The best idea I've heard so far is the app five-0, which slog put up recently. Yelp can hurt a business, and it can help too. If we don't rely on the cops to keep tabs on themselves, but do it ourselves, in a way that is out of their control, just that knowledge can affect change.
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Black Texans Protest Police Violence by Exercising Right to Openly Carry Guns

By forming the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, an open-carry group that goes around in public, bearing the same semiautomatic weaponry as their fellow open-carry advocates, protesting police brutality.

...the formation of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, named after the co-founder of the Black Panthers, “for the specific purpose of self defense and community policing.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/black-tex…

Would it hurt you to report the reason you used the image of the woman with the "Justice for Michael Randall Ealy" poster.

See, back in '98 Michael (age 35) was high on crack and drinking when he ran into the middle of the street, stopping traffic on Dexter, alternately asking for help, and then agitated and swinging at people (Hmm..sounds strangely familiar.)

An ambulance was called and Ealy attacked the cops (biting one on the leg), and pushed the two ambulance attendants to the ground. Then, handcuffed and violently resisting, was placed face down in the ambulance, (having bitten).

On the way to the hospital he stopped breathing. A coroner's report said that cocaine and a previously undiagnosed heart condition contributed to his death, with evidence that chest compression (from fighting) may have triggered it.

In a subsequent lawsuit, the jury found that the city was NOT negligent in its handling of Ealy.

So – let's be clear – Mr Ealy had his day in court.

It just wasn't what people want to hear when they are resources to the Grievance Industry.

Mr Ealy's case is sad. But "sad" and "wrong" aren't synonyms.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.c…

@5, do you also have a really bad feeling that the other witnesses, whose stories agree with Johnson's in all the salient points, are huge liars? Do you believe that the fact that Brown was shot through the top of his skull, proving that he was on his way to the ground when he was shot again, is also a lie?

There are named witnesses who have described what they saw. There is, at this moment, no named witness who saw Brown "rush the cop", and that the PD wants to muddy the waters with that story is completely understandable. So far ALL the physical evidence and ALL the eyewitness testimony supports the original story: cop and victim have a minor tussle, cop loses his shit, cop murders fleeing victim who stops, staggers back a step, and collapses in a further fusillade. Why complicate things when there's no evidence to support that complication?

@6

No. It likely means that in the hostility of the community, it's probably not safe to be public about what you saw if it competes with the Prevailing Narrative.

@5

Why is it bad if Dorian Johnson is a huge liar? Wouldn't it be BETTER to find out he was a liar? Meaning that the cop did his job and a bad guy is gone. Are you saying you're hoping it would be GOOD that there was a case of police racism? So that Michael Brown's death was unjust?

And what part of out-of-towners opportunistically trashing Ferguson was "constructive energy?"

Hmmmm...

Hey #4, I did a little research and helped clear a few things:

See, back in '98 Michael (age 35) was high on crack and drinking when he ran into the middle of the street, stopping traffic on Dexter asking for help. *Ealy was found lying on the sidewalk when police and SFD arrived.*

An ambulance was called. *Ealy was calm and cooperative when placed into the ambulance. During the ride there, however, the medic alleged that Ealy undid his restraints and wanted out, and they had their physical confrontation. When the ambulance pulled over, the two medics and two officers struggled with a face-down Ealy, who bit a cop in the leg and scratched the hand of the other. According to police reports, Ealy was pepper-sprayed in the face during this time. Back-up arrived to subdue Ealy, and he was then placed face-first into a SFD stretcher.*

On the way to the hospital he *became unresponsive and his pulse stopped.* At the hospital, medics rushed to treat his scratches and bruises (for some reason), where Ealy died 6 1/2 hours later. A coroner's report said that cocaine and a previously undiagnosed heart condition *possibly* contributed to his death, plus also linking chest and neck compression (from *restraint/altercation/struggle/choke hold*) as a cause of death.

In a subsequent lawsuit, the jury found that the city was not negligent in its handling of Ealy.

So I'm guessing that's why that woman (along with several others at Pratt) held up that sign.

So the police intentionally or neglectfully killed him for no reason?

He was on drugs, drunk, agitated and episodically violent. Correct?

Asking for help, he was put in an ambulance, and restrained based on the judgement of professionals. Correct?

He became violent and attacked four people. Correct?

To restrain him, the used non-lethal means (Pepper spray). He was handcuffed and placed face down (which is how you put anyone when they're a threat to themselves, others or a risk of flight. Correct?

So – What are you proposing is the injustice that's been done to Michael Randall Ealy?

Yes, his death is unfortunate. But what should the ambulance crew and police have done differently?

- Let him go, to run in traffic and scream at people at 11pm?
- Don't use non-lethal spray and let him continue fighting?
– Subdue him, but don't handcuff him?

– Talk about his fucking feelings and hug it out?

Seriously.

Michael Randall Ealy made a pile of shitty choices, and each have logical consequences. I'm totally against an aggressive militarized police force, but if you're going to hold police to such a powder-puff standard of care, you're going to get an effectively de-policed urban community that would claim the lives of a few hundred young black men a day.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.c…

>Remember Michael Randall Ealey! Victim of the raycist po-leese!
>He was a violent crackhead

Why do social justice types always have such shitty martyrs?

LOL@ racists excusing killing UNARMED people because "GASP they were on drugs!"

90% of the white people arrested by police have some drug in their system. They arent shot on sight though. Gee I wonder why?

I have feeling that Dorian Johnson made up an "execution-style" murder scenario, that Brown was indeed falling forward (or at least had his head down) when he was shot, and that the ME (and family's autopsy) will likely contradict Johnson a lot more than the police officer. Why is that bad? It's bad because if it turns out that way, then this will be another "Duke Lacrosse" case where legitimate grievances about broader social issues are dismissed because this one particular case turns out to be based on a lie.