FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Elected leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer hoped to use their first public meeting since Michael Brown's death as a chance to promote community healing.
Instead, they were greeted Tuesday night with anger, outrage and warnings of voter retribution at the ballot box. Proposals to overhaul the municipal courts and create a citizen police review board were greeted warily, if not with outright skepticism.
"You've lost your authority to govern this community," said St. Louis activist John Chasnoff. "You're going to have to step aside peacefully if this community is going to heal."
Protests anger doubt prevail at Ferguson meeting - Yahoo News
Chasnoff is obviously a white supremacist. The town council here proposed a police review board comprised of civilians, not piglice officers--no African-American activist would turn that down. Overhauling local courts--presumably by implementing a local version of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act, which allows convicted death row inmates to lower their sentences by successfully pointing out racism in the system--is also a good thing. Literally the only people that could ever be opposed to this are neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other racists.
Ferguson is quickly becoming a hotbed of white supremacist activity. Eric Holder needs to start making arrests.