The Rude Pundit - Random Thoughts Reading Through the DOJ's Ferguson Police Report

[BrotherIvan]

60. I would like to see the legal volunteers who were at the protests

Come in and be advocates for the community. It would be amazing if there was some way to have a sort of protection force within the neighborhood. Not legal aide from outside or a bureaucracy, but people who lived there, laymen who studied the law and rights, people who could educate and assist. If we could help fund our kids to go to law school with the idea that they come back to live in the community such as they do on reservations, hell, if we even got together and bought the books so gifted students could read the law and make a plan, that would go a long way.

Because what abusive cops like nothing more is people who don't know their rights or how to exercise them. The public defenders are part of the corrupt judicial system and don't give a damn. But if you have organized as a community and whenever you see a police cruiser pull up, you surround them with cell phones recording and a community legal advocate speaking on your behalf, those fucking pigs would just slink away. And you work with a law firm that sues them to bankruptcy every time they step over the line. They have been working in the shadows too long. We need to police the police. They serve at our pleasure; we pay their salaries. They need to be accountable to the people they SERVE.

I hope Ferguson, the entire community gets together a massive class action lawsuit because every single person has been harmed by this situation. It sounds like the DoJ isn't going to get their hands dirty beyond perhaps dismantling the Ferguson PD. But the situation goes much, much deeper and the rot needs to be cleaned out.