Detroi pig who murdered little girl gets off scott free.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

It's happened again. A pig who murdered an innocent child walks.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/28/joseph-weekley-charges-dismissed-aiyana-stanley-jones_n_6566032.html)
From HuffPo:

The Detroit police officer who fatally shot a sleeping 7-year-old girl will not be retried, officials said Wednesday.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement that her office was moving to dismiss the case against Officer Joseph Weekley. He was originally charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor, after Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed in 2010 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/aiyana-stanley-jones-joseph-weekley-trial_n_5824684.html) during a botched police raid at her home.
Weekley's first trial in 2013 ended in a mistrial. In a second trial last year, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the manslaughter charge (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/joseph-weekley-manslaughter-dismissed-aiyana-stanley-jones_n_5927294.html) after a motion by the defense. The jury again deadlocked while deliberating whether to convict Weekley of the lesser charge, causing a second mistrial (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/joseph-weekley-mistrial-verdict_n_5965362.html).

"Today we personally informed the family of Aiyana Stanley–Jones that we have made a decision that we would not be going to trial for a third time in the Joseph Weekley case," Worthy said, calling Hathaway's decision to dismiss the manslaughter charge "unfortunate."
Shortly after midnight on May 16, 2010, members of the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team initiated a raid on the Stanley-Jones home in search of a murder suspect. Weekley was first through the door and allegedly had difficulty seeing when another officer threw a a flash-bang grenade. Weekley fired his gun, killing Aiyana, who had been asleep on the couch with her grandmother.
Weekley maintained that he only shot because the grandmother, Mertilla Jones, struck his gun. She denied touching his weapon, and at trial the prosecution questioned why Weekley had his finger on the trigger.
As activists around the country have widely protested the police killings of unarmed black individuals, including Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Detroiters have added Aiyana's name to the list of victims. In October, Roland Lawrence, chairman of the Justice for Aiyana Committee, condemned the judge's decision to dismiss the manslaughter charge against Weekley.
"Surely, the death of a baby by a well-trained police force must be deemed unacceptable in a civilized society," Lawrence said in a statement at the time.
The prosecution will move to dismiss the case against Weekley Friday morning.


This time, there is NO ambiguity. The little girl was sleeping on the couch. And now she sleeps in a cemetery because of this keystone fuckwad.

AND HE GOT AWAY WITH IT!

If there is anything, and I mean anything, that will cause a massive uprising here in the U.S. within the next decade, it's going to be this shit. If this keeps happening, I am completely expecting to see barricades in the streets.

[Mr. Piccolo]

This is what happens when you militarize the police and train them to treat the local population like natives in some overseas colony.

Police departments use mercenaries like Blackwater to train police so they now have that same "warrior" attitude.

[Bala Perdida]

They tried making barricades during the november/december uprisings. Liberals and other fuckers kept obstructing their construction and burning. Opposing them with a passion that was almost violent, saying things like we're 'better than this'. Still conforming to 'the system' that they're claiming to act against.

This could kick off new uprisings. If racial tensions are as bad as conspiracy theorists say they are, it should be no problem. I'd hate for the pigs to have time to breath.

[Ocean Seal]

They tried making barricades during the november/december uprisings. Liberals and other fuckers kept obstructing their construction and burning. Opposing them with a passion that was almost violent, saying things like we're 'better than this'. Still conforming to 'the system' that they're claiming to act against.

This could kick off new uprisings. If racial tensions are as bad as conspiracy theorists say they are, it should be no problem. I'd hate for the pigs to have time to breath.
What barricades are you referring to exactly. I don't remember this happening.

[Bala Perdida]

What barricades are you referring to exactly. I don't remember this happening.Traditional protest barricades. I've seen videos of people trying to set them in Berkeley. Then they get the traditional liberal backlash that comes out of general protests in that area.

[Jimmie Higgins]

They tried making barricades during the november/december uprisings. Liberals and other fuckers kept obstructing their construction and burning. Opposing them with a passion that was almost violent, saying things like we're 'better than this'. Still conforming to 'the system' that they're claiming to act against.

This could kick off new uprisings. If racial tensions are as bad as conspiracy theorists say they are, it should be no problem. I'd hate for the pigs to have time to breath.

I don't know if things would have been much different had barricades gone up. I mean people went out pretty heroically anyway, it was more likely just normal fatigue that led to a slow dwindling until the brown noninditement happened and then there were other protests in many towns and cities. I mean short of a revolution, uprisings always have a time-limit: either we get smashed, we don't get smashed but just get tired (I mean, anger gets vented but nothing changes so rioting or spontanious protests dwindle) or there is a revolution - and I don't think people in the us are really able to do that at this specific moment.

But I think what is happening is that the figurative anti-barricades of middle class respectable politics may be cracking (ok, I'm fucking up this metaphor) with young protesters turning against al sharpton and loosing faith in obama. This means there's a greater potential for independent movements potentially and a revival of real community and grassroots organizing among black people and organizers. And the activists who are scratching the surface of the police issue are also bringing up a whole lot of other class issues and demands that are acutely felt by black workers but have much more general implications.

I don't know but I don't feel like there's "more" of these outrages, (not even more caught on film compared to the ten years of phone cameras and the many years of cop-watch or just random video taped incidents before furgeson), it's just that before the outrage was kept in that one neighborhood or at best a city. If it was real bad, then sharp ton would come out, pay some legal bills for the family, tell everyone to pull up their pants and vote democrat and then that would be the end. Now it's more generalized, black people know that people outside their city and even nonblack people realize this shit happens regularly and so it's not as easily contained - especially since all the liberal mayors in cities are the ones arming the cops and saying we need more patrols.

[Bala Perdida]

Revolution or not, It's still 'nice' to see more aggressive resistance to police counter-organizing. Although, yeah. A separate movement made of people more dedicated to insurrection, instead of protest, would be nice to see. But when the protests are as general as they are, liberal backlash is inevitable. Hopefully seeing this would spread the 'riot attitude' that way. I don't know, I haven't been to a good protest in this country so I'm inclined to think that the culture here is more harsh towards political 'riots' than other countries. Although I'm assuming, at the same time, that if the uprisings do get as unanimously enraged as in other places, the people who normally record them aren't around at that point.