JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER
OTHER BROWN RELATED STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-10-ferguson-missori-demonstrations.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-9-missouri-declared-state-of.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/missouri-declared-state-of-emergency.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/update-on-ferguson-missouri-iraq-and.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mike-brown-and-dorian-johnson-were-in.html
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-10:16PM
THE ONLY HASSLE SO FAR HAPPENED AROUND 9PM.WHEN A WOMAN HAD A SIGN DEFENDING OFFICER DARREN WILSON.AND SHE WAS CONFRONTED BY A BROWN SUPPORTER.THE POLICE BROKE UP THE HASSLE AND HELPED THE WOMAN GO DOWN FURTHUR.THEN A MINUTE OR SO LATER THE WOMEN WAS CONFRONTED AGAIN BY A BROWN SUPPORTER.AND THE POLICE ESCORTED THE WOMAN SOME WHERE.THEN AT 10:05PM THE PROTESTERS WERE WALKING DOWN THE ROAD.AND WHAT DO I SEE WHEN THE CROWD PASSES BY BUT A SIGN THAT SAYS. DON'T KILL ISIS-LEAVE US ALONE.A PROTESTER HAD THE GALL TO CARRY THIS SIGN AROUND. AND NOT ONE PERSON CONFRONTED THAT PERSON ABOUT A REDICULAS SIGN LIKE THAT.THE BLACKS JUST TOOK IT ALL IN STRIDE.BUT WHEN THE WOMAN SUPPORTED OFFICER WILSON WITH A SIGN.SHE WAS QUICKLY HASSLED TWICE. DOES THIS JUST TELL YOU THE MORALS OF SOME OF THESE BLACKS.THEY CLAIM THEIR PEACEFUL-BUT ALLOW A SIGN THAT PROMOTES ISIS THE BEHEADING MURDERERS TO BE IN FULL VIEW WITHOUT ANYBODY TRYING TO GET RID OF THAT PERSON.I SAY THATS TOTALLY REDICULAS.
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-05:34PM
NOW AT 5:30PM WE GOT A POLICE OFFICER SUSPENDED AT FERGUSON FOR THREATENING PROTESTERS.OOPS WE GOT PROBABLY A YOUNG NEW OFFICER THAT GOT ON A BRIEF OBAMA POWER TRIP.HOPEFULLY IT WILL PASS.THERE SAYING THE CROWDS ARE NOT NEAR AS BIG TODAY AS USUAL ON DAYS.AND SOME CITIZENS WERE AT THE PROSECUTERS OFFICE OUTSIDE PRAYING.NOW THIS IS THE WAY TO GET ACTION.PRAY TO JESUS-HES IN CONTROL AND ANSWERS PRAYERS. AND KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THE MOTIVES WERE IN BOTH MINDS AT THE TIME. JESUS WILL WORK THINGS OUT CORRECTLY.TRUE JUSTICE COMES FROM JESUS.
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-02:43PM
NOW WE HEAR THE GRAND JURY WILL NOT BE COMPLETE TILL MID- OCTOBER. FERGUSON COULD BE IN THE NEWS FOR A LONG TIME AS A RESULT.THESE RIOTING BLACKS WILL HAVE TWO MONTHS TO CLAIM THE VICTIM OF RACISM AND JUSTICE OF THE DEATH OF MIKE BROWN.AND ALSO TODAY THE BROWN FAMILY IS HAVING A PRIVATE MEETING WITH ERIC HOLDER.I'D LOVE TO HEAR THAT CONVERSATION.THE BROWNS FOR SURE WILL BE TRYING TO CONVINCE HOLDER AND THE DOJ-AND FBI TO QUICKLY LAY MURDER CHARGES AGAINST OFFICER DARREN WILSON.I JUST HOPE THE BROWNS-DOJ-AND FBI DON'T ALL TEAM UP WITH EACH OTHER TO SCHEME TO MAKE SURE WILSON GETS CONVICTED OF MURDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE BLACKS IN FERGUSON MISSOURI. I WOULD MOVE THE WHOLE INVESTIGATION FROM FERGUSON TO CANADA SO THE BLACKS WOULD FINALLY SETTLE DOWN AND ALL THE GROUPS INVESTIGATING THE DEATH COULD GET INTERVIEWS FROM EVERYBODY.AND BRING ALL THE RESULTS TO CANADAS OFFICE WEREEVER IT WOULD BE.I'D SUGGEST WALKERTON SO I COULD GO TO THE INVESTIGATION OFFICE AND TRY TO GET INFO FROM THE WORKERS ON THE CASE.ALSO ADRIAN JOHNSON WAS ASKED TO TESTIFY AT THE GRAND JURY TODAY. I'M NOT SURE IF HE WILL.BUT HES GOT NO CREDIBILITY FROM THE MEDIA PROPAGANDA HE WAS TRYING TO PULL ON MEDIA INTERVIEWS AFTER THE DEATH.JOHNSON JUST FAILED TO MENTION HIM AND BIG MIKE AS HE CALLED HIM-ROBBED THE STORE OF CIGARS. HMMM- DID WE SEE THE PROPAGANDA OR WHAT TO COVERUP BIG BLACK MIKES ACTIONS AND TRY TO MAKE OFFICER WILSON THE WHITE OFFICER LOOK LIKE A COLD BLOODED KILLER.
