Ferguson riots: Clashes, looting in Missouri following vigil for teen shot dead by po
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Nah! It's probably just me forgetting about it. I did give the greenie, after all, and it wouldn't give a greenie for two posts at once.
Michel whatshisname was a pig, everybody remotely connected to him was a pig, including Mr Wilson. Where is Ferguson anyway? The town should probably be burned anyway, for the highway, canal, airport, something productive. Maybe the next settlement will be bigger, more human interesty, Riot TV, Dr Swill can analyze, suggest medication, counciling, therapy, yoga even. It should be a bigger city, more recognizable, better stars, I can't get into it, it's snowing here and a thunder storm gusting 70k, lightening is horizontal purple I guess flasjes really thick leaders, warm, temp up twenty degrees in under twenty-fourt, barometer fluttering artritis hate god
Toronto perhaps, I can see the headlines, Toronto Ontario Capital of Canada Riots in Mittens---half the world would be confused. Is that in America?
Toronto perhaps, I can see the headlines, Toronto Ontario Capital of Canada Riots in Mittens---half the world would be confused. Is that in America?
Cloyd Rivers @CloydRivers To the flag burners in Ferguson... Merica
James Mack @JamesMackDaily I spent 8 yrs in the Army + did a 12 month tour in Balad, Iraq. Blk or white, we carry that flag proudly. Can't believe the lack of respect.
Lack of respect for the US flag? Hmmm, does it command respect or demand respect? That there is a lack of respect is obvious the world over. It's fitting that it will never regain respect and will take its place in the mud with a long list of utterly disgraced rags. Of course their excitedable little lap dog Canada is locked in the same spiral into facism, it would seem, to the casual observer.
:lol:
she expected to see his face "mangled"
did you almost cry that that lunatic did?
did you bang your toy gavel like the douche in his mom's basement did?
the photos were taken immediately after the incident and (of course) no 'bruising' would have formed as brown, purple, green yet.
Florida professor resigns after offensive Facebook comments
Bill Cotterell, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:31 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:38 PM EST
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Florida State University professor said she has resigned after making racial and homosexual slurs in a heated Facebook exchange about recent police killings of unarmed blacks.
Deborah O'Connor, an 18-year faculty member of the FSU College of Business, said on Tuesday she was stepping down after several comments she made on Facebook were published by Folio Weekly, a Jacksonville alternative newspaper that contacted FSU about them on Dec. 5.
In a discussion on the social media website, O'Connor referred to "Northern fagoot (sic) elitism" and made disparaging remarks about Muslims.
"Obama has single-handedly turned our once great society into a Ghetto Culture, rivaling that of Europe. France is almost at war because of his filthy rodent Muslims who are attacking Native Frenchmen and women," O'Connor wrote in one response to a stranger on the Facebook thread, which has since been deleted.
O'Connor said she had planned to retire next spring, but brought her decision forward after some of her Facebook comments were forwarded to FSU, a major state-run university in Tallahassee. The school doesn't have an official policy on what faculty can say on social media.
O'Connor said in a letter to the university that the bitter exchange was "the only black mark" on her employment record in the past 40 years.
"I sense that the path of least resistance is for me to resign to forestall a litigation, although I must emphasize that I do not believe the punishment fits the 'crime,'" she wrote.
FSU officials did not comment on the resignation.
Bill Cotterell, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:31 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:38 PM EST
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Florida State University professor said she has resigned after making racial and homosexual slurs in a heated Facebook exchange about recent police killings of unarmed blacks.
Deborah O'Connor, an 18-year faculty member of the FSU College of Business, said on Tuesday she was stepping down after several comments she made on Facebook were published by Folio Weekly, a Jacksonville alternative newspaper that contacted FSU about them on Dec. 5.
In a discussion on the social media website, O'Connor referred to "Northern fagoot (sic) elitism" and made disparaging remarks about Muslims.
