About F**king Time! Ferguson, Missouri police receive training on body cameras

Ferguson, Missouri police are being trained to use and wear body cameras, CBS affiliate KMOV reports.

The training comes amid increased attention on police use of force in the wake of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Following that shooting, local police in Ferguson donned riot gear and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who refused to disperse and, at times, broke into nearby businesses.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said body cameras would have made a difference in the investigation of Brown's shooting.

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"A picture's worth a thousand words and video, many more," Bibring said. "And video, from the perspective of the officer, is going to be an invaluable tool in determining why an officer acted the way he or she did - and whether he or she acted appropriately."

Video at the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ferguson-missouri-police-receive-training-on-body-cameras/

Ferguson's use of Force was a disgusting display of power.

Cross Posted for the BOG. Beyond Ferguson: Understanding the big picture

Here is the video...

Beyond Ferguson: Understanding the big picture

When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.

Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.

White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there’s a reaction, a backlash.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html

Ssssh... Trigger Warning

Daddy, stop hurting me! Please stop hurting me.



He says softly, do not tell. Never tell.



She remains silent.



Shame Hurt Fear Guilt Anger



Domestic Violence..or an accident



Ssssh. Don't tell.



Shattered.








White Ribbon Day

Celebrities, sportsmen, politicians, community leaders, businessmen and thousands of men and women across Australia will mark White Ribbon Day, 25 November, the UN’s International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, by joining together and swearing: 'never to commit, excuse or remain silent about violence against women.’

As one of Australia’s well-respected voices of opinion and news you are in a unique position to help raise awareness and create positive change around the issue of violence against women.

http://www.whiteribbon.org.au/update/media-should-sw-r-this-white-ribbon-day





No More Silence. We Speak.



We are Strong.



To all of you~

We Will Not Sit Down and We Will Not Shut Up! This is about us.

Up, Dead Child, Defend Yourself.

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https://www.facebook.com/MissREVOLutionaries/photos/a.367921429939084.89256.367732726624621/766843160046907/?type=1&theater

I’m tired of White people and the Media pretending that there isn’t a war on Black people

Two women kissing over the fence.

For the first time in the history of the disease, we are finally getting ahead of the curve

The Great American Freak-Out

Ever since the BP gulf oil spill we've needed a name for how we tend to respond to immediate crises in this country. I'll nominate "The Great American Freak-Out" for the honor. But if you have a better idea, I'd love to hear it.

The general pattern goes something like this
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The media airwaves are saturated with stories about the crisis.
Conservatives scramble to find a way to cast it all as Obama's fault.
Liberals wring their hands over the President's lack of decisive action.
Pundits pontificate about whether or not this is "Obama's Katrina" and are convinced that this will be the one thing that dooms Obama/Democrats in the next election.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration keeps plugging away at analyzing the problem and working on ways to resolve it. But in the end no one notices what they've actually done because by then everyone's bored with it all and has moved on to the next Great American Freak-Out.

Years ago then-Senator Barack Obama acknowledged this problem. He didn't have a simple solution though.

The bottom line is that our job is harder than the conservatives' job. After all, it's easy to articulate a belligerent foreign policy based solely on unilateral military action, a policy that sounds tough and acts dumb; it's harder to craft a foreign policy that's tough and smart. It's easy to dismantle government safety nets; it's harder to transform those safety nets so that they work for people and can be paid for. It's easy to embrace a theological absolutism; it's harder to find the right balance between the legitimate role of faith in our lives and the demands of our civic religion. But that's our job. And I firmly believe that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, or oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. A polarized electorate that is turned off of politics, and easily dismisses both parties because of the nasty, dishonest tone of the debate, works perfectly well for those who seek to chip away at the very idea of government because, in the end, a cynical electorate is a selfish electorate.



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/09/30/153069/-Tone-Truth-and-the-Democratic-Party

There are plenty of people who count on you getting cynical and count on you not getting involved so that you don’t vote, so you give up. And you can’t give into that. America is making progress, despite what the cynics say...

Cynicism is popular these days. It’s what passes off as wisdom. But cynics didn’t put a man on the moon. Cynics never won a war. Cynics didn’t cure a disease, or start a business, or feed a young mind. Cynicism didn’t bring about the right for women to vote, or the right for African Americans to be full citizens. Cynicism is a choice.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/10/remarks-president-economy-austin-tx

Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage

Watch This!!!!!!!!! Awesome~