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-11:00AM
OH BOY NOW THE PROTESTERS ARE OUTSIDE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS OFFICE ROBERT MCCULLOCH IN FERGUSON.DEMANDING THAT OFFICER DARREN WILSON BE ARRESTED FOR MURDER.AND THAT MCCULLOCH GET OFF THE CASE DUE TO BIAS FOR THE POLICE FORCE.GENERAL RUSSELL HONORE' IS THE ONE THEY WANT TO PROSECUTE THE WILSON CASE.ONE BLACK LADY WAS ON TV YESTERDAY AND SAID.IF WILSON IS NOT ARRESTED.THE DEMONSTRATIONS-RIOTS- LOOTING THAT HAS OCCURRED SO FAR WILL LOOK LIKE A PICNIK COMPARED TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WILSON IS NOT ARRESTED.SHE WAS THREATENING FERGUSON MISSOURI AND THE POLICE.INTERESTING SHE GOT AWAY WITH THE THREAT.AND HOLDER WILL BE IN MISSOURI AT ABOUT 12PM OR NOON.VAN JONES THAT COMMUNIST LUNATIC LEFTWING EX TERRORIST IS STILL IN FERGUSON MISSOURI.YOU CAN BET JONES WILL BE CHUMMING UP TO EVERY REBEL PROTESTER GOING.THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS WHO ARE IN FROM CHICAGO-MIAMI-AND AREAS.I HEARD.
There’s a lot of buzz on the ground about a communist group that was bussed into Ferguson from Chicago. They provoked the police with Molotov cocktails the night of August 13th while the local protesters peacefully protested. That’s when police responded with gas and flash grenades. Their reported goal is to make the protests go super-violent, spread across the region, and spark a revolution.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/chicago-communists-new-black-panthers-infiltrate-ferguson-riots-revolution/
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-09:45AM
THERE WAS ONLY ONE BOTTLE THROWING INCIDENT LAST NIGHT.IT WAS PEACEFUL TILL THEN.BUT AT 1AM WHEN THAT BOTTLE WAS THROWN.THE POLICE INSTANTLY PUT THEIR MASKS AND CAME OVER TO THE SITE.THEY THEN SURROUNDED THE MEDIA AND THE PLACE THE BOTTLE WAS THROWN.CITIZENS MADE A LINE HAND IN HAND TO SEPARATE THE VIOLENT INSTIGATERS FROM THE POLICE.THE POLICE THEN TOLD THE MEDIA TO STAY IN A CERTAIN PLACE WHILE THE POLICE CAME THREW THE CROWD ARRESTING THE TROUBLE MAKING CRIMINALS.I FELL TO SLEEP AROUND 2:30AM.AND THERE WAS HARDLY ANYBODY ON THE STREET THEN.AS THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WENT HOME AND JUST THE CRIMINAL INSTIGATERS WERE LEFT.AND THE POLICE WERE CHASING THEM DOWN THE STREET.50 WERE ARRESTED IN ALL
I HEARD OFFICER DARREN WILSON WAS IN HOSPITAL FOR SOME REASON YESTERDAY. BUT I NEVER HEARD WHY OR WHAT REASON.THAT CONTROL FREAK ERIC HOLDER WILL BE COMING TO FERGUSON TODAY.AND A GRAND JURY MAY CONVENE TODAY.BUT WE ARE NOT SURE.
I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.-It’s not the police, but the people they stop, who can prevent a detention from turning into a tragedy.By Sunil Dutta August 19-Sunil Dutta, a professor of homeland security at Colorado Tech University, has been an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for 17 years. The views presented here are his own and do not represent the LAPD.--WASHINGTON POST
A teenager is fatally shot by a police officer; the police are accused of being bloodthirsty, trigger-happy murderers; riots erupt. This, we are led to believe, is the way of things in America.It is also a terrible calumny; cops are not murderers. No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed. And while they’re unlikely to defend it quite as loudly during a time of national angst like this one, people who work in law enforcement know they are legally vested with the authority to detain suspects — an authority that must sometimes be enforced. Regardless of what happened with Mike Brown, in the overwhelming majority of cases it is not the cops, but the people they stop, who can prevent detentions from turning into tragedies.Working the street, I can’t even count how many times I withstood curses, screaming tantrums, aggressive and menacing encroachments on my safety zone, and outright challenges to my authority. In the vast majority of such encounters, I was able to peacefully resolve the situation without using force. Cops deploy their training and their intuition creatively, and I wielded every trick in my arsenal, including verbal judo, humor, warnings and ostentatious displays of the lethal (and nonlethal) hardware resting in my duty belt. One time, for instance, my partner and I faced a belligerent man who had doused his car with gallons of gas and was about to create a firebomb at a busy mall filled with holiday shoppers. The potential for serious harm to the bystanders would have justified deadly force. Instead, I distracted him with a hook about his family and loved ones, and he disengaged without hurting anyone. Every day cops show similar restraint and resolve incidents that could easily end up in serious injuries or worse.Sometimes, though, no amount of persuasion or warnings work on a belligerent person; that’s when cops have to use force, and the results can be tragic. We are still learning what transpired between Officer Darren Wilson and Brown, but in most cases it’s less ambiguous — and officers are rarely at fault. When they use force, they are defending their, or the public’s, safety.Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long? Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me.
