The Media Driven Race War

[Mark]

Ferguson protest leaders seek heads-up on decision

Activists asked Wednesday for advance notice before prosecutors announce whether a Ferguson police officer will face charges in the shooting death of Michael Brown, saying they can help prevent widespread violence if they have 48 hours to prepare for protests.

Members of the Don't Shoot Coalition said at a news conference that they want to "de-escalate violence without de-escalating action" once a grand jury decides whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, for the Aug. 9 shooting of Brown, who was black.

The coalition represents more than 50 organizations including union workers, clergy, anti-war activists and black empowerment groups. Its members are leaders of the protests that erupted across the region after Brown's death and have continued in the three months since.

"Everyone around the United States and much of the world is looking at St. Louis," said Michael McPhearson, executive director of Veterans for Peace. "There's much anticipation as to what happens next."

Demonstrators on Wednesday criticized the use of tear gas, riot equipment and armored vehicles by county and local police in the early days of the protests. The heavy initial response led Gov. Jay Nixon to summon the National Guard and temporarily put the Missouri Highway Patrol in charge of Ferguson crowd control.

Ed Magee, a spokesman for St. Louis County Attorney Bob McCulloch, who is overseeing the grand jury investigation, met with McPhearson and attorney Denise Lieberman earlier Wednesday and said the coalition's request for 48 hours' notice of a grand jury decision is "being considered."

The grand jury was expected to hear evidence in Brown's case until mid-November, but McCulloch said Tuesday night that its work could continue for several more weeks. Brown, 18, was unarmed when Wilson encountered him walking in the street with a friend. A scuffle ensued and Brown was shot multiple times. Witness accounts of what happened varied, with some saying they saw Brown raise his hands as if in surrender.

"After the verdict, no matter what it is, people are going to pour into the street - either in celebration or in rage," said Montague Simmons, chairman of the Organization for Black Struggle. "It's in the best interest of the public, the police and elected officials who control the actions of the police to work together to protect the rights of people to engage in civil disobedience and expression of their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly."

Organizers have created 19 "rules of engagement" they want police to follow, including calls to treat protesters as "citizens and not enemy combatants."

County police Chief Jon Belmar earlier this week reiterated that police do not intend to impede peaceful dissent but said he wouldn't take anything off the table when asked about the use of tear gas and other tactics.

"I have a responsibility...to make sure that everybody walks out of this on the other end," he said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FERGUSON_PREPARATIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-05-20-49-19

VIDEO>>> ‘Peaceful’ #Ferguson Protesters Beat College Student & Chase Him Down Street Screaming

‘Peaceful’ ya right 

The Ferguson protest movement held a meeting tonight at St. Mark Family Church on Glen Owen Drive.

The protesters took time out from their meeting to beat a college student.
Then they chased him down the street screaming.

Finally the man was rescued at the local Walgreens.
mike brown fb
From the Justice for Mike Brown Facebook page:

    The meeting we had earlier at the church at 9950 Glen Owen Dr, St Louis, MO, alot of us attended the meeting but what happened with the attack on a peaceful protester was wrong and should have been handled a different way. Some of us already know that no live-streaming is allowed at the meeting and but when they told him to stop live streaming he probably didn’t hear or understand and when everbody just rushed him and told to stop live streaming and get the F××k out and then all of sudden he gets jumped and attacked. He is a student at UMSL college and he has been out there with us protesting on regular nights. Some of us know who he is, his name is Chris Schaefer, and NO, he’s not working with the police, he is on our side. But like I said again, for some of yall to just attack him having him, running down Chambers St towards West Florissant to the Walgreens scared for his life and he steady screaming crying and flagging down cars asking for help, but he only gets help when he runs inside the Walgreens, that was wrong and F××ked up it really was he was they took him to the hospital by ambulance to be treated for injuries. That’s making us look bad, the ones that come out to protest peacefully, smh, and he is white but that don’t mean to attack him like that! We have supporters of all races!

Radical Hamas supporter Bassem Masri defended the attack.

UPDATE: Live-streamer Chris Schaefer posted a video from his hospital bed in the emergency room. Schaefer said he got hit “pretty badly” in his head, hands, and sides. He’s asking for donations to pay for his CAT Scan.



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/ferguson-mob-turns-on-umsl-student-beat-him-chase-him-down-chambers-street-screaming/

[Mark]

Exclusive – Ferguson Insider: Jury Decision Expected to Bring “Riots Worse than the LA Riots”

In an exclusive interview with Freedom Outpost, a local firefighter in the Ferguson, Missouri area told us that they are on high alert as the decision of whether or not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown comes out on Sunday. The fireman said, “We have been told to expect riots worse than the LA riots.”

According to the firefighter, the grand jury will release whether or not Wilson will be charged on Sunday. He went on to tell us, “We have just been told at work the decision on the Ferguson shooting is coming out Sunday. State, federal, local law enforcement and the (National) Guard will be in the area.”

In referencing the expectation of riots worse than those in Los Angeles, the fireman said, “Okay it’s getting deep here in Missouri now. Our department was contacted and all fire and EMS are being contacted to get ambulances and fire crew ready to respond state wide over Ferguson. With less than an hour’s notice, so we are in it deep”

He also told us that the St. Louis area already had four Blackhawk helicopters flying around Ferguson. “Military air power flying the area now.”

Additionally, he said a large federal corporate agency told their employees to “pack their bags and leave the area on Friday.” “Military air power flying the area now”

He later told us that he found out how much aid state-wide would be demanded. “They want us ready to respond with an ambulance with a minimum of 3 personnel or fire apparatus with full crew anywhere in the state. The main focus is any town with a college or university. This seems very odd to me.”

Odd indeed. Why the necessity to respond to any town with a college or university? Why is the concentration not on Ferguson completely?

My initial guess would be to reference back to the race baiters and the agent provocateurs that are coming in from the government to really get things riled up.

Other reports coming out are that it isn’t just what our source is telling us, but places of business are boarding up their windows and police are re-stocking their tear gas.

The August 9 shooting of Michael Brown resulted in both peaceful protests and violent rioting and looting. This resulted in a show of force by the militarized police in Missouri

Some believe that this event is not just about implementing martial law, but about handing over America’s sovereignty to the United Nations.

While some citizens were smart enough to be armed and protect their families and places of businesses rather than be dependent upon police for help, which an anti-gun Democrat senator was arrested with a loaded 9mm while she was allegedly drunk.

Obama said that citizens who were trying to protect themselves from violent criminals by carrying a gun were “undermining justice.” Police were also told to stand down when they witnessed rampant looting taking place.

At the end of October, protesters attacked a white man as he passed by and Michael Brown’s mother and a group of people were involved in shutting down a relative’s place of business, assaulting another relative and stealing $1400.

