Ferguson, Mo Revisited 2020

[bodysong]

The death of August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr.

The long process of getting the government to act.

May 28, 2020

‘I Can’t Breathe’:

Pleas from Minnesota Man Force Eric Garner’s Wife to Relive Tragedy

“I can’t breathe,” were the words Eric Garner repeated 11 times while Officer Daniel
Pantaleo held him around his neck on the sidewalk in a chokehold. This time, the words
were coming from another African American man — 46-year-old security guard George
Floyd, a Houston native and St. Louis Park, Minnesota, resident who died while being
restrained by a police officer.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/new...man-force-eric-garners-wife-to-relive-tragedy

An evil fuck murdered George Floyd.

At long last, the truth was allowed to emerge into the light.

(where it started)

Mainstream media language escalated, quickly.


Minnesota

Why does the Minneapolis police department look like a military unit?

The history of how local police departments got so much military-grade gear

During the months of activism in Ferguson, images of armored police vehicles
and clouds of tear gas used to quell mostly black protesters shocked the nation.
Across the country many wondered how local police got their hands on
military-grade equipment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...sponse-protesters-after-killing-george-floyd/

Is there a major city that did not take the government grants, and buy military-grade toys ?

 

[bodysong]

Amanda Marcotte ✓
Twitter › AmandaMarcotte

Trump and other right wingers are forever whining about “free speech”,
even though theirs isn’t threatened. But the cops trying to stop protests
in Minneapolis is what attacks on free speech actually look like.

2 hours ago

Never forget: The Minneapolis police caused this.

People were attempting to peacefully protest, when the cops used the thinnest
of pretexts to tear gas them. People are being denied their basic human rights,
and of course they get angry.

6 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

27 May 2020

On Tuesday night, MPD teargassed and shot rubber bullets at protesters
who took to the streets to decry the murder. The fact that residents were
willing to risk their lives during a global pandemic to protest against this
injustice demonstrates that the race is not given to the swift nor the strong,
but to the organizers who resist until the end.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/27/george-floyd-police-violence-minnesota-racist

 

[bodysong]

The phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" was used in December 1967
remarks from then-Miami police Chief Walter Headley. Headley was discussing his
efforts to cut crime in the Florida city, with the message "aimed at young ( racist phrase used)
males, from 15 to 21," according to the Miami Herald.

Trump said later Friday he wasn't aware of the history behind the phrase,
but that he'd "heard that phrase for a long time."

Twitter hid the second of Trump's messages with a warning but added it
"has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to
remain accessible."

We have placed a public interest notice on this Tweet from @realdonaldtrump


— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) May 29, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/8647...t-on-minneapolis-saying-it-glorifies-violence

 

[bodysong]

The Pentagon reached out and offered to help states ?

The Washington Post said so.

Pentagon (Maybe) On Alert to Stabilize Minneapolis

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act

May 30, 2020

As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon
took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty

U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the
police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests.

Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York
have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called,
according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders.
Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas
have been told to be ready within 24 hours. The people did not
want their names used because they were not authorized to
discuss the preparations.

Active-duty forces are normally prohibited from acting as a domestic law
enforcement agency. But the Insurrection Act offers an exception.

The Act would allow the military to take up a policing authority it otherwise
would not be allowed to do, enforcing state and federal laws, said Stephen
Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor who specializes
in constitutional and national security law.

The statute “is deliberately vague” when it comes to the instances in which
the Insurrection Act could be used, he said. The state’s governor could ask
President Donald Trump to take action or Trump could act on his own authority
if he’s determined that the local authorities are so overwhelmed that they can’t
adequately enforce the law, Vladeck said.

“It is a very, very broad grant of authority for the president,” he added.

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/pentagon-maybe-on-alert-to-stabilize-minneapolis/

Trump is considering deputizing the military as a civilian police force

May 21, 2019

The Insurrection Act gives the president a dangerous amount of ... as armed forces
are not trained in conducting law enforcement activities.