I know it is scary for people to be stopped by cops. I also understand the anger and frustration if people believe they have been stopped unjustly or without a reason. I am aware that corrupt and bully cops exist. When it comes to police misconduct, I side with the ACLU: Having worked as an internal affairs investigator, I know that some officers engage in unprofessional and arrogant behavior; sometimes they behave like criminals themselves. I also believe every cop should use a body camera to record interactions with the community at all times. Every police car should have a video recorder. (This will prevent a situation like Mike Brown’s shooting, about which conflicting and self-serving statements allow people to believe what they want.) And you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion). Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave. Unless the officer has a legal basis to stop and search you, he or she must let you go. Finally, cops are legally prohibited from using excessive force: The moment a suspect submits and stops resisting, the officers must cease use of force.But if you believe (or know) that the cop stopping you is violating your rights or is acting like a bully, I guarantee that the situation will not become easier if you show your anger and resentment. Worse, initiating a physical confrontation is a sure recipe for getting hurt. Police are legally permitted to use deadly force when they assess a serious threat to their or someone else’s life. Save your anger for later, and channel it appropriately. Do what the officer tells you to and it will end safely for both of you. We have a justice system in which you are presumed innocent; if a cop can do his or her job unmolested, that system can run its course. Later, you can ask for a supervisor, lodge a complaint or contact civil rights organizations if you believe your rights were violated. Feel free to sue the police! Just don’t challenge a cop during a stop.An average person cannot comprehend the risks and has no true understanding of a cop’s job. Hollywood and television stereotypes of the police are cartoons in which fearless super cops singlehandedly defeat dozens of thugs, shooting guns out of their hands. Real life is different. An average cop is always concerned with his or her safety and tries to control every encounter. That is how we are trained. While most citizens are courteous and law abiding, the subset of people we generally interact with everyday are not the genteel types. You don’t know what is in my mind when I stop you. Did I just get a radio call of a shooting moments ago? Am I looking for a murderer or an armed fugitive? For you, this might be a “simple” traffic stop, for me each traffic stop is a potentially dangerous encounter. Show some empathy for an officer’s safety concerns. Don’t make our job more difficult than it already is.Community members deserve courtesy, respect and professionalism from their officers. Every person stopped by a cop should feel safe instead of feeling that their wellbeing is in jeopardy. Shouldn’t the community members extend the same courtesy to their officers and project that the officer’s safety is not threatened by their actions?
UPDATE AUGUST 19,14-09:50PM
ITS 9:50PM AUG 19,14 AND CNN GOT THE RIGHT MAN ON TO INSTIGATE RIOTS-LOOTING-BURNING-STEALING.YES YOUR FRIEND AND MINE VAN JONES EX MEMBER OF THE TERROR GROUP UNDERGROUND WEATHERMAN.THE PERFECT PERSON TO MINGLE WITH THE BLACKS IN THE CROWD TO GET THROWING THINGS AT POLICE.I PREDICT WE WILL BE SEEING TEAR GAS AND STUN GRENADES GOIN TONIGHT WITH VAN JONES IN FERGUSON MISSOURI.THERES ABOUT 200 PEOPLE ON THE STREET PROTESTING THE USUAL HANDS UP-DON'T SHOOT NONSENSE.IT SHOULD BE GO HOME AND RELAX IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION AND WATCH FROM THERE BLACKS.THEN IT WILL BE PEACEFUL AND CALM.AND ONLY THE LUNATIC RETARDS WOULD BE OUT TO GET GASED AND ARRESTED.
Earlier activism-VAN JONES-WIKIPEDIA
In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization."In October 2005 Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist"before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.His activism was also spurred on by witnessing racial inequality in New Haven, Connecticut: "I was seeing kids at Yale do drugs and talk about it openly, and have nothing happen to them or, if anything, get sent to rehab...And then I was seeing kids three blocks away, in the housing projects, doing the same drugs, in smaller amounts, go to prison.When he graduated from law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.He became a member[19] of a "socialist collective" called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) that protested against police brutality.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones
Funeral planned for Missouri teen shot by police as clashes persist-Reuters-By Scott Malone and Ellen Wulfhorst-AUG 19,14-YAHOONEWS
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Funeral services are planned on Monday for an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting by a white policeman in Missouri has ignited more than a week of racially charged clashes in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.The violence has captured international headlines, raising questions about the state of U.S. race relations nearly six years after Americans elected their first black president.As lawyers for the family of Michael Brown, 18, announced plans on Tuesday for his funeral, U.S. lawmakers called for calm and a change in police tactics that have so far failed to soothe angry demonstrators.Police said they came under gunfire again overnight and made dozens of arrests despite the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters more freedom to demonstrate.There were at least 57 arrests on Monday night and into Tuesday, most on a charge of failure to disperse, according to the St. Louis County Justice Services Center. It said 15 of those arrested were from outside Missouri."The people who are rioting and looting are not the people who live in this area. They come down here and they wait for the action to start," said Arlando Travis, 38, owner of a local landscaping business."We overpoliced for a few days, and then we completely underpoliced," U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson on Tuesday, told cable channel MSNBC. She said she was working with local leaders on new methods, such as screening for weapons and moving protest areas away from the business district to open green spaces.President Barack Obama said on Monday he told Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that use of the National Guard should be limited, and he also called for conciliation. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit Ferguson on Wednesday.Ferguson, a mostly black community of about 21,000 residents just outside St. Louis, has a history of racial tension. Blacks have long complained of police harassment and under-representation in city leadership.In a separate incident just miles (km) from the protests, a 23-year-old black man holding a knife was fatally shot by police on Tuesday, police told a news conference. They said two officers opened fire after the man ignored repeated calls to drop his weapon.
