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Turfaholic wrote: »ghostdog56 wrote: »I said it before and I will say it again ? boycotting the NFL black people need to boycott the military for a real chance for some change. Every black service member needs to quit and go awol. If you are going to hold a group of people accountable for protesting injustices against black people in this country it should be them and not some athletes, that would really send message. And start a gofundme for the black service members who boycotted to help pay their bills, I know I would donate
Negative.
I'm former military. My brother is reserved. I wouldn't dare trust livelihoods in the hands of civilian donations.
But you expect NFL players to give up their livelihoods? ( not you in general but people who complain about athletes not protesting)That's the point I'm making we black people are putting the weight of the black community on a few when we the many won't even sacrifice. I bet if black service men and women boycotted the military them crackers would realize black lives matter then when they start to get ? up by other countries -
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stringer bell wrote: »
Read the comments on the slmpd tweet and was expecting police apologiest but it was the opposite ppl shittin on them and rightfully so -
He literally planted evidence...thats not even being disputed.
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This guy got away with premeditated murder... Don't know what to say
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Tariq is on point. They're protesting to a blank wall. Not spending ya $$ and voting them folks out is the only route. Nothing else has or will work. I don't even pay attention anymore until I hear this option being mentioned then I'm down.
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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/stockley-verdict-will-be-among-st-louis-judge-tim-wilson/article_2876b551-1c2e-5d95-bc96-a38d2f7abbfa.htmlStockley verdict will be among St. Louis Judge Tim Wilson's last decisions on the bench
Wilson turns 70 in December, the mandatory retirement age for Missouri judges, which means his ruling in the first-degree murder trial of former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley will be among his final rulings from the bench.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/anthony-smith-brother-slams-judge-acquittal-jason-stockley-article-1.3498410Brother of black motorist killed by cops slams judge’s acquittal of officer
The brother of a black motorist who was killed following a high-speed chase with law enforcement slammed the judge’s decision to acquit the former St. Louis officer who fatally shot his loved one.
St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Timothy Wilson on Friday found former police officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith.
His brother, Antwan Johnson, told Fox 2 he felt the judge shirked his obligations because his time on the bench is almost up. Wilson will have to retire when he turns 70 in December.
“The whole time the trial was going on, the man was falling asleep on the stand,” he told the new station, adding that he believes Wilson’s mind was made up before the trial started last month.
Johnson, who said Stockley jailed him just eight days before the fatal altercation with his brother in December 2011, joined demonstrators Friday afternoon to protest the verdict.
“We’re coming together to shut it down. We all need to come together as people,” he told Fox. “The justice system doesn’t care about us. These laws are not made for us.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/15/judge-acquits-white-st-louis-cop-murder-shooting-black-man/670929001/ST. LOUIS — A white former St. Louis police officer was acquitted Friday of murder in the fatal shooting of a black man following a high-speed chase six years ago, sparking protests in the city.
Protesters broke a window and splattered red paint at St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home, and police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Several hundred chanting protesters marched to the house Friday night.
Two officers were taken to a hospital with injuries sustained from thrown bricks, according to the St. Louis Police Department.
Nine city officers suffered injuries, ranging from a broken jaw to a separated shoulder. One Missouri State Highway patrol officer and a St. Louis County also were injured. The agency said it has made 32 arrests.Al Watkins, attorney for Smith’s fiancée and daughter, said the family is devastated and appalled by the judge’s ruling. Watkins said he and the family take particular issue with a statement in the ruling they consider to be prejudicial: “Finally, the Court observes, based on its nearly thirty years on the bench, that an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly.”
“We all know what ‘urban’ means. Urban means ‘black.’ I find that to be offensive," Watkins said. "I find that to be demonstrative of a judge who thinks that those who are reading this verdict are morons." -
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/st-louis-police-shooting-anthony-lamar-smith-jason-stockleySt. Louis Protests Against Officer’s Acquittal To Continue
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds of people protesting the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the fatal shooting of black man following a high-speed chase marched for hours in mostly peaceful demonstrations, until a broken window at the mayor’s home and escalating tensions led riot-gear-clad officers to lob tear gas to disperse the crowds.
Activists had for weeks threatened civil disobedience if Jason Stockley were not convicted in the death of Anthony Lamar Smith, stirring fears of civil unrest and the erecting of barricades around police headquarters, the courthouse where the trial was held and other potential protest sites.
A racially diverse crowd of protesters – some carrying weapons, as allowed by state law, and others toting children and waving posters – took to the streets within hours of Friday’s decision.
More than 20 arrests were made by early evening, and some protesters were pepper-sprayed during confrontations with authorities. St. Louis police reported that 10 officers had suffered injuries by the end of the night, including a broken jaw and dislocated shoulder, and some journalists reported being the target of threats from demonstrators.
Activists said they would meet again Saturday to plan further demonstrations.
