FREDDIE GRAY’S DEATH RULED A HOMICIDE!

FREDDIE GRAY’S DEATH RULED A HOMICIDE!

Parallel to the Baltimore Riot of 1968, Black Baltimore-ans find themselves at the disturbing end of the riot stick. The immediate cause of the “revolt” was the April 4th assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But has race relations improved in the United States?

Once again the city of Baltimore has been placed on lock-down and the National Guard has been called in to restore the peace. But this isn’t a Baltimore problem, this is a problem facing the nation. Police brutality is real and has to be irradiated before it causes this country to become unraveled. Everyone is so quick to rush to judge the effect rather than INVESTIGATING the cause. This story reminds me of the demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East Indian Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. Sounds familiar?

So then the question remains, “Why is it so incomprehensible to understand the reaction of a group of people “protesting” for justice?” Protest is a statement or “ACTION” expressing a disapproval. Plain and simple! When a cat is backed into a corner, you can predict the outcome. The bottom line is it’s hard for people to voluntarily put hands behind their backs only to be assaulted, shot, beaten and murdered in cold blood. So how does a black father convince his son to trust a system that tolerates police brutality? If your hair is on fire, you are going to act like your hair is on fire. The CORE OF THE SITUATION IS RAGE!

Gray, 25, was taken into police custody in Baltimore April 12 and sustained a spinal injury during that time requiring medical attention. He went into a coma several days later and died a week after his apprehension. Police have never said why they took him into custody, noting only that he ran from officers, and they have not publicly explained how Gray received the spinal injury.

Officers Caesar Goodson Jr., (top left) William Porter (top center), Edward Nero (below left) and Garrett Miller (below center), Lt. Brian Rice (top right), and Sgt. Alicia Miller (below right) were arrested and charged in Gray’s death. WE QUESTION THE PROTESTER’S MOTIVES AND FAIL TO INVESTIGATE THE OFFICERS ACTS. CAUSE AND EFFECT!

A SEA OF FACES/ INJUSTICE IS REAL IN AMERICA

 

THESE LIVES MATTER

Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Black women have been instrumental in the fight on injustice against the Black man in America. Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison and now another sister Marilyn Mosby has refused to give her seat up on the bus.

Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges against six police officers implicated in the death of a 25-year-old black Baltimore resident named Freddie Gray. Mosby’s handling of the high-profile case — and the strong statement she made at the press conference to announce it — has set the stage for her to become a political powerhouse, with some on Twitter already predicting she’ll one day be president (we won’t go that far).

I absolutely love my BLACK SISTERS and everything they have done for their race and mankind  as a whole. It has been said, “If God created anything greater than a women, he kept it for himself.”

This is your man Maestro and I’m out.

Awaiting the decision of the Grand Jury in the Shooting death of Michael Brown

In light of the protest and riots following the Rodney King verdict, the United States are on high alert awaiting the decision of the Grand Jury out of MO, Ferguson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

A white police officer will not face charges for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager in a case that set off violent protests and racial unrest throughout the nation, an attorney close to the case said Monday night.

A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson, 28, for firing six shots in an August confrontation that killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the family. The decision had been long awaited and followed rioting that resembled war-zone news footage in this predominantly black suburb of St. Louis.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, called for calm after calling up National Guard troops to stand by in case of unrest. Speaking before the decision was announced, he urged that “regardless of the decision, people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint.”

Crowds gathered around the Ferguson police headquarters in anticipation of the announcement at the courthouse in Clayton, Mo., another St. Louis suburb.

The 12-person grand jury had been considering whether probable cause existed to bring charges against Wilson, 28, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, an 18-year-old black man, after their Aug. 9 confrontation. The shooting inflamed tensions in a largely minority community that is patrolled by an overwhelmingly white police force.

