Tuesday, August 19, 2014

DAY 11 - FERGUSON MISSOURI -THE DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE

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UPDATE AUGUST 19,14-09:50PM

ITS 9:50PM AUG 19,14 AND CNN GOT THE RIGHT MAN ON TO INSTIGATE RIOTS-LOOTING-BURNING-STEALING.YES YOUR FRIEND AND MINE VAN JONES EX MEMBER OF THE TERROR GROUP UNDERGROUND WEATHERMAN.THE PERFECT PERSON TO MINGLE WITH THE BLACKS IN THE CROWD TO GET THROWING THINGS AT POLICE.I PREDICT WE WILL BE SEEING TEAR GAS AND STUN GRENADES GOIN TONIGHT WITH VAN JONES IN FERGUSON MISSOURI.THERES ABOUT 200 PEOPLE ON THE STREET PROTESTING THE USUAL HANDS UP-DON'T SHOOT NONSENSE.IT SHOULD BE GO HOME AND RELAX IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION AND WATCH FROM THERE BLACKS.THEN IT WILL BE PEACEFUL AND CALM.AND ONLY THE LUNATIC RETARDS WOULD BE OUT TO GET GASED AND ARRESTED.




Earlier activism-VAN JONES-WIKIPEDIA

In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization."In October 2005 Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist"before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.His activism was also spurred on by witnessing racial inequality in New Haven, Connecticut: "I was seeing kids at Yale do drugs and talk about it openly, and have nothing happen to them or, if anything, get sent to rehab...And then I was seeing kids three blocks away, in the housing projects, doing the same drugs, in smaller amounts, go to prison.When he graduated from law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.He became a member[19] of a "socialist collective" called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) that protested against police brutality.http://ift.tt/1oc1Czt;



Funeral planned for Missouri teen shot by police as clashes persist-Reuters-By Scott Malone and Ellen Wulfhorst-AUG 19,14-YAHOONEWS



FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Funeral services are planned on Monday for an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting by a white policeman in Missouri has ignited more than a week of racially charged clashes in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.The violence has captured international headlines, raising questions about the state of U.S. race relations nearly six years after Americans elected their first black president.As lawyers for the family of Michael Brown, 18, announced plans on Tuesday for his funeral, U.S. lawmakers called for calm and a change in police tactics that have so far failed to soothe angry demonstrators.Police said they came under gunfire again overnight and made dozens of arrests despite the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters more freedom to demonstrate.There were at least 57 arrests on Monday night and into Tuesday, most on a charge of failure to disperse, according to the St. Louis County Justice Services Center. It said 15 of those arrested were from outside Missouri."The people who are rioting and looting are not the people who live in this area. They come down here and they wait for the action to start," said Arlando Travis, 38, owner of a local landscaping business."We overpoliced for a few days, and then we completely underpoliced," U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson on Tuesday, told cable channel MSNBC. She said she was working with local leaders on new methods, such as screening for weapons and moving protest areas away from the business district to open green spaces.President Barack Obama said on Monday he told Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that use of the National Guard should be limited, and he also called for conciliation. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit Ferguson on Wednesday.Ferguson, a mostly black community of about 21,000 residents just outside St. Louis, has a history of racial tension. Blacks have long complained of police harassment and under-representation in city leadership.In a separate incident just miles (km) from the protests, a 23-year-old black man holding a knife was fatally shot by police on Tuesday, police told a news conference. They said two officers opened fire after the man ignored repeated calls to drop his weapon.



SIMMERING DIVISIONS



Public reaction to the police response in Ferguson was mixed nationally, showing divisions along color and political lines, according to a Reuters/IPSOS poll released on Tuesday.“There’s certainly not universal support on this particular issue – there’s a lot of divisiveness,” said IPSOS pollster Julia Clark.The online poll of 976 U.S. adults conducted from Friday to Monday showed a clear majority agreed the racial makeup of a police force should reflect the local community, and 78 percent said citizens should be able to record police making arrests and carrying out other duties.Tension boiled over 10 days ago after Brown was shot and killed while walking with a friend down a residential street on the afternoon of Aug. 9.The police refused to immediately release the name of the officer who killed Brown. They later identified him as 28-year-old Darren Wilson but have not provided details about why he fired multiple rounds at Brown.Wilson has yet to make a public statement, but investigators said he has been cooperative in interviews with detectives.The U.S. Department of Justice and the St. Louis County Police Department are both investigating the shooting. The county prosecutor's office said it could start presenting evidence to a grand jury on Wednesday to determine if Wilson will be indicted.Since the killing, thousands of protesters have taken over the site of the shooting and the nearby business district each night, chanting anti-police slogans and carrying signs calling for Wilson's arrest.Some journalists covering the confrontations have been hit by tear gas and arrested.On Tuesday, the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an intergovernmental security and human rights organization whose members include 57 countries including the United States and Canada, criticized the treatment of the journalists.On Monday night, some in the crowd hurled bottles, rocks and petrol bombs at officers, who responded by firing gas-filled canisters and a noise cannon to try to disperse the throng.State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was named to oversee security in Ferguson last week after the tactics of local police leadership were questioned, said officers had come under "heavy gunfire" but did not return it. Riot police confiscated two guns and what looked like a petrol bomb from protesters.Four officers were injured, he said.Johnson separately told CNN that two people were shot within the crowd, but not by police, and were taken to the hospital. There was no immediate word on their condition."This has to stop," said Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area. "I don't want anybody to get hurt."Area schools remained closed on Tuesday due to the unrest.The disturbances are the worst since the angry but peaceful protests across the United States in July 2013 over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during a scuffle in Florida.Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, wrote an open letter to Brown's family, offering condolences and support.(Additional reporting by Lucas Jackson in Ferguson, Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Mo., Eric Beech in Washington, Curtis Skinner in New York; Writing by Carey Gillam; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Peter Cooney)



