In the US, no matter what the justice department says, any black vs white incident is interpreted along racial lines. Why would such incidents in SG be different?
It is naive of the PAP to think that allowing ah nehs, ah tiongs, pinoys to become PRs will turn SG into a cosmopolitan city. These racial groups will form enclaves (like Little India and Chinatown), and any incident among these racial groups or between the racial groups and the police will be interpreted as racial attacks.
By allowing these FTs into SG by the thousands, the PAP is sowing the seeds of violence in SG. To preserve peace and harmony in SG, there is only one solution: vote out the PAP.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...protests-after-officer-avoids-indictment.html
[h=1]Ferguson Explodes in Protest As Officer Avoids Indictment[/h]<cite class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); display: block; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3em; width: 350px; background: transparent;">By Elizabeth Campbell, Toluse Olorunnipa and Andrew Harris - Nov 25, 2014</cite>
Chaos erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Businesses were looted, cars burned on the street and buildings went up in flames. Crowds that had gathered near the Ferguson Police Department scattered as authorities shot canisters of gas. Windows were smashed after prosecutors said shortly after 8 p.m. local time that they wouldn’t charge Officer Darren Wilson in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The spasm of fury reignited a wrenching episode of racial violence that since August has prompted a re-examination of law enforcement’s relationship with minorities across the U.S. The debate today stretched from smoke-choked South Florissant Road in Ferguson to the White House, where President Barack Obama pleaded for calm.
Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, went among the protesters after the decision was announced, crying as she repeated, “Y’all wrong, y’all wrong!”
A series of pops scattered protesters about 9 p.m. local time. A line of about 50 police in riot gear moved behind cruisers in the department’s parking lot to take cover.
Armored vehicles blocked the street as the crowd surged back, rallying around a marcher waving an American flag. Some protesters showed police their hands raised in a mocking posture of surrender, while others showed their middle fingers.
[h=2]Choking Clouds[/h]Gas and smoke rose in clouds around a “Seasons Greetings” sign hanging over the street. Protesters choked and sprinted from the noxious fumes.
Obama said the nation must heed the decision of the St. Louis County grand jury and urged protesters to express their anger in non-violent ways and law enforcement officers to exercise care and restraint.
“This is not just an issue for Ferguson,” Obama said at the White House minutes after the grand jury’s decision was announced. “This is an issue for America.”
Elsewhere in the U.S., protests were mainly peaceful. In New York, at least 1,000 people marched north from Union Square, many holding signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Jail Killer Cops.”
“I’m actually too sad to shout along with the other protesters,” said Alexis Perrotta, 40, of Manhattan. “I think that racism is alive and well.”
In Washington, a crowd congregated at the White House.
“Michael Brown, Emmett Till, how many black dudes will you kill?” they chanted, a reference to the 1955 lynching of a 14-year-old inMississippi.
[h=2]‘Shut It’[/h]In Los Angeles, activists urged a boycott to Thanksgiving sales:
“What are we going to do to Wal-Mart?”
“Shut it down!”
One of the speakers in Leimert Park tried to rally the crowd by saying, “It’s a vibrational system. You have to feel it.”
The announcement of the jury’s decision followed weeks of work. St. Louis County Chief Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch said the grand jury, composed of nine whites and three blacks, began hearing evidence Aug. 20 after days of protests.
McCulloch said the grand jury members met for 25 days and are the only people who heard every witness and examined every piece of evidence. He said many witness statements were contradicted by physical evidence.
[h=2]First Attack[/h]McCulloch said Brown, suspected in shoplifting cigars from a store looted yesterday, attacked Wilson while the officer was in his patrol car. Brown’s blood was found inside Wilson’s vehicle and on the gun, which was fired twice in the car, McCulloch said.
“As tragic as this is, it was not a crime,” McCulloch said. “It doesn’t lessen this tragedy that it was a justifiable use of force in self defense.”
The Brown shooting touched off days of racially charged demonstrations that included looting in the municipality of about 21,000 people, 70 percent of whom are black. As of September, 50 of the city’s 53 police officers were white.
Ferguson police deployed armored vehicles and aimed assault rifles at protesters. Protests and arrests occurred regularly in the ensuing weeks.
[h=2]Second Guessing[/h]Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown’s family, said in a posting on Twitter, that they are “profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.”
Al Sharpton, the civil-rights activist, said last night at a news conference in New York that he would join Brown’s family in Missouri today, before returning to New York to lead nationwide demonstrations.
“It’s very suspect to say that if you claim Michael Brown was shoplifting cigarillos, that that qualifies him as a felon,” he said. “You are trying to describe a shoplifter as a fleeing felon?”
Wilson’s lawyers said in a statement published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper that the officer was following his training and the law:
“We recognize that many people will want to second-guess the grand jury’s decision. We would encourage anyone who wants to express an opinion do so in a respectful and peaceful manner.”
[h=2]Acting Independently[/h]The federal government is examining the Ferguson police department, its training and operating procedures.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that while the grand jury proceeding has ended, the Justice Department’s investigation continues.