SIMMERING DIVISIONS
Public reaction to the police response in Ferguson was mixed nationally, showing divisions along color and political lines, according to a Reuters/IPSOS poll released on Tuesday.“There’s certainly not universal support on this particular issue – there’s a lot of divisiveness,” said IPSOS pollster Julia Clark.The online poll of 976 U.S. adults conducted from Friday to Monday showed a clear majority agreed the racial makeup of a police force should reflect the local community, and 78 percent said citizens should be able to record police making arrests and carrying out other duties.Tension boiled over 10 days ago after Brown was shot and killed while walking with a friend down a residential street on the afternoon of Aug. 9.The police refused to immediately release the name of the officer who killed Brown. They later identified him as 28-year-old Darren Wilson but have not provided details about why he fired multiple rounds at Brown.Wilson has yet to make a public statement, but investigators said he has been cooperative in interviews with detectives.The U.S. Department of Justice and the St. Louis County Police Department are both investigating the shooting. The county prosecutor's office said it could start presenting evidence to a grand jury on Wednesday to determine if Wilson will be indicted.Since the killing, thousands of protesters have taken over the site of the shooting and the nearby business district each night, chanting anti-police slogans and carrying signs calling for Wilson's arrest.Some journalists covering the confrontations have been hit by tear gas and arrested.On Tuesday, the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an intergovernmental security and human rights organization whose members include 57 countries including the United States and Canada, criticized the treatment of the journalists.On Monday night, some in the crowd hurled bottles, rocks and petrol bombs at officers, who responded by firing gas-filled canisters and a noise cannon to try to disperse the throng.State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was named to oversee security in Ferguson last week after the tactics of local police leadership were questioned, said officers had come under "heavy gunfire" but did not return it. Riot police confiscated two guns and what looked like a petrol bomb from protesters.Four officers were injured, he said.Johnson separately told CNN that two people were shot within the crowd, but not by police, and were taken to the hospital. There was no immediate word on their condition."This has to stop," said Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area. "I don't want anybody to get hurt."Area schools remained closed on Tuesday due to the unrest.The disturbances are the worst since the angry but peaceful protests across the United States in July 2013 over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during a scuffle in Florida.Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, wrote an open letter to Brown's family, offering condolences and support.(Additional reporting by Lucas Jackson in Ferguson, Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Mo., Eric Beech in Washington, Curtis Skinner in New York; Writing by Carey Gillam; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Peter Cooney)
In riot-hit Ferguson, traffic fines boost tension and budget-Reuters-By Megan Davies and Dan Burns-AUG 19,14-YAHOONEWS
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When calm and order is finally restored to Ferguson, Missouri, the city's leaders may find little room to maneuver to resolve an issue that has long inflamed racial tensions: traffic tickets.On the surface it would seem an easy fix for the mainly white police force simply to adopt a less aggressive policy on traffic stops, which overwhelmingly and disproportionately snare black motorists.That may be easier said than done, though.Traffic fines are the St. Louis suburb's second-largest source of revenue and just about the only one that is growing appreciably. Municipal court fines, most of which arise from motor vehicle violations, accounted for 21 percent of general fund revenue and at $2.63 million last year, were the equivalent of more than 81 percent of police salaries before overtime.The heavy reliance on these funds is emerging as a thorny issue for Ferguson following the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white policeman Darren Wilson. Brown's death has sparked days of protests and nights of riots in the majority black community, many of whose residents complain about their treatment by Ferguson police."In the aftermath of this month's tragic events in Ferguson, the city will be forced to shift away from its increasing reliance on traffic fines as a revenue source," said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York. "Not only is it a self-defeating budget practice, but it has exacerbated racial tensions."Ferguson's finance director declined a Reuters interview request and referred inquiries to the city manager who was not immediately available for comment.The civil unrest has all but crippled the city of about 21,000, around a dozen miles north of downtown St. Louis, and has drawn an extensive and costly police response. Brown's family also has hired a legal team, raising the prospect that the city could face pricey litigation."One big unknown, aside from any potential lawsuit, is the tremendous cost of police overtime, which could lead to a troubling budget shortfall and force other tax and fee increases or service reductions," said Parrott.
STRIVING FOR BALANCE