Additionally, Ferguson protestors have issued a list of 18 “Rules of Engagement,” which are a set of restraints on the police response to expected rioting. Here’s the list as provided by CNN. The irony of the first listed ROE is quite telling, don’t you think?

Ferguson Protestors Rules of Engagement 11-6-14
Read more at http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2014/11/ferguson-jury-decision-expected-bring-riots-worse-la-riots/

Personally, I would encourage everyone who remains in the area to be armed and prepared to defend themselves and their property. While I highly doubt that sharia loving governor Jay Nixon will actually do anything to encourage such a move, it is a wise move nonetheless.

Read more at http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2014/11/ferguson-jury-decision-expected-bring-riots-worse-la-riots/

[Mark]

STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN FERGUSON...
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11/17/nixon-activates-missouri-national-guard/

Demonstrators mob courthouse...
http://news.yahoo.com/st-louis-protesters-stage-peaceful-die-155457749.html

Police nationwide brace for unrest...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ferguson-missouri-police-nationwide-brace-for-protests-after-grand-jury-decision/

Protest Group Releases List of Targets...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/justice-for-mike-brown-group-releases-list-of-targets-including-anheuser-busch-boeing-emerson-electric-airport/

'We're not going to get change in this society unless white people are just little bit afraid'...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/17/Organizers-Train-Newly-Minted-Protesters-in-St-Louis

FBI: DECISION 'WILL LIKELY' LEAD TO VIOLENCE
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-warns-ferguson-decision-lead-violence-extremist-protesters/story?id=26980624

[Psalm 51:17]

http://news.yahoo.com/rallies-planned-across-us-ferguson-decision-231403472.html
Thousands rally across US after Ferguson decision
11/24/14

Thousands of people rallied late Monday in U.S. cities including Los Angeles and New York to passionately but peacefully protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.

They led marches, waved signs and shouted chants of "Hands Up! Don't Shoot," the slogan that has become a rallying cry in protests over police killings across the country.

Activists had been planning to protest even before the nighttime announcement that Officer Darren Wilson will not be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

The racially charged case in Ferguson has inflamed tensions and reignited debates over police-community relations even in cities hundreds of miles from the predominantly black St. Louis suburb. For many staging protests Monday, the shooting was personal, calling to mind other galvanizing encounters with local law enforcement.

Police departments in several major cities said they were bracing for large demonstrations with the potential for the kind of violence that marred nightly protests in Ferguson after Brown's killing. Demonstrators there vandalized police cars, hugged barricades and taunted officers with expletives Monday night while police fired smoke canisters and pepper spray. Gunshots were heard on the streets.

But police elsewhere reported that gatherings were mostly peaceful immediately following Monday's announcement.

About 100 people holding signs that read "The People Say Guilty!" blocked an intersection in downtown Oakland, California, after a line of police officers stopped them from getting on a highway on-ramp. Minutes earlier, some of the protesters lay on the ground while others outlined their bodies in chalk. A similar scene unfolded in Seattle as dozens of police officers watched.

Several hundred people marched through downtown Philadelphia with a large contingent of police nearby.

"Mike Brown is an emblem (of a movement). This country is at its boiling point," said Ethan Jury, a protester in Philadelphia. "How many people need to die? How many black people need to die?"

Several hundred people who had gathered in Manhattan's Union Square to watch the announcement marched peacefully to Times Square after the family of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man killed by a police chokehold earlier this year, joined the Rev. Al Sharpton at a speech lamenting the grand jury's decision.

In Los Angeles, which was rocked by riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, police officers were told to remain on duty until released by their supervisors. About 100 people gathered in Leimert Park while others held a small news conference demanding changes in police policies.

A splinter group of about 30 people broke away and marched through surrounding streets, blocking intersections, but the demonstrations remained mostly small and peaceful.

Chris Manor, with Utah Against Police Brutality, helped organize an event in Salt Lake City that attracted about 35 people.

"There are things that have affected us locally, but at the same time, it's important to show solidarity with people in other cities who are facing the very same thing that we're facing," Manor said.

In Denver, where a civil jury last month found deputies used excessive force in the death of a homeless street preacher, clergy gathered at a church to discuss the decision, and dozens of people rallied in a downtown park with a moment of silence.

At Cleveland's Public Square, at least a dozen protesters held signs Monday afternoon and chanted "Hands up, don't shoot," which has become a rallying cry since the Ferguson shooting. Their signs referenced police shootings that have shaken the community there, including Saturday's fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who had a fake gun at a Cleveland playground when officers confronted him.

A few hundred people marched from Chicago police headquarters toward downtown after hearing the Ferguson decision, using profanity but causing no damage. Police on bicycles, horseback and in squad cars closed portions of roads along the protesters' route.

[Psalm 51:17]

Jeremiah 30:14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

[Psalm 51:17]

So Darren Wilson says he was punched in the face TWICE, and was he grabbed by the throat? These pictures look otherwise...

 

Injury pictures in link.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos-darren-wilsons-injury-061427648--politics.html;_ylt=A0SO8zrCV3VUKKgAqflXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTExMzRwNWZ0BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1VJQzFfMQ--?.tsrc=bsnls

[Mark]

Despite Evidence, Parents Insist Brown 'Was Running For His Life'
'I believe that [Wilson] asked my son to stop and I believe that’s what he did.'

 Michael Brown's parents sat with Charlie Rose Wednesday night to discuss their reaction to the grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson with criminal charges in the death of their son.

Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, insisted that the grand jury got it wrong and that her son was following Wilson's instructions when he was killed.

“My son was running for his life, and as his father has said before, he’s had a conversation with him about how to deal with the authorities if you’re approached," McSpadden said. "Which is to obey, basically. If they ask you to do something you have to do it. I believe that [Wilson] asked my son to stop and I believe that’s what he did.”

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/despite-evidence-parents-insist-brown-was-running-his-life

Yep Big Mike was just a big ole teddy bear. He would never hurt a fly. His favorite movie is Bambi.  Lady your the reason your kid turned out to be a THUG. 

[Mark]

Brown Family Reacts To 'Burn This B*tch Down' On The Today Show
"I wouldn’t hold him accountable for that."

I would, the moron incited a riot. Wonder how that oh were did all of our jobs go thing worked out. The parents are 2 of the worst race baters i have ever seen.


On Wednesday, Michael Brown's family made an appearance on NBC's The Today Show where they were confronted with video showing Brown's stepfather Louis Head shouting "burn this **** down" to an enraged crowd.

"There was a video that circulated about Monday night,” NBC’s Savannah Guthrie said to Brown’s mother Lesley McSpadden, “I want to show it to you. In the video we see your husband, what appears to be stirring up the crowd. Take a look at it.”

After reviewing the footage, Brown's mother downplayed her husband's action while trying to place the blame on Missouri governor Jay Nixon.

