Police Kill Unarmed Teen In Ferguson, Missouri

:wow: :wow: at the end.

Definitely need to go back and watch fresh prince...

Didn't realize how real that show is!!
 
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Here's what Mya Aaten-White remembers from the night of August 12: It was about 11 p.m. She was walking back to her car on Highmont Drive near the burned-out QuikTrip after attending a Mike Brown rally in Ferguson. There were a few people in front of her. Suddenly, shots rang out. Everyone dropped to the ground and covered their heads. When she sat up, Aaten-White knew something was wrong.

"Oh my God, you're shot in the head," she recalls a young man telling her.

Several young men carried her into a nearby house where the residents called 911. She says police officers -- she believes they were St. Louis County police -- interviewed her briefly before she was taken to the hospital. She was able to take the above photo in the ambulance and upload it to Instagram. It went viral.

Now, a little over a week later, Aaten-White wants to know why no one in law enforcement has followed up with her about her case. Stranger still, she says, she doesn't know what happened to the bullet that doctors removed from her skull.

"Someone has the bullet. Someone has the bullet, and it was an officer," says her attorney, Marwan Porter.

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Jay Patt said:
That gets old quickly. Eventually you hit that point where you just offer a rebuttal so they stop posting. 

Most of these people could answer their own questions by just picking up a book. Can't keep doing all the work for them. 

A lot of dudes banned from the thread just looking for a hero. 
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Yup, I'm at that point now. I can quote Hooks, Baldwin and, etc, refer back to similar events in history. Hell, write a whole book on their faulty thinking and why you can't be 'objective' in certain
subjects pertaining to race and police brutality, for example.

Will they care? nah, and you just get tired.
 
IlluminatiNYC said:
So let me ask you this...what is the ideal outcome of this whole Ferguson situation?  Let's say Darren Wilson gets indicted after a grand jury hearing.  Will all the protestors and rioters go home?  Or will they continue throughout the course of the trial which could take months?  In that regard, what if Darren Wilson is convicted?  Or worse yet, what if he's acquitted?

To avoid future confrontations between black people and the police, that may result in another shooting, wouldn't it be prudent for BOTH sides to evaluate what could be done to avoid such confrontations?  Sure, we can say the police should act first by not singling out black people all the time, but how do you do that in a town that's predominantly black?  Anytime a white police officer stops a black person for anything, there's automatically going  to be racial implications, especially in light of  this whole Michael Brown situation.  Perhaps having more black police officers may alleviate the situation but you can't force people to become cops.

In the meantime, while I'm neither black nor white, if I knew that there was a possibility that the police may have negative stereotypes about the race of my children, I wouldn't teach them to defy authority, not cooperate or  resist arrest should they encounter a racist or bad cop.  I'd tell them to just cooperate and give the cop absolutely NO reason to place any blame on them.   I'd rather bail my child out of jail and then sue the ***** off the cops and the municipality than plan the funeral for my own child.  No parent should ever outlive their child.
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Sigh. I'm going to respond to you because it seems like you're not being malicious.

You seem to be talking about a bunch of different things at once.

1. There's no ideal outcome of this Ferguson situation. A good outcome of this would be the cop gets a fair trial and is justly sent to jail for murder. (if somehow Wilson was in the right, taking this long to tell the public is a huge blunder + there is no reason to shoot someone who is unarmed SIX times, there's little chance he's innocent unless Brown was on PCP) Someone acknowledges that mistakes were made during the entire process (the secrecy, the leaking of the convenience store footage, the escalation provoked completely by military police, the governor talking to the citizens like they're children and giving them a curfew, the media ignoring the fact that WHITE ANARCHISTS were the ones that initiated the violence, Obama taking a very soft stance on all of it, etc.).

Acknowledgment means nothing without change. This is the perfect time to require all uniformed cops to carry a dashboard cam and a camera on their uniform. In other places where it's required, police brutality and complaints against police have gone down by a significant percentage. The justice system needs to make it clear that killing black people because you "fear for your life" with no probable cause other than the fact that they're big and black IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. The system needs to make it clear that you will go to jail for a very long time if you kill an innocent. Racism won't die any time soon but the system can't blatantly reward racist killers.