Stockley, who was charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting, had insisted he saw the 24-year-old Smith holding a gun and felt he was in imminent danger. Prosecutors said the officer planted a gun in Smith’s car after the shooting.
In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stockley said he understands how video of the shooting looks bad, but that he did nothing wrong.
“I can feel for and I understand what the family is going through, and I know everyone wants someone to blame, but I’m just not the guy,” he said.
Stockley, 36, requested his case be decided by a judge instead of a jury, an option open to any defendant.
“This court, in conscience, cannot say that the State has proven every element of murder beyond a reasonable doubt or that the State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense,” St. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson wrote in his decision.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner acknowledged the difficulty of winning police shooting cases but said prosecutors believe they proved that Stockley intended to ? Smith.
Assistant Circuit Attorney Robert Steele emphasized during the trial that police dashcam video of the chase captured Stockley saying he was “going to ? this (expletive), don’t you know it.”
Less than a minute later, the officer shot Smith five times. Stockley’s lawyer dismissed the comment as “human emotions” uttered during a dangerous police pursuit. The judge wrote that the statement “can be ambiguous depending on the context.”
Stockley, who left St. Louis’ police force in 2013 and moved to Houston, could have been sentenced to up to life in prison without parole.
The case was among several in recent years in which a white officer killed a black suspect, including in the nearby suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was killed by a white police officer in 2014. That officer never was charged and eventually resigned.
Officers also have been acquitted in recent shooting trials in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. A case in Ohio twice ended with hung juries, and prosecutors have decided not to seek a third trial.
Friday’s protests began with largely unsuccessful efforts at civil disobedience. Demonstrators were blocked on an entrance ramp before they could rush onto an interstate, and found the city’s convention center’s doors locked when they tried to enter.
Early confrontations erupted when protesters blocked a bus filled with officers in riot gear, and later surrounded a police vehicle that was damaged with rocks, prompting police to deploy pepper spray. A freelance Associated Press videographer said a protester threw his camera to the ground and damaged it, and he was later threatened with a beating if he didn’t put another camera away. A KTVI reporter said water bottles were thrown at him after a protester taunted him, drawing a crowd.
As night fell, hundreds of demonstrators walked through the streets to the city’s upscale Central West End section, where they chanted and marched as people looked on from restaurants and hospital windows lining busy Kingshighway.
Tensions escalated after protesters broke a front window and splattered red paint at the home of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, who had called for calm ahead of the verdict and later said she was appalled by what happened to Smith and “sobered” by the outcome.
Police in bulletproof vests and helmets closed in and demanded protesters get off the lawn and out of the street in front of the house. Officers used tear gas to move the crowd out of the area and the protests were all but dispersed within the next two hours.
The St. Louis area has a history of unrest in similar cases, including after Brown’s death, when protests, some of them violent, erupted.
The encounter with Smith began when Stockley and his partner tried to corner Smith in a fast-food restaurant parking lot after seeing what appeared to be a drug deal. Stockley testified that he saw what he believed was a gun, and his partner yelled “gun!” as Smith backed into the police SUV twice to get away.
Stockley’s attorney, Neil Bruntrager, argued that Smith tried to run over the two officers. Stockley fired seven shots as Smith sped away. A chase ensued.
At the end of the chase, Stockley opened fire only when Smith, still in his car, refused commands to put up his hands and reached along the seat “in the area where the gun was,” Bruntrager said. Stockley said he climbed into Smith’s car and found a revolver between the center console and passenger seat.
But prosecutors questioned why Stockley dug into a bag in the back seat of the police SUV before returning to Smith’s car.
The gun found in Smith’s car did not have his DNA on it, but it did have Stockley’s. -
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Smh @ this mainstream media double standard.. The media loves giving these killer pigs a platform to speaklie.. When they would never give a black man a chance to give his side of the story.. If somehow hell froze over and he got away with killing a pig.. But if you're a white cop and you ? a ? .. And get away with it.. You get tell your narrative about what supposedly happened w/o ever being challenged once.. Only in Amerikkka... -
https://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-state-rep-vows-to-run-over-highway-blocking-protesters-i-will-not-stop-under-any-conditions/GOP State Rep Vows to Run Over Highway-Blocking Protesters: ‘I Will Not Stop Under Any Conditions’
Following the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the shooting death of a black motorist, protests flared up in St. Louis, leading to dozens of arrests, property damage and injuries to police officers. The protests are expected to continue throughout the weekend.
Well, with news of the protests going out nationwide, one Pennsylvania state representative weighed in with his opinion. And that opinion was that if he was confronted by protesters on a highway who tried to stop his car, he’d just run them over.
As you’d imagine, especially in the wake of Charlottesville, that tweet went over like a lead balloon. However, GOP State Rep. Aaron Bernstine remained undeterred and continued to double-down on his plan to deal with street-blocking demonstrators.
Bernstine has a history of attention-grabbing behavior. After his home was vandalized last month, Bernstine answered with a message of his own as he posted a YouTube video of his practicing firearms training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ9gHgGVDck