Eric Garner died because he was black. Michael Brown really didn’t. Why aren’t our black “leaders” talking about this? Why don’t you know about this? Because our black leaders know that everybody, white and black, would stand together for Eric Garner and they would have no controversy, no racial tension, no media coverage…….There is no money or power in it…..sad.

Don’t cry for Michael Brown, cry for Eric Garner, and cry for a society where we defend a man who did a lot wrong. Michael Brown did not deserve to die, but his actions, more than his skin color, contributed to his demise. Eric Garner did nothing to provoke the police and was actually breaking up a fight.

Michael Brown unquestionably was NOT brutally murdered. If he had been, there would be no debate or controversy. The officer probably would have been indicted. But, if all that happened, they would not have protests, riots, looting, etc. to use an excuse to give the police more guns and more power.

Shame on us for not holding our black “leaders” accountable. But they live on the same plantation of power as the ones we should be fighting against. Shame on us for not protecting Eric Garner!

The three cases were cited because they were black women and girls — cases and faces that are generally not associated with police murder/terrorism due to the racist/sexist marginalization of black women’s lives.

I’ve started calling it FerGaza.

The cops have no shame either, they’re a gang of thugs proud to be what they are, and they do anything and everything to fight any sort of accountability. And yeah, as said above, they tend to perform their actions with the typical /smirk/smirk/ that lets you know why they really wanted a badge and a gun.

The cops shooting Brown was bad, perhaps even more callous than most police murders, and putting the town under martial law with a media blackout and no-fly zone is an additional evil. Having never lived in a war zone nor a society that constantly, violently oppresses people who look like me, I don’t really know what it’s like to live with that constant threat. I just know it’s intolerable that any people – and especially particular groups of people on the basis of appearance or heritage – have to worry about the state executing them in their own homes, simply for existing. And here I am talking all about my perspective, so I’m going to shut up and listen as soon as I say one more thing: end the police occupation of Ferguson, MO.

http://ktla.com/2014/08/12/man-hospitalized-after-being-shot-by-police-in-south-l-a/

Civilians in Europe aren’t usually armed although cops are. Harrassment at the hands of cops is a daily experience for a number of minority groups. The ones who know my ethnicity usually assume I’m a sex worker and an addict. As a result I get searched about once a week, both in Switzerland where we live and on the other side of the German border where my in-laws live. Often by the same cops who already know me and should know that I have nothing to do with drugs. I guess they just keep hoping they’ll find something in my bag eventually. Same shit we had to put up with in the U.S. Oh and did I mention, my nephew just got sent to juvie in France for something white kids regularly get a few hours of community service for? I’m sick and tired of this.

Do they at least have fewer guns there? And importantly in this case, in which European countries do the cops have firearms on them at all times? I know nothing of this and I’m curious.