#ferguson cops

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Police overhaul: Feds and Ferguson city officials agree to consent decree terms

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Police overhaul: Feds and Ferguson city officials agree to consent decree terms

Under the terms of a proposed agreement between the federal government and the city of Ferguson, police there would be required to take bias-awareness training, implement a "robust" accountability system and ensure that police officers' search and arrest practices do not discriminate on the basis of race or other constitutionally protected characteristics. The recommendations, detailed in a 131-page proposed consent decree, are meant to correct problems identified in a scathing Justice Department report last year that identified unconstitutional and discriminatory practices across the city police force and municipal court system.

[The proposal] simply encapsulates the elements that any small- to medium-size police department can and should put in place to ensure that its officers conduct themselves in a manner that is constitutional and effective.

Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division

The decree's objective is to resolve a federal probe following the 2014 fatal shooting of 18-year-old, unarmed Michael Brown by white Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. The recommended overhaul follows seven months of negotiations and probably averts a civil rights lawsuit that federal officials could bring against departments that resist changing their policing practices. City officials posted the tentative deal on its website and scheduled three public sessions for input from residents. A City Council vote is scheduled for Feb. 9.

[farstriker]

Mike Brown

You put up a memorial for Mike Brown like he was Gandhi.

The day Mike Brown died, he wasn’t on some non-violent march for social justice. He stole from a store and assaulted a clerk from said store. Then he resisted a police officer, even going so far as to try and seize that police officer’s weapon.

These are the facts. He was not shot surrendering. He was shot while moving towards the police officer.

Fuck your fantasies.

[farstriker]

Mike Brown

I’m all for keeping the cops accountable and punishing them when they do wrong. When cops do wrong, they should at least lose their job, if not their freedom.

Mike Brown was a thug, though.

Darren Wilson had no real record of malfeasance in all of his years a police officer. He cannot be judged on the record of abuses that were perpetrated by the city and police force of Ferguson writ large. He shouldn’t be punished because we, the mob, want him punished. He should be punished based on the facts of the incident.

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'Real setback': Ferguson stays calm, but impact of attack on cops settles in

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'Real setback': Ferguson stays calm, but impact of attack on cops settles in

Dozens of people gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday night, where they expressed sympathy for two wounded police officers and prayed for peace as Ferguson moves beyond a wave of resignations after a critical Justice Department report found racial bias in its law-enforcement practices. A larger crowd of protesters gathered outside the city's police station later, but the scene remained calm — a stark contrast from the night before, when fights broke out before the shootings. As demonstrators continue to demand changes, including a resignation by the city's mayor and the dismantling of its police department, the attack on the two police officers "threatened to reopen the well of anger, unrest and racial tension that has stifled life" in Ferguson, noted the New York Times.

To actually have the police injured by gunshots — that is not even a small setback, it is a real setback. It takes away the forward momentum the protesters did have.

Courtney Curtis, a Democratic state representative, whose district includes Ferguson

Both wounded officers were released from the hospital Thursday, but St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar — who called the attack an ambush — said they could have been killed. Police continued to search the area for leads on who pulled the trigger. Meantime, grisly photos, including one officer's blood-splattered riot helmet, were posted to the police department's Facebook page and sparked emotional responses on social media.

These are real human beings that bleed when you prick them.

Jeff Roorda, a St. Louis police union official

[danielmolloy69]

For anyone interested, Ferguson matters, participate.

[crozdogs]

The thing that gets me is that Darren Wilson isn't some 50 year old red neck cop. He's a young guy. He's in his 20's and it just shows how rampant racism is in our society today if it's still being taught to people that are barely older than me.

[canadian-girlfriend]

even if michael brown had held up the whole convenience store and deliberately assaulted a cop (and he didn't do anything near either of those things) even then lethal force would've had no place in the solution of that problem i mean come o

[jigokuprincess]

i am completely sickened with ferguson cops. one killed an innocent minor, he is set free, although he committed murder. i hope he knows what he did and regrets it for the rest of his life and never forgets. a white man waved around a gun, children hid, and yet he is fully alive and healthy in custody. yeah. not about race at all. i am completely sickened with the american system right now, this shit must stop. please reblog to show other people and know that we care.