"He was just emotional,” McSpadden said. “I don’t feel that he stirred the crowd. The crowd was already stirred. It’s been stirring since Aug. 9.”

"I wouldn’t hold him accountable for that," she continued. "That comes from a higher power, elected official, and it’s called the governor… They stirred the pot. They had everyone on edge. They had everyone in the uproar and had the city on edge, basically, since Aug. 9.”


http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/brown-family-reacts-burn-btch-down-today-show

[Mark]

AP: 'Hands Up. Don't Shoot' based on lie?

The word spread within minutes of Michael Brown's death - a young black man with his hands raised in surrender had just been shot by a white cop.

Soon, "Hands Up. Don't Shoot!" became a rallying cry for protesters in the streets of this St. Louis suburb and a symbol nationwide of racial inequality for those who believe that minorities are too often the targets of overzealous police.

Yet the witness accounts contained in thousands of pages of grand jury documents reviewed by The Associated Press show many variations about whether Brown's hands were actually raised - and if so, how high.

To some, it doesn't matters whether Brown's hands literally were raised, because his death has come to symbolize a much bigger movement.

"He wasn't shot because of the placement of his hands; he was shot because he was a big, black, scary man," said James Cox, 28, a food server who protested this week in Oakland, California.

Some witnesses said the 18-year-old had his hands held high toward the sky as Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson gunned him down midday Aug. 9. Others thought they saw his hands partially raised, about shoulder high. To some witnesses, his palms appeared out, as if surrendering. To others, his palms seemed open, as if glancing at his wounded hand or gesturing with an attitude of "what are you going to do about it." Some said Brown's hands weren't raised at all.

The truth may never be certain. Despite a three-month state grand jury investigation and an ongoing federal probe, no one has publicly disclosed any photos or videos capturing exactly what transpired.

After a Missouri prosecutor announced Monday night that the grand jury had decided not to indict Wilson, the symbolic chant of "Hands Up. Don't Shoot!" rang out from protesters from Los Angeles to New York to London.

In Ferguson, some protesters have been wearing shirts with the phrase as they demonstrate outside the police station.

Protester Taylor Gruenloh, a 32-year-old white man from nearby Florissant, said that while he believes there's truth to claims that Brown had his hands raised when shot, the lack of proof makes little difference to protesters who have found it to be a unifying force.

"Even if you don't find that it's true, it's a valid rallying cry," he said. "It's just a metaphor."

Brown had been walking with a friend down the center of Canfield Drive when Wilson, passing in his patrol vehicle, told them to move to the sidewalk. They did not. Wilson testified that he then realized Brown was a robbery suspect. A scuffle broke out at the vehicle. Wilson fired a shot that hit Brown in the right hand. When Brown ran, Wilson gave chase. At some point, Brown stopped and turned toward Wilson, who opened fire.

Wilson told the grand jury that Brown had his left hand in a fist at his side and his right hand under his shirt at his waist, and was charging toward him.

The phrase "hands up" is peppered throughout the grand jury documents, as prosecutors and investigators tried to clarify exactly what witnesses saw. In quite a few cases, it's unclear exactly what the witnesses say they saw, because the gestures they made for grand jurors weren't described in the transcripts.

Some of the witness accounts of the shooting differed so much they didn't seem like the same scene.

"I saw him in the middle of the street on his knees with hands up," one witness said. "(The) officer came up to him and shot him in his head and he fell."

Another witness was insistent that Brown was on his feet and did not raise his hands.

"The officer was already in pursuit of him. He stopped. He did turn, he did some sort of body gesture, I'm not sure what it was, but I know it was a body gesture," the witness said. "And I could say for sure he never put his hands up after he did his body gesture, he ran towards the officer full charge."

In some regards, the disputed circumstances of Brown's death highlight the inherent troubles with eyewitness testimony.

"It's difficult for people under the best of circumstances to accurately report what happened," said Elizabeth Brondolo, a psychology professor specializing in the effects of race on mental and physical health at St. John's University in New York.

For Wilson and others at the shooting scene, what they say they saw may depend not just on their vantage point, but also their view of life, she said.

"The truth always really matters, but it's important to recognize that past experience to stereotypes also influences the perception of hands being raised," Brondolo said.

After the Ferguson grand jury announcement, several hundred protesters marched through central London with their hands raised, shouting "Hands Up. Don't Shoot!" Others carried hand-made banners saying "Black lives matter." The Brown shooting has particular resonance in London, which was rocked by days of rioting following the 2011 death of Mark Duggan, a young black man shot to death by police under disputed circumstances.

Architect Evan Chakroff was among the protesters this week in Seattle. He said the "Hands Up" gesture is far from a literal representation of the circumstances of Brown's death.

"My sense is that it's totally symbolic and a way of representing powerlessness" in the face of inequality and militarized police, he said.

Several demonstrators said focusing on the exact circumstances of Brown's shooting misses the point of the slogan.

"This is not about one boy getting shot in the street, but about the hundreds just like him who have received the same callous and racially-influenced treatment," said Oakland, California, protester Gabe Johnson, a middle school teacher. "So ultimately, no, it doesn't matter at all if somehow we can say for sure whether this one young man really said these words or had his hands up."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FERGUSON_HANDS_UP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-27-15-46-08

"This is not about one boy getting shot in the street, but about the hundreds just like him who have received the same callous and racially-influenced treatment," said Oakland, California, protester Gabe Johnson, a middle school teacher. "So ultimately, no, it doesn't matter at all if somehow we can say for sure whether this one young man really said these words or had his hands up."

Lets talk about how the young ADULT was a thug? Hey lets talk about 244 Teenagers Have Been Shot In Chicago Since Michael Brown Died
http://www.infowars.com/forget-ferguson-244-teenagers-have-been-shot-in-chicago-since-michael-brown-died/

Guess its ok when its BLACK on BLACK violence right?

[Mark]

Marijuana figures big in Ferguson meltdown



CNN’s Don Lemon is under fire for making the elementary observation that some of the Ferguson protesters planning violence and mayhem were smoking pot. Linking dope to violence is taboo for most of the media.

Reporting from the scene, Lemon said, “Maybe a minute, two minutes ago we heard a gunshot and watched people scattering. And we’re watching people on the roofs of cars, on the tops of cars and … Obviously there’s a smell of marijuana here as well.”

“Lemon’s comments sparked fierce backlash on social media,” reported Toyin Owoseje of the International Business Times. She said “many members of the online community” accused him of “adding fire to the flames and promoting his own agenda.”

It’s the marijuana, not Lemon’s observation, that added fire to the flames. He was just pointing out the obvious. Are journalists supposed to ignore the use of mind-altering substances by demonstrators planning the burning and looting of businesses?

That Lemon’s simple observation has generated outrage in the press demonstrates how most journalists are trying to play down the harmful effects of the drug and ignore the epidemic of drug use in minority communities. Our media, and some libertarian politicians such as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., want everyone to believe that police who enforce the laws and the “War on Drugs” are the problem.

