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Was Key Grand Jury Witness in Michael Brown Case a Racist, Mentally Ill, Lying Ex-Felon?
For answers, Democracy Now! speaks with William Bastone, editor of TheSmokingGun.com and lead author of an article identifying Witness 40 as Sandra McElroy. Hear him lay out the facts in this week’s most-watched interview. (And look back at all of our top segments of the week throughout 2014 on Pinterest.)
The thing that is incredibly puzzling is: I don’t think that anyone attempted to determine whether what Witness 40 told them was true or not.
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I don’t think anybody in America feels that there can be accountability for a police officer for killing an unarmed black man at this moment.
How can anyone in the community have faith in the system now? First Ferguson, now Staten Island. The Grand Jury’s failure to indict sends the clear message that Black lives don’t matter. But they do.
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We can no longer ignore that racism permeates every system within our society. And until we address those issues, protests and uprisings will continue around the country.
Alicia Garza, co-creator of Black Lives Matter, speaks on Democracy Now! about protests around the nation over the Michael Brown shooting.
Michael Eric Dyson explains the dehumanization of black people in the “collective imagination” of America on Democracy Now! in a discussion about the ongoing Ferguson protests.
Darren Wilson went on TV and said he felt like a 5-year-old boy up against Hulk Hogan. You don’t give a 5-year-old boy an M16, a gun and solar gear and let him patrol my community.
We hear them all the time saying ‘I am ready to die because I don’t have anything to live for’. The school system has betrayed them. The President has betrayed them. Eric Holder has betrayed them. Governor Nixon has betrayed them. The electoral system has betrayed them. They are in a situation where the destruction of properties seems to be the only way they can convey their rage because they have been given no recourse.