Searching for other areas for revenue growth could prove an uphill task. The city describes itself as being in the midst of an "extraordinarily slow" economic recovery.Sales tax receipts, for instance, have been highly variable since the recession, frequently falling short of projections. While fiscal 2014 sales tax receipts were budgeted for a 4 percent increase to just over $6 million, this revenue source remains some 13 percent below its peak in fiscal 2006 of around $6.9 million."Local economic circumstances continue to improve slowly, but steadily," the city's latest budget said. "Unfortunately, this trend has not carried over to retail sales activity and sales tax collections."A property tax increase two years ago helped give an initial boost to that revenue line, but real estate taxes were forecast to dip slightly in the most recent budget year.While the city denies in its budget that it explicitly targets court fines as a revenue source, it notes city police have placed greater emphasis on traffic control in recent years."Due to a more concentrated focus on traffic enforcement, municipal court revenues have risen about 44 percent ... from those in full-year 2010-2011," its 2013-2014 budget says. This has been boosted in recent years by the use of traffic cameras.A study released last week by a group of St. Louis-area public defenders, ArchCity Defenders, detailed the perception of local black residents that they are singled out by the police for traffic stops and treated unfairly by the local courts."If you’re black, they’re going to stop you," the study quoted one traffic defendant as saying.In 2013, 86 percent of all Ferguson police traffic stops involved black drivers, the largest share since the Missouri Attorney General's Office began tracking the data in 2000. According to 2010 U.S. Census data, the city is 63 percent black and 34 percent white."If the city were to try to be seen as not targeting blacks, but maintain similar revenue levels, then it would probably have to pull over a much higher proportion of whites," said Jeff Smith, assistant professor at The New School and a former Missouri state senator.Arlando Travis, a 38-year-old owner of a landscaping business in Ferguson described how a friend of his, a minister, had been pulled over for a traffic stop."They see a 60-year-old and driving a $70,000 car and he can't find his insurance card ... he just forgot it, but they don't listen," Travis said. "Can't they use some common sense?"(Additional reporting by Tim McLaughlin and Scott Malone in Ferguson, editing by Ross Colvin)
OTHER BROWN RELATED STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-10-ferguson-missori-demonstrations.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/day-9-missouri-declared-state-of.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/missouri-declared-state-of-emergency.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/update-on-ferguson-missouri-iraq-and.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/08/mike-brown-and-dorian-johnson-were-in.html
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-10:16PM
THE ONLY HASSLE SO FAR HAPPENED AROUND 9PM.WHEN A WOMAN HAD A SIGN DEFENDING OFFICER DARREN WILSON.AND SHE WAS CONFRONTED BY A BROWN SUPPORTER.THE POLICE BROKE UP THE HASSLE AND HELPED THE WOMAN GO DOWN FURTHUR.THEN A MINUTE OR SO LATER THE WOMEN WAS CONFRONTED AGAIN BY A BROWN SUPPORTER.AND THE POLICE ESCORTED THE WOMAN SOME WHERE.THEN AT 10:05PM THE PROTESTERS WERE WALKING DOWN THE ROAD.AND WHAT DO I SEE WHEN THE CROWD PASSES BY BUT A SIGN THAT SAYS. DON'T KILL ISIS-LEAVE US ALONE.A PROTESTER HAD THE GALL TO CARRY THIS SIGN AROUND. AND NOT ONE PERSON CONFRONTED THAT PERSON ABOUT A REDICULAS SIGN LIKE THAT.THE BLACKS JUST TOOK IT ALL IN STRIDE.BUT WHEN THE WOMAN SUPPORTED OFFICER WILSON WITH A SIGN.SHE WAS QUICKLY HASSLED TWICE. DOES THIS JUST TELL YOU THE MORALS OF SOME OF THESE BLACKS.THEY CLAIM THEIR PEACEFUL-BUT ALLOW A SIGN THAT PROMOTES ISIS THE BEHEADING MURDERERS TO BE IN FULL VIEW WITHOUT ANYBODY TRYING TO GET RID OF THAT PERSON.I SAY THATS TOTALLY REDICULAS.
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-05:34PM
NOW AT 5:30PM WE GOT A POLICE OFFICER SUSPENDED AT FERGUSON FOR THREATENING PROTESTERS.OOPS WE GOT PROBABLY A YOUNG NEW OFFICER THAT GOT ON A BRIEF OBAMA POWER TRIP.HOPEFULLY IT WILL PASS.THERE SAYING THE CROWDS ARE NOT NEAR AS BIG TODAY AS USUAL ON DAYS.AND SOME CITIZENS WERE AT THE PROSECUTERS OFFICE OUTSIDE PRAYING.NOW THIS IS THE WAY TO GET ACTION.PRAY TO JESUS-HES IN CONTROL AND ANSWERS PRAYERS. AND KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THE MOTIVES WERE IN BOTH MINDS AT THE TIME. JESUS WILL WORK THINGS OUT CORRECTLY.TRUE JUSTICE COMES FROM JESUS.
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-02:43PM
NOW WE HEAR THE GRAND JURY WILL NOT BE COMPLETE TILL MID- OCTOBER. FERGUSON COULD BE IN THE NEWS FOR A LONG TIME AS A RESULT.THESE RIOTING BLACKS WILL HAVE TWO MONTHS TO CLAIM THE VICTIM OF RACISM AND JUSTICE OF THE DEATH OF MIKE BROWN.AND ALSO TODAY THE BROWN FAMILY IS HAVING A PRIVATE MEETING WITH ERIC HOLDER.I'D LOVE TO HEAR THAT CONVERSATION.THE BROWNS FOR SURE WILL BE TRYING TO CONVINCE HOLDER AND THE DOJ-AND FBI TO QUICKLY LAY MURDER CHARGES AGAINST OFFICER DARREN WILSON.I JUST HOPE THE BROWNS-DOJ-AND FBI DON'T ALL TEAM UP WITH EACH OTHER TO SCHEME TO MAKE SURE WILSON GETS CONVICTED OF MURDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE BLACKS IN FERGUSON MISSOURI. I WOULD MOVE THE WHOLE INVESTIGATION FROM FERGUSON TO CANADA SO THE BLACKS WOULD FINALLY SETTLE DOWN AND ALL THE GROUPS INVESTIGATING THE DEATH COULD GET INTERVIEWS FROM EVERYBODY.AND BRING ALL THE RESULTS TO CANADAS OFFICE WEREEVER IT WOULD BE.I'D SUGGEST WALKERTON SO I COULD GO TO THE INVESTIGATION OFFICE AND TRY TO GET INFO FROM THE WORKERS ON THE CASE.ALSO ADRIAN JOHNSON WAS ASKED TO TESTIFY AT THE GRAND JURY TODAY. I'M NOT SURE IF HE WILL.BUT HES GOT NO CREDIBILITY FROM THE MEDIA PROPAGANDA HE WAS TRYING TO PULL ON MEDIA INTERVIEWS AFTER THE DEATH.JOHNSON JUST FAILED TO MENTION HIM AND BIG MIKE AS HE CALLED HIM-ROBBED THE STORE OF CIGARS. HMMM- DID WE SEE THE PROPAGANDA OR WHAT TO COVERUP BIG BLACK MIKES ACTIONS AND TRY TO MAKE OFFICER WILSON THE WHITE OFFICER LOOK LIKE A COLD BLOODED KILLER.
