Ferguson: Race and Justice in the U.S.

Airing Monday, 12/15 at 9pm ET/6pm PT

This Monday, December 15th at 9pm ET/6p PT, Al Jazeera’s Emmy Award-winning “Fault Lines” presents a special one-hour report, “Ferguson: Race and Justice in the U.S.”

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In this hour-long special, “Fault Lines” presents a bird’s eye view of the days just after the shooting – when small crowds of peaceful demonstrators encountered heavily armed police in armored vehicles – and the evening of August 13th, which quickly spiraled into violence and a display of tear-gas, rubber bullets and military-style vehicles by law enforcement. We go inside the responses by Missouri law enforcement and the reaction by the Brown family and protestors, and learn why the protests in Ferguson grew increasingly larger and drew worldwide attention.



Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker tours the streets where the fatal encounter between Officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown took place – a predominantly African American neighborhood that many say is typical of the way neighborhoods in the St Louis area are divided along racial and economic lines. Walker explores issues in the area through the eyes of local residents, including the impact of the nearly 50% unemployment rate for black males aged 16-24 in St. Louis County, and how some local communities garner nearly 30% of their revenue from fines that target mainly low-income residents.

“I would call [the ticketing] a daily, low-level harassment by the government,” says Thomas Harvey, a local St. Louis lawyer and executive director of ArchCity Defenders. “Psychologically, I think it’s a devastating effect.”

“Fault Lines” also explores other police shootings in St. Louis, some of which drew little media attention or public scrutiny at the time. In April 2013, St. Louis police tried to pull over 25-year old Cary Ball Jr. for a traffic violation; Ball, who was carrying an illegal weapon, was shot and killed by officers while fleeing the scene. Ball was struck at least 21 times, with family lawyers saying ballistic evidence suggest the police may have kept shooting while they stood over his body.

http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/12/11/ferguson-race-and-justice-in-the-u-s/

This!

Ball was struck at least 21 times, with family lawyers saying ballistic evidence suggest the police may have kept shooting while they stood over his body.

If you do not see this as racist Hate, you are not only Deaf and Dumb you are woefully ignorant and blind. Who the hell stands over a body and continues to shoot? Who does that? The soul of America is dying one murdered black man by cop at a time.

Shame on us.

It is time to do something about this, past time.