UnNews:Ferguson riots enter second week
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18 August 2014
FERGUSON, Missouri -- This city of 30,000 began its second week of the urban riots that began after a white police officer shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who had dreams and had nearly begun turning his life around. Rioters, chanting "No justice, no peace," opted for justice, by breaking into Walmart and taking flat-screen televisions and barbecue grills.
More than five years after the nation elected its first "black" President, one can still find, in a nation of 310,000,000 people, a white person who takes one look at brown skin and wants to kill the wearer — or, mere years after the Treyvon Martin incident, perhaps two of them. Sometimes, such a racist acts out even without waiting for his victim to finish scooping cigars into his jacket, walk out of the store, and shove aside the cashier, before scuffling with a policeman on his way home to put more photos on Facebook flipping the bird to authority figures.
Cops declare war on First Amendment
Scrutiny of the police shifted into high gear last Wednesday when those performing the scrutiny — a reporter each from the Washington Post and Huffington Post — were arrested in the McDonald's where they were "working and recharging." One insisted to the SWAT team that he had purchased a small coffee barely six hours earlier — and the chain does advertise free refills. But before he could get that out, the police completed their attack on American journalism. To add insult to injury, the two were released without charges being filed, denying them the right to succeed the late Mr. Brown as a national martyr.
Scrutiny in the current unrest has focused on the police, as Mr. Brown's companion, Dorian Johnson — whose business card states his occupation as "Accomplice" — gave a description at odds with the official version, in which police accosted Mr. Brown on the most superficial grounds (weighing 290 pounds and having pockets overflowing with stolen loot). The officer's broken eye socket would be a result of deceptive technique with his service weapon, so that, when he was "shooting Mr. Brown in the back," the bullet would enter through the front.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton took time out from rectifying the somewhat more lethal situation in Chicago to visit Ferguson. Rev. Jackson stated that the "ambiguous" encounter with police could have been avoided by having the police retreat and perhaps wait in the precinct station until the robber arrives home. Rev. Jackson suggested that love is the answer, stating, "Fuck the Police."
On finding that additional outside instigators from as far away as Oakland, California were involved, Attorney General Eric Holder swiftly booked airfare from Washington, D.C.
President Obama, who has called for slavery reparations to be paid until blacks stop feeling that everyone is out to get them, issued a public statement carefully taking neither the side of the police nor of "the community." He avoided talking about the legacy of slavery or stating that the victim looked like the son he will never have. But the FBI began a civil rights investigation of the police and posted baby pictures of Mr. Brown at #HelpObamaUniteAmerica. Missouri Governor Richard Nixon temporarily relieved the Ferguson police of the job of policing Ferguson, replaced by unarmed school crossing guards from St. Louis, the white ones wearing blackface to further pacify the situation.
Sources[edit]
- Staff "Guide to developments in Missouri police shooting". Associated Press, August 17, 2014
- Paul Jacob "Finding Ferguson". TownHall.com, August 17, 2014
- Mug Shots #113494 and #113495 "Washington Post, Huffington Post reporters arrested at Ferguson, Mo. McDonald's". Washington Post, Huffington Post, August 13, 2014