No, it’s the drugs and their consequences, including mental illness and violence.

Don Kaplan of the New York Daily News called Lemon’s remark a “culturally insensitive comment,” as if dope-smoking were something indigenous to Ferguson residents. He also called it a “useless observation” that “polarized critics” against Lemon.

Catherine Taibi of the always politically correct Huffington Post said the remarks sparked a “backlash” against Lemon.

Why so much outrage over a simple observation of fact? Aren’t journalists supposed to report facts?

It is apparent that Lemon’s critics were concerned that viewers might conclude that some of the burning and looting may be linked to the weed that some of them smoke for alleged “recreational” or “medical” purposes. The “backlash” probably came from other marijuana smokers, or those sympathetic to the demonstrators.

Lemon’s critics were obviously concerned that his observation of fact would put the protesters in a bad light.

But, remember that Michael Brown, who assaulted police Officer Darren Wilson, was high on marijuana as well. That is something else the media have tried desperately to downplay.

The idea that this “harmless” substance isn’t so harmless after all is something that the liberal media cannot tolerate. That’s why anything negative about the weed has to be suppressed. If it is reported, such as in the case of Don Lemon, the offending journalist must be ridiculed and ostracized.

The Lemon incident brings up another critical point.

Any reporter who reads the grand jury documents in the case and covers them objectively will note there was an extensive discussion of the possible effects of marijuana on Michael Brown.

DeForest Rathbone, chairman of the National Institute of Citizen Anti-Drug Policy, or NICAP, saw the evidence of dope playing a role in the confrontation between Brown and Wilson, and found a strange omission in the Washington Post’s coverage of the grand jury proceedings. In a letter to the paper, he wrote:

“Michael Brown is continually being described as an ‘unarmed black teenager.’ And that mantra prevails among the liberal media and government officials, enflaming [sic] violent reactions by people believing that the ‘innocent’ teenager was irrationally killed by police.

“But in a glaring example of media bias exacerbating racial tensions in the Michael Brown shooting death, Post reporters left out the key exculpatory fact in the grand jury finding officer Darren Wilson not guilty: The fact that Michael Brown tested positive for marijuana, which could explain his irrational violent behavior, not only in the convenience store which he strong-arm robbed while physically attacking the store clerk, but also in provoking the violent confrontation with police officer Darren Wilson.

“If it weren’t for the mainstream media’s reverence for the ‘sacred cow’ of marijuana, they would see the valid scientific studies showing that pot is currently being produced in varying strengths from a mildly intoxicating 2% THC up to school-shooter-psychosis-inducing 40% to 70% THC. And that early childhood use of pot is a major cause of psychosis and violent behavior … which could be the ‘unknown motive’ frequently cited in news articles on the Ferguson affair.”

Rathbone’s reference to the “unknown motive” is the discussion we have seen on CNN and other networks expressing surprise that Brown would have charged or attacked Wilson. Being stoned on pot, as Brown was, explains his behavior. Many notorious cases of violence have been linked to the drug in the past.

Rathbone said Attorney General Eric Holder’s suspension of enforcement of federal drug laws against marijuana in “Stoner States” has resulted in “producing and shipping brain-destroying, violence-inducing strains of pot throughout the nation.”

“Therefore,” he adds, “it’s not the police, or white racism, that is causing this devastation; it is U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder who turns a blind eye to the malignant impact of marijuana and then tries to blame everybody else for the resulting social chaos.”

Rathbone urged “responsible journalists” to focus on the problem.

But that’s clearly not going to be the case. After attacking Lemon for mentioning the smell of pot amidst the protests, some in the media have decided to attack the prosecutors for even bringing the subject up before the grand jury.

Anthony Zurcher of the BBC questions the role of marijuana in the attack on Wilson and quotes Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine as his authority in saying the dope couldn’t have played a role.

Jacob Sullum is a libertarian who favors legalizing dangerous drugs, and once wrote an article on why heroin is supposedly less dangerous than alcohol and how people can use the drug without harmful effects. He has compared heroin to nicotine. “Even daily opiate use is not necessarily inconsistent with a productive life,” he wrote.

However, there are some reporters beginning to cover the subject objectively.

Rathbone points out that Kevin Torres, a reporter for KUSA in Colorado, where marijuana is legalized, has done a balanced story on the issue, noting that researchers from Harvard and Northwestern University recently found “younger marijuana users are more likely to have learning and mental health problems.” He cited an article from the New England Journal of Medicine showing high THC use being linked to paranoia and psychosis.

Michael Brown was not only high on THC but was apparently preparing to smoke more dope when Officer Wilson caught him walking down the center of a street and asked him to move to the sidewalk. The swisher sweet cigars Brown had stolen from the convenience store are notorious for being used to make marijuana “blunts.”

Our media are desperate to maintain the narrative that the police are shooting black youth for no reason. If the media admit that marijuana is being used extensively in the black community, that fact could lead to other disturbing questions. For example, did Brown’s mother and father know about his drug use? Did they do anything to stop his use of the drug? Have they used drugs themselves?

You and I know these questions won’t be asked because they are considered to be “culturally insensitive.” So the problem will get worse.

Such questions might prompt some serious scrutiny of the Obama/Holder policy of encouraging drug use in America’s communities by failing to enforce federal laws against the possession or distribution of dangerous mind-altering substances.

Drug use helps explain the violent conduct of Brown, as well as some of the protesters. It also explains why they continue to blame Officer Wilson for Brown’s death when the evidence shows that Wilson was only defending himself against what he described as a “demon” coming toward him.

Reporters like to laugh about the old “reefer madness” film depicting crazy conduct resulting from marijuana use. It’s not so funny anymore.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/marijuana-figures-big-in-ferguson-meltdown/print/

[Psalm 51:17]

Yeah, and remember when PPF was pushing to legalize marijuana.

It's only a matter of time before pot gets legalized nationwide(just like SSM) - talk about drunkenness, albeit even worse.

1Thes 5:1  But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1Th 5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1Th 5:6  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1Th 5:7  For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
1Th 5:8  But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

[Mark]

CNN is lying when they say Ferguson protests were ‘peaceful’

Here’s a quiz for you folks in the media: What happens if you’re out doing “man on the street” interviews but none of the men on the street fit your “narrative”?

If you’re CNN, you stop interviewing them.

It has been remarkable to watch the last few days as America’s self-styled “most trusted news network” has sent out teams of reporters to various areas of Ferguson, Mo., ostensibly to cover the protests there. While their cameramen are watching cars on fire and stores being looted, the reporters ramble on about how “most people here” are “peaceful protesters.”

Where are these peaceful protesters? The reporters can’t seem to find any. Instead, they turn to outside experts and some carefully vetted religious leaders to talk about “the real message” of the protests.

