Hey, do you remember that time when there was that Grand Jury convened to decide whether or not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the GJ decided not to and in response the people of Ferguson rioted and burned their own city to…
Tag: Michael Brown
Race & Class, Rants
Why I haven’t blogged about Eric Garner…
by mav • • 282 Comments
top: Tamir Rice, Micheal Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford III. bottom: Darrien Hunt, Ezell Ford. Compliments: LiberalAmerica.org You know how I ranted a whole bunch about the Michael Brown incident over the last couple months? And a year ago, I ranted a bunch about Trayvon Martin? So you’d think I would…
Race & Class, Rants
In order to save the village, we had to burn it down…
by mav • • 17 Comments
Photo Credit: New York Times As I begin writing this, it is 5am and I have spent nearly 12 hours watching around the clock coverage of the Michael Brown/Darren Wilson/Ferguson, MO situation. I thought about writing about it yesterday before the decision came down (I’ve written about it a couple times before,…