UPDATE 8/15/14: The police department finally offers the name of the officer: Darren Wilson


Bryan P. Willman

https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage

They will shortly release photos, full docuмentation, etc.

While I generally try and reserve judgment on things like this until all of the facts are out, I doubt there is anything that could convince me that a police officer shooting an unarmed person with live ammunition was justified.

If that town is over 60% black but so underrepresented in the local government offices then what is stopping this black population from electing their own?  Is it indifference?  Could it be that these black constituents do not see any means of voting goodies for themselves from such an underfunded locality?  

I did notice that they sure were whipped into action so quickly and with such little actual facts of the case.  

This incident could be the fαℓѕє fℓαg operation that we sometimes are warned about.

This was just posted by @theanonmessage, a twitter account affiliated with Anonymous' Operation Ferguson, a member of which I interviewed last night. According to @theanonmessage, this recording contains audio excerpts from St. Louis County police dispatch over several hours on August 9, 2014, the day Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer. The dispatcher starts talking about the Brown shooting around the 10-minute mark, while intermittently handling other calls. We are still listening to the recordings and working to corroborate their authenticity; see below the recording for an updating list of interesting moments, with time stamps included.

If you want to try to decipher the dispatch codes, here's a dictionary for that.



9:35: "Ferguson is asking for assistance with crowd control . . ."

10:58: "Now they have a large group gathering there, she doesn't know any further. . ."

11:20: "We just got another call stating it was an officer-involved shooting . . ."

11:30: "Be advised, this information came from the news . . ."

11:55: "We're just getting information from the news and we just called Ferguson back again and they don't know anything about it . . ."

20:00: ". . .destruction of property . . ."

21:55: "They are requesting more cars. Do you want me to send more of your cars?"

43:55: "Attention all cars, be advised that in reference to the call 2947 Canfield Drive, we are switching over to the riot channel at this time . . ."

Update, 4:40 p.m. ET: I tried to verify the dispatch recordings with St. Louis County Police but their media contact, Brian Shelman, did not answer the phone and his voicemail was full.

Update 2, 5:05 p.m. ET: Mashable is confirming that the St. Louis County Police Department is "aware of this and currently investigating."

Update 3, 6:05 p.m. ET: A twitter follower of mine points out that the dispatch recording probably comes from Broadcastify, a database of public safety radio audio streams that's available to anyone who pays for a subscription. It's "far from a hack," he says.

Quote from: Dolores

While I generally try and reserve judgment on things like this until all of the facts are out, I doubt there is anything that could convince me that a police officer shooting an unarmed person with live ammunition was justified.

 :applause:

So there's no such thing as death by strangulation?

Our Lord advised the disciplines to buy a sword and He even said you should sell something that you own if you don't already had enough cash.  So, clearly, being armed is not intrinsically bad.

We are to willingly die if someone is forcing us to renounce Our Lord, we are not to willingly die is some sociopathic criminal wants to kill us for kicks.  

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Quote from: Dolores

While I generally try and reserve judgment on things like this until all of the facts are out, I doubt there is anything that could convince me that a police officer shooting an unarmed person with live ammunition was justified.

 :applause:

So there's no such thing as death by strangulation?

Our Lord advised the disciplines to buy a sword and He even said you should sell something that you own if you don't already had enough cash.  So, clearly, being armed is not intrinsically bad.

We are to willingly die if someone is forcing us to renounce Our Lord, we are not to willingly die is some sociopathic criminal wants to kill us for kicks.  

Huh?  

If you don't know, how could I?

 :wink:

Quote from: Dolores

While I generally try and reserve judgment on things like this until all of the facts are out, I doubt there is anything that could convince me that a police officer shooting an unarmed person with live ammunition was justified.

I accidentally posted the one above without any comments.

Let's get the facts of the case first.  However, a 250-lb black man could snap your neck in ten seconds (with or without a Glock in his back pocket) so shooting someone in self-defense is justified if you under attack.  

The whole episode, according to the teenager who allegedly was with Michael Brown when the whole incident began, started when the two lads were walking slowly right in the middle of the street when a police call pulled up behind them and asked them to use the side walk.  A confrontation ensued and from that point on the facts are murky because the same teenager who allegedly was with Michael Brown has told varyingly different stories on what happened next.  

The allegation is that his hands were raised as a sign of surrender.

The Ferguson riots connected to the selection of the first openly pervert queer NFL player ?