The DOJ report on Ferguson’s extortion racket, as reported by CNN, details how city officials conspired to shake down poor black residents: Police were threatened with discipline for not issuing enough tickets, and competed to issue the most tickets. By 2013, the city was raising $2.43 million[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ferguson’
March 6th, 2015 - 6:35 pm § in Uncategorized
Will Ferguson’s police chief be next?
Timeline for one of America’s worst police departments: August 9, 2014: Ferguson cop Darren Wilson kills black teenager Michael Brown. Later that evening, a cop allows his dog to urinate on a makeshift memorial, inflaming gathering crowds. August 10-12, 2014: Police respond to protests by depl[...]
March 4th, 2015 - 9:03 am § in Uncategorized
“What black man holds a steady job for four years?”
That was a Ferguson cop joking about the President of the United States in an email to a municipal court employee explaining why Obama wouldn’t be president very long, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday, the Guardian reported. At this point the email’s author isn[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 1:45 pm § in Uncategorized
DOJ finds “sweeping” racism in Ferguson police and courts
“A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court …. [P]olice disproportionately use excessive force against blacks …, black drivers are stopped and searched far m[...]
December 9th, 2014 - 2:09 pm § in America
What happens when a white guy refuses to put down a gun, refuses to identify himself, argues with the police, cusses the police, flips off the police, and refuses to comply with police orders?
Nothing. (Source: Daily Kos)[...]
December 8th, 2014 - 9:44 pm § in America
Did a prosecutor improperly instruct Ferguson grand jury?
While most of the media focus in the Ferguson case has been on Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, crucial parts of the prosecution case were presented to the grand jury by an assistant prosecutor named Kathi Alizedah, who told grand jurors just prior to Officer Darren Wilson’s testimony to ignore what [...]
December 8th, 2014 - 9:18 pm § in America
St. Louis black ex-cop describes his city’s white cop culture
An ex-St. Louis cop, who now works for the NAACP’s Ethics Project, describes in a Washington Post op-ed what it was like to be a black cop in St. Louis. Be forewarned: He uses the term “racist” to describe his department’s culture and how he saw police treat people in his com[...]
December 5th, 2014 - 12:32 pm § in America
Protesters fed up with police bullies
The Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have ripped the scab off a long-festering sore. People are tired of being abused by police who are supposed to protect them and their communities. That’s what the protests are all about, and the protests aren’t going away because no one in author[...]
December 4th, 2014 - 11:42 am § in America
S. Carolina prosecutes white cops who kill unarmed black men
In South Carolina, of all places, white cops don’t get away with gunning down black people. There, for the third time this year, a grand jury has charged another white cop for shooting an unarmed black man. The somewhat complicated procedural history of this case goes like this: The cop had [...]
December 3rd, 2014 - 11:00 pm § in America
St. Louis black cops repudiate white cops’ criticism of NFL players
Last Sunday, five black St. Louis Rams players raised their hands to show solidarity with Ferguson protesters. The gesture infuriated the city’s white police union, whose business manager, Jeff Roorda — a white cop with a checkered personal history — called it “tasteless, off[...]