Slate

Minnesota Public Radio just published an analysis of jail records, 86 percent of people
booked into the Hennepin County Jail in the last 24 hours are from Minnesota and
43 percent are from Minneapolis.

https://laist.com/2020/05/30/los-angeles-george-floyd-protests-day-four.php

Minneapolis Police, Long Accused of Racism, Face Wrath of Wounded City

NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/minneapolis-police.html

 

[KeithD]

I always hate to see the Michael Brown case lumped up aside several more happening more recently. He cheapens them as cases. He robbed a bodega, threatening the clerk, and strutted down the center of the street belligerently and most likely provoked an attack. He wasn't an innocent, physically nonthreatening lamb who didn't provoke what happened to him. Most of the other cases that are listed with his fully justify outrage. Objective assessment is needed here. Not all of the cases are the same.

 

[bodysong]

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

It doesn't look like "MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE" is going very well

15 minutes ago

 

[YDB95]

I always hate to see the Michael Brown case lumped up aside several more happening more recently. He cheapens them as cases. He robbed a bodega, threatening the clerk, and strutted down the center of the street belligerently and most likely provoked an attack. He wasn't an innocent, physically nonthreatening lamb who didn't provoke what happened to him. Most of the other cases that are listed with his fully justify outrage. Objective assessment is needed here. Not all of the cases are the same.

True, but it's also kind of a boy-who-cried-wolf situation for the cops. Choirboy or not, there's a reason why what happened to him struck a nerve with people of color.

 

[bodysong]

“Journalists shouldn’t be the story,” Shelley said. “It is calamitous to see all of these
journalists. who are merely serving the public by covering these incidents of civil
unrest being wantonly attacked...Journalists are representatives of the public and
are there to serve the public and to tell the stories of the protesters and of the
elected and other public officials trying to deal with the situation.’’

He added: “It is really harming the public at large, not just the journalist.

It’s interfering with their ability to be eyewitnesses and chroniclers of what’s occurring
in this country right now.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05...ted-by-police-several-cities-during-protests/

 

[bodysong]

Steadfast in Their Loyalty to the Words of Dr. Martin Luther King

May 31, 2020

Police chase protesters, journalists on second night of Minneapolis curfew

It was the fifth night of protests in the name of George Floyd, the black man killed by
Minneapolis police, and the second night of an all-night curfew.

http://www.citypages.com/news/police...rfew/570904641

The night was also marked by repeated incidents of police threatening, detaining,
or shooting less-lethal weapons at journalists, who are exempt from curfew.

Teh "Official" Version

Star Tribune

breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Minneapolis, St. Paul,
the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

https://www.startribune.com/swift-s...ut-curfew-violators/570897132/?refresh=true#7

Star Tribune ✓
Twitter › StarTribune

After Friday night's violence, state and local officials blamed much of the damage
on out-of-state agitators. But after Saturday's 8 p.m. curfew, more Minnesotans
were arrested in protest areas of Minneapolis than people from out of state.

2 hours ago

The temporary nighttime curfew in Minneapolis and St. Paul has been extended
through Monday morning.

3 hours ago

bodysong comment-

Same violent shitheads dressed in paramilitary gear, same violent hateful racist police,
that bashed the heads, and crushed the bodies at OWS. Eager to use their weapons on
people that cannot fight back, and violent against journalists, reporters, bloggers, that
might reveal the truth of what militarized police do, when the public is blindfolded.

After the Boston Marathon bombings, the search for someone to blame became an
excuse to pen people in their homes. Docile and obedient, none remained outside of
their homes. The sick dogs of pretend war were reduced to threatening people that
peeped from behind their curtains. Military rifles aimed at children and their parents,
the pretend soldiers scream at the people that they swear that they are there to protect
them.

Some neighborhoods organized overnight watches to keep the peace.
Some residential streets near Lake Street in south Minneapolis were
blocked off to traffic with homemade barricades.

