Fraught and loaded with meaning, Darren Wilson told the St. Louis County grand jury that during his scuffle with Michael Brown, the 18 year old Brown looked “angry”, like a “demon.”
DC Republicans have arrived at their policy for blocking President Obama’s immigration order – EBI – everything but impeachment.
Flock of pigs flies over Mississippi as federal judge strikes down the state’s gay marriage ban (Arkansas’s too.)
Two FBI Agents were shot overnight near Ferguson, Missouri where they were helping local law enforcement execute an arrest warrant at a barricaded home. Neither agent’s injuries were life-threatening.
Out of the spotlight for a couple years, Giuliani decides memories of toxicity had maybe faded too much. So he’s back on the case.
We should always be careful not to force concrete individual events – individual tragedies – into the greater, broader social injustices into which they seem to and may indeed fit. It’s with this skepticism that I’ve approached the death of Michael Brown from the start. So I was surprised that finally reading Darren Wilson’s testimony changed my impression of what happened a lot.
Most infographics don’t add that much. But this one is very helpful in understanding some broad outlines about the Wilson grand jury. PBS Newshour has gone through the transcripts and created a straightforward chart showing what each witness said on several key questions. Were Brown’s hands up? Was he charging Wilson? Was he running away when fired upon?
Rudy Giuliani was never really about the healing when it came to talking about race in America. But in the days surrounding the Ferguson grand jury news he seemed to renounce whatever restraint he’d ever had on the issue and return to it with a gusto after more than a decade spent focusing on hating on Arabs. So we asked Dylan Scott to find out just what happened. Great piece. Check it out.
Police in Austin are investigating an anti-immigration political motive for the man who shot up the Mexican consulate overnight in Austin. The shooter a white male in his 50s with what the Austin PD called a lengthy criminal record was shot dead at the scene, though police are not yet certain whether he was killed by police gunfire or by his own hand.
Ferguson police tells anti-government extremist group, “Oath Keepers”, to stop deploying their forces on rooftops in Ferguson.