8.19.15: The police kill again in St. Louis. Some accounts and thoughts on what happened in response
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 11:30 a.m., St. Louis Police shot and killed 18-year-old Mansur “Man-Man” Ball-Bey. Within hours the police had been shouted off the block and by nightfall tear gas and fires dotted the neighborhood. August 19th marked the one-year anniversary of police shooting and killing Kajeme Powell. A march was held […]
What’s Worked in the Past: Learning From Ferguson
Download a PDF of this article here. From Counter Punch /by Peter Gelderloos The announcement of the non-indictment of Darren Wilson caught me on the road, traveling to visit family for the Thanksgiving holiday. The next day I found myself in a protest, one of over a hundred occurring across the country. There I witnessed […]