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-11:00AM
OH BOY NOW THE PROTESTERS ARE OUTSIDE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS OFFICE ROBERT MCCULLOCH IN FERGUSON.DEMANDING THAT OFFICER DARREN WILSON BE ARRESTED FOR MURDER.AND THAT MCCULLOCH GET OFF THE CASE DUE TO BIAS FOR THE POLICE FORCE.GENERAL RUSSELL HONORE' IS THE ONE THEY WANT TO PROSECUTE THE WILSON CASE.ONE BLACK LADY WAS ON TV YESTERDAY AND SAID.IF WILSON IS NOT ARRESTED.THE DEMONSTRATIONS-RIOTS- LOOTING THAT HAS OCCURRED SO FAR WILL LOOK LIKE A PICNIK COMPARED TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WILSON IS NOT ARRESTED.SHE WAS THREATENING FERGUSON MISSOURI AND THE POLICE.INTERESTING SHE GOT AWAY WITH THE THREAT.AND HOLDER WILL BE IN MISSOURI AT ABOUT 12PM OR NOON.VAN JONES THAT COMMUNIST LUNATIC LEFTWING EX TERRORIST IS STILL IN FERGUSON MISSOURI.YOU CAN BET JONES WILL BE CHUMMING UP TO EVERY REBEL PROTESTER GOING.THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS WHO ARE IN FROM CHICAGO-MIAMI-AND AREAS.I HEARD.
There’s a lot of buzz on the ground about a communist group that was bussed into Ferguson from Chicago. They provoked the police with Molotov cocktails the night of August 13th while the local protesters peacefully protested. That’s when police responded with gas and flash grenades. Their reported goal is to make the protests go super-violent, spread across the region, and spark a revolution.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/chicago-communists-new-black-panthers-infiltrate-ferguson-riots-revolution/
UPDATE AUGUST 20,14-09:45AM
THERE WAS ONLY ONE BOTTLE THROWING INCIDENT LAST NIGHT.IT WAS PEACEFUL TILL THEN.BUT AT 1AM WHEN THAT BOTTLE WAS THROWN.THE POLICE INSTANTLY PUT THEIR MASKS AND CAME OVER TO THE SITE.THEY THEN SURROUNDED THE MEDIA AND THE PLACE THE BOTTLE WAS THROWN.CITIZENS MADE A LINE HAND IN HAND TO SEPARATE THE VIOLENT INSTIGATERS FROM THE POLICE.THE POLICE THEN TOLD THE MEDIA TO STAY IN A CERTAIN PLACE WHILE THE POLICE CAME THREW THE CROWD ARRESTING THE TROUBLE MAKING CRIMINALS.I FELL TO SLEEP AROUND 2:30AM.AND THERE WAS HARDLY ANYBODY ON THE STREET THEN.AS THE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WENT HOME AND JUST THE CRIMINAL INSTIGATERS WERE LEFT.AND THE POLICE WERE CHASING THEM DOWN THE STREET.50 WERE ARRESTED IN ALL
I HEARD OFFICER DARREN WILSON WAS IN HOSPITAL FOR SOME REASON YESTERDAY. BUT I NEVER HEARD WHY OR WHAT REASON.THAT CONTROL FREAK ERIC HOLDER WILL BE COMING TO FERGUSON TODAY.AND A GRAND JURY MAY CONVENE TODAY.BUT WE ARE NOT SURE.
I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.-It’s not the police, but the people they stop, who can prevent a detention from turning into a tragedy.By Sunil Dutta August 19-Sunil Dutta, a professor of homeland security at Colorado Tech University, has been an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for 17 years. The views presented here are his own and do not represent the LAPD.--WASHINGTON POST
A teenager is fatally shot by a police officer; the police are accused of being bloodthirsty, trigger-happy murderers; riots erupt. This, we are led to believe, is the way of things in America.It is also a terrible calumny; cops are not murderers. No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed. And while they’re unlikely to defend it quite as loudly during a time of national angst like this one, people who work in law enforcement know they are legally vested with the authority to detain suspects — an authority that must sometimes be enforced. Regardless of what happened with Mike Brown, in the overwhelming majority of cases it is not the cops, but the people they stop, who can prevent detentions from turning into tragedies.Working the street, I can’t even count how many times I withstood curses, screaming tantrums, aggressive and menacing encroachments on my safety zone, and outright challenges to my authority. In the vast majority of such encounters, I was able to peacefully resolve the situation without using force. Cops deploy their training and their intuition creatively, and I wielded every trick in my arsenal, including verbal judo, humor, warnings and ostentatious displays of the lethal (and nonlethal) hardware resting in my duty belt. One time, for instance, my partner and I faced a belligerent man who had doused his car with gallons of gas and was about to create a firebomb at a busy mall filled with holiday shoppers. The potential for serious harm to the bystanders would have justified deadly force. Instead, I distracted him with a hook about his family and loved ones, and he disengaged without hurting anyone. Every day cops show similar restraint and resolve incidents that could easily end up in serious injuries or worse.Sometimes, though, no amount of persuasion or warnings work on a belligerent person; that’s when cops have to use force, and the results can be tragic. We are still learning what transpired between Officer Darren Wilson and Brown, but in most cases it’s less ambiguous — and officers are rarely at fault. When they use force, they are defending their, or the public’s, safety.Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long? Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me.
