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Was Micheal Brown's murder by Ferguson MO Police Officer result of White Supremacy? Here's the stats!!!!
The people of Ferguson MO has taken to the streets in protest against the shooting and killing of a unarmed African American male named Micheal Brown. Brown and a friend was walking to Brown's grandmother's house when an encounter with a unnamed Ferguson police officer ended in Brown's murder. Amidst the brief rioting, protesting and reporting the Ferguson police with the help of several neighboring police agencies have taken to the streets in full riot gear including tanks and heavy ammunition.
Black alone - 13,753 (64.9%)
White alone - 6,494 (30.6%)
Two or more races - 437 (2.1%)
Asian alone - 263 (1.2%)
Hispanic - 156 (0.7%)
American Indian alone - 34 (0.2%)
Other race alone - 45 (0.2%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 23 (0.1%)
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Ferguson-Missouri.html#ixzz3ANcM9ODp
infographic courtesy of MotherJones
Tension between the predominantly African American residence and predominantly white police force is apparently not a new issue. Here are race and crime statistics that outline Ferguson MO and may shed light on why the community is so outraged and why the police are so outrageous.
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Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Ferguson-Missouri.html#ixzz3ANcM9ODp
Full-time law enforcement employees in 2011, including police officers: 63 (54 officers).
54 Officers (50 = white) (3 = African American)
| Officers per 1,000 residents here: | |
| Missouri average: |
54 Officers (50 = white) (3 = African American)
infographic courtesy of MotherJones
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
[Comunity Alert] Chicago Sun-Times report: FBI to hit Chicago streets to combat gangs
Originally Posted by Chicago Sun-times | 8-13-2014 | Micheal Sneed
Sneed has learned that the feds plan to dispatch 65 FBI agents to the streets in high-crime areas on the South and West Sides in an all-out battle against gang crime.
The 65 feds are part of a group of 100 Chicago agents already assigned to curb gang and violent crimes.
“This is a new tactic the FBI is using in fighting crime,” an FBI spokeswoman said, “by working in a concentrated area and a concentrated time on the street — although the FBI has been working hand in hand and day in and day out with the police department."
A top police source tells Sneed the FBI agents, who will be working in tandem with the Chicago Police Department, will be assigned to do gang suppression missions on Thursdays and Fridays for at least the next three to four weeks.
“It’s mind-boggling,” the top police source said. “It’s almost unheard of.”
“I thought the mayor and the police superintendent had said they don’t need more police on the streets,” the source added.
Sneed is told the FBI plans to develop intelligence and conduct surveillance on street-corner drug dealers, which will “lead to somebody else talking, possibly lead to an arrest and to the seizure of guns,” a second police source said. “We have to go to where the problems are and that means working the streets.”
Sneed is told the FBI plans to develop intelligence and conduct surveillance on street-corner drug dealers, which will “lead to somebody else talking, possibly lead to an arrest and to the seizure of guns,” a second police source said. “We have to go to where the problems are and that means working the streets.”
Sneed also is told that new FBI Director James Comey and Robert Holley, the special agent in charge of the Chicago division, are eager to build relationships with local police.
This disclosure follows in the wake of an announcement that 40 Illinois State Police troopers will partner with Chicago Police officers in a fugitive apprehension task force.
“They will be going after the worst of the worst, looking for people wanted on murder warrants. The fugitives may be wanted on the South Side, but who knows where in the city they’re hiding,” the top police source said.
The state troopers will be organized into “surge teams” made up of five CPD officers and two state troopers and tasked with catching those with “known violent criminal histories who are wanted by law enforcement,” the governor’s office said last week.
In July, seven additional ATF agents were assigned to Chicago to help reduce gun violence.
Anonymous Posts alleged St. Louis Police Dispatch Tapes From the day Mike Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson MO. Police
On Wednesday evening, the hacker activist group ANONYMOUS , released what they claim to be St. Louis Police dispatch tapes from the day Mike Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer. The incident in Ferguson is mentioned around the 9:30 mark and an "officer-involved shooting" is referred to around the 11:20 mark.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Chicago Youths Discuss Claims Of Police Brutality, Spark Debate Over CPD Accountability
“Have you experienced harassment or been hurt by the police?”
That question kickstarted a day of personal testimonies and discussion on the relationship between young people in some of Chicago’s most marginalized communities and police. Dozens of young people under the age of 25 gathered Saturday afternoon at Roosevelt University to speak about their encounters with police, which, they say, were often based on racial profiling and many times ended with violent treatment by officers.
The gathering, put together by an organization called We Charge Genocide, focused on creating a “safe space” for young people to not only share their experiences, but also work together to create alternatives to policing in communities affected by what they say is unfair treatment. Organizers of the volunteer-run group say they are “putting the system of police violence on trial” by providing a platform for youth to discuss, what they allege is, an unfair system targeting low-income people of color.
“People don’t believe young people when they say things happen to them,” said Malcolm London, a 21 year-old originally from the Austin neighborhood who now lives in Garfield Park. London, who emceed the event is part of several community organizing groups, including the Black Youth Project 100 and the Young Chicago Authors.
“There needs to be spaces where young people feel safe enough to say ‘this happened to me by the police’ and not feel like it has to be routine or like nothing can change,” said London.
Speaking to the group, Ethan Viets VanLear described two of what he said were his first encounters as a young man with police officers, both before he hit the age of 16.
“I was at freshman orientation at school,” said VanLear, who is part of a Rogers Park-based organization called Circles and Ciphers, a leadership training program for young men going through the juvenile justice system. “We’re doing silly team building stuff outside at my school. Two police officers pulled up onto the grass at the school, came up with their guns drawn, put me in handcuffs and put me in the car.”
VanLear said two weeks prior he and a friend had given their information to police after a bicycling accident, and that information was later used to interrogate several young men after a crime had been committed in the area.
“There was no evidence, they just found five brown kids that they knew were around and had their names and went and picked them up,” he added
Organizers of the event and affiliated groups say stories like VanLear’s are an all too common part of a systemic problem unfairly targeting people of color.
“If you are black or Latino or a person of color, [just] being itself is policed,” said Sara Wild from the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression. “When we look at the rate of incarceration, we’re looking at 2.4 million in the U.S. prisons. How are they getting there? They focus on young African American and Latino males and females.”
For entire article click here: Progress Illinois
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