On Tuesday night, CNN correspondent Jason Carroll was reporting, “Most of the protesting we saw in front of the Ferguson Police Department tonight was peaceful.” Then as he started trying to explain the fires burning behind him, he was approached by three of the protesters, who proceeded to get in his face and yell at him because he was promoting a “certain narrative” — the police narrative. “You don’t understand!” one screamed.

Anchor Don Lemon quickly went elsewhere, saying he was worried about Carroll’s safety. When Lemon returned to Carroll later in the broadcast and asked him what the men were saying to him, Carroll refused to say. The reporter was stonewalling because, he explained, these men didn’t “represent” the peaceful protesters who were really the story.

CNN’s “narrative” was laid out early on Monday evening as correspondent Van Jones (formerly of the Obama administration) warned the audience not to pay attention to “a few knuckleheads” who later became a “bunch of knuckleheads” who “started a bunch of nonsense.”

Knuckleheads? Nonsense? When did knucklehead become a synonym for arsonist? When did taking a baseball bat to store windows become “a bunch of nonsense?” Talk about defining deviancy down.

On Tuesday night, Lemon even asked Jones about the difficulty they were having in finding peaceful protesters to interview, and Jones replied that “a lot of these young people are on the knife’s edge between violence and nonviolence.” What does that even mean?

Lemon did not ask. Instead, he returned to Marc Lamont Hill, who explained that the problem is not the protesters but the police who have been “disingenuous” by closing off a road to protesters after they heard shots being fired.

Again, he notes that the protesters were very peaceful — and would have remained so if it weren’t for those police officers making people so angry by stifling their voices.

This is a news organization that has lost all sense of its role.

There was even a debate among these knuckleheads — sorry, correspondents — over whether they should have aired video of Michael Brown’s stepfather standing on top of a car yelling, “Burn this **** down,” right after the verdict was released.

When the Brown family called for peaceful protest, that was reported, but this outburst may not have been newsworthy, according to some of the CNN experts.

Come on. Enough is enough. These were not peaceful protests from the beginning.

Civil disobedience does not happen at night. No matter when the grand jury decision was announced, people who are engaged in peaceful protest take out their signs and march down the street in broad daylight.

Peaceful protesters don’t wear creepy anarchist masks or even bandannas to cover their faces. They are protesting with a clear conscience and are happy to have anyone know their identity.

Peaceful protesters do not dress like they are about to knock over a convenience store because they are not about to knock over a convenience store.

From day one, CNN has twisted the Ferguson story. The network decided early on that an injustice had been done, contrary facts aside. When the grand jury decided not to indict, CNN was primed for outrage, because there was no way officer Darren Wilson could have acted appropriately.

The network helped stir up a nation to the point of violence. Yet, since the protesters must always be on the side of angels, CNN lies about the destruction that follows.

It’s rare you see the liberal media’s dishonesty in such stark terms, but CNN can’t control the pictures. If you wanted to know what was really happening this week, all you had to do was press the mute button.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/29/why-cnn-wants-you-to-believe-the-ferguson-protests-were-peaceful/

[Psalm 51:17]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nfl-will-not-punish-rams-for--hands-up-165412523.html
NFL will not punish Rams for 'hands up'
12/1/14



Prior to Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders, several members of the St. Louis Rams entered the field with hands raised in a symbolic "hands up, don't shoot" gesture used by protestors in nearby Ferguson.

The move drew criticism from the St. Louis Police Officers Association, which called the players' statement "a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory." The association asked for the players to be disciplined and for the NFL to deliver "a very public apology."

No such apology will be forthcoming.

"We respect and understand the concerns of all individuals who have expressed views on this tragic situation," Brian McCarthy, NFL vice president of communications, said in a statement. In addition, the team will not be fining the players involved.

"We wanted to show that we are organized for a great cause and something positive comes out of it," wide receiver Kenny Britt said. "That's what we hope we can make happen. That's our community. We wanted to let the community know that we support the community."

"We kind of came collectively together and decided we wanted to do something," tight end Jared Cook said. "We haven't been able to go down to Ferguson to do anything because we have been busy. Secondly, it's kind of dangerous down there and none of us want to get caught up in anything. So we wanted to come out and show our respect to the protests and the people who have been doing a heck of a job around the world."

The NFL actively seeks to remain apolitical and minimize individual statements of belief while on the field, but in this instance apparently decided that remaining out of the fray was the more prudent option.

[Mark]

Michael Brown's stepfather under investigation for attempting to incite riot in Ferguson, Mo., following grand jury decision, authorities tell @NBCNews

About time

[Psalm 51:17]

Michael Brown's stepfather under investigation for attempting to incite riot in Ferguson, Mo., following grand jury decision, authorities tell @NBCNews

About time

Wasn't what he did unconstitutional?(him yelling "Burn this down!" is just like screaming "Fire!" where there's none in a building with people in it).

[Mark]

CNN had an agenda in Ferguson, says NY Post writer

A reporter for the New York Post claims CNN's coverage of the recent rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, was irresponsible and inaccurate.

CNN logoAn exposé in the Post investigated CNN's news coverage of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown in early August following a robbery, and the subsequent grand jury decision not to indict the officer.

Naomi Schaefer Riley, who authored the Post article, contends CNN correspondents misrepresented what was actually happening in Ferguson. Following is an excerpt:

Here's a quiz for you folks in the media: What happens if you're out doing "man on the street" interviews but none of the men on the street fits your "narrative"?

If you're CNN, you stop interviewing them.

While many of the reporters referred to the events in Ferguson as "peaceful protests," images of rioting, looting, and police cars being torched communicated a different message.

"It's like the soundtrack to your movie doesn't match the pictures," says Riley. "Something is wrong here."

The journalist went as far to say that CNN lied to its viewers. "Either the camera was lying –which I suspect was not the case – or the correspondents were lying," she states. "Something was wrong here. If they had peaceful protestors, why weren't the cameras showing any peaceful protestors?"

In her November 29 exposé, Riley maintains that the reporters seemed to take their talking points from former Obama administration appointee Van Jones, who is a CNN correspondent.

"It's rare you see the liberal media's dishonesty in such stark terms," she concludes in her article, "but CNN can't control the pictures. If you wanted to know what was really happening this week, all you had to do was press the mute button."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/media/2014/12/02/cnn-had-an-agenda-in-ferguson-says-ny-post-writer#.VIRs78mOzf0

[Mark]

A Virginia cop is kidnapped and murdered by several black gang members. Sharpton, where are you?!