As night fell, residents on nearly every block of the neighborhood made themselves
visible sitting outside their homes or on porches.

In the Cedar-Riverside and Little Earth neighborhoods, wary volunteers kept an eye
on homes and businesses, some prepared with bats or other weapons.

In one disturbing video that went viral Saturday night, a woman filmed Minnesota State
Patrol officers moving down her block around dusk. "Get inside!" one screamed.

"Light 'em up," another said, and a few seconds later, and one or more troopers fired
marking rounds.

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street.
Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch.
Yelling “light em up”

#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter

(pic)
— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020

http://www.citypages.com/news/polic...-second-night-of-minneapolis-curfew/570904641

 

[KeithD]

“Journalists shouldn’t be the story,” Shelley said. “It is calamitous to see all of these
journalists. who are merely serving the public by covering these incidents of civil
unrest being wantonly attacked...Journalists are representatives of the public and
are there to serve the public and to tell the stories of the protesters and of the
elected and other public officials trying to deal with the situation.’’

He added: “It is really harming the public at large, not just the journalist.

It’s interfering with their ability to be eyewitnesses and chroniclers of what’s occurring
in this country right now.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05...ted-by-police-several-cities-during-protests/

It's what Trump has been fomenting for years.

 

[jaF0]

The better comparison is Eric Garner.

 

[jaF0]

And ya' know what really shows how screwed up the system is? The Goof that refused to prosecute Garner's killer was elected to Congress.

 

[bodysong]

"Essentially, George (Floyd) died because he needed a breath"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/

 

[JackLuis]

"Essentially, George (Floyd) died because he needed a breath"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/

SO not only the DA was supporting the FOP, but the ME was setting up the con also. Of course the ME had to change his report because it didn't allow the Police to obfuscate the actual cause of death.

All four cops the DA and the ME must be fired!!!!!!

 

[bodysong]

On Point

What The George Floyd Protests Reveal About Policing In The U.S.

June 02, 2020

- Brittany Knotts
- Adam Waller
- Meghna Chakrabarti

Protests erupt against police brutality and use of force. In many cities, police are responding
with even more force. We look at why it's happening and what it means about policing in
America.

From The Reading List

Marshall Project: "Before George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Police Failed to Adopt Reforms, Remove Bad Officers"

New York Times: "Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church"

CNN: "As rage over killings of black Americans sweeps nation, DOJ has all but abandoned broad police investigations"

Al Jazeera: "Mapping US police killings of Black Americans"

ABC News: "Why some police officers stood with protesters outraged over George Floyd's death"

Vox: "Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is."

Buzzfeed News: "There’s One Big Reason Why Police Brutality Is So Common In The US
And That’s The Police Unions.

Houston Chronicle: "Editorial: Houston police have killed 6 men. We need to see the videos
Chief Acevedo" — "Being black in America should not be a death sentence."

Washington Post: "Police turn more aggressive against protesters and bystanders alike, adding to disorder"

The Guardian: "Policing in the US is not about enforcing law. It’s about enforcing white supremacy"

Nieman Lab: "U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past four days"

Marshall Project: "Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong"

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/06/02/george-floyd-police-force-america

 

[bodysong]

Trump's Generals- media campaign to sew Trump's testicles back on after #bunkerboy fiasco

Trump’s ‘Cheap Political Stunt’- St. John’s Church in DC

Jun 2nd, 2020

Rev. Gini Gerbasi who is the Rector of St. John’s Church in Georgetown, but was
at St. John’s near the White House on Tuesday — wrote that police started clearing
the streets “Around 6:15 or 6:30.”

