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White House Petition
Aug. 19th, 2014 04:07 amU.S. citizens: here is a link to the official Mike Brown Law petition on whitehouse.gov.
It's over 100K signatures so there will be an official response, but the more the better.
Boston area: does anybody know when/what protest plans are upcoming? I didn't make it to Copley on Saturday. Boston Common on Thursday night looked like about 1K people to my inexperienced-at-estimating eye, so I assume there will be more protests going on, but my Google-fu is presently failing. Hoping to find out about the next one in time to make a sign.
As to how Boston Common on Thursday night was... yeah, it was absolutely so necessary for there to be cops there who had their hands on the butts of their guns the entire time. Riiiiight. So helpful! Exactly what the police reaction ought to be to listening to a man literally begging for help in erecting a headstone for the son the cops shot more than a year ago, right?
If you have your hand on the butt of your gun, I don't care whether you're listening or not, you don't look like you're listening. You look like you're threatening.
Anyway. Stopping there because I am not one of the people whose voices matter here, but I hadn't seen a link on LJ to the Mike Brown Law petition yet.
Mike Brown Law. Requires all state, county, and local police to wear a camera.
Create a bill, sign into law, and set aside funds to require all state, county, and local police, to wear a camera. Due to the latest accounts of deadly encounters with police, We the People, petition for the Mike Brown Law. Create a bill, sign into law, and set aside funds to require all state, county, and local police, to wear a camera. The law shall be made in an effort to not only detour police misconduct (i.e. brutality, profiling, abuse of power), but to ensure that all police are following procedure, and to remove all question, from normally questionable police encounters. As well, as help to hold all parties within a police investigation, accountable for their actions.
It's over 100K signatures so there will be an official response, but the more the better.
Boston area: does anybody know when/what protest plans are upcoming? I didn't make it to Copley on Saturday. Boston Common on Thursday night looked like about 1K people to my inexperienced-at-estimating eye, so I assume there will be more protests going on, but my Google-fu is presently failing. Hoping to find out about the next one in time to make a sign.
As to how Boston Common on Thursday night was... yeah, it was absolutely so necessary for there to be cops there who had their hands on the butts of their guns the entire time. Riiiiight. So helpful! Exactly what the police reaction ought to be to listening to a man literally begging for help in erecting a headstone for the son the cops shot more than a year ago, right?
If you have your hand on the butt of your gun, I don't care whether you're listening or not, you don't look like you're listening. You look like you're threatening.
Anyway. Stopping there because I am not one of the people whose voices matter here, but I hadn't seen a link on LJ to the Mike Brown Law petition yet.
