GoFundMe page for Mike Brown's family
From TheIntercept via
RSN: Klan jury... I mean grand jury in Mike Brown's shooting began Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.
Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death, reportedly by police officer Darren Wilson, on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at approximately 2:15 pm on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis County. The shooting of the unarmed Brown sparked a furious backlash and days of protests, some violent and involving looting. What follows is a list of links to news articles about the shooting and related matters:
From the
StLouisPostDispatch: An early article about the Michael Brown shooting
From the
LosAngelesTimes: This is the earliest (or oldest) article that I could find about the Michael Brown shooting.
From
HuffingtonPost: Another early article about the local African-American community's reaction to the shooting of Brown
From
PrisonCulture: A searing image of Michael Brown's father
From the
WashingtonPost via
RSN: More of Darren Wilson's history and background emerges; it seems that he was previously associated with another police department that had a bad relationship with the local black folks.
From Al Jazeera via
RSN: Darren Wilson: Judge, jury, and executioner.
From YahooNews via
CSM and the
AP: Shooter a.k.a. Darren Wilson tells his "side" of the story about how he shot an unarmed black man to death.
Updated Shooting Timeline: The AP via
YahooNews.
UPDATED LINKS SECTION:
From
YahooNews: Why is the Justice Department surprised by anything Ferguson and St. Louis investigators do.
From
Reuters: Amnesty International: Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses.
From
YahooNews: The results of a government autopsy of Mike Brown leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
From Guardian UK via
RSN: Young people resist older generation's call for "peace."
From
YahooNews: A weekend of resistance.
From the Guardian UK via
RSN: Ours sons could be the next Michael Brown.
From
RSN: The much-talked about grand jury tweet.
From Esquire via
RSN: Another black teenager shot by a you-know-what.
From Reuters via
RSN: Missourri planning for riots.
From ABC News via
YahooNews: There is a night of unrest after police kills black teen.
From
Truthout: The fault lines of Obama's "My Brother's Keeper."
From The Feminist Wire via
Truthout: Black women on the front lines of Ferguson.
From the AP via
RSN: Ferguson price-gouging media and other entities seeking files, records and information connected to Darren Wilson's killing of Mike Brown.
From
Truthout: Facism 101 - Police and media control.
From the USA Today via
RSN: Voter registration surges in Ferguson post-Mike Brown killing.
From the AP via
RSN: President Obama says mistrust of police is corroding America.
From Reuters via
RSN: People shooting at Ferguson police officers. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. Of course, this may not be linked to the Mike Brown shooting...
From
YahooNews: Mike Brown's parents ain't buyin' your bull, Chief/Grand Dragon Tom Jackson!
From Salon via
RSN: Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson attempts to join protest march calling for his resignation.
From
YahooNews: The Justice Department asked the Ferguson Police Department to order its officers to stop wearing "I am Darren Wilson: bracelets.
From
YahooNews: The Department of Justice begins interviews in its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.
From NPR via
RSN: The 11-year-old who shocked the St. Louis County Council.
From
YahooNews: Slide-show about tensions in Ferguson. The real treat is the string of anti-Black racists posts in the comments section.
From
YahooNews: More looting after a Mike Brown memorial is burned.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch via
RSN: Mike Brown's killer, Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson testifies before grand jury. Mike Brown was also scheduled to testify, but he failed to appear because he is dead... because of Darren Wilson, who was able to testify because no one has killed him... yet.
From
YahooNews: Protestors renew calls for D.A. Bob McCullogh's recusal, as judge gives klan jury... I mean grand jury until January to complete is cover-up... I mean complete its inquiry.
From Salon via
RSN: Hands up! Don't shoot!
From
Salon via
RSN: There's a cover-up in Ferguson.
From CSM via
RSN: When respect goes down, shootings go up.
From the WashingtonPost via
RSN: Protests in Ferguson continue; 38 arrested in act of civil disobedience to have Bob McCulloch removed as the prosecutor in the Mike Brown shooting.
From Rolling Stone via
RSN: Grammy-winning rapper and actor,
T.I., speaks about the Mike Brown shooting - America has created a monster.
From the AP via
RSN: Ferguson, MO elected leaders are met with protests and anger during a Tuesday, September 9, 2014 meeting with the public.
From
StLouisToday: New witnesses that Mike Brown has his hands up.
From
Truthout: St. Louis area cops loved shooting Black males before Mike Brown.
From
Truthout: Black men share their stories of abuse at the hands of the Ferguson (my term) "klops," klan cops.
From The Nation via
Truthout: A former Marine explains the weapons of war used by the Ferguson police.
From The Feminist Wire via
Truthout: The price of blackness
From Public Radio International via
RSN: In 2013, British police fired guns three times.
From the
IrishTimes: African-American men at risk...
From
MTV: Ma$e drops rhymes about Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.
From
RSN: Why the grand jury will love the killer Darren Wilson.
From the AP via
RSN: The outrageous behavior of a killer cop and his cohorts has united victims of police violence nationwide.