I know it is scary for people to be stopped by cops. I also understand the anger and frustration if people believe they have been stopped unjustly or without a reason. I am aware that corrupt and bully cops exist. When it comes to police misconduct, I side with the ACLU: Having worked as an internal affairs investigator, I know that some officers engage in unprofessional and arrogant behavior; sometimes they behave like criminals themselves. I also believe every cop should use a body camera to record interactions with the community at all times. Every police car should have a video recorder. (This will prevent a situation like Mike Brown’s shooting, about which conflicting and self-serving statements allow people to believe what they want.) And you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion). Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave. Unless the officer has a legal basis to stop and search you, he or she must let you go. Finally, cops are legally prohibited from using excessive force: The moment a suspect submits and stops resisting, the officers must cease use of force.But if you believe (or know) that the cop stopping you is violating your rights or is acting like a bully, I guarantee that the situation will not become easier if you show your anger and resentment. Worse, initiating a physical confrontation is a sure recipe for getting hurt. Police are legally permitted to use deadly force when they assess a serious threat to their or someone else’s life. Save your anger for later, and channel it appropriately. Do what the officer tells you to and it will end safely for both of you. We have a justice system in which you are presumed innocent; if a cop can do his or her job unmolested, that system can run its course. Later, you can ask for a supervisor, lodge a complaint or contact civil rights organizations if you believe your rights were violated. Feel free to sue the police! Just don’t challenge a cop during a stop.An average person cannot comprehend the risks and has no true understanding of a cop’s job. Hollywood and television stereotypes of the police are cartoons in which fearless super cops singlehandedly defeat dozens of thugs, shooting guns out of their hands. Real life is different. An average cop is always concerned with his or her safety and tries to control every encounter. That is how we are trained. While most citizens are courteous and law abiding, the subset of people we generally interact with everyday are not the genteel types. You don’t know what is in my mind when I stop you. Did I just get a radio call of a shooting moments ago? Am I looking for a murderer or an armed fugitive? For you, this might be a “simple” traffic stop, for me each traffic stop is a potentially dangerous encounter. Show some empathy for an officer’s safety concerns. Don’t make our job more difficult than it already is.Community members deserve courtesy, respect and professionalism from their officers. Every person stopped by a cop should feel safe instead of feeling that their wellbeing is in jeopardy. Shouldn’t the community members extend the same courtesy to their officers and project that the officer’s safety is not threatened by their actions?
UPDATE AUGUST 19,14-09:50PM
ITS 9:50PM AUG 19,14 AND CNN GOT THE RIGHT MAN ON TO INSTIGATE RIOTS-LOOTING-BURNING-STEALING.YES YOUR FRIEND AND MINE VAN JONES EX MEMBER OF THE TERROR GROUP UNDERGROUND WEATHERMAN.THE PERFECT PERSON TO MINGLE WITH THE BLACKS IN THE CROWD TO GET THROWING THINGS AT POLICE.I PREDICT WE WILL BE SEEING TEAR GAS AND STUN GRENADES GOIN TONIGHT WITH VAN JONES IN FERGUSON MISSOURI.THERES ABOUT 200 PEOPLE ON THE STREET PROTESTING THE USUAL HANDS UP-DON'T SHOOT NONSENSE.IT SHOULD BE GO HOME AND RELAX IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION AND WATCH FROM THERE BLACKS.THEN IT WILL BE PEACEFUL AND CALM.AND ONLY THE LUNATIC RETARDS WOULD BE OUT TO GET GASED AND ARRESTED.
Earlier activism-VAN JONES-WIKIPEDIA
In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, Jones participated as a volunteer legal monitor for a protest of the Rodney King verdict in San Francisco. He and many other participants in the protest were arrested. The district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization."In October 2005 Jones said he was "a rowdy nationalist"before the King verdict was announced, but that by August of that year (1992) he was a communist.His activism was also spurred on by witnessing racial inequality in New Haven, Connecticut: "I was seeing kids at Yale do drugs and talk about it openly, and have nothing happen to them or, if anything, get sent to rehab...And then I was seeing kids three blocks away, in the housing projects, doing the same drugs, in smaller amounts, go to prison.When he graduated from law school, Jones gave up plans to take a job in Washington, D.C., and moved to San Francisco instead.He became a member[19] of a "socialist collective" called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) that protested against police brutality.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones
Funeral planned for Missouri teen shot by police as clashes persist-Reuters-By Scott Malone and Ellen Wulfhorst-AUG 19,14-YAHOONEWS
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Funeral services are planned on Monday for an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting by a white policeman in Missouri has ignited more than a week of racially charged clashes in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.The violence has captured international headlines, raising questions about the state of U.S. race relations nearly six years after Americans elected their first black president.As lawyers for the family of Michael Brown, 18, announced plans on Tuesday for his funeral, U.S. lawmakers called for calm and a change in police tactics that have so far failed to soothe angry demonstrators.Police said they came under gunfire again overnight and made dozens of arrests despite the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters more freedom to demonstrate.There were at least 57 arrests on Monday night and into Tuesday, most on a charge of failure to disperse, according to the St. Louis County Justice Services Center. It said 15 of those arrested were from outside Missouri."The people who are rioting and looting are not the people who live in this area. They come down here and they wait for the action to start," said Arlando Travis, 38, owner of a local landscaping business."We overpoliced for a few days, and then we completely underpoliced," U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson on Tuesday, told cable channel MSNBC. She said she was working with local leaders on new methods, such as screening for weapons and moving protest areas away from the business district to open green spaces.President Barack Obama said on Monday he told Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that use of the National Guard should be limited, and he also called for conciliation. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit Ferguson on Wednesday.Ferguson, a mostly black community of about 21,000 residents just outside St. Louis, has a history of racial tension. Blacks have long complained of police harassment and under-representation in city leadership.In a separate incident just miles (km) from the protests, a 23-year-old black man holding a knife was fatally shot by police on Tuesday, police told a news conference. They said two officers opened fire after the man ignored repeated calls to drop his weapon.
