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Racist Trump Tries To Link Baltimore And Ferguson Uprisings To Illegal Immigrant Gangs
Donald Trump continued his war on illegal immigrants, by blaming them for recent civil unrest in Baltimore and Ferguson.
Tagged Ferguson
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Heavily-Armed White Oath Keepers Roam Ferguson Streets As Police Order Protesters To Disperse
On the anniversary of Michael Brown’s murder, a group of heavily armed white militiamen paraded around playing army, and looking for trouble
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If Detroit Blows, Will Water Shutoffs Feed The Fire?
Ever since the civil unrest occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the murder of Michael Brown by a police officer who got away with it, there have been anxious questioners wondering where else this type of unrest might catch fire.
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White Religious Conservatives Feel Persecuted But They’re Not the Ones Found Hanging from Trees
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them
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The Tide Is Turning: Time Magazine Puts ‘Black Lives Matter’ On Its Cover
But this time, things were different. Here’s what happens when things start to change. Time magazine, one of the most mainstream publications there is, puts “Black Lives Matter” on its cover.
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Black Votes Matter: Ferguson Adds Two African-Americans To City Council
With higher than normal turnout, Ferguson, Missouri added two African-American representatives to the city council on Tuesday night.
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Jon Stewart Drops The Mic After Hammering Fox News Over Its Hypocrisy On Ferguson
During Thursday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart actually dropped a microphone after unleashing a rant towards Fox News for hypocritically demanding protesters and media apologize for ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ while simultaneously ignoring House Republicans report on Benghazi.
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President Obama Acknowledges Ferguson’s Racist Police Practices Not An “Isolated Incident”
In a Friday morning interview, President Obama made it clear that Ferguson, Missouri’s racist police practices are not unique.
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A Petition Has Been Launched To Prosecute and Expel John Boehner From Congress
This week a MoveOn.org petition began circulating for the purpose of prosecuting Speaker of the House John A. Boehner for willfully breaking a federal law when he knowingly violated the 216 year-old Logan Act.
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Protesters March On Ferguson Police Department To Demand Change In Light Of DOJ Report
Hours after the Department of Justice released a report Wednesday highlighting systemic racial discrimination committed by the Ferguson Police Department, protesters gathered in front of the police station in Ferguson to call for change and the dismantling of the current department.
NYPD Police Leader “We Are Now A Wartime Police Department and Will Act Accordingly”
Mayor de Blasio with the notion in the NYPD that they are engaged in a war against their superiors or law-abiding citizens
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#BlackLivesMatter And #NYPDLivesMatter Are Not Mutually Exclusive
As human beings we all have value, and Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos did not deserve to die. At a fundamental level, #BlackLivesMatter and #NYPDLivesMatter mean the same thing.
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Black Cops Feel Threatened By And Fear Other (White) Officers
Black New York City police officers admitted they are regularly racially profiled by white officers and worse
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CNN’s Use Of #AskACop On Twitter For Police News Special Totally Backfires On Network
Prior to the airing of the special, CNN decided to crowdsource questions from Twitter using the hashtag #AskACop. As one might expect, CNN did not get the type of responses that they hoped for.
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Fox News Blames Obama for Apartheid, Racist Cops, and GOP Jobs Obstruction
The latest “blame Obama” crusade is reaction to the President’s request for funding to train and outfit racist cops with body cameras.
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Racists Demand Punishment For African Americans Exercising First Amendment Rights
For decent Americans it is beyond comprehension that it is acceptable for white supremacists, whether they are St. Louis-area cops or owners of a sports bar, to demand that African Americans suffer punishment for exercising their constitutional rights.
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Jon Stewart Brilliantly Takes Down Fox News Over Its Disgusting Coverage Of Ferguson
Monday’s episode of The Daily Show was its first since the announcement of Darren Wilson’s non-indictment. Instead of focusing on the decision itself, Stewart spent the majority of the first segment skewering Fox News over its coverage of Ferguson.