In riot-hit Ferguson, traffic fines boost tension and budget-Reuters-By Megan Davies and Dan Burns-AUG 19,14-YAHOONEWS



NEW YORK (Reuters) - When calm and order is finally restored to Ferguson, Missouri, the city's leaders may find little room to maneuver to resolve an issue that has long inflamed racial tensions: traffic tickets.On the surface it would seem an easy fix for the mainly white police force simply to adopt a less aggressive policy on traffic stops, which overwhelmingly and disproportionately snare black motorists.That may be easier said than done, though.Traffic fines are the St. Louis suburb's second-largest source of revenue and just about the only one that is growing appreciably. Municipal court fines, most of which arise from motor vehicle violations, accounted for 21 percent of general fund revenue and at $2.63 million last year, were the equivalent of more than 81 percent of police salaries before overtime.The heavy reliance on these funds is emerging as a thorny issue for Ferguson following the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white policeman Darren Wilson. Brown's death has sparked days of protests and nights of riots in the majority black community, many of whose residents complain about their treatment by Ferguson police."In the aftermath of this month's tragic events in Ferguson, the city will be forced to shift away from its increasing reliance on traffic fines as a revenue source," said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York. "Not only is it a self-defeating budget practice, but it has exacerbated racial tensions."Ferguson's finance director declined a Reuters interview request and referred inquiries to the city manager who was not immediately available for comment.The civil unrest has all but crippled the city of about 21,000, around a dozen miles north of downtown St. Louis, and has drawn an extensive and costly police response. Brown's family also has hired a legal team, raising the prospect that the city could face pricey litigation."One big unknown, aside from any potential lawsuit, is the tremendous cost of police overtime, which could lead to a troubling budget shortfall and force other tax and fee increases or service reductions," said Parrott.



STRIVING FOR BALANCE



Searching for other areas for revenue growth could prove an uphill task. The city describes itself as being in the midst of an "extraordinarily slow" economic recovery.Sales tax receipts, for instance, have been highly variable since the recession, frequently falling short of projections. While fiscal 2014 sales tax receipts were budgeted for a 4 percent increase to just over $6 million, this revenue source remains some 13 percent below its peak in fiscal 2006 of around $6.9 million."Local economic circumstances continue to improve slowly, but steadily," the city's latest budget said. "Unfortunately, this trend has not carried over to retail sales activity and sales tax collections."A property tax increase two years ago helped give an initial boost to that revenue line, but real estate taxes were forecast to dip slightly in the most recent budget year.While the city denies in its budget that it explicitly targets court fines as a revenue source, it notes city police have placed greater emphasis on traffic control in recent years."Due to a more concentrated focus on traffic enforcement, municipal court revenues have risen about 44 percent ... from those in full-year 2010-2011," its 2013-2014 budget says. This has been boosted in recent years by the use of traffic cameras.A study released last week by a group of St. Louis-area public defenders, ArchCity Defenders, detailed the perception of local black residents that they are singled out by the police for traffic stops and treated unfairly by the local courts."If you’re black, they’re going to stop you," the study quoted one traffic defendant as saying.In 2013, 86 percent of all Ferguson police traffic stops involved black drivers, the largest share since the Missouri Attorney General's Office began tracking the data in 2000. According to 2010 U.S. Census data, the city is 63 percent black and 34 percent white."If the city were to try to be seen as not targeting blacks, but maintain similar revenue levels, then it would probably have to pull over a much higher proportion of whites," said Jeff Smith, assistant professor at The New School and a former Missouri state senator.Arlando Travis, a 38-year-old owner of a landscaping business in Ferguson described how a friend of his, a minister, had been pulled over for a traffic stop."They see a 60-year-old and driving a $70,000 car and he can't find his insurance card ... he just forgot it, but they don't listen," Travis said. "Can't they use some common sense?"(Additional reporting by Tim McLaughlin and Scott Malone in Ferguson, editing by Ross Colvin)






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