis Symphony and sang what is being described as a ‘Requiem for Mike Brown’ at the end of an intermission.
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Ferguson Police Stomp All Over First Amendment By Arresting Protesters For Bad Language
What began as a day filled with severe rain storms and an opportunity for a number of Ferguson protesters to take a break from demonstrating ended with the Ferguson police department once again abusing the 1st Amendment in an effort to intimidate activists and protesters.
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Change Is Coming: Ferguson Sees Huge Surge In Voter Registration Since Michael Brown’s Death
USA Today reported on Thursday that the town of Ferguson has seen a huge surge in voter registration since the August 9th death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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Exclusive Interview: Young Activist Explains Situation On The Ground In Ferguson
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was able to speak with an activist in Ferguson this weekend. The activist, Kayla Reed, lives in the Ferguson area and has participated in the protests that have occurred since the death of Michael Brown on August 9th.
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Ferguson Protests Grow Heated As Residents Call For Police Chief Tom Jackson’s Resignation
A tense standoff between protesters and local law enforcement occurred late Thursday evening in Ferguson after the town’s police chief Tom Jackson showed up at the scene and spoke to the crowd.
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Tensions Boil Over In Ferguson Tuesday Night After Fire At Michael Brown Memorial
Protests resumed in Ferguson Tuesday night that led to the arrests of seven people. One local store was damaged when a rock was thrown through a window. However, there was no looting of the store, despite local media outlets using that word in their headlines.
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Ferguson Residents Angry As Michael Brown Memorial Destroyed By Fire Tuesday Morning
A memorial dedicated to slain teenager Michael Brown was destroyed by a fire Tuesday morning. The memorial, made mostly of teddy bears and homemade signs, had been kept on the side of the street feet from where Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9th.
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New Video Footage Shows Man Shouting That Michael Brown Had His ‘Hands In The Air!’
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 aired video footage from a cellphone taken shortly after Micheal Brown was shot dead by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The footage shows two contractors, roughly 50 feet away from the scene, reacting in the immediate aftermath of Brown’s shooting.
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Ferguson Protesters Will Not Rest Until Michael Brown’s Killer Is Brought To Justice
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was on the scene in Ferguson Wednesday afternoon and witnessed a protest where the goal was to shut down an interstate highway for a short period of time during rush hour traffic.
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Ferguson Residents Express Their Anger And Disgust During Volatile City Council Meeting
A month after an unarmed black teenager was viciously shot and killed by a white police officer, the city of Ferguson held its first city council meeting since the incident. On Tuesday night, at a local church, over 600 people attended the meeting to voice their frustration and anger.
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Why Police Treated Cliven Bundy Differently Than Michael Brown Is As Clear As Black and White
Contrast law enforcement’s overwhelmingly violent military response to peaceful, and unarmed, African Americans protesting the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed African American teenager at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer and one can hardly claim law enforcement does not apply a different standard to armed whites as opposed to unarmed African Americans.
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More Witnesses Come Forward And Validate Other Witness Accounts In Michael Brown Shooting
On Saturday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch released a story regarding two workers who were at the scene when 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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Progress Being Made As Ferguson Police Officers Are Now Wearing Body Cameras
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Sunday that Ferguson police officers began wearing body cameras this past Saturday. The department received a donation of 50 cameras from Safety Visions and Digital Ally.
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Human Rights Watchdog Demands End to America’s Racial Discrimination
After a thorough examination of America’s pathetic record of disparate treatment of minorities, a United Nations watchdog reported what people of color, particularly African Americans, have known first hand and all too well for decades. “Racial and ethnic discrimination remains a serious and persistent problem in all areas of life from de facto school segregation, access to health care, and housing.”
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CNN Releases Audio Recording Of Michael Brown Shooting; At Least 10 Total Shots Fired
Late Monday evening, CNN’s Don Lemon, still on the scene in Ferguson, provided breaking news regarding an alleged audio recording taken at the time 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.