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December 2, 2014

ATTENTION ...ATTENTION!!!!!! BREAKING NEWS...OMFG!!!!

http://www.alternet.org/belief/pat-robertson-declares-racism-be-dead


PAT ROBERTSON HAS DECLARED RACISM IS DEAD IN AMERICA!!!!!....DAMN WHO KNEW????!!!!


November 29, 2014 |




It’s been a trying week for social justice activists after a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. An unfortunate and clear side-effect has been inflamed racial tensions. But that's not so obvious to Pat Robertson, who told his 700 Club audience that racism is actually dead.

Speaking to the viewers of his Christian Broadcasting Network show, the 84-year-old media mogul and Southern Baptist minister declared that black Americans have it pretty good these days.










you tell them Pat. roflmao. I should've had a V8
December 2, 2014

Mayor: $130M to revamp NYC jails for mentally ill

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9d84dfac589d40dfbf82888d246c2c61/mayor-130m-revamp-nyc-jails-mentally-ill

By JAKE PEARSON
Dec. 1, 2014 10:58 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City mayor wants to spend $130 million over four years to overhaul how the nation's most populous city deals with mentally ill and drug-addicted suspects, diverting many to treatment instead of the city's troubled Rikers Island jail complex.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans, to be announced Tuesday, are based on the recommendations of a task force he appointed following a series of reports by The Associated Press detailing problems at Rikers, including the deaths of two inmates suffering from serious mental illness.

The reforms are aimed largely at inmates with mental-health or substance-abuse problems who repeatedly end up in jail on minor offenses because there is nowhere else for them to go.

The changes, which do not require city council approval, include offering stepped-up training for police to identify such suspects, using drop-off treatment centers for low-level offenders and allowing more leeway for judges to order supervised release and treatment instead of jail. They draw on reforms already tried in Seattle, Washington D.C., and Louisville, Kentucky.


November 27, 2014

riots...



reporter says there are fires all over town and he is smiling...so is everyone else. Wheres the police?


Where's the National Guard?


Cop standing with the rioters..lol



But look...peaceful protest, what a threat. They were peppersprayed.
November 27, 2014

cops wearing cams. what do you think?

I think cops who are dirty will use the " during-the-struggle-he-tore-the-camera-off-me-and-it-was-destroyed" so no evidence can be collected.

November 25, 2014

Look at the Akai Gurley murder by NYPD

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/nyregion/police-tactic-scrutinized-after-accidental-shooting.html?_r=0

Unarmed 28-year-old Akai Gurley was accidentally shot dead by a rookie police officer in Brooklyn who was walking with his gun drawn in a dark stairwell in a crime-ridden housing complex. Gurley took the stairs cause the elevator took so long to come. He had no idea who shot him.



*This is just so fucked up*
November 24, 2014

Darren Wilson and his bride have probably already left Missouri.

The Prosecutor ... smh. Darren Wilson got special treatment according to news feeds

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