“Though we have shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now,” Holder said in an e-mailed statement. “Although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions.”
It is naive of the PAP to think that allowing ah nehs, ah tiongs, pinoys to become PRs will turn SG into a cosmopolitan city. These racial groups will form enclaves (like Little India and Chinatown), and any incident among these racial groups or between the racial groups and the police will be interpreted as racial attacks.
By allowing these FTs into SG by the thousands, the PAP is sowing the seeds of violence in SG. To preserve peace and harmony in SG, there is only one solution: vote out the PAP.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...protests-after-officer-avoids-indictment.html
[h=1]Ferguson Explodes in Protest As Officer Avoids Indictment[/h]<cite class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); display: block; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3em; width: 350px; background: transparent;">By Elizabeth Campbell, Toluse Olorunnipa and Andrew Harris - Nov 25, 2014</cite>
Chaos erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Businesses were looted, cars burned on the street and buildings went up in flames. Crowds that had gathered near the Ferguson Police Department scattered as authorities shot canisters of gas. Windows were smashed after prosecutors said shortly after 8 p.m. local time that they wouldn’t charge Officer Darren Wilson in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The spasm of fury reignited a wrenching episode of racial violence that since August has prompted a re-examination of law enforcement’s relationship with minorities across the U.S. The debate today stretched from smoke-choked South Florissant Road in Ferguson to the White House, where President Barack Obama pleaded for calm.
Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, went among the protesters after the decision was announced, crying as she repeated, “Y’all wrong, y’all wrong!”
A series of pops scattered protesters about 9 p.m. local time. A line of about 50 police in riot gear moved behind cruisers in the department’s parking lot to take cover.
Armored vehicles blocked the street as the crowd surged back, rallying around a marcher waving an American flag. Some protesters showed police their hands raised in a mocking posture of surrender, while others showed their middle fingers.
[h=2]Choking Clouds[/h]Gas and smoke rose in clouds around a “Seasons Greetings” sign hanging over the street. Protesters choked and sprinted from the noxious fumes.
Obama said the nation must heed the decision of the St. Louis County grand jury and urged protesters to express their anger in non-violent ways and law enforcement officers to exercise care and restraint.
“This is not just an issue for Ferguson,” Obama said at the White House minutes after the grand jury’s decision was announced. “This is an issue for America.”
Elsewhere in the U.S., protests were mainly peaceful. In New York, at least 1,000 people marched north from Union Square, many holding signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Jail Killer Cops.”
“I’m actually too sad to shout along with the other protesters,” said Alexis Perrotta, 40, of Manhattan. “I think that racism is alive and well.”
In Washington, a crowd congregated at the White House.
“Michael Brown, Emmett Till, how many black dudes will you kill?” they chanted, a reference to the 1955 lynching of a 14-year-old inMississippi.
[h=2]‘Shut It’[/h]In Los Angeles, activists urged a boycott to Thanksgiving sales:
“What are we going to do to Wal-Mart?”
“Shut it down!”
One of the speakers in Leimert Park tried to rally the crowd by saying, “It’s a vibrational system. You have to feel it.”
The announcement of the jury’s decision followed weeks of work. St. Louis County Chief Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch said the grand jury, composed of nine whites and three blacks, began hearing evidence Aug. 20 after days of protests.
McCulloch said the grand jury members met for 25 days and are the only people who heard every witness and examined every piece of evidence. He said many witness statements were contradicted by physical evidence.
[h=2]First Attack[/h]McCulloch said Brown, suspected in shoplifting cigars from a store looted yesterday, attacked Wilson while the officer was in his patrol car. Brown’s blood was found inside Wilson’s vehicle and on the gun, which was fired twice in the car, McCulloch said.
“As tragic as this is, it was not a crime,” McCulloch said. “It doesn’t lessen this tragedy that it was a justifiable use of force in self defense.”
The Brown shooting touched off days of racially charged demonstrations that included looting in the municipality of about 21,000 people, 70 percent of whom are black. As of September, 50 of the city’s 53 police officers were white.
Ferguson police deployed armored vehicles and aimed assault rifles at protesters. Protests and arrests occurred regularly in the ensuing weeks.
[h=2]Second Guessing[/h]Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Brown’s family, said in a posting on Twitter, that they are “profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.”
Al Sharpton, the civil-rights activist, said last night at a news conference in New York that he would join Brown’s family in Missouri today, before returning to New York to lead nationwide demonstrations.
“It’s very suspect to say that if you claim Michael Brown was shoplifting cigarillos, that that qualifies him as a felon,” he said. “You are trying to describe a shoplifter as a fleeing felon?”
Wilson’s lawyers said in a statement published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper that the officer was following his training and the law:
“We recognize that many people will want to second-guess the grand jury’s decision. We would encourage anyone who wants to express an opinion do so in a respectful and peaceful manner.”
[h=2]Acting Independently[/h]The federal government is examining the Ferguson police department, its training and operating procedures.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that while the grand jury proceeding has ended, the Justice Department’s investigation continues.
“Though we have shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now,” Holder said in an e-mailed statement. “Although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions.”
