Tag: Michael Brown

“The riots have started’: Protest escalates in Missouri [pics, video]

http://twitter.com/#!/Beverlyb11/status/498646211755540480

It seems the situation has only gotten worse in Ferguson, Missouri where people are protesting the police shooting of Michael Brown.

http://twitter.com/#!/ElizabethKSDK/status/498641275684675584 http://twitter.com/#!/ElizabethKSDK/status/498643765008285697 http://twitter.com/#!/seelolago/status/498643226925223936 http://twitter.com/#!/Ambitious_Bre/status/498646161792958466 http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelSkolnik/status/498646696759660544 http://twitter.com/#!/chrislhayes/status/498647436609736705 http://twitter.com/#!/PTtheIslander/status/498648263458045953 http://twitter.com/#!/rlippmann/status/498650832909651971 http://twitter.com/#!/AntonioFrench/status/498650161145720833

http://twitter.com/#!/BrittanyNoble/status/498649816663334913

http://twitter.com/#!/TefPoe/status/498651808089534464 http://twitter.com/#!/iamWillH/status/498652753846345729

Indeed.

Update: 10:38 PM EDT, August 10

http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelSkolnik/status/498656274616434688 http://twitter.com/#!/latoyamarie/status/498656955763032065 http://twitter.com/#!/bkillip/status/498660315287261185 http://twitter.com/#!/ReecePGL/status/498661000057335808 http://twitter.com/#!/ChristinaKSDK/status/498661059839131648 http://twitter.com/#!/rlippmann/status/498661016629432320 http://twitter.com/#!/rlippmann/status/498656918601490432

From neighborhood business owners?

http://twitter.com/#!/rlippmann/status/498657578956902401 http://twitter.com/#!/rlippmann/status/498661016629432320 http://twitter.com/#!/goldietaylor/status/498662169693921280

http://twitter.com/#!/Jonssonville/status/498662828769693697 http://twitter.com/#!/patrickdehahn/status/498663786489073664

Update: 12:03 AM EDT, August 11

http://twitter.com/#!/PDPJ/status/498669628349251584 http://twitter.com/#!/PDPJ/status/498674556681588737 http://twitter.com/#!/AnneAllredNBC/status/498675781850386434 http://twitter.com/#!/PzFeed/status/498676815029096448 http://twitter.com/#!/AntonioFrench/status/498678682056392705 http://twitter.com/#!/AntonioFrench/status/498680227674193921

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Related:

‘Breaking Bad style’: Ferguson, Mo., looters load ATM onto truck

New Black Panthers reportedly at protest, riots in Ferguson, Mo. [pics, Vine video]

Now someone is shooting at Ferguson, Mo., police

Tensions rise in Ferguson, Mo., as angry anti-police protests intensify [Vine video]

‘F*ck the police’: ‘Disturbed’ online protesters want #JusticeForMikeBrown

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/10/and-the-riots-have-started-protest-escalates-in-ferguson-mo-pics-vine-video/

Pathologist charges reporter used ‘inaccurate and misleading quotes’

http://twitter.com/#!/drjudymelinek/status/525771302293225472

That’s Dr. Judy Melinek, forensic pathologist and author of “Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner,” expressing her thanks to the Daily Kos. Why? Melinek was interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the autopsy of Michael Brown and now disputes how she was quoted, an assertion defended at length by the Daily Kos.

On her blog, Melinek explains:

A reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called me earlier this week, saying she had Michael Brown’s official autopsy report as prepared by the St. Louis County Medical Examiner, and asking me if I would examine and analyze it from the perspective of a forensic pathologist with no official involvement in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting death. I read the report, and spent half an hour on the phone with the reporter explaining Michael Brown’s autopsy report line-by-line, and I told her not to quote me – but that I would send her quotes she could use in an e mail. The next morning, I found snippets of phrases from our conversation taken out of context in her article in the Post-Dispatch. These inaccurate and misleading quotes were picked up and disseminated by other journals, blogs, and websites.

In the Dispatch’s published story, reporters Christine Byers and Blythe Bernhard quote Melinek as saying that “If he [Michael Brown] has his hand near the gun when it goes off, he’s going for the officer’s gun.” Melinek disputes making any such conclusion, writing on her blog:

There’s a big difference between “The hand wound has gunpowder particles on microscopic examination, which suggests that it is a close-range wound. That means that Mr. Brown’s hand would have been close to the barrel of the gun” and “he’s going for the gun.”

I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to correct this, in my own words last night, when Lawrence O’Donnell invited me to appear as a guest on MSNBC.

There are other disputes between the two as well, but St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Blythe Bernhard is standing by what she wrote.

Bernhard seems to be losing this round with the public.

Melinek says she’s learned a couple of lessons from the experience.

 

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/10/25/forensic-pathologist-charges-reporter-used-inaccurate-and-misleading-quotes-on-michael-brown-autopsy/

Obama angers by addressing Robin Williams, staying silent on Ferguson

http://twitter.com/#!/fancybuffalo/status/499044011521617920

Interesting? Or infuriating? Soon after news broke of the death of Robin Williams, President Obama released a brief statement praising Williams’ talents and offering condolences “to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.”

How about that other bit of breaking news in Ferguson, Mo.? Has it reached the newspapers in Martha’s Vineyard yet?

http://twitter.com/#!/GPollowitz/status/499046820912594946

Anger? Check.

http://twitter.com/#!/Ellevation_/status/499032457350365185 http://twitter.com/#!/Speakin_MyMindd/status/499020342082682882 http://twitter.com/#!/icantdribble/status/499006711370633217 http://twitter.com/#!/Fanaticuss/status/498997250702315520 http://twitter.com/#!/Miami_Chica/status/499039162595807233 http://twitter.com/#!/matthewcalcara/status/499030543187853312 http://twitter.com/#!/Will_Bunch/status/499015444851081216 http://twitter.com/#!/EatLitePipeDark/status/498993597711409153 http://twitter.com/#!/TheArnold_SoM/status/499044481753444354 http://twitter.com/#!/PIKEStateOfMind/status/499044203339345921

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/12/president-obama-angers-by-addressing-robin-williams-staying-silent-on-ferguson-riots/