"Obama has single-handedly turned our once great society into a Ghetto Culture, rivaling that of Europe. France is almost at war because of his filthy rodent Muslims who are attacking Native Frenchmen and women," O'Connor wrote in one response to a stranger on the Facebook thread, which has since been deleted.
O'Connor said she had planned to retire next spring, but brought her decision forward after some of her Facebook comments were forwarded to FSU, a major state-run university in Tallahassee. The school doesn't have an official policy on what faculty can say on social media.
O'Connor said in a letter to the university that the bitter exchange was "the only black mark" on her employment record in the past 40 years.
"I sense that the path of least resistance is for me to resign to forestall a litigation, although I must emphasize that I do not believe the punishment fits the 'crime,'" she wrote.
FSU officials did not comment on the resignation.
O'Connor said she has deleted her Facebook account and will never use the website again.
Florida professor resigns after offensive Facebook comments | Florida | World |
police provocateur caught red handed:
Undercover CHP officer pulls gun at Oakland protest after outing - SFGate
An undercover California Highway Patrol officer who was attempting to infiltrate a demonstration against police brutality in Oakland pulled a gun on the protesters after he and his partner were outed and the partner was attacked.
The undercover work — captured by a freelance photographer working for The Chronicle — raised questions about tactics employed by police and protesters as authorities seek to get a handle on rallies that have flooded the streets of Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco, at times shutting down freeways and devolving into vandalism and looting.
Avery Browne, chief of CHP’s Golden Gate Division, said the agency and other police departments have had plainclothes officers dressed in protester attire walking in these marches since the first demonstration Nov. 24, and he said they will continue to employ this tactic despite Tuesday’s incident.
He said before the officers were outed Tuesday, they were able to collect enough information to prevent four more freeway shutdown attempts.
“We will use all of the avenues we can to keep the public safe and gather that information so we can be responsive and be in the proper position,” he said.
About 50 people were marching near Lake Merritt just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when some of the demonstrators began calling out two men who were walking with the group, said the freelance photographer, Michael Short.
“Just as we turned up 27th Street, the crowd started yelling at these two guys, saying they were undercover cops,” Short said Thursday. “Somebody snatched a hat off the shorter guy’s head and he was fumbling around for it. A guy ran up behind him, knocked him down on the ground. That guy jumped backed up and chased after him and tackled him and the crowd began surging on them.
“The other taller guy had a small baton out,” Short said. “But as the crowd started surging on them, he pulled out a gun.”
Chief Browne said the officer also pulled out a badge and identified himself as law enforcement, as is department policy, though Short, other members of the media and protesters reported that they did not see a badge.
The officers, who Browne said he is not identifying, had been trailing the crowd in an unmarked car and began following on foot at Ninth and Harrison streets, after vandals marching with the group had smashed the windows of a T-Mobile store in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood and made off with merchandise. A nearby Wells Fargo ATM was also damaged.
When the protesters called them out as law enforcement officers at 27th and Harrison, a man punched the shorter officer in the back of the head and ended up struggling with him on the ground, Browne said.
The crowd of “about 30 to 50” continued to advance, and the officer “transitioned from his baton to his firearm,” according to Browne. He then pointed the gun at the protesters and panned the crowd to keep them away from him and his partner, who was still on the ground fighting with an attacker.
“'Chief, I didn’t know if I was going to make it out of this thing alive,’” Browne said the officer told him. “'They were coming after us, they had already punched my partner in the head. I didn’t know if we were going to make it out alive.’”
The man accused of punching the officer was booked into county jail on suspicion of felony assault on a peace officer.
While the officer fought with the man on the ground, a blonde woman ran up and kicked him the head, Browne said. She was not arrested, but the officer suffered head injuries and is displaying concussion-like symptoms.
“We know it’s upsetting, we know it’s disturbing, every time a firearm is drawn, whether in a protest situation or in a felonious car stop,” Browne said. “But we need to understand that these officers were under attack.”
