Mike Brown shooting thread - No indictment! Get out and protest!

[Brehvolution]

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b493e6c4d31beda32fdaf8e2d&id=73514e334b

[jakefromstatefarm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

for reference, I'm dapping this post because of your imminent return, not it's content.

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whataboutism :blessed

it's like Benji in every single Russia thread

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[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/25/don-lemon-cnn-ferguson-protests-video/


Somebody fire this asshole already, jesus.

[Brehvolution]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/25/don-lemon-cnn-ferguson-protests-video/


Somebody fire this asshole already, jesus.

"Let's get stoned and fuck shit up!" said no one, ever.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/25/don-lemon-cnn-ferguson-protests-video/


Somebody fire this asshole already, jesus.

"Let's get stoned and fuck shit up!" said no one, ever.

No damn way these "weed smoking rioters" would have burned down the taco bell. No sir.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Alright guys we're gonna go ham on this town for our boy, yeah! 

*takes hit

Yeah man, we're totally gonna fuck shit up in a second....I'm fired up   

*takes hit

Bro, I can't wait to totally set a car on fire and shit man...awesome huh? 

*takes hit

man, taco bell, beer, and Dragon Age sounds pretty fun right now bros! 

*takes hit

Yeah I'll have 3 quesaritos, a large nachos, and a large mountain dew thanks. I'll pull around.   

[Brehvolution]

Weed, video games, take out..... it sure sounds expensive being "out of work, lazy people".

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Weed, video games, take out..... it sure sounds expensive being "out of work, lazy people".

yeah wtf is my fraternity down there or something?

"I hear riots are like an awesome place to score bitches bros. They are in don't give a fuck down to get stuck mode"

[Kara]

Seriously, what happened to Ikhwan? Huh!?

I was busy burning down my personal life, sorry.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Seriously, what happened to Ikhwan? Huh!?

I was busy burning down my personal life, sorry.

Riot in Vularai's pants confirmed.

 

[Himu]

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b493e6c4d31beda32fdaf8e2d&id=73514e334b
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[Himu]

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots

PERFECTION

http://www.reddit.com/r/blackladies/comments/2ndlt3/avoiding_white_people_today/

[Himu]

[recursivelyenumerable]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/25/don-lemon-cnn-ferguson-protests-video/


Somebody fire this asshole already, jesus.

"Let's get stoned and fuck shit up!" said no one, ever.

No damn way these "weed smoking rioters" would have burned down the taco bell. No sir.

they totally blew up a power plant tho

[/r/neofeg]

cameras on cops would be the worst thing to happen to blacks since slavery.

[CatsCatsCats]

That's a pretty strong statement, surely you have reasoned thought behind it

[recursivelyenumerable]

I had no idea what a grand jury was prior to this - I vaguely assumed it was the same as a regular jury, but just, like, some extra-serious version that got brought out for super-serious cases. I don't really understand why we even have this grand jury bullshit???

[Himu]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-police-body-cameras-cuts-violence-complaints-rialto

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[fistfulofmetal]

I had no idea what a grand jury was prior to this - I vaguely assumed it was the same as a regular jury, but just, like, some extra-serious version that got brought out for super-serious cases. I don't really understand why we even have this grand jury bullshit???

i guess it's meant to ensure that the prosecutors are not trying to indict someone without any evidence. cuz taking anyone to trial with little evidence is a lot of money wasted so if you can have a check there before it can prevent people getting roped into a lengthy trial on little to no evidence.

[Sausage]

People who attack cops are asking to die right? https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=832569273423146&fref=nf

[lennedsay]

According to my white parents, Michael Brown was being initiated in a gang, he had been in a bunch of gangs already, he has a criminal record 22 pages long, the fake pictures of Darren Wilson beat up were real, there were cops shot all over the city last night, and his buddy Dorian was looting all over last night.

Live in the suburbs, brehs. Befriend fucking idiots on Facebook and believe their bullshit, brehs. One of her friends said that Obama sent the National Guard because he couldn't wait to shoot Americans. This is why old people get viruses on their computers and fall for spam emails. I feel like a bratty teenager that thinks she knows more than her parents.

[Himu]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-doesnt-know-if-it-can-take-another-bullshit,37541/

[Phoenix Dark]

[seagrams hotsauce]

Buy guns en mass and form militias. Use our constitutional rights. Amendments 1 and 2 will allow this. When blacks started buying guns in record numbers in the 60's gun limit laws were passed.

I see where you're going, I really do. However I think we need to become more involved locally in every day matters like they did in the 60's more than we need to call in the Panthers man. Make every time we are slighted be known by the many.