Gerbasi said, “We were literally DRIVEN OFF of the St. John’s, Lafayette Square patio
with tear gas and concussion grenades and police in full riot gear. We were pushed back
20 feet, and then eventually – with SO MANY concussion grenades – back to K street.
By the time I got back to my car, around 7, I was getting texts from people saying that
Trump was outside of St. John’s, Lafayette Square.”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/reve...lear-church-for-trumps-cheap-political-stunt/

Mediaite ✓
Twitter › Mediaite

Fmr DOD Official Resigns from Defense Science Board, Blasts Esper:
'Violated Your Oath' in Aiding Trump’s Photo Op

30 minutes ago

James Miller, who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the Obama administration, has resigned from his position on the Defense Science Board over protesters being dispersed from Lafayette Park so President Donald Trump could walk to St. John’s Church for a photo op.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/fmr-d...violated-your-oath-in-aiding-trumps-photo-op/

A letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper

(...)

On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath. Law-abiding protesters
just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets —
not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op.
You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House
to St. John’s Episcopal Church for that photo.

(...)

I must now ask: If last night’s blatant violations do not cross the line for you, what will?

(...)

I cannot believe that you see the United States as a “battlespace,” or that you believe
our citizens must be “dominated.” Such language sends an extremely dangerous signal.

(...)

I wish you the best, in very difficult times. The sanctity of the U.S. Constitution, and the lives of Americans, may depend on your choices.

Sincerely,

(signature)

James N. Miller

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-photo-op-thats-why-im-resigning/?arc404=true

 

[muycurioso]

c'mon man

The death of August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr.

The long process of getting the government to act.

May 28, 2020

‘I Can’t Breathe’:

Pleas from Minnesota Man Force Eric Garner’s Wife to Relive Tragedy

“I can’t breathe,” were the words Eric Garner repeated 11 times while Officer Daniel
Pantaleo held him around his neck on the sidewalk in a chokehold. This time, the words
were coming from another African American man — 46-year-old security guard George
Floyd, a Houston native and St. Louis Park, Minnesota, resident who died while being
restrained by a police officer.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/new...man-force-eric-garners-wife-to-relive-tragedy

An evil fuck murdered George Floyd.

At long last, the truth was allowed to emerge into the light.

(where it started)

Mainstream media language escalated, quickly.


Minnesota

Why does the Minneapolis police department look like a military unit?

The history of how local police departments got so much military-grade gear

During the months of activism in Ferguson, images of armored police vehicles
and clouds of tear gas used to quell mostly black protesters shocked the nation.
Across the country many wondered how local police got their hands on
military-grade equipment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...sponse-protesters-after-killing-george-floyd/

Is there a major city that did not take the government grants, and buy military-grade toys ?[/QUOTE

I am not defending the police. F Tha police. but Eric Holder and President Obama said Officer Wilson did no wrong. President Obama cannot be questioned by the left.

 

[muycurioso]

all these racist murdering cops

in deep blue cities. either city hall doesn't care, until they have to OR they are totally inept. 100% inept. Minneapolis is a racist city.

 

[bodysong]

As the George Floyd protests continue, let's be clear where the violence
is coming from

1 June 2020

- Rebecca Solnit

Using damage to property as cover, US police have meted out shocking,
indiscriminate brutality in the wake of the uprising

Property destruction and harming human beings are profoundly different actions,
and with a few exceptions (seemingly interlopers in the protests) virtually all the
violence visited on human beings during this round of civil unrest across the US
has been inflicted by police.

What is particularly stunning about the brutality of the police across the country
is that they seem to expect impunity.

They do not serve the public or keep the peace; they serve themselves.

The distinction between damaging or destroying human beings and inanimate objects
matters.

It’s important to note, of course, that property destruction can hurt the very
constituencies that riots and uprisings are supposed to speak for. The loss
of small minority-owned businesses, social centres and local amenities
further impoverishes communities. Here, it’s worth noting that I’ve read
accounts of residents of Minneapolis trying to put out fires and otherwise
protect property in their own neighbourhoods, only to be attacked by police
as they did so.

One of the stunning things about Saturday night’s police riot was the direct
and intentional violence against journalists across the nation.

Photojournalist Linda Tirado is now blind in one eye after being shot by police.

