Kill Michael Brown, scot-free, make Ferguson video, indictment

This video from the USA says about itself:

Police Shoot At Peaceful Residents Saint Louis: Trill Report

20 August 2015

St Louis police fire into a crowd of peaceful neighborhood residents apparently for no reason at all according to Mary Moore of ABC News and Disclosure Newszine who shot the footage in this video but is not the person laughing and using profanity. Cops have since killed at least one protester in the latest unrest in the Saint Louis metropolitan area.

Policeman Darren Wilson killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, USA. He did not get indicted for that (because of fraudulent testimony by an ‘eyewitness’, a self-confessed racist, who had not been to Ferguson).

However, if you don’t kill anyone, but are a journalist … More and more authorities seem to have trouble distinguishing between journalism, little children, archeologists, Nelson Mandela, Senator Edward Kennedy etc. etc. and ‘terrorism’.

From Associated Press in the USA:

Trial set for videographer arrested covering Ferguson

By JIM SALTER and ALAN SCHER ZAGIER

03/24/2015 12:30 PM

FERGUSON, Mo.

A video journalist arrested while covering the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was fatally shot last summer plans to fight the charges at trial.

St. Louis-based videographer Mary Moore said she wants her reputation, and her criminal record, cleared. Moore was among 13 people taken into custody during a demonstration outside Ferguson police headquarters in early October, and was charged with municipal violations.

Protests have continued since Brown, who was black and unarmed, was shot and killed Aug. 9 by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Moore is one of an estimated two dozen journalists from around the world and among the hundreds of people who’ve been arrested in Ferguson.

Moore, whose videos have been used by The Associated Press, TV networks and other news organizations, is among the few journalists to actually go to court. She was charged with failure to comply, failure to disperse and resisting arrest. She said she was not part of the protest, but was simply documenting it on video.

Ferguson’s city attorney said Tuesday that Moore “was participating in the protest and attempted to interfere … by locking arms with other protesters.”

“There was no resisting,” Moore said Monday in a phone interview. “I’m not an idiot.”

Moore’s case was set for trial in late June at a brief hearing Tuesday morning in Ferguson’s municipal court — the same venue singled out in a withering U.S. Department of Justice report that found the St. Louis suburb operated a profit-driven system that heightened tensions among black residents for years before Brown’s death.

The Missouri Supreme Court appointed a state appeals court judge to hear cases in Ferguson’s courtroom following the ouster of the private-practice attorney who previously presided there. Moore said she is considering whether to seek a change of venue to St. Louis County Circuit Court.

The San Francisco-based Freedom of the Press Foundation tracked 19 journalist arrests in August — including two at a McDonald’s just days after Brown’s death — one in September, two in October and two in November. Trevor Timm, executive director of the foundation, said charges were not filed in most cases.

Missouri’s online court reporting system does not show state charges against any of the arrested journalists, but Ferguson city charges would not appear there. A Ferguson spokesman did not return messages seeking comment.

Timm said there are ample witnesses, along with plenty of video evidence, showing that most of the journalists arrested in Ferguson were simply trying to do their jobs.

“The police were acting on a hair-trigger and weren’t respecting the First Amendment rights of both journalists and protesters,” Timm said.

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Forty-eight media organizations, including the AP, sent a letter to Ferguson law enforcement officials in August, criticizing treatment of reporters.

The only recent event that spurred more arrests of journalists was the Occupy movement in 2011 and 2012. Josh Stearns, director of journalism and sustainability for the New Jersey-based Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, reported that more than 90 journalists were arrested in 12 U.S. cities during Occupy protests.

After her arrest, Moore and 12 protesters were taken to a jail in nearby St. Ann, forced to change into orange jail jumpsuits

Reminds me of Guantanamo Bay torture camp. And of the ISIS beheaders, Guantanamo copycats besides being Saudi government copycats.

and kept overnight in a single cell with a few other people arrested for unrelated reasons, she said.

Moore, who’s in her early 40s but declined to give her exact age, said the arrest has harmed her reputation and has been a source of stress.

“There is nothing worse than being accused of something when you know you don’t represent that,” she said. “I take pride in being a civic person. When you say I did these things and you know better, that’s a problem for me.”

Missouri: Former Cardinals Player Curt Ford Victim Of Racist Attack, Told To ‘Go Back To Ferguson’: Report here.

HOW FERGUSON’S POLICE FORCE COLLECTED MILLIONS IN TICKETS “In dozens of interviews with The Huffington Post over the past several months, residents have called the [municipal court] system ‘out of control,’ ‘inhumane,’ ‘crazy,’ ‘racist,’ ‘unprofessional’ and ‘sickening.’ Some have told stories of being slapped with large fines for minor violations and threatened with jail if they couldn’t pay. ‘Everyone’s got a horror story about the police,’ former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch told HuffPost in a recent interview. ‘And most of that horror story relates back to being ticketed for some minor violation.'” [Ryan Reilly and Mariah Stewart, HuffPost]

Ferguson and the Criminalization of American Life: here.

Justice Might Finally Be Coming in a Six-Year-Old Case of Police Brutality in Ferguson: here.