MO - Grief & protests follow shooting of teen Michael Brown #17

[Lovejac]

Eric Chaloux‏@EricKCTV5·2 mins
.@MariaChappelleN says .@GovJayNixon was "chilling out" at mansion when she was getting teargassed in #Ferguson #moleg

https://twitter.com/EricKCTV5



This is some of the same type of thinking I've seen while following this case. People angry at other people that have more money than them. It's embarassing 'high school' level jealousy

 

[Klood-N]

Figures :facepalm:

Now his "weighing in" holds less weight

Anthony Shahid's twitter feed @anthonyshahid1, the agitator leading the highway shutdowns and seen right next to Michael's mom in pictures, is enlightening as well. Tweets about Michael Brown and pictures with Michael's family, tweets with fellow activists, tweets of updates, all amongst these and worse.

@anthonyshahid1
White people should really look in the mirror....Can you say Psychopath? 99% of all serial killers are white. A snake is a snake!
9:48pm - 7 Sep 14
https://twitter.com/anthonyshahid1/status/508809159538524160


@anthonyshahid1
@IsaIbnOfficial @dotsconnector
You're so ignorant that you don't deserve a response. We live Islam more than those foreign hypocrites.
9:19pm - 1 Sep 14
https://twitter.com/anthonyshahid1/status/506627530787258369

@anthonyshahid1
Iblis of the Holy Quran. He will do what is written of him. He can't help himself! pic.twitter.com/TI8aCHk37M
https://twitter.com/anthonyshahid1/status/503189973072629761

Not sure which police chief he's calling the devil (Iblis) there.



(I can't make mine as nice as Popsicle's, but you get the gist.)

 

[LambChop]

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VirginiaYoung ‏@VirginiaYoung 2m
On Senate floor, @MariaChappelleN talking #Ferguson. "I was tear-gassed for three hrs while our governor was at the mansion, chilling out."
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I don't understand what she is saying. Why would anyone stand still for 3 hours if police had to use tear-gas?

 

[popsicle]

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VirginiaYoung ‏@VirginiaYoung 2m
Senators are all paying rapt attention to @MariaChappelleN #ferguson
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[DebinGA]

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VirginiaYoung ‏@VirginiaYoung 2m
On Senate floor, @MariaChappelleN talking #Ferguson. "I was tear-gassed for three hrs while our governor was at the mansion, chilling out."
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/missouri-state-senator-says-she-tweeted-fck-you-at-governor#rbphu3

 

[popsicle]

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Maggie Crane ‏@newsformaggie 7m
1. Civilian Oversight Board on way
2. Budget, policy for body cams in development
3. Expanding Af-Am recruitment
4. Force Investigative Unit
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[popsicle]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/missouri-state-senator-says-she-tweeted-fck-you-at-governor#rbphu3

When I think of her, all I think about are those tweets. smh

 

[popsicle]

Rachel Lippmann ‏@rlippmann 1m
We could see some really interesting turf battles if the aldermen claim some kind of authority over police policy.


Rachel Lippmann ‏@rlippmann 28s
That was a concern, IIRC, of some officers when local control was discussed.

 

[Lovejac]

The Trial File‏@TheTrialFile·20s
“@MarshallGReport: . @MariaChappelleN now shouting, calling @GovJayNixon a coward. #vetosession2014 #Ferguson”

She needs to control herself

https://twitter.com/MarshallGReport

 

[popsicle]

Eli Yokley @eyokley · 15m

"My constituents have been treated like animals," @MariaChappelleN tells #MOLeg of #Ferguson. "Like third class citizens."

.@MariaChappelleN critical of Missouri Highway Patrol for taking part in tear gassing of #Ferguson. "It was hard to breathe." #MOLeg

"I was tear gassed… as our governor @GovJayNixon sat by idly and did nothing," @MariaChappelleN says. #Ferguson

"By the time our governor responded, we'd been tear gassed three times." #Ferguson

"He was not paying attention to a people born with the right to speak," @MariaChappelleN says of @GovJayNixon on #Ferguson #MOLeg

"I never knew what it would be like to have a guaranteed right taken away from you," @MariaChappelleN says, likens it to #2A restrictions.

