Where's the Conservative Outcry on Ferguson Police Abuses?

The ideological movement needs a better response to governments that violate the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. Conservatives are typically eager to disparage politicians and bureaucrats who conspire to seize wealth.



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Capitol Hill's Black Staffers Walk Out to Say ‘Hands Up, Don't Shoot!’

African American Congressional staffers staged a walkout Thursday afternoon, disrupting their workday to gather on the Capitol steps in a display of unity with demonstrations against the Eric Garner and Mike Brown grand jury decisions.



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11 moronic reasons white people have rioted

Conservative pundits seem to think looting is unique to black communities. They obviously don't watch much sports There is a long and storied history of behaviors being depicted through the prism of people’s skin color.



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St. Louis cops demand that Rams players be punished for “Hands up, don’t shoot” entrance

The St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA) has issued a statement condemning the St. Louis Rams players who entered the field last night with their hands raised in a “Hands up, don’t shoot” gesture, calling it “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.



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Reaction to Ferguson Decision Shows Racial Divide Remains Over Views of Justice

Paul McLemore, the first African-American to become a New Jersey state trooper, was on the streets of Newark in 1967 when riots following a police beating of a black taxi driver left 26 dead. He spent decades as a civil rights lawyer and years as a municipal judge in Trenton.



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‘No Justice, No Profit’: Hollywood stars join #BlackoutBlackFriday online campaign

The ‘No Justice, No Profit’ campaign – led by a movement of celebrities and activists – is calling for a nationwide boycott of retail outlets to protest the recent grand jury decision not to indict a white officer for killing an unarmed black teenager.



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Telling My Son About Ferguson

COLUMBUS, Ohio — MY son wants an answer. He is 10 years old, and he wants me to tell him that he doesn’t need to worry. He is a black boy, rather sheltered, and knows little of the world beyond our safe, quiet neighborhood.



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Bob McCulloch’s pathetic prosecution of Darren Wilson

Ferguson reminds us that we still have a race problem in America. But the face of this problem is not Darren Wilson’s. It’s Bob McCulloch’s. Wilson, the Missouri police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, is the target of most public ire.



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The Meaning of the Ferguson Riots

The St. Louis County grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer who in August shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, would have generated widespread anger and disappointment in any case.



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Justice Scalia Explains What Was Wrong With The Ferguson Grand Jury

On Monday, Prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict Darren Wilson, the officer who killed Michael Brown. But that decision was the result of a process that turned the purpose of a grand jury on its head.



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His Fraudulent Story Exposed, Jim Hoft Tries to Edit History

Right wing blogger Jim Hoft’s bogus claim on August 19 that officer Darren Wilson suffered an “orbital blowout fracture of the eye socket” at the hands of Michael Brown was shared on Facebook almost 900,000 times, and Hoft has continued to relentlessly repeat this claim for months, in post aft



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St. Louis prosecutor McCulloch roasted online for indicting everybody but Darren Wilson

St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch (D) was criticized as much on Monday night for the decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson as for his 20-minute statement leading up to it.



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‘We ain’t taking no n*ggers here’: Kentucky fire chief refuses to help black family in traffic accident

A Kentucky fire chief is being criticized for racist comments after he refused to help a family of stranded motorists because they were black, and then suggested that an Asian-American television reporter did not understand English.



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Missouri HS principal on seniors’ blackface stunt: ‘They don’t mean anything by it’

A group of seniors in Sullivan, Missouri was criticized after donning blackface for an intramural football game, which their principal said fueled a misunderstanding, the Riverfront Times reported. “I thought, ‘Oh, they don’t mean anything by it. Just let it go.



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‘Let the war begin’: Anonymous knocks hate sites offline as KKK ‘hoods off’ campaign continues

The hacker collective Anonymous released another cache of information on people the group says are affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations. Twitter accounts associated with the collective posted links on Tuesday morning to a document posted to PrivatePaste.



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Anonymous Operation #HoodsOff IDs St. Louis Klan Members -- Including Cops

Twitter, Facebook and Google + accounts are being deleted right and left today, as Anonymous Operation #HoodsOff continues in response to a letter from the Klan threatening Ferguson protesters.



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Walking While Black: Beverly Hills PD Arrests Charles Belk

There isn't much more I can say about this than Charles Belk didn't already say in his Facebook post. Here it is for everyone to see. He spent 6 hours at the station before they got a clue about who he was.



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