2. You say cops have to single out black people because it's a predominantly black neighborhood... This happens regardless of what the ratio is. Maybe you're outsmarting yourself by thinking this only happens in Ferguson -- this is ALL over America. In New York, only 10% of white people are victims to stop-and-frisk and there are WAY more than 10% white people in NY. That's just one example. 86% of stops in Ferguson are of black people. Only 67% of the population is black. That's a 20% disparity. That's HUGE. You can look up more stats if you wish. It's not just Ferguson.

3. Bringing up what black people - the victims - should be doing to avoid this is just like telling a girl to not wear a short skirt if she doesn't want to get raped. You should be focused on the rapist. 100%. In this case, cops (who should be protecting us) are failing us. Yet you want to come in this thread and talk about how black people defy authority or don't cooperate? It's derailing and putting the blame on the murdered. Let's be serious. Mike Brown died with his hands up. People have died while handcuffed. People have died while outnumbered 8 to 1. It's not about cooperation or what the black people do. It's about the cops with itchy trigger fingers who don't face consequences for murder.
 
Capt. Ron Johnson told media pool in #Ferguson he was aware of complaints police harassing protesters & those cops have been "sent home."
— Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) August 20, 2014
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CNN Breaking News ‏@cnnbrk 16m

St. Ann, Missouri, police officer who pointed assault rifle at peaceful protester in #Ferguson relieved of duty and suspended indefinitely.
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Dude looks scared as hell to be out there
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All these white people on reddit talkin about he's an unreliable witness though. My ***** Dorian
 
Sometimes I have to question the people in this thread on how much discrimination and profiling they have actually seen.

When I was growing up, I had a lot of Black friends in the worst neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Can't even tell you how many times NYPD came by the courts we were playing at and interrupted game just to check down my friends, or stopped us walking on street bothering nobody. This was waaay before stop an frisk. I'm White, and was never checked while in the latter instances, on top of being on the other side of the verbal and overly aggressive physical assault.


Some of you guys have to understand that this issue is institutionalized it won't even stop with a conviction in this particular case, but it will show Police officers to think twice before using the amount of force this officer used. There was absolutely NO REASON to use your gun in this circumstance.
 
RIP sleazyy said:
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Really though. I avoid all political or racial discussion on that website. I don't even go to subs where I might come across a discussion like that.
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Lol those dudes have a weekly discussion on black culture smh.
 
The fact that white guys keep trying to tell me its not a race issue ...


Haha...

Man... Its like... A damn shame that they can't stop and think MAYBE these guys have a different view of america...

:smh: :smh:

A military dude tryij to argue me down...

I'm like... Dude... You're so biased. You literally pit your life on the lone for a country that doesn't give a damn about me... Fall back"

:smh:
 
RIP sleazyy said:
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Really though. I avoid all political or racial discussion on that website. I don't even go to subs where I might come across a discussion like that.
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basically any major sub :lol: :smh:
I remember one dude was using outdated terms like "oriental" and "***," I told him and he came after me :smh:
but what would i know? My BA is just in Asian Culture and Languages :lol:

In moments like these, you always find out the truth about people and how they actually feel
 
To the dude a few pages back suggesting our relationship with police is tied to our behavior, I'll put it like this..

I have never, and in fact I don't even KNOW any minority, who sees police and feels safer. I have never looked into my rearview mirror and saw a cop and not felt paranoid. I just try to get out of his way as quickly as possible. If we're both at a red light, I'm starring at the light.

It's not cuz I'm guilty of anything. I'm a guy with a clean record from a beautiful suburb in South Florida. I'm well dressed, respectful and extremely intelligent. But i still have to be weary towards police. I've been victimized twice by police and they made it clear it was racially motivated. Doesn't matter what circumstances or situation a minority, especially black people, are in.... We are still a target.
 
To the dude trying to be subjective, this is not the place for it.

Yes I played devils advocate for a post or two but only because of how blatant the posts were that I was quoting.

This is not the time to think about how to fix race relations between blacks and cops. This is the time to put all efforts into getting all facts and prosecuting Wilson to the fullest extent of the law based on whatever facts ultimately get revealed.

There are way too many emotions and way too much going on in Ferguson to derail from that.

I'm usually one to try to be objective, especially when people try to generalize cops. However, even I'm at the point where enough is enough. The way Ferguson PD has handled this whole situation is disgusting.
They should not be able to get away with it. No person of any color should feel that their actions during these protests should be justified in any way.
 
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