Tuesday, September 9, 2014

NY Times Reports Ferguson City Government To Announce "Broad Changes" To Its Municipal Courts Today


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/09/1328263/-NY-Times-Reports-Ferguson-City-Government-To-Announce-Broad-Changes-To-Its-Municipal-Courts-Today?detail=email

... in before addressing Ferguson City Council in support of Bill #7013
Ferguson Sets Broad Change for City Courts
By FRANCES ROBLES
NEW YORK TIMES (PAGE A1)
SEPT. 8, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. — In the first major sign of change in this small city since last month’s police killing of an unarmed black teenager, the Ferguson City Council said Monday that it would establish a citizen review board to provide guidance for the Police Department.
It also announced sweeping changes to its court system, which had been criticized as unfairly targeting low-income blacks, who had become trapped in a cycle of unpaid tickets and arrest warrants
On the eve of what was expected to be a tense City Council meeting on Tuesday, the first meeting since the shooting, the city instead pre-emptively announced many changes activists have long sought…

I have to say i'll wait and see, when you start off denying what the world saw uncovered "criticized unfairly"  this is still good ol boy denial that they did anything wrong the same ploy that has never allowed those walls of separation to be knocked down those walls of denial and resistance to the truth, so here we are same place different century. they say take the country back the country never went anywhere most places that were racist safe harbors still are, they are rallying behind a call that is null and void, again i'll wait and see.