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Morning Joe Explains Ferguson To Black People and Calls Michael Brown A Thug
At the beginning of Monday morning’s episode of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said that he was sick and tired of the Ferguson protests because they are based on “lies” and that it is sad that Michael Brown has become the face of black oppression because he was a “thug.”
Black Friday Fox Follies
Check out Black Friday’s edition of Friday Fox Follies, In this article, see how Fox News ignored the truth about Benghazi and blamed Ferguson riots on Obama.
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Hundreds Of Ferguson Protesters Shut Down St. Louis Shopping Malls On Black Friday
In a powerful display of true civil disobedience, hundreds of protesters stormed a St. Louis area shopping mall Friday afternoon, leading to the mall’s temporary closure on the busiest shopping day of the year.
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Michael Brown’s Empty Chair At Thanksgiving
Three days before the holiday where we here in America are expected to feast, rejoice, and give thanks, the parents of a dead child were given the news that the man who killed their son will face no punishment for his actions.
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Coast To Coast: Thousands Of People Across The Nation Protest In Solidarity With Ferguson
Thousands of protesters in 170 American cities participated in rallies and marches Tuesday night to not only show their solidarity with Ferguson protesters, but to also display their outrage at the racial injustice apparent in the nation’s broken legal system.
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Bryan Fischer Literally Demonizes Michael Brown, Saying He was Demonically Possessed
Fischer said, “the chances were very good…there was a demonic presence…inside Michael Brown” I don’t think so. I think we all know what the problem is
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Hypocritical Conservatives Who See Revolt In Ferguson Easily Forget Their Own Actions
As cities across the nation either burn or shut down because of protests, conservatives jump in and express their opinion about the revolt in Ferguson and across the nation. Sites like The Blaze allow hate on their comments section by gun-totting thugs to express their feelings and divide themselves from understanding the pain and suffering…
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Republicans Go Into Racist Overdrive By Blaming Obama For Ferguson
Representative Peter King (R-NY) told Fox Business on Tuesday that the way to fix this Ferguson deal is for President Obama to invite Darren Wilson over to sort of make up for months of “smear and slander”.
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Ferguson In Flames After St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch Lights The Match
It needs to be said — McCulloch is largely responsible for the current situation in Ferguson. The way the man has handled this whole situation is most likely the leading cause of the tense state of affairs in the St. Louis area.
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Grand Jury Decides Not To Indict Michael Brown’s Killer Darren Wilson
A St. Louis County grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Michael Brown.
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Police Arrest Reporter Covering Ferguson Protest For Walking On Sidewalk
While covering a protest in front of the Ferguson police station Saturday night, reporter Trey Yingst was arrested for failure to disperse. Witnesses say Yingst was on the sidewalk at the time.
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The Traditionalist American Knights Of The KKK Want to Kill The Group Anonymous
The TAK KKK (Traditionalist American Knights) wants to kill hacktivist group Anonymous. Why? Because of good old journalism
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Friday Fox Follies – Impeaches and Cream
It’s only taken 6 years of blindly throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but Fox “News” has finally invented Articles of Impeachment against President Obama — or, at the very least, figured out a way to throw the word around recklessly.
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Resignation Of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson Will Not Magically Fix Broken System
Late Tuesday evening, CNN reported that Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson is expected to step down from his position as part of a larger effort to reform the city’s embattled police department. Jackson may announce his resignation as early as next week.
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Prominent Tea Partier Says Michael Brown’s Parents Received ‘Taxpayer-Funded Abortion’
Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party Todd Kincannon sent out a tweet Wednesday evening saying Michael Brown’s parents shouldn’t be upset because they are pro-choice Democrats and “they got a taxpayer-funded abortion.”
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Ferguson October: Young Protesters Reject Message Delivered By Older Religious Leaders
As the gathering wore on, younger activists, who have been on the ground in Ferguson since an unarmed Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson over two months ago, started growing restless.
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Protests Erupt In St. Louis After White Police Officer Shoots And Kills Black Teenager
A large number of demonstrators descended on south St. Louis Wednesday evening after word spread that a black teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer.