Brown’s lifeless and bleeding body lay for more than four hours in a Ferguson residential street after the shooting, prompting dismay and anger as a crowd gathered. Protests turned into rioting and looting the following night, and police responded with armored vehicles and tear gas, triggering a nationwide debate over police tactics.

The 12-person grand jury, including nine whites and three African Americans, had been meeting in secret for months, hearing evidence and weighing whether Wilson’s should face charges that could have ranged from involuntary manslaughter to murder.

Brown’s family joined thousands of protesters to demand Wilson’s arrest. As anger at official inaction grew following Brown’s death, protesters clashed with police, who began patrolling the streets with military-grade weapons and armored vehicles.

Wilson has been on paid leave and largely invisible since the shooting.

While the grand jury met in secret to hear evidence in the case, two starkly different versions of the events leading to the shooting emerged in media accounts.

Police have said a scuffle broke out after Wilson asked Brown and a friend to move out of the street. Wilson told investigators he shot Brown only after the teenager reached for the officer’s gun. Some witnesses

said Brown had run away from Wilson, then turned and raised his hands in the air in a gesture of surrender before he was shot in the head and chest.

FERGUSON, CURFEW CONTINUES FOR THE SECOND DAY AS RACIAL TENSION CONTINUES TO MOUNT

Ferguson, Mo– curfew continues for the second day. People all over the world eyes are on the Racial tension building in

POLICE SHOT THIS UNARMED TEENAGER 6 TIMES

Ferguson MO. Riot police have taken to the streets of Ferguson to control protesters from taking their plight to the streets. This is crazy, I can’t keep up with the carnage on the streets. We have to take a look at the situation here in America and reconsider our position as leaders in the international community. Lets face it, WHITE police officers are at a point where they feel as though taking the life of a BLACK man is the thing to do. The government and other officials protect them when they act outside the constitution of their authority.

Rather than making violators accountable (rogue police) for their actions, police officer’s who take the lives of innocent people are generally placed on desk duty and in some cases placed on administrative leave…with pay. Of course given the circumstances one can’t help but empathize with the victims and the families who lose loved ones at the hand of  law enforcement officials who have sworn to protect and serve the citizens in their communities.  It is safe to say when individuals are protesting their emotions get involved and due to the fact these unprovoked acts keep recurring. Which has a lot to do with  the demonstrators getting out of hand. The media keeps saying that the individuals who are responsible for violence escalating on the streets in Ferguson.

An autopsy report demonstrates there were 6 shots fired into the body of an armed teenager Michael Brown. A second autopsy is

FACES DRIVEN TO HATE

expected to be performed to investigate the matter closer. In all actuality, the second autopsy was ordered to give public and local officials more time to make up excuses for not taking the murdering cop into custody. If you take a look at the entry point of the gun shots, the murdering cop aimed center mass with the intent to kill and not to control the suspect. Several reports state the teenager was unarmed and the heavy handed cop acted with malice intent. I typically try to report the news and stay neutral, but these escalating events are making it extremely hard to exercise patience. INJUSTICE AND CIVIL UNREST GO HAND-N-HAND! How do you expect civility when law officials blatantly disregard the rule of law.

In retrospect, the colonist here in North America felt the British rule was unjust and that there was no representation. Protesters raised up arms against the British and after bloodshed and thousands of innocent lives being caught in the cross fire–the United States were formed. The Declaration of Independence states that our government derives its just – or lawful – powers from the “consent of the governed.” The underlying principle implied in the Declaration was that “We the People” are the true and rightful government of the United States, and as Abraham Lincoln declared in his Gettysburg Address, “government of the people by the people and for the

EVERY BLACK COMMENTATOR MAKES EXCUSES FOR COPS

people shall not perish from this earth.” Elected and appointed officials are managers selected to work on our behalf in order to accomplish our collective will. We do not, however, elect them to dictate what our will is, or should be.

However, in the event that our government becomes one consisting of rulers rather than representatives, our government determined over 200 years ago what our course of action should be.