Such hypocrisy and reverse-racism is breathtaking. The brutal truth is Sharpton, Holder and Obama will never address this officer’s death because he was white and because they protect the black gangs out there. Officer Kevin Quick was kidnapped and murdered by four black gang members – they belong to the Bloods street gang known as the 99 Goon Syndicate out of Los Angeles. Quick was forced to drive from ATM to ATM to get money, then he was taken out in the woods and executed as a gang initiation rite. It never really made the news and it certainly didn’t make Obama’s talking points. No, he was too busy stirring a race war over a young thug who attacked a police officer, who then did his job and took that thug down. Obama is now embroiled in nationwide protests created by radical groups at his bidding.

From Three Percenter:

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) -According to federal court documents, four people have been charged with murder in the death investigation of Capt. Kevin Quick.

    Daniel Mathis, Shantai Shelton, Mersadies Shelton and Travis Bell (a.k.a. Kweli Uhuru) are charged with murdering Quick. The capital murder charge could carry a very serious penalty, according to U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy.

    “That is a penalty up to the death sentence in this case that is available for that offense.”

    Five others – Gert Wright III, Anthony White, Anthony Stokes, Leslie Casterlow and Devante Bell – are facing gang-related racketeering charges in connection to the case.

    Those indicted are all members of a subset of the Bloods street gang known as the 99 Goon Syndicate.

    The indictment spells out how members of the gang allegedly carjacked and kidnapped Quick and then drove around to various banks, attempting to withdraw cash from his accounts before murdering him and dumping his body in Goochland County.

    The gang is also charged with numerous robberies, shootings and assaults taking place across Central Virginia as well as drug and weapons charges.

    Officials from Virginia State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Waynesboro Police Department held a news conference Friday at the United States Attorney’s Office in Charlottesville to deliver details on the charges the suspects face.

    Quick, of Rockfish, was reported missing on Feb. 1, when he failed to arrive at his girlfriend’s residence in Albemarle County. The 45-year-old captain was last seen in Nelson County on Jan. 31, and was found dead in Goochland County on Feb. 6.

Holder, Jackson, Sharpton and Obama are racists, pure and simple. Had this been the KKK or some other group and a black person had died, it would have an apocalyptic moment and more riots and mayhem would have been pushed, pandered and promoted. But another white cop dies, this time murdered brutally, and Obama shrugs. He’s too busy going to the hospital for a sore throat and acid reflux to give a crap about another dead infidel. Not a peep from the sycophant media. Riots are too sexily alluring – a cop’s murder… not so much. Sharpton is nowhere to be seen or heard on this – he’s out there organizing protests and riots for a new faux civil rights movement where he can pad his tarnished legacy and make more money.

http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/virginia-cop-kidnapped-murdered-several-black-gang-members-sharpton/

[Mark]

This is what should cause a riot. This should be charged with theft, perjury to a grand jury and starting riots. This is the little punk thug that lied and started this whole mess. He should be in prison for the rest of his life 

Michael Brown Star Witness Gets Government Job
Father of the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” slogan

The father of the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” slogan has just been employed by the United States government.

Dorian Johnson, the star witness to the Michael Brown shooting and the man who was assisting Brown during the strong-arm robbery moments before Brown was killed, has been hired by the city of St. Louis.

According to STLtoday.com, “Jeff Rainford, Mayor Francis Slay's chief of staff, has confirmed that Johnson was hired under a state grant through the city's Agency on Training and Employment, or SLATE.”

Meeting the low income eligibility requirements, the 22-year-old will be holding the temporary position and will be making about $8.50 an hour.

Johnson told media that Brown had been shot from behind and then shot while surrendering to police with his hands up, both statements discredited by a majority of the evidence. Johnson will not be charged in the strong-arm robbery of the store, authorities said.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/michael-brown-star-witness-gets-government-job

[Mark]

A Very Scary Situation
Whipping up racial resentments among blacks is causing some ugly whites reactions.

A disturbing conversation with one of my smartest, most astute friends who is from a border state but has been observing race relations for a long time now. He is white. He is definitely idiosyncratic. This, in paraphrase, is what he said:

“I keep reading in the newspapers and seeing in the mainstream media how angry blacks are at whites over the Trayvon Martin case, the Ferguson case and the Staten Island case. And what the media is missing is that as angry as the blacks are at the whites, that’s how angry many — not all — whites are at the blacks. Blacks ask for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, as if paying today’s twenty-year-old crack addict had anything to do with his ten times removed grandfather being a slave or could make any difference at all to the soul of that slave.

“What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations for wrecking the public schools, for destroying urban life in many cities, for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit? When are black people going to pay reparations for putting the whole nation in fear?”

I heard this from a man about my age and I would chalk it up to one person’s oddness except that I hear words a bit like these constantly these days from white people.

Except during the era of school busing in the seventies, I have never heard or seen whites so angry at blacks. Al Sharpton has done what he set out to do and so has Eric Holder. They have fanned the flames of racial anger to a white hot pitch.

It is a scary situation, and what I keep thinking is that the only solution for angry people of both races is a spiritual solution: turn the anger and fear over to God. Stop looting. Stop whipping up hate. Stop play acting by affluent white college kids who pretend to be black revolutionaries.

Turn it over to God and pray for forgiveness and understanding among men of all races and faiths.

I have seen this work miracles and this, I am sure, is the direction we need to go. Only God’s love can solve this problem.

http://spectator.org/articles/61199/very-scary-situation

[Mark]

Pro-Police vs. Anti-Police Protesters Outside NYC City Hall: ‘I Can Breathe’

Mayor Bill de Blasio was elected last year after making promises to keep crime low while improving relations between police and the community. As the tensions between those promises continue to mount, Friday showed just how tricky threading that needle has been.

In the morning, de Blasio met with leaders of the protests that have swept through New York City in the weeks after a grand jury declined to indict the police officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold while trying to arrest him.

In the afternoon, he ventured to New York Police Department headquarters to heap praise on the force, a week after an angry police union circulated a petition to bar him from any NYPD funerals.

And in the evening, a pair of protests – one pro-police, the other against – were held outside City Hall, with each side yelling at the other while claiming a lack of support from its occupant.

A few dozen people, including some wearing T-shirts bearing the words “I can breathe,” stared down a larger, louder crowd that denounced police violence and took up chants like “How do you spell racist? N-Y-P-D,” and “Black lives matter.”

There were no immediate reports of altercations or arrests. The pro-police protesters were quickly slammed as “racist” on social media.

res: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/20/pro-police-vs-anti-police-protesters-outside-nyc-city-hall-i-can-breathe/

[Mark]

The Media Driven Race War is entering a new phase....

The 2 NYPD officers reportedly shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant have been rushed to a hospital, police sources say; status unclear - @NYDailyNews

NYPD confirms 2 police officers were shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; 1 in critical condition - @NYPD121Pct, @DeanMeminger

Editor's note: There is conflicting information circulating about the status of the NYPD officers shot in Brooklyn, NY, today. The New York Times, citing authorities, is reporting that one of the officers is dead and the other critical. The New York Post and CBS New York, citing a city councilman, say both officers are dead. I'm waiting for firm confirmation from the NYPD or hospital officials on both officers' conditions. - Aaron


http://www.breakingnews.com/

[Mark]

1 NYPD officer dead, another critically injured after shooting

 A New York City police officer was killed and a second officer was in critical condition Saturday after they were shot as they sat inside a patrol car.