The police have been agents of this all along, and when they come out with teargas
and clubs to suppress uprisings, they announce that this is who they are and who they
want to be: violence in service of violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ots-violence-damage-property-police-brutality

 

[bodysong]

Minnesota charges three more officers over George Floyd killing
and elevates Chauvin murder charge

3 June 2020

On Wednesday, the Floyd family thanked supporters and said:
“This is a bittersweet moment … We are deeply satisfied that Attorney
General Keith Ellison took decisive action.”

Floyd was arrested after a grocery store reported that someone had used
a counterfeit $20 bill.

His family said the four officers “knew they could act with impunity,
given the Minneapolis police department’s widespread and prolonged
pattern and practice of violating people’s constitutional rights”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-charge-elevated-three-other-officers-charged

The murder method required assistance, so that George Floyd would have no chance
to catch even one breath, or expose the concealed method of murder, by providing
a visual of a man struggling to get a breath. Notice, that Derek Chauvin has a look
of pure evil on his face, and he is committing the murder, hiding behind a car in most
of the witnesses's pictures at the scene. No need to break George Floyd's neck- all
of them squeezed the life out of George, together.

 

[muycurioso]

and Minneapolis mayor never knew a thing

Minnesota charges three more officers over George Floyd killing
and elevates Chauvin murder charge

3 June 2020

On Wednesday, the Floyd family thanked supporters and said:
“This is a bittersweet moment … We are deeply satisfied that Attorney
General Keith Ellison took decisive action.”

Floyd was arrested after a grocery store reported that someone had used
a counterfeit $20 bill.

His family said the four officers “knew they could act with impunity,
given the Minneapolis police department’s widespread and prolonged
pattern and practice of violating people’s constitutional rights”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-charge-elevated-three-other-officers-charged

The murder method required assistance, so that George Floyd would have no chance
to catch even one breath, or expose the concealed method of murder, by providing
a visual of a man struggling to get a breath. Notice, that Derek Chauvin has a look
of pure evil on his face, and he is committing the murder, hiding behind a car in most
of the witnesses's pictures at the scene. No need to break George Floyd's neck- all
of them squeezed the life out of George, together.

always someone else's fault. Minneapolis is a racist city

 

[jp55665566]

always someone else's fault. Minneapolis is a racist city

Minneapolis is a city run by, and populated by Democrats. We are now a "sanctuary" city, where illegal aliens can be assured of not being subject to immigration laws. Where Caucasian people are continually told how racist they are. Where there is no police presence after dark downtown. And, where racist white people are regularly robbed and beaten by social justice warriors who roam the streets at night.

 

[jp55665566]

By the way, there is NO CHANCE of getting a conviction on the upgraded 2nd degree murder charges against the police officer who subjected George Floyd to his lethal abuse. 2nd degree murder requires proving that the officer INTENDED to KILL George Floyd. Also, in my opinion, skin color was not a factor in this tragedy.

 

[bodysong]

St. Louis police Chief John Hayden says he has no interest in police union spokesman
Jeff Roorda's "Monday-morning quarterbacking" and won't negotiate with him

June 3, 2020

That's probably a reasonable position to take any time when it comes to the the St. Louis
Police Officers Association's tough-talking business manager, but Hayden was responding
Roorda's comments today in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

Story details the union's attempt to backdoor the chief by asking Missouri Gov. Mike Parson
to send the National Guard or state police to take over command of the law
enforcement response to late-night chaos on city streets.

Roorda stands out as a particularly venomous character, whether its antagonizing
people with his "Happy Alive Day" love letter to ex-Ferguson cop Darren Wilson
on the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death, blaming then-President Barack
Obama for the killing of police in Dallas (...)

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/new...ampaign=hpfeatures&utm_content=HomeTopFeature

June 2, 2020

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday he will deploy more than 1,000
additional members of the National Guard to assist local law enforcement statewide
after four police officers were shot in St. Louis on Monday.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/pos...e-national-guard-after-violent-night-st-louis