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tcr!
· Mar 4, 2015 at 9:33 pm
WASHINGTON — Ferguson, Mo., is a third white, but the crime statistics compiled in the city over the past two years seemed to suggest that only black people were breaking the law. They accounted for 85 percent of traffic stops, 90 percent of tickets and 93 percent of arrests. In cases like jaywalking, which often hinge on police discretion, blacks accounted for 95 percent of all arrests.
The racial disparity in those statistics was so stark that the Justice Department has concluded in a report scheduled for release on Wednesday that there was only one explanation: The Ferguson Police Department was routinely violating the constitutional rights of its black residents.
The report, based on a six-month investigation, provides a glimpse into the roots of the racial tensions that boiled over in Ferguson last summer after a black teenager, Michael Brown, was fatally shot by a white police officer, making it a worldwide flash point in the debate over race and policing in America. It describes a city where the police used force almost exclusively on blacks and regularly stopped people without probable cause. Racial bias is so ingrained, the report said, that Ferguson officials circulated racist jokes on their government email accounts.
#meanwhile #ferguson
tcr!
· Mar 4, 2015 at 5:25 pm
The Butler County Sheriff’s Office posted an alert on Facebook Tuesday about Andrew Dale Marcum, 21, who was wanted on a range of charges, including burglary (safe-cracking), abduction, assault and domestic violence.
Residents commented on the post. So did Marcum, apparently.
#meanwhile #criminals
tcr!
· Mar 2, 2015 at 1:24 pm
Peeps, here’s your video for today…
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING is my new favorite band. Today.
How could you not love the staccato hustling of clean guitars? The feel good upbeat of those horns? The broadcast vocals overlay? The synchronized space suite dancing?
I would totally trade-in my day job to be a bopping choreographed cosmonaut. Just saying.
#musicvideos
tcr!
· Mar 1, 2015 at 7:44 pm
It is Larry David’s world, and we are just living in it.
Seriously, with Seinfeld considered the best TV comedy series of all time and Curb Your Enthusiasm fans still hoping for a ninth season (though it ended in 2011), David has shaped our approach and response to scripted comedy – at least in terms of television and movies (like his lost film Sour Grapes). However, his next venture is a far cry from his turn as creator, head writer and star of those two legendary sitcoms.
On 5 March, David will make his Broadway debut in his play Fish in the Dark. It has already broken records in primary and secondary ticket markets, with advance sales having hit $14.5m; the average ticket price is a stratospheric $299.23. The show is so popular that Seinfeld star Jason Alexander is worried about not getting tickets (which actually wouldn’t be terrible since, as Alexander pointed out, worlds can’t collide) – surely thanks in part to Fish in the Dark co-stars such as Rosie Perez singing David’s praises on the Today show.
$14.5 million in advanced sales already. Wow.
#broadway #larrydavid
jimi hindrance experience
tism
Je ne suis pas, as opposed to the jimihindranceexperience’s “Oui Je Suis”
Ferguson cops “routinely” block public from filming them, DOJ says:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/ferguson-cops-routinely-block-public-from-filming-them-doj-says/
Darren Wilson was innocent. If only the city’s cops offered their own citizens the same due process he received.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/The-Gangsters-Of-Ferguson/386893/
i read the first half. i’m like, people think this is news?! when i moved to muncie, In was when i realized there were people from the better walks of life, IE: dr’s, policemen, middle class what-have-you, who were virulently racist.
i hate white trash. all of the white people the story talks about are my definition of white trash. they are scary to be around. i’m never around them too long without them sounding me out to see if i’m with ‘em or against ‘em.
it’s scary out here. i’m gonna post more later.
I read a book called “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom.
Corrie’s family hid Anne Frank’s family.
the most important thing i got out of that book was that the nazi’s hated the jews because they saw them everyday. in other words, there was a constant reminder of their guilt and inhumanity any time they looked around. people who bleat racist rhetoric or actually participate in genocide are sooner or later gonna come face to face with the cold hard facts that “we’re all in this together”. ELO loves the star trek shows because she believes it shows a time when man has grown beyond prejudices.
I’m very fortunate that I haven’t lived around racists for decades. I sometimes take the ease of my life for granted. And I’d also like to see a bit more of the Star Trek utopia here in ‘merica.
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