Short said the officers were wearing street clothes and had their faces covered with bandannas. Browne confirmed this and though he described them as “plainclothes” and not undercover, he said it was common for these officers to mimic the dress of the other protesters “so they blended in with the crowd.”
He said the main objective of these officers was to collect information on where the group was going. He said they were able to gather that information from their car in the back, overhearing plans to take Highway 24 and Interstate 80 twice on Tuesday and enabling other CHP officers to prevent those attempts.
Browne said the Oakland Police Department was aware of the CHP’s plainclothes operations, and that they had an officer in Berkeley’s emergency operations center. Oakland police did not return calls seeking a comment.
Several protesters took to Twitter to say that the officers had actually instigated acts of vandalism and were banging on windows alongside others.
Short said he did not see the officers’ actions because protesters had surrounded him and had tried to take the memory card out of his camera. Noah Berger, another freelance photographer, was similarly accosted by protesters.
But Browne said though the agency was investigating the use of force, the officer’s arrest and events leading up to it, he said he has not received reports that the officers instigated vandalism. In fact, they only got out of the car to gather information on the vandals, he said.
The officer that drew his weapon is still on active duty, Browne said. Both officers are assigned to the auto theft unit of the agency’s detective bureau.
The march had earlier been peaceful, beginning in Berkeley with hundreds of participants calling for justice for Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who were killed by white police officers in Missouri and New York. The recent demonstrations were set off when grand juries declined to file charges in the cases.
Protesters on Wednesday disrupted traffic at times, as well as a UC Berkeley lecture given by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, but did not take over any freeways.
In addition to the man arrested in connection to the officer attack, CHP arrested another protester in Oakland on suspicion of public intoxication, Browne said.
As one commentator says, masks and entrapment. Just as in the days of COINTELPRO.
So when are the anti-government right wingers in this forum going to call for disarming the government and for people to exercise their 2d Amendment rights as I (who used to be called "librul") have done?
Undercover CHP officer pulls gun at Oakland protest after outing - SFGate
An undercover California Highway Patrol officer who was attempting to infiltrate a demonstration against police brutality in Oakland pulled a gun on the protesters after he and his partner were outed and the partner was attacked.
The undercover work — captured by a freelance photographer working for The Chronicle — raised questions about tactics employed by police and protesters as authorities seek to get a handle on rallies that have flooded the streets of Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco, at times shutting down freeways and devolving into vandalism and looting.
Avery Browne, chief of CHP’s Golden Gate Division, said the agency and other police departments have had plainclothes officers dressed in protester attire walking in these marches since the first demonstration Nov. 24, and he said they will continue to employ this tactic despite Tuesday’s incident.
He said before the officers were outed Tuesday, they were able to collect enough information to prevent four more freeway shutdown attempts.
“We will use all of the avenues we can to keep the public safe and gather that information so we can be responsive and be in the proper position,” he said.
About 50 people were marching near Lake Merritt just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when some of the demonstrators began calling out two men who were walking with the group, said the freelance photographer, Michael Short.
“Just as we turned up 27th Street, the crowd started yelling at these two guys, saying they were undercover cops,” Short said Thursday. “Somebody snatched a hat off the shorter guy’s head and he was fumbling around for it. A guy ran up behind him, knocked him down on the ground. That guy jumped backed up and chased after him and tackled him and the crowd began surging on them.
“The other taller guy had a small baton out,” Short said. “But as the crowd started surging on them, he pulled out a gun.”
Chief Browne said the officer also pulled out a badge and identified himself as law enforcement, as is department policy, though Short, other members of the media and protesters reported that they did not see a badge.
The officers, who Browne said he is not identifying, had been trailing the crowd in an unmarked car and began following on foot at Ninth and Harrison streets, after vandals marching with the group had smashed the windows of a T-Mobile store in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood and made off with merchandise. A nearby Wells Fargo ATM was also damaged.