Just my .02 cents

Defense first. We should be able to have people defending our communities without resorting to callings the cops. The NoI did and still does this to this day. What started this in the first place was some white ass cop going into a neighborhood and telling black people to stop walking in the street or get arrested. If we have self sustaining defense, that shit won't fly.

Defense first. If we have no defense, what's the point in organizing?

I'm a little late on this, but I think it's worth pointing out how much more militarized the police are nowadays. When Panthers were shooting at cops in Harlem in the 60s, cops didn't have tanks and high powered sniper rifles to respond in kind with. I have a feeling that any kind of organization would be through relatively easily monitorable sources and steamrolled as soon as the police got wind of it.

I don't really oppose the idea of taking up arms in the name of community defense, but if the motivation is as you said to 'scare white people', I'm pretty sure white america has enough irrational fear of black people already, and I'd bet that it would open the floodgates for white liberals to make quasi-racist condemnations. On the other hand, that would almost certainly lead to gun control legislation becoming a bipartisan issue.

[Himu]

[Himu]

Going to the protest with my boyfriend. I'm still sick, but I don't give a fuck.

[Joe Molotov]

The thread title makes it sound like it was Jumbo's fault that there was no indictment.

[tiesto]

As expected, this event brought the usual batch of Republicans victim blaming, blaming the 'thug looters', talking about how infallible police are... but I also heard the same things out of people I didn't quite expect to - some of the more moderate and apolitical people.

[/r/neofeg]

victim blaming is a good one. next time i rob a liquor store, i'll tell the popo i had a hangnail that got infected.

[Positive Touch]

good god I would pay any amount of money to never have to have another conversation about broken windows

[seagrams hotsauce]

deleting facebook tho

edit: deleting facebook cuz everyone you know sucks tho

[Himu]

We went. started at mcgregor park, ended up marching to U of H and then headed to TSU. It dispersed early and there wasn't that many people there considering houston area's black population but it was still nice to be part of something. Still disappointed in my city when compared to other cities like NYC. It's like no one cares here, even the black people. Most of the people who came to the protest were college students either from UH or TSU and when I talked to black people I grew up with who are supposedly pro black about protesting they're like "protest for what?" Oh my god I hate this vapid, selfish, wealth obsessed city.

[Rufus]

There's also the guy who got shot in a Walmart in Ohio because he was holding a toy rifle. Another customer called the police saying someone was waving around a gun and they pretty much went in and shot the guy.

Sounds like they gave him about two seconds to comply.

There's also the case of a state trooper who stopped a black man at a gas station for a safety belt violation. The cop asks for the man's licence. The man turns around and leans over into his car to get it, at which point the trooper fires a couple of shots at him. That didn't kill him, fortunately, and the entire thing was filmed by the cop's dash cam. The cop ended up getting shit canned for this incident.


The most recent I'm aware of, another one from Ohio. Police shot a 12-year-old boy who was holding a toy gun. The guy who makes the call to 911 even says that the gun is probably fake and being waved around by a minor, but apparently the cops at the scene weren't told about that by dispatch. Kid ended up dying in the hospital.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/12-year-old_boy_shot_by_clevel.html

[Great Rumbler]

So, Dub, what about the black guy who was shot and killed carrying around a BB gun in a Wal-Mart? What about the 12 black kid who was shot and killed for carrying around a BB gun at a park? What about the black man who was shot for reaching back into his truck to get his wallet?

Ya got anything to say about those incidents or not?

[I'm a Puppy!]

Oh go and play some FFVIII

[Great Rumbler]

I currently have nothing to say about events I have no information about.

[Great Rumbler]

random news stories?

[Kara]

Oh go and play some FFVIII

Self-flaggellation?

Draw-system.  Chicken-wuss.  Hotdogs.  GF-Amnesia.  Same orphanage.  NooooooOOOOOoooooOOoooo.

[Positive Touch]

We went. started at mcgregor park, ended up marching to U of H and then headed to TSU. It dispersed early and there wasn't that many people there considering houston area's black population but it was still nice to be part of something. Still disappointed in my city when compared to other cities like NYC. It's like no one cares here, even the black people. Most of the people who came to the protest were college students either from UH or TSU and when I talked to black people I grew up with who are supposedly pro black about protesting they're like "protest for what?" Oh my god I hate this vapid, selfish, wealth obsessed city.

hey, least you went out even if shit didn't get shut down. I still can't fully process that 170 cities showed up in support, to say nothing of people outside of the country. it's heartening beyond words to see that this is the start of a revolution.

[ZephyrFate]

I currently have nothing to say about events I have no information about.

