Last night the Ferguson City Council held its first meeting since the Mike Brown shooting. Mayhem ensued.

Buzz Feed has numerous pictures of the residents who spoke to the council. Two particular moments seemed to crystalize the meeting.
The first moment was when the former mayor stood up to share examples of how few residents normally attend the council meetings. This came after several dozen complaints of how the council was not listening to residents. The former mayor shared that only about ten people were previously in attendance – the audience didn’t like that. They shouted at him.

#Ferguson crowd mad about Orange Shirt ex mayor saying only about 10 residents ever attend council meetings. pic.twitter.com/cDjEzcm0gY

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) September 10, 2014

He then tried to point out the example of Ward #3 being an open election seat a few years ago and no-one from the community would run for election to fill it.  The residents didn’t seem to like that point either – they snatched his microphone and yelled a bit more.
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“All we want is an arrest, we simply want an arrest, nothing more and nothing less, just an arrest”…

No, those are not the words of Mike Brown’s mom Lesley McSpadden in 2014. Those are the exact words of Trayvon Martin’s mom, Sybrina Fulton in 2012.

However, Lesly McSpadden is now repeating the exact same demand as Fulton for exactly the same reason. It has nothing to do with an arrest of Darren Wilson, it is 100% about getting to second base on a wrongful death financial and civil claim.
The ONLY reason attorneys Daryl Parks, Benjamin Crump and Anthony Gray are demanding an arrest is because the arrest itself can be used by them in their civil filings to support probable cause for wrongful death lawsuits. Just like George Zimmerman, the outcome of any legal case against Officer Darren Wilson is irrelevant to their goals. They do not care about any conviction, they ONLY care about the arrest.
The arrest gives them the “probable cause” they need to file civil lawsuits. (more…)

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CNN Pundit Paul Callan points out the problems with Eric Holder rushing in his civil rights division to Ferguson, Missouri.

(CNN) — If the United States Department of Justice has any real interest in obtaining justice in the tragic shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement of a new civil rights investigation in Ferguson, Missouri, (population 21,000) was a step in the wrong direction.

The department’s ham-handed effort to improve the political “optics” of active federal involvement may, ironically, create the reasonable doubt that will ultimately clear the shooter, Officer Darren Wilson.
The Department of Justice is likely to be impeding justice by proceeding prematurely with a federal investigation while local law enforcement authorities struggle with the facts of the complex and controversial case.
The DOJ investigations (there now appear to be two that have been officially announced) are highly prejudicial to the local prosecutor’s presentation of the case to the grand jury. The non-sequestered grand jurors who return home every night after scrutinizing evidence in the case are almost certain to hear of the existence of the new federal investigation.
After all, the investigation was personally announced by the attorney general himself after the President publicly commented on the case. The grand jurors might reasonably wonder why the federal government would open a civil rights investigation at the very same time they are hearing evidence about Ferguson’s most famous homicide. (more…)

We pointed this out last night and apparently it was so brutally obvious even Andrea Mitchell had to admit it:

The bigger story is actually who is not present. Within the list of the absent you can identify President Obama’s approach. (more…)

UPDATE 9/9/14 @4:20pm : Eleven Arrests – MEMPHIS — Eleven teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with an attack on several people in a grocery store parking lot in Memphis, police said Monday.
The teens, ranging in age from 14 to 19, face charges including aggravated assault and aggravated riot, police said.  Police did not release the names of the boys and girls who were charged after the fight Saturday night outside a Kroger grocery store.
The fight was caught on cellphone video.
They identified the 19-year-old as Raheem Richardson. It was not immediately known if he had a lawyer late Monday.  Police said a group of teenagers first attacked a 25-year-old customer as he left his car to enter the store. (read more)
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As predicted:  The “Mike Brown Effect” Comes To Memphis Tennessee – A white male is jumped in the parking lot of a grocery store.  Two store employees try to stop the beating.   Video shows the cheering crowd chasing and then gleefully beating and kicking the employees. A young black female videotaped the assault while gleefully proclaiming “they got a white dude.”  This beating took place Saturday September 6th – Reverse the races and Don Lemon/Anderson Cooper/Sonni Hostin would be airing 24/7…..
[…] According to police, three white people were jumped by a large group of teenagers who were chanting “fam mob.” The black group, who came from CiCi’s Pizza, reportedly attacked a 25-year-old white customer as he left his car to enter Kroger.

Two white employees, ages 17 and 18, were attacked while trying to stop the fight. Both were “struck several times in the head and face while being knocked to the ground”. The victims say large pumpkins were thrown at their heads. They both were eventually knocked unconscious. (more…)

(HatTip MoonBattery) Oskar Freysinger, a member of the Swiss Parliament gave a passionate speech filled with truth that no politician in Washington, DC has yet to give from the floor of Congress. He calls out Islam for what it is: A dogma that is gnawing away at the pillars of our system of laws, wherever it is granted the space to do so. Video courtesy of Walid Shoebat

I said it two weeks ago, and I’ll say it again, Parks and Crump are trolling for a “DeeDee”. The only thing blocking them from executing that page of the playbook is optics. Well, us, and the optics of their insufferably predictable history.
Saint Louis – Among the claims that ignited the fury over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown were that Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson chased the unarmed teen on foot, shot at him as he ran away, then fired a barrage of fatal shots after Brown had turned around with his hands up.
Almost all of the witnesses who shared these accounts with media either knew Brown; lived at or near the Canfield Green apartments, where the shooting occurred; or were visiting friends or relatives there.
https://instagram.com/p/riPFZ8oeQy/
But there were two outsiders who happened to be working outside at the apartment complex on Aug. 9 — two men from a company in Jefferson County — who heard a single gunshot, looked up from their work and witnessed the shooting.
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NEW YORK – Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson left the City Council meeting Thursday night as a police union leader accused her of inciting a crowd against two police officers Saturday.

“You can’t talk about public safety and assist in public unrest,” Sgt. Thomas Hoffman, president of the Troy Police Benevolent Association, said in calling for the city Ethics Commission to investigate Robertson.
The situation came as the North Central and Lansingburgh neighborhoods in Robertson’s 2nd Council District have been rocked by shootings. (more…)