When the protesters called them out as law enforcement officers at 27th and Harrison, a man punched the shorter officer in the back of the head and ended up struggling with him on the ground, Browne said.
The crowd of “about 30 to 50” continued to advance, and the officer “transitioned from his baton to his firearm,” according to Browne. He then pointed the gun at the protesters and panned the crowd to keep them away from him and his partner, who was still on the ground fighting with an attacker.
“'Chief, I didn’t know if I was going to make it out of this thing alive,’” Browne said the officer told him. “'They were coming after us, they had already punched my partner in the head. I didn’t know if we were going to make it out alive.’”
The man accused of punching the officer was booked into county jail on suspicion of felony assault on a peace officer.
While the officer fought with the man on the ground, a blonde woman ran up and kicked him the head, Browne said. She was not arrested, but the officer suffered head injuries and is displaying concussion-like symptoms.
“We know it’s upsetting, we know it’s disturbing, every time a firearm is drawn, whether in a protest situation or in a felonious car stop,” Browne said. “But we need to understand that these officers were under attack.”
Short said the officers were wearing street clothes and had their faces covered with bandannas. Browne confirmed this and though he described them as “plainclothes” and not undercover, he said it was common for these officers to mimic the dress of the other protesters “so they blended in with the crowd.”
He said the main objective of these officers was to collect information on where the group was going. He said they were able to gather that information from their car in the back, overhearing plans to take Highway 24 and Interstate 80 twice on Tuesday and enabling other CHP officers to prevent those attempts.
Browne said the Oakland Police Department was aware of the CHP’s plainclothes operations, and that they had an officer in Berkeley’s emergency operations center. Oakland police did not return calls seeking a comment.
Several protesters took to Twitter to say that the officers had actually instigated acts of vandalism and were banging on windows alongside others.
Short said he did not see the officers’ actions because protesters had surrounded him and had tried to take the memory card out of his camera. Noah Berger, another freelance photographer, was similarly accosted by protesters.
But Browne said though the agency was investigating the use of force, the officer’s arrest and events leading up to it, he said he has not received reports that the officers instigated vandalism. In fact, they only got out of the car to gather information on the vandals, he said.
The officer that drew his weapon is still on active duty, Browne said. Both officers are assigned to the auto theft unit of the agency’s detective bureau.
The march had earlier been peaceful, beginning in Berkeley with hundreds of participants calling for justice for Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who were killed by white police officers in Missouri and New York. The recent demonstrations were set off when grand juries declined to file charges in the cases.
Protesters on Wednesday disrupted traffic at times, as well as a UC Berkeley lecture given by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, but did not take over any freeways.
In addition to the man arrested in connection to the officer attack, CHP arrested another protester in Oakland on suspicion of public intoxication, Browne said.
As one commentator says, masks and entrapment. Just as in the days of COINTELPRO.
So when are the anti-government right wingers in this forum going to call for disarming the government and for people to exercise their 2d Amendment rights as I (who used to be called "librul") have done?
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Addicting Info – Off-Duty Black Police Officer Racially Profiled, Assaulted By Group Of Cops (VIDEO)
Thomas is not the first off-duty black police officer to be racially profiled by his white brothers in uniform. In fact, in 2010 the New York Times reported that:
A governor’s task force studying mistaken-identity confrontations between police officers found that racial bias, unconscious or otherwise, played a clear role in scores of firearms encounters over the years, most significantly in cases involving off-duty officers who are killed by their colleagues.
Between 1995 and 2010, fourteen off-duty police officers were killed in ‘mistaken identity’ cases. Of those officers killed by other officers, four were white, ten were either black or Latino.
The study only looked at off-duty officers who were killed by cops. It didn’t touch on the countless documented cases where minority officers were profiled, assaulted or falsely arrested by their ‘brothers in arms.’
