Posted on 09/22/2014 5:26:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
City leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, have billed a series of upcoming town hall meetings beginning Monday night as a way to continue dialogue with members of the beleaguered community and an opportunity to clear up misconceptions still swirling a month after Ferguson police shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
In a statement that went out late last week, Mayor James Knowles said that he wanted use the meetings as a way to assure people that the city was operating with full transparency.
Knowles said that he wanted residents of Ferguson to “know exactly where we stand on things with full transparency.”
But at some point between then and now, the Community Relations Service, a little-known agency within the Department of Justice that is working behind the scenes to cool racial tensions in the city, stepped in and closed off the meetings to the media and non-residents.....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
So who gave the injustice department the right to trample on our freedom of the press?
If the yellow bellied media had a spine, they would take this to court.
Bullsquat.
This DOJ bunch was deployed in Sanford to stir sh*t in the Trayvon Martin imbroglio.
They know exactly what they're doing.
I don’t see how that can be legal. If it is a public meeting, the press cannot be barred. Period. 1st Amendment.
Take about 5 minutes for a media organization to get a judge to throw this out.
But they won’t- and that’s the REAL story: the media is part of the team.
Yep, media also got punked by Democrats when they couldn’t access the sites where the illegal immigrants were housed.
If the media had any balls (they might not remember since it was a while ago that they had any), they would go to a state judge and get an injunction against the DOJ and town. It would be fun to watch the sheriff arresting the DOJ pukes if they did not comply.
I miss the old days before today's militarized police when law enforcement was to protect and serve.
Just in case.. /s
The Ferguson citizens attending should just wear the wearable cameras that the city will be giving them...
Ferguson Citizens Given Wearable Cameras to Film Police: And Ferguson’s police chief approves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206719/posts
I for one would enjoy seeing Obama DOJ ajitprop on youtube via a gopro...
I'll bet they'll cool racial tensions. That's what Holder and his boss are all about, right?
Seems fair /s
Bump!
First Amendment for me, but NOT for thee...just doesn’t play well.
October surprise?
Jurisdiction?
members of the beleaguered community??
shouldnt that at least be capitalized...and best be stated as The Beleaguered-American Community?
the PTB want transparency..but no press? hokay///
Well, he has a point. The presence of media at protests perpetuate the event. Protestors love to act out for the camera. It is a known fact that whenever they plan a demonstration, it the planners who call in the media and tell them where to get the best shots and who to interview, not the police.
This is a government that feels it can tell sovereign nations what to do, what’s a small city council to that?
.........last report I read is that the kid is all grown up now and has been made into a good little commie and is a personal pal of Castro’s.....................
The regime cannot risk the public getting wind of the fact that Holder’s department is fomenting racial animus and stoking the coals of civil unrest now can it?
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