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Rory » 12 Aug 2014 14:01 wrote:No fly zone? Like, what the actual fuck?
Almost like they were live drilling and didn't want prying eyes
Police Dispatch Tapes From Michael Brown’s Shooting
Anonymous has obtained and released St. Louis police dispatch audio from the day Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson Police Department officer. The audio is largely unedited and contains police codes throughout the recording.
It appears that Ferguson police called for additional cars, officers and K-9s from different precincts to control crowds—and waited several hours before calling in an ambulance for the 18-year-old Brown. His body lay on the ground for hours, uncovered before it was attended to.
Huffington Post Reporter Arrested In Ferguson
The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/13/2014 8:45 pm EDT Updated: 2 minutes ago
The Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly was arrested Wednesday while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri surrounding the death of unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown, who was shot to death by a police officer last week.
Reilly tweeted at around 8:00 P.M. EDT that SWAT officers invaded the McDonald's at which he was working, requesting his identification after he took a photo of them. The Washington Post's Wesley Lowery was also working at the fast food restaurant.
Soon after, Reilly tweeted that he and Lowery were released:
Massive SWAT Team Clearing Streets In Ferguson: "This Is Not Open For Discussion" - Live Feed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/13/2014 - 16:07
At least 70 SWAT moving civilians along: "this is not open for discussion", "your rights to assemble are not being denied", 2 reporters arrested for "not packing bags fast enough"
Despite Police best efforts to force Ferguson residents off the streets, tensions reignited once again as night fell last night and, as The Guardian reports, a second man has been shot by police. Police officials told local reporters that the man was shot in Ferguson by a St Louis County officer after pointing a handgun at him soon after 1am on Wednesday. A crowd of around 250 young protesters were halted by police and separately a woman is being treated in hospital after being shot in the head during a drive-by shooting in the troubled city. Protesters exclaimed, "we have a right to assemble, a right to freedom," said Paul Muhammad. "But here we are facing what looks like a military imposing martial law. It is not acceptable." Interestingly, President Obama's official response "urging reflection" has been rejected as insultingly inadequate by many African American residents of Ferguson.
Anonymous releases update on “Operation Ferguson”
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – The hacker group Anonymous is supporting the Mike Brown demonstrators in an effort dubbed, “Operation Ferguson.” They posted a video on Monday threateningto hack the Ferguson police department if any protesters are harmed. Now, the group is calling for federal laws to for national standards of police conduct.
They released this update on Tuesday. Previous story: Hacker group “Anonymous” threatens Ferguson police department
This is a transcript of the video:
A little over 48 hours ago in Ferguson Missouri, the Ferguson Police Department was involved in the shooting of an un-armed teenager. Mike Brown was shot 6 times in cold blood and was left to die. His body lay in a pool of blood in the sweltering heat for hours while the police militarized the area against protesters and attempted to justify the killing with a reasonable story as to why they snatched this innocent student’s life for no reason. The St. Louis County Sheriff Department even sealed the roads leading to Ferguson in a vain attempt to prevent protesters from reaching the city. Mike Brown was only 17 years old, and he would have started college next week. Instead, his family is struggling to come up with costs for his funeral.
The entire global collective of Anonymous is outraged at this vicious murder of an innocent teen. Not a week goes by that some young person, usually within a minority background, is slaughtered by trigger-happy police officers in the United States. For this reason, Anonymous will not be satisfied this time as we have in the past, with simply obtaining justice for this young man and his family.
Anonymous demands that the Congressional Representatives and Senators from Missouri introduce legislation entitled “Mike Brown’s Law” that will set strict national standards for police conduct in the USA. We further demand that this new law include specific language to grant the victims of police violence the same rights and prerogatives that are already enjoyed nationwide by the victims of other violent criminals. The Equal Protection clause of the United States Constitution demands nothing less.
To the good people of Ferguson, take heart. And take to your streets. You are not alone, and we will continue to support you in every way possible. Occupy every square inch of your city. Open your homes and help the protesters who will come to your city from every part of Missouri and the United States. Businesses and householders that are near protest rallies, open your Wireless routers so that live streamers and other independent journalists can use the Internet connections. Feed each other, keep each other safe, and stay in the streets until we are totally victorious in all our demands.
We are saddened by the looting that has taken place. The anger shown is being directed towards the wrong source of the problem. Your local Quick Trip or your Footlocker store did not cause the death of Mike Brown. The robbing and looting of local black business by young black minorities will not avenge Mike Brown. Do not become the reason to cover bringing justice for young Michael Brown. Keep the streets peaceful, resistant, and engage in powerful civil disobedience. Looting will not bring any justice.