From
TIME via
RSN: Hilary finally speaks on Mike Brown shooting.
From
TPM: Protesters sue Missouri police.
From Yes! Magazine via
Truthout: The #FergusonSyllabus
From
YahooNews: 2 law enforcement officers who acted up during Mike Brown/Ferguson protests are out of jobs - one resigned and the other was fired.
From
Boston.com: Jordan Lebeau on being "no angel."
From
TheDailyBeast: Shocker! The Koch Bros. take on the militarization of police.
From
RSN: The New York Times called out for its dishonest of its "Ferguson shooting" story by many including Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC and William Boardman of RSN.
From
TheWeek: Jon Stewart returns to "The Daily Show," and talks FOX News, Ferguson, and race; FOX doesn't get the best of that.
From
Reuters via
RSN: Coverage of Mike Brown's funeral.
From the
HuffingtonPost and
TheVox: The New York Times draws criticism for calling Mike Brown, "no angel." The killer, Police Officer Darren Wilson, was described as "well-mannered" in the same article.
From the
HuffingtonPost: NYT and Uncle Tom back down on "no angel."
From the
HuffingtonPost: The always presumptuous Sean Klannity... I mean Sean Hannity gets schooled by Ferguson democratic politician, Patricia Bynes, in not backing down from a paternalistic white bully.
From
TheVillageVoice: The difference between the outrage over Mike Brown and over Eric Garner.
From the
NewYorkTimes: The secret to raising big money on crowdfunding sites is to kill a black male... apparently.
From
YahooNews: Two rallies, one racial divide over Ferguson shooting
From The Wire via
RSN: I bet he does represent quite a bit of the rank-and-file St. Louis County Police Department
From
RSN: The Ferguson police have a card up their sleeves
From
CommonDreams via RSN: 10 Facts about police violence in Ferguson on Sunday night, August 17th, 2014
From RSN: D.A. Bob McCulloch stalls for time:
A woman who served on McCulloch's grand jury for eighteen Wednesdays said that the vast majority of witnesses McCulloch uses are police officers. "He relies on them to make his cases. They are his allies...He can present the case against Wilson any way he wants to get the outcome he wants."
From Truthdig via
RSN: The ghost of Dred Scott
From
MotherJones: Not surprisingly, racists donate to Darren Wilson
From Esquire via
RSN: A body does not lie in the street for four hours... not in an advance society
From
YahooNews: Autopsy vs. autopsy
From
Truthout: How the mainstream media killed Michael Brown - by helping to spread the "official account" when cops kill Black men
From
TheGuardianUK: The ghost of Mike Brown
From The Daily Beast via
RSN: Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson has a history of supervising cops that shoot unarmed men.
From
RSN: Police kill mentally ill woman in Arizona
From
RSN: An account of the night police fired rubber bullets at protesters
From the
WashingtonPost: Reporter Wesley Lowery's story of being arrested at a McDonald's in Ferguson
From
RSN: Did you know an unarmed black man was also shot by police in Los Angeles?
From Reuters via
RSN: Protest of that killing continue
From
HuffingtonPost: Veteran Cop: If you don't want to get shot -- shut up
From
Inquisitr: The "bum rush" theory
From
YahooNews: Police mistrust among minorities still prevalent years later
From The Feminist Wire via
Truthout: Dancing While Lying Dead in the Street: Michael's body lying in street as the spectacle of lynching
From
Truthout: The Militirization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence by Henry A Giroux
From Time via
RSN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on what a coming race war will really be about.
From
Fox2Now of St. Louis:
The Baden autopsy press conference - Brown could have survived all the shots, except the last one, says Dr. Baden
From the
NewYorkTimes: The autopsy of Michael Brown - the results by
Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner of the City of New York.
From
HuffingtonPost: A Klan-like rally in support of killer-cop, Darren Wilson.
From
NBCNews: First photographic images of police officer
Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.
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From
YahooNews: At Greater Grace Church in St. Louis:
Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, a natural and adept, soft-spoken but firm performer, also spoke about his own son who, he said, wears his pants saggy, his hat crooked, and has tattoos running up his arm.
“And that’s my baby! That’s my son,” the police captain said, to raucous applause.
Al Sharpton:
“Nobody can go to the White House until they stop by our house!”
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From
YahooNews: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before killing Michael Brown
From
TheGuardian: St. Louis Country prosecutor furious over transfer in leadership
From
Huffington Post: Darren Wilson is the police officer who killed Michael Brown.
From
HuffingtonPost: Missouri governor did not know who killed Michael Brown.
Conflicting information about the cop who killed Michael Brown:
RT,
Wonkette, and
TheWire.
From
YahooNews: Police defend use of tear gas, smoke at protests.
From
TheGuardian via
RSN: St. Louis County officer shoots "second man" in Ferguson, where police officers shot 18-year-old African-American man, Michael Brown, dead.
From
TheGuardian: ACLU may sue to obtain the name of the police officer who (which has not been revealed as of this post) shot Michael Brown dead.
From
The Guardian: They shot another young black man in America.
