The victim's family has asked that the media stop reproducing pictures of his corpse. Understandably they don't want him remembered as a dead body lying in the street. Could you replace that image?
In case the author or moderator does not see the unregistered comment @2, he says that the family has requested that the media not show images of the kid's corpse.
And in other news another man was shot because of his race and what he was wearing on his head in Florida. He was a rabbi. Because the suspects (who are still at large) are 2 young black men the media has already decided it is not a hate crime. How about a post of two from the SLOG decrying this black on Jewish hate crime?
There's a mistake in calling Anonymous a group. Anyone can use that identity. Expecting consistency is silly.
Have you ever tried to figure out what arts groups Anonymous favors? Their donations are all over the board. Just when you think you have them pegged as opera fans there's a big donation to musical theater.
American news outlets have a policy of not showing the bodies of dead American soldiers, but have no problems showing the bodies of dead foreign soldiers. Similarly, I'll bet *we're Michael Brown white*, you motherfuckers would not have posted an image of his dead body.
@10,
Agree. It must be taken down. It is completely tasteless.
Most unfortunate. Michael Brown RIP.
A full and fair investigation must be undertaken immediately. I believe the FBI is now looking into it. And no, "Anonymous" or whatever it wants to be called does no one a service, let alone the family of Mr. Brown Cyber-terrorizing the Ferguson, MO Police Department. That is most unnecessary and against the law.
" "hacktivist" collective Anonymous" - Yeah except it's totally not a collective. Most of these people never have and never will see each other, and this might be the only time they get together for an operation like this and future operations won't even have close to the same number of people or even the same people. Anonymous is a tactic. Anything and anyone can be anonymous at any time if they try hard enough and actually want to be anonymous. No one can stop you.
A half dozen cops came to steal a laptop from a sleeping 15 year old kid,
They kicked down the door and discovered some more hundred million exactly like him,
So we do not forgive and we do not forget we are legion expect you'll see,
The righteous will resist, underfed eat the rich, and the data mines finally come clean,
You can't stop us we are anonymous,
expect us we know what all of us know,
We know what big brother did,
We're a tattle tale,
We'll see your all seeing eye in hell!
@11,
To answer your question, a photograph of his mutilated corpse in the Chicago Defender. And, while I don't think it is necessary to show a photo in either case, I can appreciate why it happened in the Till case.
But, there are differences. First of all, we know a lot about the Till case. And at this point we know very little about the Brown case. The Till murder was perpetrated by white supremacists. We don't for sure the motivation for killing Brown by this police officer yet. Was it necessarily racist? Finally, there will be far greater resources for the family of Mr. Brown today than for the Till family in 1955(?).
This is tragedy for all. Let's keep our cool and let the investigation proceed.
@ 16, we NOW know a lot about the Till case. I don't know what was known when the Chicago Defender published the photo - maybe much of what is known now. But it still had an impact that would never have been made if it wasn't published.
Anyway, I do agree that yhe investigation must proceed before we draw any conclusions. But I want to point out that there are reasons other than satisfying morbid curiosities for publishing these kinds of photographs.
@1 if Anonymous is cyber-terrorism then what to call the "police" that murder citizens?
From Mirriam Webster...
terrorism
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear
.
in a population and thereby to bring about a particular
.
political objective. It has been used throughout history by
.
political organizations of both the left and the right, by
.
nationalist and ethnic groups, and by revolutionaries.
.
Although usually thought of as a means of destabilizing or
.
overthrowing existing political institutions, terror also has
.
been employed by governments against their own people to
.
suppress dissent; examples include the reigns of certain
.
Roman emperors, the French Revolution (see Reign of
.
Terror), Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Stalin, and
.
Argentina during the โdirty warโ of the 1970s. Terrorism's
.
impact has been magnified by the deadliness and
.
technological sophistication of modern-day weapons and
.
the capability of the media to disseminate news of such
.
attacks instantaneously throughout the world. The deadliest
.
terrorist attack ever occurred in the United States on Sept.
.
11, 2001 (see September 11 attacks), when members of
.
al-Qaeda terrorist network hijacked four commercial
.
airplanes and crashed two of them into the twin towers of
.
the World Trade Center complex in New York City and one
.
into the Pentagon building near Washington, D.C.; the fourth
.
plane crashed near Pittsburgh, Pa. The crashes resulted in
.
the collapse of much of the World Trade Center complex,
.
the destruction of part of the southwest side of the
.
Pentagon, and the deaths of some 3,000 people.
We're at 2 minutes to midnight and the guillotines are almost ready ...
Have you ever tried to figure out what arts groups Anonymous favors? Their donations are all over the board. Just when you think you have them pegged as opera fans there's a big donation to musical theater.
Defacing a web page and inserting a smiley face graphic?
It's THE COLLAPSE!!!
TAKE THAT FUCKING SHIT DOWN.
Agree. It must be taken down. It is completely tasteless.
Most unfortunate. Michael Brown RIP.
A full and fair investigation must be undertaken immediately. I believe the FBI is now looking into it. And no, "Anonymous" or whatever it wants to be called does no one a service, let alone the family of Mr. Brown Cyber-terrorizing the Ferguson, MO Police Department. That is most unnecessary and against the law.
They kicked down the door and discovered some more hundred million exactly like him,
So we do not forgive and we do not forget we are legion expect you'll see,
The righteous will resist, underfed eat the rich, and the data mines finally come clean,
You can't stop us we are anonymous,
expect us we know what all of us know,
We know what big brother did,
We're a tattle tale,
We'll see your all seeing eye in hell!
To answer your question, a photograph of his mutilated corpse in the Chicago Defender. And, while I don't think it is necessary to show a photo in either case, I can appreciate why it happened in the Till case.
But, there are differences. First of all, we know a lot about the Till case. And at this point we know very little about the Brown case. The Till murder was perpetrated by white supremacists. We don't for sure the motivation for killing Brown by this police officer yet. Was it necessarily racist? Finally, there will be far greater resources for the family of Mr. Brown today than for the Till family in 1955(?).
This is tragedy for all. Let's keep our cool and let the investigation proceed.
Anyway, I do agree that yhe investigation must proceed before we draw any conclusions. But I want to point out that there are reasons other than satisfying morbid curiosities for publishing these kinds of photographs.
ANONYMOOSE ARE LEGION
LOL MOM DO NOT WANT
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
From Mirriam Webster...
terrorism
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear
.
in a population and thereby to bring about a particular
.
political objective. It has been used throughout history by
.
political organizations of both the left and the right, by
.
nationalist and ethnic groups, and by revolutionaries.
.
Although usually thought of as a means of destabilizing or
.
overthrowing existing political institutions, terror also has
.
been employed by governments against their own people to
.
suppress dissent; examples include the reigns of certain
.
Roman emperors, the French Revolution (see Reign of
.
Terror), Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Stalin, and
.
Argentina during the โdirty warโ of the 1970s. Terrorism's
.
impact has been magnified by the deadliness and
.
technological sophistication of modern-day weapons and
.
the capability of the media to disseminate news of such
.
attacks instantaneously throughout the world. The deadliest
.
terrorist attack ever occurred in the United States on Sept.
.
11, 2001 (see September 11 attacks), when members of
.
al-Qaeda terrorist network hijacked four commercial
.
airplanes and crashed two of them into the twin towers of
.
the World Trade Center complex in New York City and one
.
into the Pentagon building near Washington, D.C.; the fourth
.
plane crashed near Pittsburgh, Pa. The crashes resulted in
.
the collapse of much of the World Trade Center complex,
.
the destruction of part of the southwest side of the
.
Pentagon, and the deaths of some 3,000 people.