The attack took place in Brooklyn at around 3 p.m., the New York Daily News reported.

“The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up,” a high-ranking police official told the Daily News. 

An NYPD spokesman confirmed to Fox News that two officers were shot in the incident and were immediately moved to a nearby hospital. Police later told The Associated Press that one of the officers had been pronounced dead.

The New York Post  reported that both officers were shot in the head at point-blank range.

“It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source told The Post.

The gunman just started “pumping bullets” into the patrol car, another source said.

The suspect then fled to a nearby subway station before he was shot and killed. It was unclear whether the suspect was shot by police or committed suicide.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/20/2-nypd-cops-shot-in-car-critically-injured/

[Mark]

2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ as ‘revenge’ for Garner

suspect in shooting


Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner — in what investigators believe was a crazed gunman’s execution-style mission to avenge Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

“It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source said of the 3 p.m. shooting of the two officers, whose names were being withheld pending family notification of their deaths.
Modal Trigger
The tragic heroes were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank in their heads by the lone gunman, who approached them on foot from the sidewalk at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in Bed-Stuy.

“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” a person believed to be the gunman wrote on Instagram in a message posted just three hours before the officers were shot through their front passenger window.

The post included an image of silver automatic handgun with a wooden handle. Another post showed camouflage pants and blue sneakers which matched the clothing the dead gunman was wearing as his body was carried from the scene on a stretcher.

“They Take 1 Of Ours … Let’s Take 2 of Theirs,” the post continued, signing off with, “This May Be My Final Post.”

The gunman was a fugitive who had just murdered his girlfriend in Baltimore Saturday morning, sources told The Post.

Minutes after shooting the two officers, he, too, was dead.

He fled to a nearby subway station, the G-train station at Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, where, as pursuing cops closed in, he shot himself on a crowded platform, sources told The Post.

“They engaged the guy and he did himself,” one investigator said of the gunman’s demise.

Both shooting scenes — above and below ground — were scenes of blood and terror.

“I heard shooting, — four or five shots,” ear-witness Derrick McKie, 49, told The Post of the cops’ tragic murder. “It sounded like from a single gun,” he said. Ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene, he said.

“I seen them putting the cop in the ambulance. He looked messed up,” McKie, a barber, added. “He took a high caliber weapon to the face. He was lifeless…I couldn’t see where the holes was that, all I could see was blood. His body was lifeless.”

Modal Trigg Carmen Jimenez, 32, a social worker from Bedford-Stuyvesant, was on the subway platform when the gunman ran inside, pursued by officers.

“Everything happened so quick,” said Jimenez, who is eight months pregnant. “We were standing waiting for the G train. We heard arguing from the other end of the platform.

It looked like two cops came in there was lots of yelling and they said, ‘Everybody get down.’

“We tried to get out of there, and there was a lot of shouting, people were screaming, people were trying to run.

“I threw myself on the floor. I was afraid for my life and afraid for my baby.”

http://nypost.com/2014/12/20/2-nypd-cops-shot-execution-style-in-brooklyn/

[Mark]

WAR in NYC, good job Mayor Bill de Blasio

16m NYPD official confirms 2 officers shot in patrol car in Brooklyn, NY, have died - @nytimes

[Psalm 51:17]

For some reason, I had a feeling 2014 would be America's last "normal" year.

Yes, all of what we're seeing now will likely break the straw off of the camel's back.

[Mark]

Al Sharpton Leads March in DC as NYC Protesters Chant: ‘What Do We Want? Dead Cops!
13 Dec 2014’

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/13/al-sharpton-leads-thousands-in-saturday-march-on-washington-dc/


Now there is BLOOD on the REV. Al Sharpton's hands

[Mark]

Family of Michael Brown issues statement condemning today's killing of 2 NYPD officers: 'We reject any kind of violence directed toward members of law enforcement. It cannot be tolerated. We must work together to bring peace to our communities. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the officers' families during this incredibly difficult time' - statement via @attorneycrump



Bunch of lying hypocrites

[Mark]

New York Shooter Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley Posted Quran Verse on Terrorizing Enemies of Allah

Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot and killed two New York City police officers (Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos), who were sitting in their patrol car. Brinsley was clearly motivated by outrage towards the death of Eric Garner. However, there may be another factor here. Brinsley was an Arabic speaker and posted a Qur’an passage on “striking terror” into the hearts of the enemies of Allah.



Qur’an 8:60 (quoted by Brinsley) reads:

    Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

Here’s more on the story:

Two New York City police officers were shot and killed ambush-style Saturday afternoon as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn, Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

The gunman approached the passenger side of the patrol car and opened fire several times, fatally wounding officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, authorities said at an evening press conference.

They were “shot and killed with no warning, no provocation,” Bratton told reporters. “They were quite simply, assassinated.”

Both were shot in the head, Bratton said.

The families of the fallen officers rushed to Woodhull Medical Center on Saturday, as dozens of police officers gathered in a show of support.

The officers—one with two years’ experience, the other with seven years on the job—were normally assigned to downtown Brooklyn, but were working a “critical response” detail in an area with higher crime, police said.

Police identified the shooter as Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He was found dead in a nearby subway station from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The gunman arrived in New York from Baltimore, but had a residence in Atlanta, Bratton said.

Police were investigating posts he allegedly made on social media. (Continue Reading.)

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/12/new-york-shooter-ismaaiyl-abdullah-brinsley-posted-quran-verse-on-terrorizing-enemies-of-allah-3080666.html

[Mark]

NYPD Police Union Head Goes Off on Mayor de Blasio, Protesters Over Murdered Cops: ‘There’s Blood on Many Hands Tonight’

After the fatal, ambush-style shootings of two New York City police officers Saturday, the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association served up sharp words as police gathered outside the hospital where the bodies of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu had been, the New York Tines reported.

“There’s blood on many hands tonight — those that incited violence on the street under the guise of protest that try to tear down what New York City police officers did every day,” Patrick Lynch said with a hard-as-nails tone.

Lynch added that “blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor” for a “cold-blooded assassination like we haven’t seen before.”



While he acknowledged a time was needed to grieve, Lynch made sure everyone understood what would happen after the funerals.

“We’ll raise our heads,” Lynch said, “and those that allowed this to go on will be held accountable.”

Lynch has been feuding with de Blasio over treatment of officers since a grand jury decided to not indict a New York City officer over the chokehold death of Eric Garner. In a press conference about the grand jury non-indictment, de Blasio said he had warned his 17-year-old, mixed-race son, Dante, to be careful around police officers, the New York Post reported.