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Change Is Coming: Ferguson Sees Huge Surge In Voter Registration Since Michael Brown’s Death
USA Today reported on Thursday that the town of Ferguson has seen a huge surge in voter registration since the August 9th death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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Ferguson Residents Express Their Anger And Disgust During Volatile City Council Meeting
A month after an unarmed black teenager was viciously shot and killed by a white police officer, the city of Ferguson held its first city council meeting since the incident. On Tuesday night, at a local church, over 600 people attended the meeting to voice their frustration and anger.
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Why Police Treated Cliven Bundy Differently Than Michael Brown Is As Clear As Black and White
Contrast law enforcement’s overwhelmingly violent military response to peaceful, and unarmed, African Americans protesting the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed African American teenager at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer and one can hardly claim law enforcement does not apply a different standard to armed whites as opposed to unarmed African Americans.
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More Witnesses Come Forward And Validate Other Witness Accounts In Michael Brown Shooting
On Saturday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch released a story regarding two workers who were at the scene when 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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Conservative Says Obama Is a Racist Then Calls Him a “Spade”
Conservatives, and primarily Republicans, have noticed their racist tendencies are attracting a bit too much attention and for the second time in a month are attempting to distract Americans with accusations that President Obama is a racist who hates and is waging a war on white people.
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Fox: Saying Michael Brown was Unarmed Is Misleading Because He Was An Adult Male
While Michael Brown’s family and friends gathered for his funeral on Monday, Fox continued down the Reich wing brick road of blaming Michael Brown for his own death.
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Michael Brown Laid To Rest As Fox News Edits Eric Holder Video To Inflame Racial Tensions
On the same day that Michael Brown was laid to rest, Fox News edited video of Attorney General Eric Holder in an attempt to exploit and inflame racial tensions.
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The Republican Embrace of ISIL-Type Violence
Andrea Tantaros at Fox News says Islam can only be “solved” with a bullet to the head. You know, like ISIL is “solving” other religions.
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Bernie Sanders Has a Brilliant Idea: Instead of Giving Police Tanks, Let’s Create Jobs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a brilliant idea. Instead of militarizing local police departments with tanks and heavy equipment, the country should take the billions of dollars and use it to create jobs.
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Fox News Goes Full Racist With Claim That Michael Brown Was High On Drugs When Killed
Fox News smeared a dead unarmed African-American teen today by claiming that Michael Brown may have been high on drugs when he was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer.
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Ferguson Is Taking Us Back To The Future
Far too many of the images that we have all seen countless times by now of the atrocity that took place – and continues to take place – in Ferguson, Missouri, are images not at all unfamiliar to African American communities. Black mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and neighbors enraged and in mourning due to Senseless Killing of Black Man Number However-High-You-Can-Count.
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Ferguson Police Ignored The Justice Department’s Warning Not To Release Michael Brown Video
The Department of Justice warned Ferguson Police not to release the video of an alleged robbery yesterday in their attempts to avoid taking responsibility for their previous inaction after one of their officers shot and killed Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old teenager, but they did it anyway.
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GOP Rep. Steve King Tells African-Americans In Ferguson To Straighten Up and Fly Right
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave an interview where he told African-Americans in Ferguson that race wasn’t an issue and that they needed to “settle down” and “straighten up and fly right.”
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Rand Paul Stole The Idea To Demilitarize The Police From Democrats
Noted plagiarist Sen. Rand Paul wrote in an editorial today about the need to demilitarize the police. However, this wasn’t Paul’s own idea. Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson first wrote about his legislation in March.
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President Obama Calls For Peace In Ferguson While Speaking Out Against Police Tactics
The president made it clear that what the police in Ferguson have been doing is wrong. Obama said, “There’s also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights.”
President Obama Calls The Police Shooting Of Michael Brown Heartbreaking
President Obama released a statement about the killing of Michael Brown today. The president called the unarmed teen’s death heartbreaking. He also urged reflection and understanding.
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Anger And Grief Boil Over In Ferguson In Wake Of Unarmed Young Man’s Senseless Killing
What began as a peaceful candlelight vigil to remember a teenager who was viciously shot down Saturday by a police officer turned into a night of rioting and looting.