Sen. @MariaChappelleN chokes up talking about constituents staring down police guns in #Ferguson. #MOLeg

Sen. @MariaChappelleN says edu debate highlighted by #ferguson. "There's been hopelessness for a long time." #MOLeg

Going on 15-mins, Senate quiet listening to @MariaChappelleN. Odes to #Ferguson's "hands up, don't shoot" in speech. #MOLeg

"Governor, where's your plan? You've not had a plan. You're a coward," @MariaChappelleN says. #Ferguson #MOLeg

"to let the state of emergency for black people to go on," @MariaChappelleN, "you don't care about black people" to @GovJayNixon. #Ferguson

"You don't care about black people," @MariaChappelleN yells to @GovJayNixon. Riff w/ Black community deep: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/why-jay-nixon-missed-his-moment-110248_full.html#.U_tqHdzwPwJ … #Ferguson

"The real state of emergency" facing black community, @MariaChappelleN is bigger than #ferguson. "@GovJayNixon isn't aware of it." #MOleg


for too many, @MariaChappelleN says, "I'd you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are #MikeBrown." #MOLeg #Ferguson

 

[Klood-N]

@MariaChappelleN[/URL] says, "I'd you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are #MikeBrown." #MOLeg #Ferguson
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True only if that place is leaning into an LE SUV, beating a police officer and struggling for his gun.

 

[popsicle]

Eli Yokley @eyokley · 2m

"This is a human rights violation our governor allowed to happen," @MariaChappelleN said. "It should go to the @UN." #MOLeg #Ferguson

for too many, @MariaChappelleN says, "If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are #MikeBrown." #MOLeg #Ferguson

 

[popsicle]

Eli Yokley @eyokley · 2m

"This is a human rights violation our governor allowed to happen," @MariaChappelleN said. "It should go to the @UN." #MOLeg #Ferguson

for too many, @MariaChappelleN says, "If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are #MikeBrown." #MOLeg #Ferguson

for too many, @MariaChappelleN says, "If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are #MikeBrown." #MOLeg #Ferguson

I don't know why he repeated that.. unless she repeated it.

 

[Klood-N]

Sadly, the UN has already weighed in, before the facts were in of course.

 

[Klood-N]

for too many, @MariaChappelleN says, "If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you are #MikeBrown." #MOLeg #Ferguson

I don't know why he repeated that.. unless she repeated it.

That just rang a bell! Not the first time that's been said about Michael Brown.



Brown, he says, could be led astray by kids who were bad influences but by spring, he became focused on getting his degree.

Kennedy, his teacher, says Brown had to break free from being around kids who "caused him to be in the wrong place at the wrong time a lot of times. .... He had been around too many thugs."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-brown-called-a-little-kid-in-a-big-body-ahead-of-funeral/

 

[krimekat]

When I think of her, all I think about are those tweets. smh

wow - what disrespect! IMHO

 

[Boytwnmom]

sorry, just needed to correct that. Being a felon is absolutely something people have control over. As the Sixth Circuit said in rejecting a disparate impact-type VRA claim, felons are not

disenfranchised because of an immutable characteristic, such as race, but rather because of their conscious decision to commit a criminal act for which they assume the risks of detention and punishment.

Johnson v. Bush, 214 F. Supp. 2d 1333, 1341 (S.D. Fla. 2002) As you can see, this played a role in the 2000 election, which I will refrain from commenting on....

People arguing for felon voting rights are not making the argument that it should be permitted because people can't help being felons. Rather, their argument, or at least one of their arguments, is essentially a disparate impact one, that these laws disproportionately impact those of color. This argument is premised on the 1982 amendment of Section 2 of the VRA (Voting Rights Act) to bar procedures that “result” in the denial or abridgment of voting rights “on account of race or color.” This issue is still being debated and litigated but courts have noted felon disenfranchisement laws pre-date AA suffrage. There are also arguments making a First Amendment Equal Protection claim. Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24, 48 (1974), is the generally cited S Ct case on felon disenfranchisement. It found that felon disenfranchisement was permissable and that any change must come from the legislature not the court.

So, to date, attempts to find state felon disenfranchisement laws unconstitutional have been unsuccessful. There remain 48 states that disenfranchise in some way for criminal convictions and only Maine & VT have no such rules. The state laws vary in terms of who is effected and many allow felons who have completed their sentence to vote. The ACLU has a US map with info: https://www.aclu.org/maps/map-state-criminal-disfranchisement-laws

I've seen that brought up, in other contexts. Yep, that's coming. Eric Holder himself has called for restoration of felon voting rights. It's an important civil rights issue, because felon status is one of those immutable characteristics that people have no control over, like color of skin, ethnicity, or gender.

Missouri is toward the "enlightened" end of that scale, though, as that state allows felons to vote after they've completed their sentence. I guess they're not enlightened enough, though.

 

[popsicle]

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Summer Ballentine @esballentine · 2m

"I called him all sorts of names and I don't have any regrets," @MariaChappelleN says about .@GovJayNixon. "You get what you deserve."

 

[popsicle]

Eli Yokley @eyokley · 1m

The "Leeches and animals" in police departments need to be "cleansed," @MariaChappelleN says of #Ferguson area police departments.

 

[Lovejac]

I don't understand what she is saying. Why would anyone stand still for 3 hours if police had to use tear-gas?

Thank you! :gaah: I mean seriously? Can she not take personal responsibility for being at the protest? She blames Nixon for the reason she was tear gassed!!??