To the Ferguson Police Department and any other jurisdictions who are deployed to the protests, this is your warning. We are watching you very closely. If you abuse, harass, or harm the protesters in Ferguson, we will take every web-based asset of your departments and federal agencies offline. That is certainly not a hollow threat, but it is a promise. If you attack the protesters, we will attack every server and computer you have. We will d0x and release the personal information on every single member of the Ferguson Police Department, as well as any other jurisdiction that participates in the abuse. We will seize all your databases and e-mail spools and release them to the public. You have been warned.
The time has come for more than simple justice for these atrocities. The time has come to draw a line in the sand and say, no more police killings, no more beatings, and no more dead kids. Anonymous is drawing a line in the sand, and that line runs right down the middle of Main Street Ferguson, Missouri. Police impunity ends with the barbaric death of Mike Brown.
We Are Anonymous.
We Are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Ferguson, expect us.
4 HRS AGO / MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING
The Pentagon Gave the Ferguson Police Department Military-Grade Weapons
SHIRLEY LI
Police in riot gear walk toward a man in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 11, 2014. (AP/JEFF ROBERSON)
The local community of Ferguson, Missouri, may not look like a war zone, but the Pentagon has helped the police treat it like one.
According to Michelle McCaskill, media relations chief at the Defense Logistics Agency, the Ferguson Police Department is part of a federal program called 1033, in which the Department of Defense distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment to civilian police forces across the U.S.
That surplus military equipment doesn't just mean small items like pistols or automatic rifles; towns like Ferguson could become owners of heavy armored vehicles, including the MRAPs used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"In 2013 alone, $449,309,003.71 worth of property was transferred to law enforcement," the agency's website states.
All in all, it's meant armored vehicles rolling down streets in Ferguson and police officers armed with short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles that can accurately hit a target out to 500 meters hovering near the citizens they're meant to protect.
Unnecessary? Absolutely, says Washington Post reporter and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop Radley Balko, who told NBC's Chris Hayes the following:
The militarization itself is part of a larger trend... That is a willingness or a policy among domestic police in the United States of using more force more often for increasingly, you know, petty offenses.
It is a mentality that sees the people they are supposed to be serving not as citizens with rights but as potential threats. If you look at the racial makeup of Ferguson, Missouri, it is about 67 percent black. 52 of the 55 police officers at the Ferguson police department are white.
The police militarization is unsettling to many in Ferguson, a town that, since the events of Saturday that saw a police officer shoot and kill 18-year-old Michael Brown, has seen massive protests and increased police presence in response, as well as an FAA ban on low-flying aircraft—treatment that undoubtedly transforms a Midwest town of 21,000 into a what looks just like a war zone.
seemslikeadream » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:22 pm wrote:4 HRS AGO / MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING
The Pentagon Gave the Ferguson Police Department Military-Grade Weapons
SHIRLEY LI
Police in riot gear walk toward a man in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 11, 2014. (AP/JEFF ROBERSON)
The local community of Ferguson, Missouri, may not look like a war zone, but the Pentagon has helped the police treat it like one.
According to Michelle McCaskill, media relations chief at the Defense Logistics Agency, the Ferguson Police Department is part of a federal program called 1033, in which the Department of Defense distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment to civilian police forces across the U.S.
That surplus military equipment doesn't just mean small items like pistols or automatic rifles; towns like Ferguson could become owners of heavy armored vehicles, including the MRAPs used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"In 2013 alone, $449,309,003.71 worth of property was transferred to law enforcement," the agency's website states.
All in all, it's meant armored vehicles rolling down streets in Ferguson and police officers armed with short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles that can accurately hit a target out to 500 meters hovering near the citizens they're meant to protect.
Unnecessary? Absolutely, says Washington Post reporter and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop Radley Balko, who told NBC's Chris Hayes the following:
The militarization itself is part of a larger trend... That is a willingness or a policy among domestic police in the United States of using more force more often for increasingly, you know, petty offenses.
It is a mentality that sees the people they are supposed to be serving not as citizens with rights but as potential threats. If you look at the racial makeup of Ferguson, Missouri, it is about 67 percent black. 52 of the 55 police officers at the Ferguson police department are white.
The police militarization is unsettling to many in Ferguson, a town that, since the events of Saturday that saw a police officer shoot and kill 18-year-old Michael Brown, has seen massive protests and increased police presence in response, as well as an FAA ban on low-flying aircraft—treatment that undoubtedly transforms a Midwest town of 21,000 into a what looks just like a war zone.
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