Some New York City officers have been physically attacked during violent protests over the Garner case.

Just days ago, Lynch suggested police officers sign a petition that demanded the mayor not attend their funerals should they die on the job.

On Saturday cops appeared to turn their backs on de Blasio as he made his way to a press conference about the fatal shootings of Ramos and Liu.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/21/nypd-police-union-head-goes-off-on-mayor-de-blasio-protesters-over-murdered-cops-theres-blood-on-many-hands-tonight/

[Mark]

I did not expect NYC to be ground zero for the race war to start. I really thought some unknown Midwest town to ignite, oh like Ferguson MO. guess i was wrong, or things didnt go as planned.

A Widening Rift Between de Blasio and the New York City Police Is Savagely Ripped Open

Mayor Bill de Blasio sat in the front pew at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday, head bowed at times, with his wife on his left and the police commissioner on his right.

The crowd had come, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said, to mourn the two officers killed in an ambush in Brooklyn on Saturday. It had come to pray for their families and their “brothers and sisters in uniform.”

He went on.

“We pray for our leaders as well,” the cardinal said, looking toward the mayor’s row. “You’ve done what so many New Yorkers do in times of trial. You’ve come to St. Patrick’s.”

At the helm of a grieving New York, still raw from weeks of protests amid a national reckoning over law enforcement and race, Mr. de Blasio faces his biggest test yet.

The mayor, who does not attend church regularly, did not speak publicly on Sunday. His administration said he hoped to convey, in subdued terms, the need for unity in the city.

Yet on the heels of the police deaths, the long-simmering tensions between Mr. de Blasio and the department he has pledged to reshape have reached an extraordinary nadir. Officers, led by union leaders, turned their backs on the mayor and Commissioner William J. Bratton on Saturday night as the two walked through a hospital to address the public about the deaths.

The president of the city’s largest police union, Patrick Lynch, blamed Mr. de Blasio for the tragedy. The officers’ blood “starts on the steps of City Hall,” he said, “in the office of the mayor.”

The reaction encapsulated weeks of escalating tensions. Even before the shooting, union leaders had circulated a letter allowing officers to request that the mayor not attend their funerals in the event of their death in the line of duty.

Since Mr. de Blasio’s crusade on the campaign trail against what he viewed as overreaching by the police in the Bloomberg administration, those close to the mayor have professed that securing the trust of officers was an essential, complicated task.

And for much of the department, it seems, he has fallen far short.

“This is a nightmare of the highest magnitude for everyone,” said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association. Leaders at City Hall, he added, “need to dig down deep in their souls and understand that campaigning to be a leader is easier than being a leader.”

While the mayor remained largely out of view on Sunday, his predicament attracted a national audience. Current and former Republican lawmakers, including George E. Pataki, a former governor of New York, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, suggested Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, had set a troubling tone and contributed to a dangerous climate for officers.

Protesters have filled the streets nearly every night in the more than two weeks since a grand jury declined to bring criminal charges in the police chokehold case of Eric Garner. Many of them have chafed at the mayor’s defense of “broken windows” theory of policing, the aggressive enforcement of low-level offenses, which Mr. Bratton has championed. (Officers approached Mr. Garner in July over the sale of loose cigarettes.)
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The protests, which have been predominantly peaceful but have overtaken bridges and city streets, inspired union accusations that Mr. de Blasio had placed too high a priority on protecting the rights of the demonstrators. (He met on Friday with one of the protest groups, Justice League NYC.)

Even when trying to defend officers, the mayor has, at times, been criticized by them. After reports of an attack on two police lieutenants during protests on the Brooklyn Bridge on Dec. 13, union leaders lamented that the mayor’s statement condemning the episode included the qualifier that police were “allegedly assaulted.”

In interviews, officers have noted the commissioner’s repeated defense of Mr. de Blasio — for a mayoral motorcade that apparently defied traffic laws; for counting the Rev. Al Sharpton as a confidant; and for comments he made after the Garner decision.

“Our police are here to protect us, and we honor that,” the mayor said then, invoking his biracial son, Dante. “And at the same time, there’s a history we have to overcome, because for so many of our young people, there’s a fear.”

Allies heard a mayor making good on a central campaign pledge: to salve the wounds of residents who had come to distrust the police.

Many in the department heard something else: the most striking example yet of what has been — according to a dozen officers interviewed before the shooting — the consistent vilification of the police by the city’s leader.

In fact, Mr. de Blasio has repeatedly praised the police, particularly throughout the recent sprawling protests. And many in the city have been critical of the unions’ treatment of the mayor since the shootings. (A spokesman for Mr. Lynch did not respond to questions on Sunday.)

Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a former police captain, said, “We need to use the pain that all of us are experiencing and turn it into purpose.” He added that “calling for reform is not a call for harm of police officers.”

Even Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican and former mayor, offered a measure of cover to Mr. de Blasio, telling Fox News that it “goes too far” to blame the mayor for the deaths. But, he added, Mr. de Blasio “did not properly police the protests” by allowing them to block city streets.

In an interview on Friday, Mr. Bratton acknowledged that “morale in the department, in general, is not good.”

Administration officials have attributed much of the police unrest to a contract dispute, suggesting that union leaders were not necessarily reflecting the opinions of the rank and file.

Many critics, though, trace the roots of department angst to the election last year. In an interview on ABC on Sunday, Mr. Bratton’s predecessor as commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, echoed a familiar refrain of the mayor’s skeptics: that he had run an “antipolice campaign.”

Mr. Bratton, in the interview on Friday, disputed this notion, arguing that Mr. de Blasio had in fact campaigned against the zealous use of stop-and-frisk tactics, not against those in the department.
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“He didn’t run against the Police Department,” Mr. Bratton said. “He ran against practices of the Police Department.”

Once in office, during another year of decreased crime, Mr. de Blasio pushed for retraining programs for officers and a loosening of penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Even ostensibly minor issues, like the use of profanity by officers, have been broached.

At the same time, Mr. de Blasio said in an interview on Friday, he is mindful that keeping the peace in the city is his “foundational” obligation. After Mr. Garner’s death in July, the mayor had staff members research past episodes of police violence in the city, like the cases of Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo, to see how the city navigated the aftermath.

Mr. de Blasio has also examined the 1991 riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in internal discussions.

Yet in the interview on Friday, less than a day before the shootings, the mayor spoke hopefully of his efforts to win officers over, predicting that the “vast majority of officers” would eventually line up behind his proposed changes.

“The transitional process is always tense and difficult,” the mayor said. “But I think we’re going somewhere.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/nyregion/a-widening-rift-between-de-blasio-and-the-police-is-savagely-ripped-open.html?_r=0

My opinion. NYC is ground zero in the race war.