Following the assault, Thomas was arrested on trumped up charges, which were soon dismissed by the court. Fortunately for him, his years of service with the NYPD meant that he had established a good relationship with Chief of the Department, Phillip Banks. According to NotJustUs, Banks is the second highest ranking officer in the NYPD.
As Thomas said, however, if they did this to him, ‘the average Joe doesn’t stand a chance.’ Someone with a less than spotless record, few resources and not a single friend in high places would serve years in prison under the same circumstances. That’s if he wasn’t gunned down in the street first.
Statistics show that a black man is 21 times more likely to be killed by a cop than a white man. Black people are sent to prison at a rate that is six times greater than white people. Yet, according to the most recent demographic information, just over 12 percent of the US population is black and just over 72 percent is white. And in spite of the fact that a large majority of the country is white, 58 percent of the people incarcerated in this country are either black or Latino.
The reason people are protesting in Ferguson, New York, Detroit and everywhere else across the country is all too clear. No honest person can look at the facts and deny that America has a serious race problem.
*Featured image credit: video screen capture, PIX 11, via youtube
Even black cops are in jeopardy!
Addicting Info – Off-Duty Black Police Officer Racially Profiled, Assaulted By Group Of Cops (VIDEO)
Thomas is not the first off-duty black police officer to be racially profiled by his white brothers in uniform. In fact, in 2010 the New York Times reported that:
A governor’s task force studying mistaken-identity confrontations between police officers found that racial bias, unconscious or otherwise, played a clear role in scores of firearms encounters over the years, most significantly in cases involving off-duty officers who are killed by their colleagues.
Between 1995 and 2010, fourteen off-duty police officers were killed in ‘mistaken identity’ cases. Of those officers killed by other officers, four were white, ten were either black or Latino.
The study only looked at off-duty officers who were killed by cops. It didn’t touch on the countless documented cases where minority officers were profiled, assaulted or falsely arrested by their ‘brothers in arms.’
Following the assault, Thomas was arrested on trumped up charges, which were soon dismissed by the court. Fortunately for him, his years of service with the NYPD meant that he had established a good relationship with Chief of the Department, Phillip Banks. According to NotJustUs, Banks is the second highest ranking officer in the NYPD.
As Thomas said, however, if they did this to him, ‘the average Joe doesn’t stand a chance.’ Someone with a less than spotless record, few resources and not a single friend in high places would serve years in prison under the same circumstances. That’s if he wasn’t gunned down in the street first.
Statistics show that a black man is 21 times more likely to be killed by a cop than a white man. Black people are sent to prison at a rate that is six times greater than white people. Yet, according to the most recent demographic information, just over 12 percent of the US population is black and just over 72 percent is white. And in spite of the fact that a large majority of the country is white, 58 percent of the people incarcerated in this country are either black or Latino.
The reason people are protesting in Ferguson, New York, Detroit and everywhere else across the country is all too clear. No honest person can look at the facts and deny that America has a serious race problem.
*Featured image credit: video screen capture, PIX 11, via youtube
Even black cops are in jeopardy!
protip to blacks and latinos: stop committing crimes.
"He was found guilty of some charges but not others and continued to work".
wonder what those charges were. odd the website mentions that but the interviewer never did. always so many sides of a story.
anyway, this Harold Thomas thing happened in 2012.
NYPD officer speaks out after getting beat up by fellow cops | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Ferguson’s Media Darling Flames Out
Joshua Williams was the liberal-media darling of the Ferguson protests; now he’s an alleged arsonist.
Joshua Williams has been everywhere: protesting in Ferguson, Mo., Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio. Now, he is in St. Louis, where police have arrested him for arson.
Ferguson's Media Darling Flames Out | National Review Online
Joshua Williams was the liberal-media darling of the Ferguson protests; now he’s an alleged arsonist.
Joshua Williams has been everywhere: protesting in Ferguson, Mo., Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio. Now, he is in St. Louis, where police have arrested him for arson.
Ferguson's Media Darling Flames Out | National Review Online