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A #BLACKLIVESMATTER GOAL ACHIEVED
Courts serving Ferguson, Mo., wipe out past warrants, court fees.
Al Jazeera America: A new municipal judge in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday ordered sweeping changes to court practices in response to a scathing Justice Department report following the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown a year ago.
The changes come five months after the U.S. Department of Justice strongly criticized city leaders in its report, saying the police force and court worked together to exploit people in order to raise revenue.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/24/judge-overhauls-troubled-ferguson-missouri-court.html
Number23
(24,544 posts)They are incredibly inspiring and the amount that they've achieved this year alone has been amazing.
Folks should go to the Campaign Zero web site to see how all of the current candidates are shaping up on the goals of #BLM.
http://www.joincampaignzero.org/#campaign
link goes in my sig this instant
If you want to be president of the USA, you will deal with BLM or you will suffer the political consequences.
PERIOD
Number23
(24,544 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Cancelling all those warrants was a major, major thing. It goes beyond merely admitting the police and courts were shaking down citizens, disproportionately black citizens. It's corrective action, something we don't see very often.
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)I believe people are basically good. It's very easy for us to slip into the daily business of our lives.
BLM has done an incredible job of keeping the issue of racial inequality in our faces....we need that!
Good people will change things, sometimes we just need someone to shake us....and that's what BLM does.
Tip of the cap...
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)#BlackLivesMatter is kicking ass and taking names!
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)evidence why we speak out. between blm, the protestors, doj and obamas conversations, this is what can be done.
if one puts these wedge issues on the back burner, then.... nothing is accomplished.
this is the time
randys1
(16,286 posts)white cop in Ferguson was because they could not prove he wasnt in fear for his life.
qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)Thanks for sharing.