SIMMERING DIVISIONS
Public reaction to the police response in Ferguson was mixed nationally, showing divisions along color and political lines, according to a Reuters/IPSOS poll released on Tuesday.“There’s certainly not universal support on this particular issue – there’s a lot of divisiveness,” said IPSOS pollster Julia Clark.The online poll of 976 U.S. adults conducted from Friday to Monday showed a clear majority agreed the racial makeup of a police force should reflect the local community, and 78 percent said citizens should be able to record police making arrests and carrying out other duties.Tension boiled over 10 days ago after Brown was shot and killed while walking with a friend down a residential street on the afternoon of Aug. 9.The police refused to immediately release the name of the officer who killed Brown. They later identified him as 28-year-old Darren Wilson but have not provided details about why he fired multiple rounds at Brown.Wilson has yet to make a public statement, but investigators said he has been cooperative in interviews with detectives.The U.S. Department of Justice and the St. Louis County Police Department are both investigating the shooting. The county prosecutor's office said it could start presenting evidence to a grand jury on Wednesday to determine if Wilson will be indicted.Since the killing, thousands of protesters have taken over the site of the shooting and the nearby business district each night, chanting anti-police slogans and carrying signs calling for Wilson's arrest.Some journalists covering the confrontations have been hit by tear gas and arrested.On Tuesday, the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an intergovernmental security and human rights organization whose members include 57 countries including the United States and Canada, criticized the treatment of the journalists.On Monday night, some in the crowd hurled bottles, rocks and petrol bombs at officers, who responded by firing gas-filled canisters and a noise cannon to try to disperse the throng.State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was named to oversee security in Ferguson last week after the tactics of local police leadership were questioned, said officers had come under "heavy gunfire" but did not return it. Riot police confiscated two guns and what looked like a petrol bomb from protesters.Four officers were injured, he said.Johnson separately told CNN that two people were shot within the crowd, but not by police, and were taken to the hospital. There was no immediate word on their condition."This has to stop," said Johnson, an African-American who grew up in the area. "I don't want anybody to get hurt."Area schools remained closed on Tuesday due to the unrest.The disturbances are the worst since the angry but peaceful protests across the United States in July 2013 over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during a scuffle in Florida.Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, wrote an open letter to Brown's family, offering condolences and support.(Additional reporting by Lucas Jackson in Ferguson, Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Mo., Eric Beech in Washington, Curtis Skinner in New York; Writing by Carey Gillam; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Peter Cooney)
In riot-hit Ferguson, traffic fines boost tension and budget-Reuters-By Megan Davies and Dan Burns-AUG 19,14-YAHOONEWS
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When calm and order is finally restored to Ferguson, Missouri, the city's leaders may find little room to maneuver to resolve an issue that has long inflamed racial tensions: traffic tickets.On the surface it would seem an easy fix for the mainly white police force simply to adopt a less aggressive policy on traffic stops, which overwhelmingly and disproportionately snare black motorists.That may be easier said than done, though.Traffic fines are the St. Louis suburb's second-largest source of revenue and just about the only one that is growing appreciably. Municipal court fines, most of which arise from motor vehicle violations, accounted for 21 percent of general fund revenue and at $2.63 million last year, were the equivalent of more than 81 percent of police salaries before overtime.The heavy reliance on these funds is emerging as a thorny issue for Ferguson following the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white policeman Darren Wilson. Brown's death has sparked days of protests and nights of riots in the majority black community, many of whose residents complain about their treatment by Ferguson police."In the aftermath of this month's tragic events in Ferguson, the city will be forced to shift away from its increasing reliance on traffic fines as a revenue source," said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York. "Not only is it a self-defeating budget practice, but it has exacerbated racial tensions."Ferguson's finance director declined a Reuters interview request and referred inquiries to the city manager who was not immediately available for comment.The civil unrest has all but crippled the city of about 21,000, around a dozen miles north of downtown St. Louis, and has drawn an extensive and costly police response. Brown's family also has hired a legal team, raising the prospect that the city could face pricey litigation."One big unknown, aside from any potential lawsuit, is the tremendous cost of police overtime, which could lead to a troubling budget shortfall and force other tax and fee increases or service reductions," said Parrott.
STRIVING FOR BALANCE
Searching for other areas for revenue growth could prove an uphill task. The city describes itself as being in the midst of an "extraordinarily slow" economic recovery.Sales tax receipts, for instance, have been highly variable since the recession, frequently falling short of projections. While fiscal 2014 sales tax receipts were budgeted for a 4 percent increase to just over $6 million, this revenue source remains some 13 percent below its peak in fiscal 2006 of around $6.9 million."Local economic circumstances continue to improve slowly, but steadily," the city's latest budget said. "Unfortunately, this trend has not carried over to retail sales activity and sales tax collections."A property tax increase two years ago helped give an initial boost to that revenue line, but real estate taxes were forecast to dip slightly in the most recent budget year.While the city denies in its budget that it explicitly targets court fines as a revenue source, it notes city police have placed greater emphasis on traffic control in recent years."Due to a more concentrated focus on traffic enforcement, municipal court revenues have risen about 44 percent ... from those in full-year 2010-2011," its 2013-2014 budget says. This has been boosted in recent years by the use of traffic cameras.A study released last week by a group of St. Louis-area public defenders, ArchCity Defenders, detailed the perception of local black residents that they are singled out by the police for traffic stops and treated unfairly by the local courts."If you’re black, they’re going to stop you," the study quoted one traffic defendant as saying.In 2013, 86 percent of all Ferguson police traffic stops involved black drivers, the largest share since the Missouri Attorney General's Office began tracking the data in 2000. According to 2010 U.S. Census data, the city is 63 percent black and 34 percent white."If the city were to try to be seen as not targeting blacks, but maintain similar revenue levels, then it would probably have to pull over a much higher proportion of whites," said Jeff Smith, assistant professor at The New School and a former Missouri state senator.Arlando Travis, a 38-year-old owner of a landscaping business in Ferguson described how a friend of his, a minister, had been pulled over for a traffic stop."They see a 60-year-old and driving a $70,000 car and he can't find his insurance card ... he just forgot it, but they don't listen," Travis said. "Can't they use some common sense?"(Additional reporting by Tim McLaughlin and Scott Malone in Ferguson, editing by Ross Colvin)
