EXPOSED-Police Violence VS Community Violence

It’s no surprise the cops enjoy lying…still, I think this article is very important to read. I hope this is a sign that people are starting to focus energies on the real enemy, and unite together… One people, one struggle…

“The police often say that the police are where the crime is as a way to suggest that the reason that they are more violent in certain communities is because they have to be there because the communities are more violent,” DeRay Mckesson, a member of Campaign Zero’s planning team and one of the most prominent voices in the Black Lives Matter movement, told The Huffington Post. “We wanted to see how the data matched to that suggestion, and what we saw is that it doesn’t.”

“It just reminds us that the police are choosing to be violent in communities,” he added.  

A common retort to movements against police violence has been “Well, what about black-on-black crime?” — a phrase that originated in the 1980s and has been used to cite black people as the problem instead of poverty, poor educational opportunities, proximity and other factors that spike crime rates in all communities despite racial composition.

“For us it was pretty simple. We’ve been hearing these arguments going around without any data or any evidence from folks who are saying that police are killing so many people — particularly black people — because they say black people are in high-crime communities and potentially involved in criminal activity,” said Samuel Sinyangwe, another member of the planning team.

The group compared violent crime rates from the 2014 FBI Uniform Crime report to the number of people police killed in each city this year. To confirm the findings, Sinyangwe said Campaign Zero also ran three years worth of police killing data and arrived at the same conclusion.

“This myth that people have created that community violence is the cause of police violence is absolutely false,” said Brittany Packnett, another member of Campaign Zero’s planning team, who also sat on Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s (D) Ferguson Commission. “This is an issue of policy, of accountability and of culture inside of departments.”

 

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VIDEO: My Police Brutality Channel

Yes, I look like crap; yes, I’ve been crying. How can any one not? It takes a lot to make me cry, but thinking back on all the racism and cases of police killings and beatings, including children, got me. Video below, more to come later today.

Oath Keepers- White ‘Men’ w/ Guns Trying to Control Ferguson

This should scare everyone who has anyone respect for human life and civil rights.

“And so there is one rule for white gun owners and another rule for black gun owners.”

Magarian questioned what would happen in a test case where black men were open carrying in a white suburb.

“Would they be treated the same way?” he asked.

Larry Kirk, an Oath Keepers member and a police chief of a rural Missouri community, told NBC News that even if people aren’t happy with the group’s presence in Ferguson, they are there to ensure police and government aren’t overreaching citizens’ rights.

“Whether we are comfortable with somebody exercising their right, we still have to be able to have them exercise that right so we don’t lose it,” Kirk said.

The group walking around openly armed with assault rifles and roaming the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, overnight Monday in a confusing display were within the bounds of state law in their actions — and told NBC News they are doing what all Americans should: exercising their rights.

The handful of members of the right-wing citizen militia group known as the “Oath Keepers” told reporters that they have licenses to carry firearms.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether they planned to return to the St. Louis suburb on Tuesday night — following a flare up of violence on the one-year anniversary of the fatal police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown.

St. Louis County authorities declared a state of emergency and more than 100 people were arrested Monday during a second night of protests.

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What’s the Mood in Ferguson Today?1:08

The Oath Keepers, who were also in Ferguson during last year’s unrest, said they returned to protect businesses and certain reporters.

If the Oath Keepers decide to hit the streets again, a voter-backed amendment passed last year makes it legal to open carry a firearm with a permit — and goes as far as invalidating municipal bans against it, said Anders Walker, a constitutional law professor at St. Louis University. The city of St. Louis was among the municipalities that had such a prohibition.

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Oath Keepers Defend Right to Bear Arms on Ferguson’s Streets0:52

The revised statute says anyone permitted to carry a gun can “briefly and openly display the firearm to the ordinary sight of another person, unless the firearm is intentionally displayed in an angry or threatening manner, not in necessary self defense.”

What the Oath Keepers are doing is as “straightforward legally as this gets,” said Greg Magarian, a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “This is a state with extremely permissive gun carry laws.”

The county being in a state of emergency doesn’t have an effect on the law either, added Allen Rostron, a University of Missouri-Kansas City constitutional law scholar and professor.

When asked whether they confronted the Oath Keepers, the St. Louis County Police Department again told NBC News that it was consulting with the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorneys Office about the issue.

County Police Chief Jon Belmar stated that the group’s presence has been both “unnecessary and inflammatory.”

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Police: Video Shows Man Shot on Ferguson Anniversary Was Holding a Gun2:21

The Oath Keepers’ St. Louis Facebook page describes itself as a nonpartisan association of “current and formerly serving military, police, and citizens who pledge to fulfill the oath to defend the Constitution.”

But the fact that the few Oath Keepers in Ferguson overnight were all white men and were permitted to roam heavily armed in a mostly black community has worried some about perceptions of racial inequality.

“They were able to hold their guns out in public because it’s an open carry state, but if you’re African American in the state of Missouri and you have a rifle in an open carry state, you’re gonna be shot,” Democratic State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal told NBC News. “And so there is one rule for white gun owners and another rule for black gun owners.”

Magarian questioned what would happen in a test case where black men were open carrying in a white suburb.

“Would they be treated the same way?” he asked.

Larry Kirk, an Oath Keepers member and a police chief of a rural Missouri community, told NBC News that even if people aren’t happy with the group’s presence in Ferguson, they are there to ensure police and government aren’t overreaching citizens’ rights.

“Whether we are comfortable with somebody exercising their right, we still have to be able to have them exercise that right so we don’t lose it,” Kirk said.

My YouTube Channel for Police Brutality, Racism

I have been away from this blog site for far too long; but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been active. I just couldn’t handle at that time all I was doing and maintaining another blog. However, I am back now and plan to be posting a few times a week, and also making videos.
In fact, I’ll let the videos explain 🙂
The first video is just a little information about me and etc; it’s short… And then I’m going to include one video from an argument I had a few weeks ago that sparked me wanting to get back into blogging about police brutality and racism as it sums up my views on racism an police brutality pretty well.
I just made my new channel tonight, click here to subscribe for police brutality, racism, and etc related videos. There is only one video right now as I started this channel tonight, but I assure you a lot more will come very soon, so please subscribe if interested 🙂
Thanks and thank you all who stayed during my ‘time of silence’.
Me and Police Brutality & Racism; And What My New YouTube Page is About:

For the interested, here is a video I made the night I was arguing with the racist…it pretty much sums up my feelings regarding racism and police brutality. The ones that came before it are on that channel for …again, those interested. But from now on, polic ebrutality and racism will have a separate and dedicated YouTube channel.
And yes, I am a bit angry in them especially the last one…but if you aren’t…perhaps you should be.