Would you like me to ask your opinion about other random news stories?  Is that a thing now?  Is that the new thread topic?

Here, just pick a few you like, I have to head to work: https://news.google.com/

Don't come back.

[Mr. Nobody]

random news stories?

It's amazing really

[ZephyrFate]

He trolls with entirely too much effort

[Great Rumbler]

[TakingBackSunday]

goddamn

[Human Snorenado]

So, Dub, what about the black guy who was shot and killed carrying around a BB gun in a Wal-Mart? What about the 12 black kid who was shot and killed for carrying around a BB gun at a park? What about the black man who was shot for reaching back into his truck to get his wallet?

Ya got anything to say about those incidents or not?

I currently have nothing to say about events I have no information about. 

Excellent, I fully expect to never hear another peep from you on economics again

[Human Snorenado]

Tell me more about how we shouldn't ruffle the police's feather's with unnecessary things like grand juries when they shoot someone, my libertarian warrior

You are a raging pimple on the taint of humanity, barely qualifying as a member of the human race. Please end yourself.

[Great Rumbler]

Grand juries almost always return with the verdict that the prosecutor wants. I don't really think this one was any different.

[Human Snorenado]

Hmm, what sort of person would reference shitty things that happened to another person on a message board? Why, a remorseless, empathy-less sociopath.

I'm just not gonna post here anymore if JD is.

[Joe Molotov]

Here's the surveillance video of the 12y/o man with the bb gun that got killed.



Cops pull up at 0:19, grown adult 12/yo man goes down at 0:21.

guns

[Himu]

This is the first I've heard of tamir and that Cleveland shooting. Holy shit.

[Vertigo]

Wow at that video. Scust at how the cops tried to spin the incidence by showing the BB gun at the press conference. 

[TakingBackSunday]

local news in cleveland is calling the shooting of that kid justified

 

[Great Rumbler]

Edit: Apparently you must be 18 to legally open carry in Ohio.  Still...

The police department itself admitted that the cops didn't know the victim was a child until after he was already shot:

“The officer had no clue he was a 12-year-old,” said Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association. “He had no clue it was a toy gun, he was kind of shocked. He was concentrating more on the hands than on the age."

Read the statement, watch the video. The cops rolled up on this kid and shot him dead [in the span of about two seconds] before they determined one thing about the situation.

[Sausage]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/12-year-old_boy_shot_by_clevel.html

lol I love the top comment on this article. So much shade thrown here

My God...

I'm from France. We always joke about Americans, it's common knowledge. But I never went as far as reading the comments... And I'm simply wordless.



Is it too obvious that somehow none of you can see it ? Is it American school that really is as bad as described overseas ? I don't know. But please, please do read, please educate yourself, please travel. Please, try too grow. Why is our entire world governed by that level of idiocy ? By a country who prides itself for being "the greatest democracy on earth" or the "free world" and cannot even see that by saying so, the entire world laughs at them ?



Being leaders of the planet should come with at least one duty : being educated. Please try at last to think (yes, with a brain) !



No it's not the parents, no it's no the kid, not it's not really even the police's fault. (Well, it is, but I think bothering to explain that killing a 12 year old, whatever the situation, is always a crime... is not even worth it. You all seem too deeply enrolled in America's way of thinking to even understand that simple human fact...)



But for once, do listen.



The problem is GUN.

NO ONE should be wearing guns in the streets.

And there would be far less killings, far less shootings, and definitely no children wanting to play with gun toys in the streets.



Just grow up.

We also are a democracy, we also have freedom (if not more) and we do not wear guns, and guess what ? We are, despite of that (or should I say, thanks to that ?), pretty safe here...

[Great Rumbler]

Corey Booker, age 22:



He Tweeted this earlier today.

[Himu]

Corey Booker, age 22:

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He Tweeted this earlier today.

Yup. I completely understand Cory. I have completely lost my shit over the past few days.

[Himu]

Something Awful edit for this cartoon:

[Joe Molotov]

I'm gonna wait for Michael Ramirez to weigh in.

Edit: Oh wait, he already has, of course.

[Himu]

Ah yes, the MLK example. WHY CAN'T ALL BLACKS BE LIKE MLK? WHAT A SHINING EXAMPLE.

MLK is the Asian of blacks at this point. But when MLK was alive, whites wanted him DEAD. Instead of racist "model minority" crap, MLK is the model black person, who puts a burden on every single black person after his death. It's laughable.

Peace and non-violence, it totally worked for MLK! Oh wait! He was still murdered for it!

[Pickles the Firecat]

As if MLK didn't say white people casually dismissing systemic discrimination was our single greatest problem