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Title: African Liberation Group Plans To Convene 'Black People's Grand Jury' Against Darren Wilson
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St. Louis Public Radio
URL Source: http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post ... and-jury-against-darren-wilson
Published: Dec 12, 2014
Author: Camille Phillips
Post Date: 2014-12-16 20:48:36 by X-15
Keywords: communist, apes
Views: 129
Comments: 7
Activists connected to the Leadership Coalition for Justice (formerly called the Justice for Mike Brown Leadership Coalition) and the African People’s Socialist Party announced Friday that they are convening a symbolic grand jury in January to decide for themselves whether former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson should be charged with a crime for killing Michael Brown. The group organizing the symbolic grand jury is called the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, a group that seeks to liberate and empower people of African descent around the world. “In the face of the inability of the justice system to work for our people and our community, in the face of the grand jury’s inability to see what the whole world has been able to see about the murder of Mike Brown on August 9th … clearly it is time for African people to begin to take matters in our own hands,” said African People’s Socialist Party leader Omali Yeshitela. “In that regard I’m here to announce that on January 3rd and 4th black people will have our own grand jury.” According to Yeshitela, the grand jury will be selected based on their reputations as upstanding members of the community and will make their decision following existing laws after being presented with the same evidence and testimony given to the official grand jury. But, said Yeshitela, the “Black People’s Grand Jury” will be open to the public and will look at the death of Brown in context of “the history of black people in this county, in this country, and see whether or not it is likely that Darren Wilson or any instrument of state power in this country would murder an 18-year-old unarmed teenager.” When asked about the goal of this grand jury, given that it will have no power to arrest or discipline Wilson, Yeshitela said that highlighting that lack of power was the whole point. “The only thing that makes a difference in what the grand jury did in St. Louis County—the legal colonial grand jury—and what we will do here on January 3rd and 4th is that if in fact we indict Darren Wilson we don’t have guns. The government has guns and it has state power and authority over our people. What it does is educate and inform our people that two bodies came together, examined the same set of evidence and were able to come to different conclusions. Therefore the only thing standing between us being able to carry out the will of the people is to change this relationship that exists between us and the armed state apparatus that controls us,” Yeshitela said. Yeshitela was joined Friday by Kennethia Miller and two other St. Louis women affiliated with Yeshitela’s Uhuru Movement, which seeks (among other things) to put black people in charge of the hiring of police in communities where mostly black people live. “We think it’s extremely urgent that we hold the black people’s grand jury and build a campaign for black community control of the police,” Miller said. “As a mother, I’m outraged and deeply concerned about the ongoing law enforcement-based violence that’s taken the lives of our children.” When asked whether the Uhuru Movement planned to use the electoral process to achieve that control over police, Yeshitela said, “we’ll add that to our suggestion box.” Zaki Baruti of the St. Louis-based Universal African Peoples Organization also joined the news conference to show support for Yeshitela and the symbolic grand jury. “I’m in total agreement with (Yeshitela’s) statements,” Baruti said. “This situation with Mike Brown is reflective of a whole culture that targets black men and women across this country, as well as the legal cover-ups that comes as an extension of the murders of black men and women.” Baruti also said that more needed to be done to put civilian police review boards in place and to make police forces representative of the communities they police. When asked about the measures underway in Ferguson and St. Louis to implement review boards and increase police force diversity, Baruti said those efforts were insufficient. Poster Comment: What's that badge on the front of that idiot's hat?? Who's behind the scenes paying their fare on the "civil rights" train??? :)
Universal African People's Organization leader Zaki Baruti (left) and African People's Socialist Party leader Omali Yeshitela.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Time to pass the pipe, Omali. Take all your peeps to Liberia and have a ball there. Uncle Abe set it up for you morons, go now; you've been ass-dragging for a century and a half now. Take your big-screen TVs and just leave, if you can get off the couch. Dammit, I'm tired of their shit. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
That is true for now. However, in another generation, the whites will be a minority and will discover what is it like to be ruled by blacks and Hispanics. Whites will not like it because it will be bad. However, I will not live that long so I will not experience it.
2. According to Yeshitela, the grand jury will be selected based on their reputations as upstanding members of the community 1. Where do they come up with those stupid names? LOL! 2. Who are they going to dragoon into service for that fine cause, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? Obama might even take a day or two off from playing golf and help out and Eric Holder is probably at loose ends now and he would most likely see to it that a brotha got a fair shake. Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
The poor bastard, he should have just let the gentle giant shoot him because the rest of his (probably short) life will be a living hell.
I agree wholeheartedly. Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
There's the biggest tragedy of all in this case. He should be lionized.
Looks like an old soviet CCCP badge on a russian style hat. Homeboy's been waiting a long time to break that one out.
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
“The only thing that makes a difference in what the grand jury did in St. Louis County—the legal colonial grand jury—and what we will do here on January 3rd and 4th is that if in fact we indict Darren Wilson we don’t have guns. The government has guns and it has state power and authority over our people.
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
1. Zaki Baruti and African People's Socialist Party leader Omali Yeshitela.
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
#5. To: Lod (#1)
Dammit, I'm tired of their shit.
#6. To: Diana (#4)
[Wilson's] (probably short) life will be a living hell.
#7. To: X-15 (#0)
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