Negro Affirmative Action Communist Party (NAACP) to Cops: Identify Michael Brown Shooter

[Q. A. Sharpton]

Let us niggers get revenge without due process. Isn't that what
you want?

Vigils, riots and a national debate over alleged police
misconduct have marked the three days since Saturday's shooting
of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in a St. Louis
suburb. However the details about the incident leading up to
Michael Brown�s death in Ferguson, Missouri, remain murky � in
part because of a refusal by local authorities to release
information, including the name of the officer involved in the
shooting.

�It seems to me that the most important thing here is to let the
facts come out as quickly as possible, sending a signal to the
community that the investigation is proceeding and that the
investigation will in fact be transparent,� says Cornell William
Brooks, national president the NAACP. �I don�t believe, where
the name will be known at some point, delaying that for any
undue period of time helps the situation.�
Ferguson Police Department Chief Thomas Jackson backtracked on
an earlier statement that he would release the name once he
notified the officer, saying Tuesday the department no longer
plans on publicly identifying the shooter.

�The value of releasing the name is far outweighed by the risk
of harm to the officer and his family,� Jackson said, according
to The New York Times, referring to threats made against the
police on social media. Anti-police rhetoric has undergirded
many of the protests following Brown�s death. Furthermore, the
group of web hackers known as Anonymous have even threatened to
hack into the police department website and make public private
information about the officers and their families.

But activists argue that authorities� reluctance to give more
details about their investigations is making the situation
worse, not better, as the uproar over Brown's death � a
culmination of long-standing tensions between the largely white
police force and the majority black Ferguson community �
continues.

�The police department owes a duty of safety to the police
officer, but there is a duty owed to the community in terms of
the accountability,� Brooks, who has been on the ground in
Ferguson, says. �It�s safe to say that people are unsatisfied
with their response so far.�

Even before the shooting, there had been concerns raised over
how police officers interact Ferguson residents. As The
Washington Post reported, a disproportionate number of black
drivers are pulled over and arrested in the area, and
researchers at University of California at Los Angeles are
studying the St. Louis County Police Department's policing
protocols. In January, the Missouri chapter of NAACP filed a
civil-rights complaint alleging that county officers engaged in
racial profiling in stores in the St. Louis area.

The Justice Department, working with the FBI, has launched a
supplementary, concurrent inquiry into the Brown's death, per a
statement from Attorney General Eric Holder. ? Meanwhile,
politicians like Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon? and Sen. Claire
McCaskill, D-Mo., and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., ? issued statements
echoing calls for transparency in investigations. Rep. John
Conyers, D-Mich., Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and Rep. Lacy Clay,
D-Mo., ? all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, also
sent a letter to Holder calling for an expanded look into a
suggested pattern of civil rights abuses by Ferguson officers,
independent of the St. Louis County�s Police Department
investigation into Brown's shooting.

�To the extent that this latest episode around unjustified use
of force is one in a series of concerns raised by the NAACP and
others, the scope of the investigation should include Michael
Brown and other civil rights violations that may be found,�
NAACP�s Brooks says.

President Barack Obama broke his silence on the matter with a
statement released Tuesday afternoon.

�The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I
send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at
this very difficult time," he said. " As Attorney General Holder
has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the
situation along with local officials, and they will continue to
direct resources to the case as needed."

Tierney Sneed is an arts and culture writer. You can follow her
on Twitter or reach her at tsn...@usnews.com.

Tierney Sneed is a white self-hating liberal apologist who would
rather be raped and beaten to death by blacks rather than stand
up to them and point out the errors in their ways.

Blacks are nothing but farm animals wearing clothes.

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